skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because the collapse hasn’t happened publicly doesn’t mean it won’t happen or it hasn’t happened. China can’t escape economic gravity, the same way Soviet Union didn’t escape gravity when it collapsed, even though everything was ok state owned.

Checkout Chinese provinces lying about inflating 25-30% of revenue, overstating their constant 7% gdp growth, debt ratio of over 300%, massive capital outflow, their own economists warning of a crash, and many others To see just how bad their crash will be
I've often thought about what a new meetup-like startup would look like.

A few ideas from frequent pain points:

-A point system that gives you points when you actually check-in to a meetup you RSVP to. Points can be used to gain priority access to the most in-demand meetups or special events that otherwise fill up fast. On the other hand, a penalty system for people who RSVP but fail to check-in, which can help curb the current problem with people RSVP'ing to events with limited capacity with no intention of actually showing up.

-A real chat UI for those who RSVP that "lives" +/- a few days before and after the event date.

-For organizers, the ability to search for venues that are open to hosting meetups (either paid or sponsored)

-Better recommendations and search UI. Better filters. Upranking high quality meetups and downranking all the low quality ones I have to normally scroll through to find something worth attending.

-Ability to rate public meetups and/or provide feedback back to organizers.

-Ability to host "instant meetups" i.e. organizing a spontaneous happy hour same day at bar X for people who are learning Y.
Rather worryingly this got flagged and killed. Hopefully we're still at the point where we can sensibly discuss a WSJ article.
At the higher level it isn’t just shapes. The human player uses the shapes the help estimate the future value of any group of stones. They are running a priority queue of likelihood’s for each part of the board. When they resign that probability has dropped to zero.

If you’ve played against a dan player a few times, you might have had the experience of them ignoring a move you made and play elsewhere. That’s what happened. It’s also probably the moment you lost the game...
Ha - thanks. The first one.
Whenever we hire a new Agile practitioner, as part of the interview I ask them to discuss the Agile Manifesto [1]. And then we run through some basic program design and I ask them what tools they bring to help support various program needs. They usually bring out various ceremonies and processes and what not.

I then ask them to justify what they've offered against the Manifesto. If they're thoughtful about it (the Manifesto isn't always correct, and if you read it carefully leaves open the need for some of this stuff). If they simply insist it's correct they're cargo culting and we can move on.

What I've found is that the ceremonies are appropriately named in that many of the practitioners seem to not know what they're for or why they're done. The teams that seem to really excel are the ones that seem to have thoughtful managers that shape the practices of their dev group to the specifics of their work. The ones that seem to always be bogged down and require huge numbers of staff to get even small amounts of work done seem to be the ones that follow a checklist of getting as many of the agile practice "things" jammed into their work processes as possible.

I don't think Agile is dead, but I think it requires smarter team leads who look at what's come out of it as a set of tools to be employed against specific development challenges rather than a religion that needs worshiping.

1 - http://agilemanifesto.org/
>>...where they rub elbows at yoga, swimming, and concerts—perks some Meetup employees viewed as evidence of a bro-centric culture...

Yoga and swimming are bro-y now?
I will not be reading this article because of its title.
The person sitting next to you is over simplifying things then. There are far more reasons that an ACH can be reverted.

> It cannot revert ACH because Sally did "oops".

Quite a few of the defined ACH return codes[0] seem to be loosely in the “oops” you said wasn’t possible.

[0] https://gusto.com/ach_return_codes
The idea of never being able to take away past battling modes (contracts), only push them into an immutable array is really cool to me. Imagine never having your favorite play styles be under constant threat, like old school runescape. This is decent WP for thinking up that, at the very least (I'm not math-minded or bothered enough to understand the rest).
I don't understand what this article is. There appears to be no cogent hypothesis or evidence. In the end it seems to be suggesting not (any) linguistic influence on Eurasian languages but rather aesthetic influence of hieroglyphs. That's well established given that the alphabet evolved from a single source and that it's well-established that that source was at least partly* influenced by hieroglyphs; and the earliest evidence for it is at Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai interspersed with hieroglyphic inscriptions (including a bilingual inscription on a sphinx [Sinai 345]).

As I look back I do see a like half-paragraph ridiculous suggestion of apparently genetic connection between Egyptian and European. Before it was commonly known that Egyptian is an Afroasiatic language, there were attempts (usually with racial undertones) attempting to link the glorious and regal Egyptian with Eurasian languages. It's a worthless hypothesis.

It also looks like people may have been looking for and having trouble finding solid Egyptian lexicons: aaew.bbaw.de/tla/

(The one that really bothered me was the (obviously incoherent) "Hathor = hut+hor Hüter of Herds"... Hathor means "House/Estate/Temple of Horus"). The whole thing is just ridiculous.)

