skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've studied interest rates on loans, the interest rate charged is X+Y, where X is the "real" interest rate, and Y is the inflation rate.

I.e. people who loan money are not stupid, and you're not getting any bargain because of inflation.
Disney & ABC have a joint venture that owns nearly 1/3 of Hulu
>Tesla is selling every car they make. Not a single one lands in a parking lot at a dealer while picky buyers survey it and compare it to something else.

What are you talking about? There are plenty of inventory Model S and Model X around. Very often you also see these sub-50 mile cars get slapped with a "demo discount" as stores try to unload them.

Model S and Model X's sale is definitely, definitely not supply constrained. You can check their earning reports to see the inventory.
This -- exactly. I know of at least one person who's done this and a few others who were able to move into areas of their preferred language (i.e. going from a job that was mainly web/C#/MVC to mainly REST/C#/Angular or React) by doing this.

Even within a larger organization it's possible to use side-project examples as a demonstration that you're ready to move from a team that uses one discipline/language to an unrelated team. While a large organization might be willing to move a senior developer who's a less-perfect-fit from a different department if they've demonstrated that they can be trained/learn what they need to know, it's a lot easier if they can demonstrate that they're a lot more than a "less-than-perfect fit"
Announcing Fortnite Battle Royale for Mobile
It's a permalink. The document itself seems to have been updated quite a bit since 2015.
This may be true. But we know that Scandinavia and Sweden are much less hierarchical than the US, and they function well as complex societies.
Thank you for the reminder! A privacy policy has been added to the website.
> I wonder why you think that the professors surveyed being "mostly white" discredits the book.

That wasn't what I said. What I said was:

> then tried to conclude fact about different race's intelligence as a result of those questionnaires

They surveyed one demographic and asked them to draw conclusions about another demographic without considering the innate biases of doing so. I called the book "fluff" which I stand behind. It doesn't provide any new scientific data, even the selection of questions, who they selected to send them to, and other actions by the researches introduced a ton of biasing issues.

Their whole goal was to discrete what they viewed as "liberal academia."
Training Sequence Models with Attention
It is a good book, Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is better written, and less Polyanna.

Nassim Taleb argued successfully against his previous "Better Angels"book
> Inflation is good.

As I said. I bet you've heard that your whole life, too. It's good to question things you've heard your whole life.

> Inflation comes from a imbalance in supply and demand.

Inflation comes from the government issuing money at a faster rate than the economy grows. The reason it does that is to spend more money without raising taxes. This is sold to the citizens as being "good", and any deleterious effects are blamed on mumbo jumbo theories like "wage-price spirals" and "cost-push".

Keep in mind that there's no free lunch when it comes to economics, just like there's no free energy in physics. Any economic theory that creates something out of nothing is false - you don't need to understand it to know it is false. Just like when some crackpot comes to you with a perpetual motion machine, you know it's a fraud even if you don't examine his theory to find out where he went into the ditch.
Uber Agrees in Principle to Exit Southeast Asia for Stake in Rival
belittle
dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant.

Recommending some-one go and seek help or signs or warning signs of underlying dependency that isn't healthy for a strong mature relationship is not belittling someone. Instead its is concern and recommendation to seek help is caring about some-one I have no social relationship to. If I didn't care I wouldn't say anything.
I don't know how to stop it, but I think someone should go to jail for doing this.
I have a legitimate reason. Whoever designed their app ui (iPhone, not sure if android is the same) needs to be fired. It’s horrible to use.
Where do you sell them? eBay? I have a 2010 MacBook Pro gathering dust. I'd be happy to get pretty much whatever I could for it. It's never going to be used.
Answer the phone when they call and conference in the Jolly Roger telephone bot
http://www.jollyrogertelco.com

The bot will waste the telemarketers time, which is the most expensive thing that these companies are paying for. Do this enough times and the calls drop off rapidly.
We should really have self driving trains by now.
contrariwise, it is infact already cash.
I feel the same way about podcasts.
What are the reasons this has been so difficult? It seems like this must have been desirable for decades. Is the config of internal and external just tricky? Does some legitimate traffic use this so it's difficult to get everyone to switch to alternatives?
relibc is built to solve a problem in the existing software, namely newlib. It has a clear reason.

