skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a mixture of slow/stupid kids (low IQ) and rebellious, impulsive kids. Personality and performance undesirables. Back in the older days, there were more manual labor and mechanized jobs that anyone could learn to do if they just followed instructions. These days, every parent wants their kid to goto an ivy league, and get a "smart job." So they put their kids on performance enhancing drugs. Stimulants like amphetamines alter the brains reward system - dopaminergic synapses. So the asshole kid becomes a little bit nicer because the potential energy to do harder and undesirable tasks is now decreased both mentally and physically. Thresholds changed. Speed of mental quickness and physical dexterity also improved..so the slow kid is now near average level intelligence because he is overclocked on stimulants. Better hope the parents give their kids a good liquid cooling system and feed them more, need a bigger PSU when your system is clocked so hot.
I wonder if some control surfaces would help.
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Ipfs is awesome. It's more like bit torrent. You have hashes generated based on files. Same hash always points to same file, provided at least one ipfs node is mirroring it. You don't automatically mirror content with ipfs unless you elect to.

When you update your site, the hash must change, and thus the link changes as well.

Security stuff... Yeah it can be used maliciously just like bit torrent can, but ipfs hashes can be accessed also by ipfs.io/hash and I haven't heard of any problems with malware or anything of the sort, things get filtered out pretty quickly it seems.

Ipfs is awesome. Read the white paper ... It's such a nice middle layer for projects wanting to use a distributed file network without building out their own torrent network.
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Well, a key point is that it doesn't have to be an entire Python interpreter. It just has to be the subset that Oil uses. (This applies to both both Python syntax and semantics.)

I also forked the 8K LOC bytecode compiler -- I didn't write it from scratch. That's the point of "Cobbling together a Python interpreter".

So for a cartoonish view, compare these implementation strategies.

1. Clone bash in C, which (charitably) would involve writing around 80K lines of C code from scratch, given that bash is 160K lines. You can probably do better by not writing it over 30 years :-)

2. Write 16K lines of Python, fork a bytecode compiler in Python (8K lines), and then either fork CPython's VM or write your own.

The post implies that #2 is probably easier than #1. I haven't done the last part of #2, so I could be wrong. I think it's an interesting experiment to find out whether you can write a bespoke compiler/VM for a specific program in a high level language.

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It's a little bit like TeX and Pascal. I discovered awhile ago that that TeX is written in an abstract subset of Pascal. Apparently the version you use on most Linux distros is compiled to machine code via a Pascal-to-C translator. I'm not sure if that translator was written specifically for TeX or not, but if anyone knows, please chime in!

But I have seen enough of Knuth's code to know that he does not rely on implementation details. That is roughly the case with Oil and Python. As I mention in the post, Oil is written in Python+ASDL, not Python. And I would even call it Python + ASDL + some abstract regex subset. That subset could be called the intersection of Python regexes + re2c regexes, e.g. at the end of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16525378

Basically when writing Oil, I try to be clear about the algorithms, and not think in terms of implementation details of a particular platform. This is possible for a shell because it's mostly string handling, and the only libraries it uses are a handful of libc calls (which are 40 years old, standardized, and well understood.)
Can you explain it for us?
Since you brought up voting in the first place, I'd guess that you're still hooked on the narrative that claims "Voting is important!"

Meaningless gestures don't gain meaning just because we wish it were so.
I think we are currently watching a number of cultural currents and counter-currents (re)emerging, and the increasing interest in new urbanism and walkable, mid-density, mixed-use neighborhoods is one of them. You could tie it to a broader rejection of modernism and capitalist realism and a dozen other -isms that have defined the look and feel and very substance of life in the US since 1945, and an increasing tendency to look to the past for traces of alternative presents/futures that never came into being (see Mark Fisher). Hipster retro fetishism is only the tip of the iceberg.
Another example is Larry Fink's letter to CEOs:
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry...

As we enter 2018, BlackRock is eager to participate in discussions about long-term value creation and work to build a better framework for serving all your stakeholders. Today, our clients – who are your company’s owners – are asking you to demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only their own investment returns, but also the prosperity and security of their fellow citizens.
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The "message" (or lack thereof) being referred to is that of the Trump voters whose purpose for voting was to see chaos out of spite for the status quo. Not Trump's message. You could have easily grasped this if you had bothered to read all the words. Do your best, there weren't many. Together we can make Hacker News great again!
It does seems scary because of the implications of it. I'm not sure how to get the balance right, though. We wouldn't be that worried about preventing a company who refused to comply with e.g. product safety regulations from trading.
It sounds like a tariff on software imports.
Some people here are hilarious. Bad if moviepass goes it - Fine if google/Facebook/Apple/etc does it.
I'm not sure why your tone is so hostile when I was just asking a clarifying question. More to your point, I don't see what part of the ToS you found especially convoluted, but since your estimate about the length is so exaggerated I doubt you actually read it. The wording was boring but clear and its formatting wasn't particularly mysterious either.

