skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is the problem of wealth being concentrated?

The first problem is that wealth means control (e.g. from how VCs control opportunities to create businesses through their funding, to how the rich can buy politicians and laws).

So concentrated wealth = less democratic country (not in electing government, in actual control of what's to be done and opportunities).

Second problem is that concentrated wealth is not used in directly buying, so it sits out of circulation. A rich person can have 95% of its income sit in idle investments, land, etc, and still live like king with 5% of his earnings per year, while a middle class/working class person will spend most (say 70%-100%) of what they earn, thus keeping the economy going.

And when that 95% the rich keep is much much bigger than the aggregated 70% of what the majority of working people spend (e.g. because 1% of the people control 80% of the wealth), then you have a stifled economy and a dwindling middle class.

And lots of other issues, but those are quite major...
Only someone who has not tried very hard to plan and cook meals would think this way, which I admit as an American many of my peers do feel this way.

While it might seem like there is a steep learning curve to cooking, there isn't.
Salome: Open source processing platform for numerical simulation
Right-wingers (not necessarily libertarians) use it in the media all the time.
This is what most scares me in the US for a terrorist attack on a school or similar. This is just way too easy to build today.
Yes, instead of slowing down, the curve could just continue growing straight, there is no inflection point in the graph. Also, area under logistic function is also more like a straight line: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=graph+log(1%2Be%5Ex)
West = Western California obviously!
I wonder: is there room for a new OS to truly surpass Linux/Windows ?

I would love to see more commercial success for micro/nano-kernels (vs. the staple monolithic kernels)
Kaspersky sounded too much Russian to make it my choice of Antivirus. After all why should you when there are many others available. And what about all those Antivirus ranking experts on the web ? What it really means they know little about what they are ranking.
> at the top level of indentation

At the same level, really - it works in a let or a where as well.
Open heart surgery: successful data migrations during full operation
>Don't blame libertarianism for the state having broken the market so badly that wealth inevitably gets funneled to the few.

It's not a market problem. Even in a perfect market, a rich person would have most of its assets sitting or slowly moving, whereas a middle/working class person would spend their income.

So one gets the economy moving, while too much concentrated wealth stifles it.
How Successful People Network with Each Other (2016)
Possibly:

> As part of the upgrade process, the macOS High Sierra installer will automatically convert an SSD to the new APFS

https://blog.macsales.com/42884-is-it-possible-not-to-conver...
No more rainbows
In the short version:

Package management and spreading files all over the hierarchy is a really terribly inflexible way to manage applications. Applications should just be folders that contain any resources the application requires that aren't in the base system (this requires a defined and stable base system). This requires no special management software whatsoever and fits intuitively into the file management metaphor that already exists. See: Application Bundles, AppDirs, AppImage, and just about any desktop os before Windows 95.

Permissions should not be oriented around protecting the system from the user. That's a concept that makes sense in multiuser servers and organization networks, not personal devices. Permissions should be oriented around protecting the user's data from misbehaving applications.

Base system libraries should be stable on at least decade long timelines, barring a severe security issue that cannot be mitigated in any other way. I generally agree with Linus's opinion regarding breaking comparability. Unfortunately, a lot of the developers of the userland stuff aren't Linus.

In general, the OS should not presume it knows what my workflow is. This is the problem with the difference between "easy", which requires understanding what I want, and "simple" which is making systems understandable enough that I can conform them to what I want. It is my opinion that Linux Desktop has put so much effort into being easy that it has destroyed any simplicity it once had (see common Linux Desktop evangelist argument: "normal users don't need that").

The commandline environment and toolset are ass. PowerShell implemented the same concept significantly better.

Explaining my ideas for the how a GUI interface should work would take a long time and are not really relevant because they could exist as just another compositor in the current ecosystem.
Most developer bros still think modern JS is Jquery but unnecessary. I've had "Senior" engineers ask why we need Webpack because it's too complicated and unnecessary and wanted to take it out. Others who think Angular is the same as Bootstrap which is a UI framework. And those who doesn't even know what ES6 is.
Much of this is regulation, though some higher average wages, I suppose.
The vast majority of humans don’t live within walking distance of the ocean, it probably wasn’t a big evolutionary pressure to be able to drink seawater.
Lol, yep. My Win 10 desktop will suspend just fine, but then it wakes itself up for no apparent reason and just stays running indefinitely after that. I can't figure out what the cause is, but I've taken to just shutting it down in between uses.
Because:

* It is linked (vs. a post in a personal blog post which would only be indexed by search engines)
* There is a large community of users on Medium, and posts are easy to share.
* Medium highlights popular posts.
I am a professional software developer / data scientist :)