Redox is an opearting system. An operating system needs a C library. Redox used to use newlib, but developers found it unsatisfying.
This is great in principle, but doing it state-by-state in drips is going to cause more problems than it solves, particularly if different states decide on DST vs Standard.

The federal government needs to abolish one or the other across the board.
Did you check "differentiable neural computers" by DeepMind [0]?
I wonder if that type of model could ultimately automatically infer the things you're describing (since it can do memory reads/writes, execute instructions).
I like Hulu, but I was surprised when traveling to find out it’s not available outside the US at all, except for a “Hulu Japan” service. I wonder if there’s a group of consumers that would pay a premium for a streaming service with similar levels of content that worked regardless of IP-inferred geolocation.
I have a loose rule to read parentheses as brain-farts (I think, this applies here, two).

The quoted remark assumes the universe was a state-machine. Which is a tall order. On the other hand, it's just a reformulation of the "energy is never lost" hypothesis (axiom), or "entropy always increases". But that's really just pop-sci. As was pointed out up-thread, it's rather describing the human way of thinking. Which to me also implies that we like to exaggerate a little: "Of course I could figure out where you were last month, in principle, it's just ... I don't have time for that right now!"

Edited: I always mix up increase and decrease of Entropy.
Practical persistence in Go: Organizing database access
This is the case for most streaming services. Pretty much the only one I've found that works without hacks is Netflix, although their content varies quite a bit from one country to another.

I understand this is due to licensing restrictions but it's pretty annoying all the same. I'd happily pay for Filmstruck, for example, if they'd only let me.
Yeah I tried to research Go Assembly ~12 months ago and came up with relatively little. It's great to see this!
Samsung own processors are nearer to Apple processors when it comes to speed its Qualcomm that is being left behind and Samsung phones in the US.
You already mentioned two examples. But open sourcing a database doesn't just prevent against the folding of the company behind it. It creates a community that drives improvements and helps prevent the project from folding. Clickhouse for example has a growing community that files bugs and authors improvements. CloudFlare for example contributed some very useful features.

Open source also means one can examine the bug tracker (in most cases, some don't provide an open bug tracker) for known bugs and dive into the implementation in order to understand the inner workings in more detail if needed. I've made good use of this ability numerous times in the past.

The gist is: if a database which is always a key part of a software architecture, is not open source, then it better provide extremely convincing arguments to choose it over other products. Being open source on the other hand doesn't mean choosing a partical software is a no-brainer. There are tons and tons of open source databases with questionable quality. Open Source as a criterion is just one amongst many. I would for example not hesitate to use some hosted proprietary DB on AWS if it fit the project because I know AWS is unlikely to go away. But some smaller/young companies? The risk that they'll disappear unfortunately is very real in this industry.
I don't receive any spam call at all, but many scam calls.

I once got an Indian Dell "virus" guy to be mad at me after 1+ hour when I got him to my VMWare Windows XP with a super inappropriate wallpaper -- before that I just told him to hold because I need to get my laptop from another building, need to poop, asking stupid questions, etc, and went back to work and pick up the phone after 25-30 minutes as a break. But the lower-tier guys often don't understand many references and attempts that you trick them, so it's not as fun as you thought. After a while, I got kinda bored, because they actually fell for my bait too easily. Tier-1 guys are garbage, if you want to have fun you have to bait them to give you tier-2.

I got a fun call last time.

I have been receiving calls from the FBI lately. A guy with Indian accent was demanding to speak to Mister so-and-so, and I was teasing him (pretending to be dumb, can't hear, fart, etc) to the point he got mad.