If your point is more generally that we shouldn't be able to just skim a ToS and give consent, what's your alternative that doesn't destroy the ability of online businesses to engage in these kinds of agreements?

Edit: I'm adding this here because I can't reply to the comment below me by s73v3r_ 26.

You in particular might not care, but there are a lot of people who feel like these businesses provide valuable services and don't mind being expected to actually be accountable for the things they agree to. If you don't like ToS businesses online, come up with an alternative. Otherwise, unless your plan is just to go on a tirade, you need to at least try to consider an alternative to outright destruction or your argument is going to lose all of its persuasive power when talking to people who do value these services.
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I've tried clang for windows twice. Each time the problem hasn't been the compiler, which works well, it has been which library to use with it on windows. Clang 5.0 worked well up until I needed the filesystem library, which isn't there. Does anyone know if it still relies on the visual studio C++ library?
Sorry, yes. This page has some documentation on what I meant: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/nomicon/lifetime-elision.html
I used to get headaches too. I finally figured out it was three things that would get me. Being dehydrated, exposure to perfumes, colognes and other scented household stuff like cleaner solutions, and the 3rd was industrial and household solvents like lacquer thinner and acetone (fingernail polish remover).

It took me years to figure that out. Perfumes and scents are so pervasive they're easy to ignore as a trigger for headaches but they get to me fast and the headaches last a long time.

I avoid that stuff like poison now. I will leave the area if I detect it.

Getting outside and breathing fresh air always cured the headaches from perfumes and solvents. It was the only thing that did get rid of them. Over the counter meds did nothing for me.

I use an activated charcoal filter on my tap water now and that makes drinking water a pleasure again. And I pay closer attention to not letting myself get dehydrated. It's easy to tell, I just press a fingertip and if it leaves a dent I need water even if I don't "feel" thirsty.

So, if these are what's causing your headaches you need to be proactive to prevent them and to get rid of them, and a "fitbit" won't help much with figuring out the cause.
> People who pay attention to everything, even the most boring drivel, are usually uninspired prudes.

I see irony in calling someone else uninspired for being more attentive, and I eagerly await the publication of your well-founded study on the subject of demarcating things that are objectively and universally worth ignoring.
Ebay was (and is until mid 2020) 13% of Paypal volume https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paypal-just-how-bad-is-the...
To be more precise. Among elderly Social Security beneficiaries, 23% of married couples and about 43% of unmarried persons rely on Social Security for 90% or more of their income [1].

[1] -
https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/basicfact-alt.pdf
Unless I'm mistaken they don't have access to your location while running in the background. Running != access to location.
Yes, but that's the case with any other tax. If labor costs are lower somewhere else maybe it's just more efficient to manufacture it there. If you tax on profit or revenue doesn't matter here.

If you want to prevent manufacturing in countries with less environmental regulation and cheap labor then you need tariffs. Trump is a fan of it but it's not exactly a popular idea among the tech crowd.
> Taxing on revenue rather than profit feels wrong. If you run a loss you're still on the hook for taxes? That doesn't make sense to me.

It does not make sense.

For example I too would like to pay taxes only for what's left from my salary after paying my rent, my food, my clothes, all the books I read, entertainment I consume, etc..

Basically only for my 'profits' after I reinvest everything back so I would only pay taxes for my savings account [1] (which will probably be 0 as that money would be invested somehow).

It does not make sense!

[1] https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...
Except the part where the money you’re giving to the SS is no longer yours.
They are different worlds.. each actor would be analogous to an independent stream app; or one stream app with lots of KStream/KTable “components”, which feels like an anti-pattern.
I also would like to see actual research backing the "soil depletion" hypothesis. And ruling out alternative theories like https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140507-crop... which showed that rising CO2 levels reduces how nutritious many crops are.
It would be easier to drop corporation tax and instead tax dividends and capital gains as if they were income.
The 401k being 100% yours is a somewhat significant downside, too. It means that the funds get transferred to your heirs on death, diverting funds from supporting retirement in general. This can be counteracted by purchasing an annuity, but that usually isn't the route taken by retirees. Overall, it means that saving for retirement is more expensive than it needs to be, since you're also effectively saving for an inheritance too.

The pension, on the other hand, effectively collects mortality credits as beneficiaries die and distributes them to survivors.

The ideal retirement system would be effectively some sort of actuarially adjusted tontine. Nothing gets left behind when you die - instead, it gets split among surviving retirement savers in an actuarially fair manner.
the police drinking whiskey in the squad cars watching porn are gonna have to figure out how to get around this!
Fluid dynamics? :)
>We don't share a sense of place any more, we move around from job to job, families spread around the country or globe.