*There's at least secondary cuneiform influence by Wadi el-Hol (which I think was more likely 15th or 14th century).
After being forced by the US and other states to remove the bank secrecy laws (which empowered many to hide millions in Switzerland)this tiny country again tries to get ahead in finance and I am pleased to see that they are succeeding and putting themselves ahead of everyones else in the crypto space.
How a single image of Tom Brady could ruin the internet
For a long time, json-schema was stuck at draft-04, and it looks like in the last few months under new authorship it's up to draft-07. The mapping of these names to IETF RFC revisions is more complicated, and explained on the site [1].

Json-schema is useful for describing JSON data structures in JSON, so you can bring a codegen and generate corresponding structures in your language, or perform some payload validation at an API gateway; and many higher-level API specs -- like OpenAPI/Swagger -- make use of Json-schema underneath.

However, I'm not sure I fully understand why they branched out into also becoming a hypermedia description language [2] when there's already half a dozen others in this space [3], and reading some of the discussion about this [4] makes my head hurt.

[1] http://json-schema.org/specification.html [2] http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-hypermedia.html [3] https://sookocheff.com/post/api/on-choosing-a-hypermedia-for... [4] https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec/issues/4...
Thanks for the kind words.

Breeze does a large chunk of (dense) compute via netlib-java, which calls out to "real" lapack if you set it up. Are things really faster than that? Or are you referring to the non BLAS/non Lapack things?
It’s hard to convince institutions to release data locked up in EHRs (eg EPIC) due to the labor involved (EPIC is not well structured for this), risk of accidentally leaking PHI, and general motivation (getting hold of useful data is the bread and butter for career researchers).
I started using JavaScript in my latest window manager after first using Lua. Since it’s for macOS the JavaScriptCore framework was already built in and uses the latest syntax. Honestly I prefer JS now even for embedding as long as it’s on macOS. Dunno how easy it is to embed on other systems.
Those condo prices are eye watering (€1 million+).
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16129463
My startup built an extended version of JSON Schema that also supports conditional logic and data references to power a customer-configurable Workflow system. Basically a lightweight way to script a series of tasks with more advanced validations and data pre-population. Works great, customers love it.
I've bought two MBPs in recent years: in December 2011, and again in August 2015. The first time around you could definitely get the matte screen, although unfortunately only with an ugly grey bezel. Not so sure about 2015 though.
LaTeX uses a different strategy where WYSIWYG is no advantage. The markup commands tell the computer about the logical structure of the text. This is not possible in a WYSIWYG system precisely because it displays the final result, and intermixing both is a mess. Word is a glorified typewriter, LaTeX is a diligent professional typesetter.

Apart from that: Microsoft Word /seems/ easy to use but this is not really true, by far. To typeset a minimal LaTeX document as for a homework assignment, very little learning and boilerplate is necessary. This can be done /quicker/ than in Word - an intelligent person will need half an afternoon to write a short presentable text in LaTeX, and the learned knowledge works forever. What you are assuming is that people are already used to write high-quality structured documents in Word, and this is, for most people, simply not true, as Words gets heavily in the way of writing in a structured approach. The ribbons UI has not really helped with that - I curse every time I have to search for a section formatting style in that terrible drop-down menu.

Now when it comes to writing seriously complex larger text documents, like a large software documentation, a piece of literate programming, or a PhD thesis, MS Word is far far behind. It is simply not up to the task.

You also say that Word has been getting better, but having occasionally been forced to work with Microsoft products in the last nine years, I really don't see that. The only thing that changes is the user interface. It is hardly believable that Microsoft will use office programs to try out new paradigms and software metaphors.

And to add, I am also pissed by the appearance that Microsoft - not specifically for this comment, but very much in general - seems to follow the strategy to make their commercial products mentioned as much as possible in the context of free and open source software, in forums and in places such as reddit. There may indeed be a few people which use .NET or c# or the Linux subsystem or which give up the power of UNIX shells for an inferior solution, but I just can't get rid of the strong impression that the huge majority of such comments are just product marketing done by some PR company. It is annoying. And completely hollow. As here, somebody who really has medium knowledge on how to use LaTeX will rarely suggest to use Word instead.
We don't just paste pixels on the screen, we composite them. This involves alpha blending, projecting the scene onto an orthographic output projection, and more. Even in two dimensions, OpenGL is very useful here. On systems without suitable hardware, you should be able to use OpenGL in software (via mesa) and it will still be very fast here.
The weird part about this article/thread is that the product didn't suck. It did a thing, and it was as good as the groups in your area.
I think we can all agree there’s a huge difference between overreacting and plotting to arm yourself and storm Coinbase’s headquarters to “talk” to the CEO.
I have used it a few years back when designing a customer facing integration API, it was definitely good to be able to tell customers "here's the JSON schema, you can use these libraries to work with it, and use it to validate your requests for correctness before sending them to us". This said I felt expressing non-trivial constraints was quite verbose (things like if field X is set to 123 then fields Y and Z are mandatory, otherwise Y is not allowed, if X is set to 456 then no other field is allowed, ...) and hard to extend once written, I definitely felt the need for a "JSON schema generator" at times where I could've created a table of some sort and have it output the schema.