Then I was just listening to him going at me. After a while trying to eff my mom, he actually transferred me to another guy (tier-2) who speaks really good English. The conversation went something like this:

- Well, see, I know too well you're not FBI. What you're gonna do?

- Sorry man, I was just doing my job.

- I know I can't know where you're calling from. So tell me, your English is good, and you seem pretty calm and collected, why do you have to stay up at 12 AM to do this shitty job?

- No, I'm not in India. I'm in Texas.

- For real?

- Yeah, I'm a student. Someone asked me if I want to make some extra bucks over the break. It pays pretty well, better than normal jobs in here.

- Oh, interesting.

- Do you want to do it too? I can refer you.

- No thanks, I have a job that pays me OK, but good luck with your ''''job.''''

- OK, nice talking to you.

- Nice talking to you.

Take it for what it's worth, but that seems to be the most successful scam call that I have ever received. I actually don't receive any more calls after that.
Elon Musk tweeted at the president to push China on car tariffs
If you were taught that Lamarck was wrong in every conceivable way, then your instructor(s) didn't understand very much about the subject. I certainly wasn't told that every aspect of Lamarck's proposals were false, nor were any of my colleagues.
Netflix Data Reveals 70% of Users Moves to View on TVs, 10% Remains on Phones
It's harder for a transit ISP, but your average, typical ISP isn't providing transit for a huge number of other AS's.

We ($work) are pretty small but we provide transit for a handful of other AS's and I have extensive filtering everywhere. Downstream customers can advertise networks that are allocated/assigned to them and I'll accept IP traffic from those source addresses. If they send us traffic with random source IP addresses, though, it gets dropped by the router of ours that they are connected to.
I'm not saying everything should be the same, my first sentence said quite the opposite. I'm just saying let's not bring the constraints of the physical world into mobile app design, let's get a little more creative.
Looks about on par with Express with all the obvious benefits that Express does not have.
Um, the article pretty clearly touches on why it’s difficult if not impossible for ISPs to do this.…
Ask HN: If you can have only one pain in your life solved, what would that be?
Is it coincidence that this is up on the front page at the same time as "C++ Core Guidelines" (rules for modern C++) and I started reading this just after glancing at that? The churn and complexity introduced into C++ in the name of simplicity is simply mind-boggling.
Tattoo You: Immune System Cells Help Keep Ink in Its Place
Taleb is a serious charlatan. I found somebody tweeting this the other day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11t5zBd3fU
I like the demo. I think it comes down to how many miles of totally un-manned driving they can rack up and record. If that number gets big enough, it's a real win in terms of demonstrating viability.
The article lists multiple related to how routing works. While great in concept it is nearly impossible in non residential spaces
> At what point does Tesla start acting like a ‘real’ company and decide these kinds of defects aren’t acceptable?

They aren't even close to having a production line that can push out the preordered cars in any reasonable amount of time. Probably some time after they can do that.
This is but one reason governments need to be eliminated.
Go has replaced C/C++ in some circles.

Go look at most recent go projects. Kubernetes will never have been done in PHP/Python/Ruby. It would have been a Java or C++ project. Same with cockroachDB, Docker, Etcd, Fleet, Lime, InfluxDB, Prometheus, etc.
Eleven nations – but not U.S. – to sign Trans-Pacific trade deal
The good company i stayed with for a long time had a culture of good work life balance, excellent management, and the tech stack was a perfect fit for my development. Plus, I got the luck of being on a product that remained in existence for five years, which is pretty rare. Most of the time when people get laid off, its because the product they're working on died.