That's not true. US labor mobility is the lowest it's been for generations. Our parents' and grandparents' generations had far more people that moved for work. In fact, there's a strong case to be made that a lot of social problems result from people not having the opportunity to move to areas of greater economic opportunity, whether it's because they're caring for elderly parents, or because housing is too expensive in those areas, or credentialism and increased licensing requirements have made it impractical for them to move across state lines. Whatever the cause, a wide range of economists and social scientists believe that more mobility, not less will help solve many of the pressing social issues that we face.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/07/labour-...

http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2017/01/26/why-the-l...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/upshot/its-not-the-inequa...
Hi dmnd, In fact I got all of the 2 interview questions right during the onsite and when I asked why the interview was so short, the interviewer said there is a system design portion is only for people with 3 or more years of experience. In fact my glassdoor review summarizes my interviewing experience at flexport. For those wanting some advice on the job application process, including how to handle bad companies, https://medium.com/@myazhbin/http-bit-ly-2rrxfty-492e30d1e97...

I certainly will never be applying to flexport again
I hope they prevail. What kind of sociopath company fires its entire technical staff?
So easy the Trump admin is making one for poor people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i94OvYb6noo&feature=youtu.be&t...

You won't regret. One of the best explanation of backprop on the internet.
mingw-w64 llvm maintainer/developer here.

Over the past 2-3 years, with great help from a few other LLVM devs I have slowly pushed for native clang support for mingw-w64. With the current in tree HEAD you can now build and bootstrap mingw-w64 with a llvm-only toolchain (no binutils or gcc, thus no disregard of the PECOFF SPEC)

The stack is as follows. LLVM+CLANG+LLD+COMPILER-RT+LIBCXX+LIBCXXABI+LIBUNWIND+MINGW-W64.

The libraries and executables built this way can be dropped into visual studio quite easily, the two environments are now basically interchangeable. This also means we can borrow the PDB debugging work by Zachary Turner and/or any msvc features added to llvm for free that was done by the various googlers working on chrome. See a talk from Reid on the most recent LLVM developer meetup for more info on PDB and how it works.
There has been no formal release of this environment yet but you should see something in the coming weeks/months.
I keep build scripts here for those interested.

https://github.com/martell/mingw-w64-clang

I'm due another cleanup of the repo now that wine 3.0 is out so I can actually run x64 tests within a linux docker container.
I'm going to be doing some blogging to make this more visible with various partners that want to support this.

The most interesting part of this for me was implementing a llvm-dlltool alternative to binutils dlltool that actually works within the PECOFF spec so msvc lib.exe and link.exe likes what it produces.

https://reviews.llvm.org/rL308379
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> For example, what’s their response to Stripe?

Acquired Braintree
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/26/paypal-braint...
But such polynomials do turn up in physics, e.g. accelerated motion: x(t) = 1/2 a t^2 + v t + x0. The trick is that the coefficients aren't unitless either.
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> economists and actuaries debate its extent and even its existence

I mean... I'd ask for a citation right here. Maybe it's due to my "bubble" but I've never once heard an actuary state that most public pensions are perfectly fine. The opposite is almost universally true with a few notable exceptions. Heck, a high schooler with a napkin and basic math skills can figure out how utterly unsustainable so many of these plans are - and how they've only sustained so far by being what amounts to a pyramid scheme.

Illinois in no way is even a sustainable state long-term at this point, almost solely due to insane unfunded pension debt coming due. You can be pro-pension or anti-pension, but either way the math is pretty clear.
It been popular for 10 years or so, not just with the alt right. I like using it when pointing out soulless corporatism and hypocrisy.
The person writing the makefile. Make can easily run executables. Getting it to simulate GUI movements is, I expect, possible, but harder to do.
"it's simple": yep, so much so that you inevitably need a meta-build system. In the context of Chrome, the build system only offers 2 out of 3.
The docs at http://vertx.io/docs/ are available in different editions depending on what language you use with Vert.x, of which there's 7 available. Besides JavaScript and Kotlin, there's also:

Java
Apache Groovy
Ruby
Eclipse Ceylon
Scala
1) ABI compatibility is not present. With clang-cl you can compile half of your object files with MSVC and half with clang-cl, and link them together. That's very powerful. You might be thinking "but who is really gonna do that anyway?" However, there is more to the ABI than just this. For example, consider what happens if you need to use Structured Exception Handling. Well, with GCC, you can't.

2) Debug Information. GCC does not emit PDBs, it emits DWARF. This means you cannot use Visual Studio to debug, you cannot use vTune or WPA to profile, you cannot use symbol / source servers.