In another much more generic customer facing API I instead used a custom schema, as I needed to do other things that would not have been possible in it like embedding the API documentation in the schema so the front-end could display help on-the-fly and use the schema to dynamically generate forms. The advantage was also that being fully in control of the syntax I could create ways to express constraints like field X is valid only in searches, field Y is valid only in PUT/PATCH but not POST, etc. etc.

This said especially for straightforward APIs I feel JSON schemas are quite useful, being able to have a single source of truth on what your messages look like that you can share with front-end, back-end and customers is quite powerful. One thing is though that validation errors are not very user-friendly unfortunately. This was all around draft-04 time IIRC.
The idea that we should count on people to spend additional time on their job for free because they enjoy it seems overly idealistic. Sure, such people exist, but the easiest way to incentivize more time on a job is to just pay people accordingly.
I don't agree with your pre/post-election divide.

I've voiced my opposition to what I consider unrestrained capitalism and ideological free-marketerism and been downvoted many times over the years preceding the election.

I've had dang come down on me for expressing my views (it's his and the moderators' prerogative but I'm not stopping either). It doesn't bother me because that's who I am. I'd rather folks offer their disagreements than downvote my comments because that's what I'm here for: discussion and synthesis with the ideas and arguments put forth by folks who share some or none of my interests.

Even you mention "sympathy for the devil." I don't know if that's recognition that some viewpoints are truly toxic and unworthy of even basic respect and consideration or an merely an allusion to the down-voting of un-conventional views and thoughts.

For me, there is nothing interesting to discuss about ideas or views espousing racism or gender-bigotry, but those are different than discussing the factual situations of ethnicity and gender in our society as determined by historical legacies and cultural forces. I will respect the right of an individual to hold bigoted views but that doesn't mean I must respect the individual, either.
I could say the same for the Macbook Pro: the current models are an absolute joke.
Agreed. This is so ridiculous. I saw the link on the front page. Now it's gone. At least it exists in search results.
Again, I don’t think this changes the impracticality or waste by an order of magnitude.

It’s so impractical and so offensively wasteful, my analysis is really meant to be a tongue-in-cheek expression of the fact, but apparently we’re still seriously discusssing this...
In this case it is the other way around. AFAIK Dr. Sanders was the inspiration for House.
On a related note, it's probably also worth pointing out that:

A: The majority of people in the tech industry are indeed like this. They go to work, build sites/programs/apps for eight hours or so and go home to relax. The percentage you saw doing tech envagelism on Twitter or hosting conferences or heading up open source projects or posting on Reddit or Hacker News all the time are a minority of the population, and you're not a failure or 'strange' if you're not like that.

B: Even if you didn't have enough time to build up your knowledge while working, 90% of companies that need developers don't need cutting edge technology. Most people aren't working at Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/whatever.
Clearly the answer is to upgrade several million cameras to 4K, 60fps, IR at night models.
Then all can do facial recognition, APNR, etc.
The Humble Gumbel Distribution
Mastering Chaos – A Netflix Guide to Microservices (2017)
One thing not mentioned in the article, is the problems with piracy - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7eyg/wikipedia-...

If you give people an artificially restricted free resource, they'll find a way to break out. If only there were a popular aphorism to explain this...
Outside of the theater of war, laziness is at least as likely as stupidity.
As an American expat living in China and currently applying to grad schools for neuroscience research, I'll give my own personal anecdote.

I considered applying to grad schools here, especially since some Chinese schools are quite highly ranked. Whenever I walk past Starbacks (not a typo) on my way to work, I'm reminded that there's very little respect for IP outside of China. I worry that if I ever came across promising research, someone else would take credit for it and I would be left with nothing.

I'm friends with an American here who started a pretty successful restaurant selling Mexican food. He says that if a wealthy, prominent Chinese person liked his business, that person could start the exact same business across the street and then sue my friend for copying the business, and the Chinese person would win the lawsuit because my friend is a foreigner.