Bad companies typically have low retention and are always losing employees for one reason or another.
I do wish though that there was greater space in public imagination for works of Hammett and Chandler, and writers of their ilk. I find hardly any new adaptations of their works being made these days.
Do people solve really hard problems with COBAL? I thought it was primarily a business language that replaces a lot of manual work. What sort of things has it found a niche for? Similar to how FORTRAN is used a lot in big data/physics?
“Phoresis” by Greg Egan
seemingly too lazy

Some people aren't in the mood for extra curricular activity after working +14h a day. They rather unwind, and be productive the day after in their not-pushing-to-github jobs.
Google's "howsearchworks" : https://www.google.com/intl/gl/insidesearch/howsearchworks/t...
You can use static link in C/C++ although you may find that the DLL you're statically linking tend to dynamically load the underlying DLL anyway that defeats the purpose.

In most C/C++ world, you're better dynamically linking anyway due to most prior to Visual Studio 2012 it would determine the Service Pack/Dependencies of your host operating system and include that into the exe manifest.
Google admits collaboration with illegal US drone murder program
Back pain :(
> that is seemingly too lazy to do any related extra circular activity.

So people with life responsibilities are too "lazy" just because they don't code outside work?
savings is for more than just retirement. there are transaction costs associated with breaking into retirement vehicles in order to meet emergency obligations.

more importantly, inflation discourages savings, because you have to invest your savings just to stay ahead of inflation. investment and savings are different categories, its financially unwise to conflate them.
theres nothing in the article about it.
Ah my bad...
I don't think I will say that's the advantage of C++, but rather the perceive advantage of C++. Anytime I've met a great C++ programmer, they start off by ratting of a list of C++ features they don't use.
Although physical pain is an acceptable answer, im interested in all types of pain points
Yes you are right.. indeed sounds similar..
>$2.50/mo, $10/yr, or $40/lifetime. Purchase available in app.
s/article/website

It's always been that way... the dark, snarky side of Harvard's self-loathing. It's ideology is really the antithesis of what goes on at HN. Try reading some other articles in the Baffler....
The website design alone makes this worth the visit! Takes me back a few years (decades?).
I'm missing your case in point. Based on the images you provided I can't tell which one is iOS 11. It's like 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
The calculator is a little bit different between the trip, but I wouldn't say either one is unfinished, kit is either one better than the other.
Sure, sure, but we all know this does not apply here.
What's not correct? Photons are said to go through both slits because they go through both slits? It is true that they go through both slits. That's why we say that they go through both slits. Because there's no information available to contradict that fact.

I really don't know what you're disagreeing with.
Blocking is pointless, the spam origination systems seem to be able to use multiple numbers on a rolling basis. I guess iPhone IOS added a incoming call filter api. I had been receiving so many calls on my cell that I tried some filtering apps. The HiYa app I've currently settled at seems to identify most incoming spam numbers and you can decline the calls. I think the volume of my spam calls as gone down too.
Show HN: React Reveal – simple reveal on scroll animations for React apps
She went on a completely pointless witch-hunt. The odds are good that had someone risen to the occasion to track down the anomaly and fix it, we would still have some poison pen piece about the incident. She just would have found some different catty angle.

"Let me tell you about that time I kindly stood idly by failing to do my job as an experiment to graciously let my bad and lazy coworkers grow and they completely botched it. Thousands of dollars in damage done and servers had to be replaced."

"Let me tell you about that time my male coworker decided to steal my thunder and get promoted over me by doing my job when I couldn't be arsed to because sexism is clearly alive and well!"

People who spend two months looking for some BS excuse to fingerpoint instead of spending 30 seconds fixing the problem are going to find something to complain about. She not only spent two months pursuing this at work, she then blogged about it. She invested all kinds of time and energy into this bizarre little scenario in her head.

She clearly has Big Feels about something. Why? I don't know. But that is the real issue here.
Yeah I know about FAISS, and I saw the recent change they made where it lets you spill to disk.

Also https://erikbern.com/2018/02/15/new-benchmarks-for-approxima...
Author here.

I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular.

I prefer not to post pictures of my kids publicly out of respect for their privacy, so I won't prove to you that I'm a dad, but some cursory twitter-stalking should provide sufficient evidence that I'm not a marketing shill for either AWS or Twilio.
Most people buy houses without a lawyer, and things work fine.