3) There are licensing implications, GPL != BSD and it's easier to use BSD.

These are the main reasons. There are other reasons though, such as if the entire goal is to get down to 1 toolchain and that toolchain is X, then why would you waste your time converting Y to Z?
That would just be like a double-rescaling. Like "a meter is now twice as long as double a normal meter."
Actual Black Sun symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BlackSun2.jpg .
Bonus if you have a government that supports the notion its citizens are exceptional, and will manipulate the world to get its way such that citizens have access to rocket engines.

Cause you know, freedom is all about convincing the world anyone specifically should have what it takes to build a rocket car. And mocking the government or anyone else that would suggest it's a foolish waste, by a self-aggrandizing asshat, is free speech.
I agree. However, nothing much better is available. I loved reading work from the Santa Fe Institute and Stuart Kauffman and so on, but the reality is that despite their best efforts, they provided nothing better. General statements about the system-as-a-whole, but no specifics about where to look for the etiology of a specific disease or process. Nobels await those who could do more.

Until such time as someone does bring theory to biology, for example, wet-labbers (not me) struggle on. I am in a little doubt as to whether general theories about complex systems could provide useful predictive frameworks, but if so, great. But until then, pre-study odds are zero if you don't do the study.
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Before you go through all the trouble of getting certs. I advise that you ask for help from your PM. Maybe you can even take charge of a project.

One thing you quickly discover is that the pressure is pretty intense. You get squeezed from management above and the people you manage below. Yet, you have little power to push back.

Certs will teach you the mechanics of project management but managing the human to human relationships is way harder and you'll get little help there from certs. I've known PM's that are experts at the relationship part and are happy doing what they do. I've known others that try to push the mechanics and end up making everyone and themselves miserable.

Good luck.
As many others have pointed out VAT is regressive, it also becomes ineffective at very high rates as it encourages evasion and a black market.
Definitely, but even if you had all the time and resources in the world, you'll never get things perfect. So if you operate off that assumption, then maybe it forces you to consider that some people will be left behind by the thing you make - and what then? Hopefully to do something about it and not forget.
If they want to sell in European countries they will pay tax on revenue there. They can move manufacturing to the Moon and report profits to authorities on Mars while buying licensing from a company outside the Milky Way and we will still tax them on things they sell here. That's possible because we just need to count their sells on our turf. We don't need a tax treaty with Martians to monitor their books as we do now.
CERT was never good for that.
Has anyone seen any research looking at the nutritional content of something that is picked fresh verse picked unripe and shipped? I'm really curious how this might impact food quality. I know it's the only way to do it but I always wonder if those expensive blueberries are really worth it.
As a former fellow digital media manager who worked for a WPP agency - you're right.

I would just add that, agencies have clients that are nice to have in their portfolio but they give more work than they invest.

So you have a business model built on % of investment - something that worked very well for massive TV Campaigns budgets (plus the rappel you'd get from TV Networks) - applied to time consuming campaigns that required a lot of FTAs.

I just don't agree much on the "ease of use" - the digital media landscape is quite complex.

A proper digital media campaign (part of a media campaign) has media managers, digital media managers, PPC Managers (let's say they manage FB and Google advertising for the sake of simplicity), AdOps, and Programmatic Teams - you can add on top of this SEO teams, Social Media teams, etc.

Yet advertisers don't want to move one inch on this business model - let me tell you i've seen them criticizing how many hours a proper Search campaign takes, with no knowledge of the matter. Some, like you've said, are bringing in people for digital media management, campaign management ... hell some are building their own PBUs!

I don't think it will work. It's not something new: it was done in the past with TV, and they come to realize the cost of the know how being stuck on their end it's too expensive.

Oh and P&G, and many other advertisers are to blame here as well - the marketing/brand managers don't want cuts on their budgets, so they make reckless decisions, wasting money just to claim they invested it and will require more budget in the next fiscal year.

Media owners are also suspects, the greed made them dependent on Google and Facebook... now their brands are diluted.

Unfortunately agencies failed with the golden egg goose - attribution modeling... attempts were made but it's not something trivial.
Why would you think government vehicles would be subjected to this? Law enforcement may have legitimate businesses purposes to access adult websites in the course of an investigation.
You assert "if the problem is low contributions, that is not the fault of the 401(k)", but that conjunction doesn't hold.

To wit: is it possible that the requirements for participation in a 401(k) are such that fewer and fewer people can actually contribute to one for a significant period of time? In that case, low contributions would be a result of the 401(k)'s structure, and your conjunction's consequent would be false.
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None. A world government would have to devolve into smaller de-facto polities to even be able to administrate the entire planet, thereby recreating all of the problems that currently exist without a world government.
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