In regards to the other things you said, air pollution is a thing but it wouldn't stop me from pursuing my career goals, and I expect it to get better. I think the standard of living here is pretty good (though that's mostly because most companies will pay foreigners a lot more than they'll pay locals, so your buying power is pretty high).
Yep. Used it to organize a social entrepreneurship meetup and as the group grew, the cost quickly ended up being too much and we moved over to email newsletter with Eventbrite. This isn't fundamentally expensive for a business, but when you are just running a group to casually meet people and there's no commercial value to your group, this quickly end up being an expense that you want to avoid. We were told to just ask members of the group to contribute, but that's another friction. The other friction is that meetup emails were getting a little bit too much and most people don't want to get emails every week telling them which group they should join, which makes Eventbrite more attractive (a simple reminder the day before the event and that's it).
"sympathy for the devil" would be "poor little billionaire" in Peter Thiel's case. As though there aren't hundreds of media outlets that wouldn't jump at the chance to hand him the megaphone for whatever he felt like saying at the time.
A fbdev backend and a pixman renderer are planned for this kind of situations. However, most desktop computers and laptops support OpenGL ES 2, and using them in the compositor offers better performance than using the CPU even if there aren't fancy 3D effects.
I bought this book and finished it in a couple hours. It's fun to read and the examples are well-illustrated, but it doesn't go into very much depth on anything and its breadth isn't terribly wide either. I would say it's good for people who are learning programming in order to learn to make games, but people who are already programmers won't get much from it.
Studies like the one from project Aristotle (https://nyti.ms/20WG1yY) are a counterpoint. Hire to create the best team, not to create the best lineup of individuals. You only hear about successful teams that have drama because they have drama, not because being a successful team requires drama
SCRUM vs. Design Thinking – Same, Same but Different
> This week's news on Australian deputy PM living with his mistress (not his partner in his own words) in his friend's apartment rent free is just another good dose of corruption without consequence drama.

Sorry; I'm not familiar with this situation. Where's the misuse of public funds?
Again, I can't help but disagree with this. The reason newspapers arrange text in narrow columns is because it's easier to read, particularly if you're scanning quickly: same with source code.

A better approach I've found is to have files open side by side. On my old 17-inch MBP I used to edit three source files side by side. I can just about get away with this on my 15-inch retina model, but find two works better.

My Surface Book. is a bugger for this because, for one thing, the screen is smaller at 13.5", and then you also just don't have the horizontal real estate without reducing the font size slightly
Aside from handling details on how the actual drawing happens, Wayland compositors also dictate how window management is done. Obviosly, there is a lot of room for different designs in that space. Just look at how many different Window Managers there exist for X. My understanding is that wlroots handles a lot of heavy lifting related to drawing and input handling making experimentation with new compositors a lot easier.
I think this is a good decision, unfortunately.
but you are wrong, there are people who did not consent to using AI being injured in those situations, same as the police/sentencing example you brought up
Yet another Authentication in Phoenix
That's been my experience. Bugs reported and then either ignored or closed as duplicates of ancient bugs.

See https://tommorris.org/posts/9491 (not my post, but similar experience).
No...the claim that ACH takes "3-5 business days", "several days", or whatever, is just flat out wrong. I can do ACH (not wire transfer, not "credit") between my totally unrelated bank accounts--whether those be at big banks or tiny little credit unions--with a total delay to myself, the end user, of about 14 hours and change. And that isn't new, it has been the case for well over a decade.

And using ACH delays as an excuse for why people can't get money out of Bitcoin quickly-- the original context of this thread-- is completely disingenuous.
You can always overwrite the love.run() function and realize your own game loop logic. There are also community libs for this already.
If you enjoy reading this, you should also check out the browser security paper from X41: https://browser-security.x41-dsec.de/X41-Browser-Security-Wh...
AWS Lambda Go vs. Node.js performance benchmark: updated
I call this the Ira Glass effect. At some point in the 2000s everything became This American Life.
The bombsight is impressive however:

‘In practice it was not possible to achieve the expected accuracy in combat conditions, with the average CEP in 1943 of 370 metres (1,200 ft) being similar to Allied and German results. Both the Navy and Air Forces had to give up on the idea of pinpoint attacks during the war.’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight
Certainly a lot of overlap with robotics, since articulated models in a game are like virtual robots, complete with real-time requirements. (But no actuators, thankfully.)
Yes, especially since you hit them so quickly without actually having traction for your meetup. People join every group they are tangentially interested in, even if they then never make it to an event, and meetup's design encourages that. If you don't have a corporate sponsor (or only a small firm providing a room) that's a problem.
It will also destroy any fasteners that aren't galvanized or stainless steel, so you definitely wouldn't build a whole house out of it. Depending on the straps that are installed in the foundation, you'll see people use Teco nails or galvanized 10- or 16-penny nails. But regular vinyl sinkers will rust out really quickly.
Most silicon valley employees don't really care about any of this. If anything most have extremely conservative opinions, they'll be all for Trump if they could vote on H1
It's also not permitted to do that. Again, that's the point of mandatory access control.

It doesn't matter that you have uid=0, you do not have the granted capabilities to do new things.