I definitely agree that video rendering and HPC is not going to go well, but that is not that relevant to even many "pros"

The scope of the professional software world is broad.
Fairly well-off family in the Ozarks, USA. We only say "dinner" when it's a special occasion and it isn't in the morning. For normal meals it's breakfast, lunch, supper. Most of my classmates in elementary school (many of whom had not enjoyed those "changing socioeconomic realities") were the same.
In theory, an 1056 Hz 8-bit WAV file filled with alternating +127 and -127 samples will perfectly reproduce a 528 Hz tone. That's about 60kB in size, and a traditional LZW compression (I.e. Zip) will work quite well due to the repetition.
Reading up on the N64 hardware a bit gives the impression that it was ahead of its time, more akin to the shader based pipelines of today than the kinds of hardware that was starting to show up on PCs at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Coprocessor
But that's exactly what we want: applications that are only allowed to access what the user has permitted them to access. And I believe it can be done better than popping up a dialog all the time like UAC or just once at first launch like Android/iOS.

You don't need to tabletize your interface to implement this concept. Bubblewrap, FireJail, and some similar software already exists that implements this in Linux (poorly in my opinion, but it works).
The sentence after that ("Open source doesn’t have that problem.") is absolutely wrong in my experience. Team communication and dynamics aren't somehow magically different with open source, and pretty much every piece of open source software you use reflects the organization that produced it.
Revival of querydsl
I don't get why they can't give individuals and API key for access to only their own accounts.
Such a blantely non-real world and sythetic benchmark.
I found it interesting to discover that there's a significant amount of cutting-edge HPC development along these lines for meteorology and climate modeling: https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/06/22/gpus-power9-figure-promin...
Can you get 32 level grayscale out of an E-ink display?
you can debug js with: node --inspect-brk some-file
Los Angeles against the Mountains (1988)
Govt of India spends less than 1.5% of its GDP on education
and an equal share on its health. Now compare this with shares of other countries like US and European countries.
Indians save money (who ever can save) to take care of these.
They at least used to be very common for drafting. I probably still have one or two somewhere. As you point out, you get a better grip and they're probably also easier to keep very sharp.
That's a valid counterexample! :) The first implies ownership and the other just designates folders with information about 'pritam'. `~/Documents/taxes/pritam` could be a folder on your accountant's computer and then it'd have a different meaning than on your machine.

You're not wrong, but I think that that situation is rather rare and rather harmless. In the vast majority of cases the context doesn't change the meaning of the name much. The converse situation, where you have many folders with the same meaning, is a lot more common. You probably have dozens of 'src' 'include' 'build' folders on your machine; and you could have dozens of folders called "June" "August" "September" - all which carry the same exact meaning in their respective contexts. But we've been forced to recreate these redundant folders b/c the system forces us into use a tree structure for concepts that don't necessarily conform to it.
npm is so 2016 (being sarcastic).
It is linked

Linked from where?

Posts are easy to share

How can sharing be easier then ' read this: https://blog.ai-academy.com/3a79cac4c9c2 '?

Medium highlights popular posts

But is it worth all the downsides? The post is on the HN frontpage, yet it only has 51 likes on Medium. How much additional readers does such a post get from Mediums free marketing?
Vista was odd for our community college. None of our educational or testing software vendors would offer support until Windows 7 was introduced. It was very much like the whole Windows 8 release where we waited until Windows 10 was released. Heck, we still have one vendor who only supports IE and not Edge. The people who did get it weren't real impressed, but at least it wasn't the "get this crap off my computer" reaction that Windows 8 received.

It was the first time we ever held on while a new operating system was out. Windows NT to 2000 to XP was just so automatic.
Not US only, but as noted above we try to drive enough overlap by keeping folks within a few hours of PST.
And a capsid might be able to store a few proteins, or a few mRNAs. But a few mRNAs deposited into a cell could produce many thousand protiens.
Another one was 'how to disagree with someone and not be deferential, passive aggressive, or just plain aggressive about it' this I'm still working on, but I've gotten better at it.

What is the key to getting better at this, in your experience?
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Fun article, kudos!

Just a tiny correction: RIPE Atlas' reliability tags (e.g., "-stable-Xd") have nothing to do with the probe "changing the public IP address once a day". Those filter simply measure the probe's uptime over different time windows.

In fact, the "-stable-1d" tag you mentioned would be true even for probes that have been down "up to 2h" over the last day.
They trained a deep neural network to reconstruct what a patient was seeing from fMRI signals and were mildly successful. Cool!