I strongly suspect that people _know_ the trade offs they’re making when they buy the cheap inkjet printer with expensive ink, the lowest priced airline ticket, the cheapest bidding contractor, or the unfixable gadget. They just want to eat their cake and have it too. Then the regulators come in and make the decision for everyone, just because a tiny minority of people have buyers remorse.
"Brain" is just a stand-in for any system which can correlate its state with another system.
For me, in Chrome, I could not find "Show In Viewer", but the static preview image on the left side has a "launch" text splash when hovering. Clicking it opens a player with play/pause/step and other functionality.
If course fashion has a place in computing. It has a place in physical tools as well.
You want a tool to be easy to use. A purely designed tool isn't easy to use. Fashion comes into play to design tools that are easy to user and nice to look at... In the case if UI, the look look is a part of the too as well.
You want people to buy your product. People tend to buy the latest fashion.
Here’s hoping Texas will follow.

Governor Abbott, are you listening?
This method would be a waste of time and energy. Just reverse the app and find it out. No need to play it like a binary is a magic black box that's impossible to inspect.
Yeah, Annoy (and the other reply which pointed to FAISS) are interesting.

I read https://erikbern.com/2018/02/15/new-benchmarks-for-approxima... (by the author of Annoy) with great interest.

He points to HNSW which I've know nothing about, but seems very fast!
If you contribute to any of those large projects then you should have that on your resume/cv with a link to the instructions for pulling down a list of the commits related to your work. Easy Peasy.
My read was that networks where traffic originates can and should prevent spoofing (edit: that is, prevent their own networks from sending spoofed traffic, not prevent others from spoofing their addresses) via egress filtering (per BCP38), whereas the stuff about FooCorp and CloudFlare is about transit/destination networks trying to prevent spoofing via ingress filtering. Did I misunderstand something?
That's depressing. I guess it's much better to package into an Electron app and release native. For those Electron haters, before bashing me remember the b2b guys are releasing their stuff in JVM wrapped native binaries which runs into GBs of both disk and ram and many are slower than VSCode..
As cool as it sounds, this is way beyond intelligibility for non-physics people. I don't understand the need for trying to vulgarizing anything quantum related.

I understand the Maxwell demon, and Bennet's argument, but everything after that is simply too hard.
T-Mobile claims to block scam calls now. I just turned it on a few days ago, so it’s too soon to tell, but I haven’t gotten any unwanted calls, where I usually get at least one a day.
https://explore.t-mobile.com/callprotection

From what I’ve read, without trying it, nomorobo seems to be recommended. I was going to give it a whirl before I found t-mo will blocks the calls now.
A surprisingly large number of things can be modeled as Hamiltonian systems -- in fact, all things -- but this does not imply that Liouville's theorem can be usefully applied universally (or even frequently). The reason is that the subset of variables we actually have access to and care about are not Hamiltonian.

Likewise, observing that some microscopic piece of a system has operations that can be mapped on to a Turing machine does not mean that the output of the Turing machine controls the variables we care about.

Additionally, we prove constraints about the outputs of particular software (executed on Turing machines) all the time. Noting that some piece of a system is isomorphic to a Turing machine does not actually mean it will be fed arbitrary instructions.
Isn't this just describing variable attributed value exchange with a ledger that isn't inherently reconciled? Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought that was the point of fiat adoption based the realities of physical location?
Curious Fictions helps readers find (and pay for) short stories
Track them down and sue them in small claims court. I’ve collected nearly $10,000 doing this.

Short story: calling your cell phone with automated dialing equipment and automated messaging (“press 1 to talk to someone”) is illegal per the TCPA. I’m not a lawyer but it’s fun to be amateur attorney for a day. Definitely a time suck though...
I think 'dang provided the link so people could read the previous discussion (which has over 100 comments), not to imply it was a dupe. If the latter, I suspect he'd've marked it as such.