Things get really awesome in Figure 4. They had patients imagine an image/symbol that that they would then try to reconstruct from fMRI signals. They had a few successes and were able to operate at better than chance when humans evaluated the reconstructed shapes. That's awesome!
Netherlands has been all home cooked meals for me as well
For comparison, a Pascal compiler in Racket:

https://github.com/soegaard/minipascal
Out of the ashes
Well, off the top of my head, expensive coffee at Starbucks usually has better nutrition than road-side chai stalls, in terms of milk dilution, calcium content, etc. which leads to stronger bones, fewer fractures and we enter the cycle of health improvement (Refer Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee). This is just something I just came up with.

I'm not arguing that expensive spending per se will improve living standards, but they do tend to boost markets, create new markets, improve the standard of living etc. Debt is one such expensive spending
I agree that looking for loops would be interesting but they actually discard subgraphs without a source and a sink, i.e. loops.

https://youtu.be/akgU8nRNIp0?t=2m23s
As a beginner I cannot recommend this class in its current form. The first lecture with its setup walk through is outdated and I have trouble understanding how to do a work around.
Yes that is an accurate summary.
I would expect they are, if only for legal reasons.

According to my bank's website, I can get account statements up to 10 years back, except for closed accounts.
Really? When? I learned that the term was coined in derision to Reagan-era policies.
Doesn't 0.05s still seem like quite a long runtime for something like this? I wonder what it is doing under the hood that takes so long.

For start, it seems like they hijack a bunch of clock calls with LD_PRELOAD and then redirect vdso ones to syscalls just so they can interpose with ptrace. Why not do the manipulation in the PRELOAD?

I guess using the debugger API makes it easier to coordinate a bunch of processes, but you could probably do the same thing with some sort of IPC mechanism between PRELOADED targets. In the common case (single program running under FC, no IPC is needed.

It's unclear to me why they force any sleep duration at all, e.g., 10ms: https://github.com/majek/fluxcapacitor/blob/master/src/main....

It seems like there is room to optimize here, if one were really inspired :-).
What is up with "These authors contributed equally to this work."?
Yea, database migration is my first guess as well. Any code change would have been reverted quickly otherwise. Their blog post about the incident is not clear enough. https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/kraken-returns-with-free-t...

Either way, it looks bad from both engineering and product perspective.
> Yes. My thought is that when one is planning for others to live a certain way to benefit society, that telling them to go into debt to benefit society may work over the long term over a large population. However, this only "works" if you treat people as interchangeable numbers, and if too many of the people deviate from your plan, the debt driven society will stop working as planned.

Agree very much!

> However, when one runs their own budget which needs to last through the ups and down, and presumably get one into a better place than they started, saving or investing is better than going into debt.

I think I should have clarified, I'm talking from a Macroeconomic perspective, when spending boosts economies and saving could lead to devastating deflation. But, on a Microeconomic perspective, totally agree with you.

> Just because there are multiple books advocating you spend your money ... well - the old adage is, "Don't believe everything you read."

Thank you sir for reminding me :)
Disney says Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey are leaving its board
Man vs. Machine: Ping Pong Playing Robot
First, I never under-bid on a contract, except once in exchange for equity that seems to be panning out. Know your value and values. Stick to them.

When I quit full-time employment at a major US university, my first contracts brought in far more than I had been earning. A former colleague there used to quip, "half a day's work for half a day's pay". Still, I had about six months of mortgage payments and other living expenses saved before I took the (abrupt) leap.

I took some part time gigs minding friends' art galleries to cover groceries and to get me out of the house. I've added side-hustles as a way to improve my communication skills and get me into other communities.

When I quit, I made the transition from project management to software engineering. I taught myself python and javascript. I learned how to do stuff with Django. I contributed to open-source projects, first improving documentation, then code. Those activities increased my sense of self-worth and reduced stress.

And I cut way back on expenses. I eliminated dining out and drinking. One of the perks of my side hustle is deep discounts on clothing and gear required for the job.

To manage the stress, I started hiking every day. (Actually, that wasn't the reason, but a side effect. The reason was to help a roommate lose 50 pounds, then the next roommate another 50 pounds. Bringing in roommates also offset some of the costs of living.) Removing four hours of daily commute let me hike an hour a day and still have three bonus hours that I could devote to other stress-relieving strategies such as reading or meditating.

Financial stress is just stress, as far as I'm concerned. I had one major financial obligation, a mortgage three years old at the time right as the financial crisis hit in 2008. If things had gotten very bad, I probably would have short-sold my house, moved in with friends or family, and/or found a lower-cost community to call home. And nothing but stubbornness and a desire to work on my terms prevented me from seeking regular employment.

If I had a partner and/or kids, the calculus would have been different. Another breadwinner would have smoothed the finances. Kids might have prevented a move entirely, though I'm not certain. My dad lost his engineering job when I was seven. He took on contracting work until one of the contractees hired him as SVP of engineering.

An ex just visited for a month with her boyfriend. He lost his job as an EMT in Alaska because of structural changes in state employment. We spent a lot of time talking about what we really need to survive. He says they can live happily in Anchorage on about 18k/year. (Health insurance there for them costs 1/10 of what it costs where I am.)

Just because you have financial security at your current gig today doesn't mean next month's check is going to clear. The boss works for you, you don't work for the boss.
> once we get ai right, we won't need to solve any other problems...

Only if it is superhuman AI, we already have 'human' level AI and as long as that isn't enough there is no reason to believe that 'ordinary' AI will solve anything that we can't solve.
The first paragraph, I call this "integrity"! Maintain integrity.
Traditional Indian food is often very rich, with liberal use of oil and ghee. Deep-fried snacks like pakora, samosa and aloo tikki are widely popular. Indian sweets like jalebi, laddu and gulab jamun are staggeringly calorific. With rising incomes, a far wider section of society is able to eat plentifully.

There's almost certainly a substantial genetic component. Punjabi Sikhs have a high rate of type 2 diabetes, despite below-average rates of obesity and tobacco and alcohol use. GWAS data suggests that most ethnic groups in India have an elevated genetic risk of type 2 diabetes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300278/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636658/
It is my understanding that any sort of cloud setup would be completely out. Also, anything with a web-browser or other platform that runs third party code. But that still leaves an awful lot of servers that are under the control of a single company or individual and don't run any untrusted code (sandboxed or otherwise), doesn't it?
No, it just means that it's better to design chips and software architectures with security in mind from day one. If you don't, then every single patch you add afterwards will bloat-up the whole system and the (software) performance will drop overtime.

It's just another way to say you're building technical debt into your chip/software if you don't consider security from day one. Because sooner or later you will need that security, if you have tens of millions or more people using that product. So it's not like you can just ignore it. You're just postponing it for later.
I might be wrong, but isn't this what trading companies do on their network-insulated trading machines?
Part 1v2 was just released, it uses pytorch. Check it out, I was in the fall fellowship and can heartily recommend it.
Perhaps it's a subtle meta-commentary on the linked article itself that one can't make such huge generalisations ;)
Native speaker and former English teacher here. Both are correct!

In this case, "the consistency of sand" functions as an adjective, just like "soft". So in the same way you can say "packing graphite, which is soft", you can also say "packing graphite, which is the consistency of sand".

But at the same time, "the consistency of sand" works as an attribute too, like "black exterior". So in the same way you can say "packing graphite, which has a black exterior", you can also say "packing graphite, which has the consistency of sand".
my workflow is

npm to get the packages in VS2017 called from package-mgr console

gulp to move the package from node to wwwroot

system.js.config declares the packages

system.js to load the package

npm get the @types files (so typescript knows how to compile and I get autocomplete)

and then I do a typescript import

---
real pain in the neck to setup but now its really not bad at all
> /r/groovy 1.8k users](http://www.reddit.com/r/groovy)

At first sight, not only has Kotlin grown from 1300 to 8000 redditors, but Apache Groovy has also grown from 1400 to 1800. However, whereas Kotlin has averaged over 100 postings a month, Groovy's reddit site has had a mere 20 postings in the past 6 months. Got to look at more than just number of users because some a language backer can easily twit "hey everyone, go join groovy on reddit and get our numbers up".
That is because a lot of ARM cores don't have out-of-order or speculation capabilities.
It's called the Inverted Pyramid structure, and it's how articles are supposed to be written. I learned it in junior high [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)].
But yeah, it's not how many articles come today:

1. Clickbait headline that tells you nothing. (Unfortunately this article retains that flaw)

2. Introduction by the author of --- the author! He had been thinking about this topic for a long time. He had this conversation with his colleagues about it (reproduced here). Then his editor finally challenged him to have a go at it. So here it is!

3. Encyclopedic history of the topic (question still unanswered).

4. Compendium of assorted controversy and minority opinion (majority opinion still left to be stated).

5. The information.

6. Return to the author, his life, what he's doing afterwards, what he has eaten for breakfast, his favorite color, etc.

7. Request for comments, subscribe, like, share, etc.
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