skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for those who don't know anything else about George Dantzig, the author of that article:

There's an urban legend about a college student who shows up late for a math class, sees some problems written on the board, assumes they're homework, and solves them over the weekend, but it turns out the professor wrote the problems on the board as examples of open problems in the field.

This urban legend is true, and George Dantzig was the student.

https://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
I've played with this a bit, professionally and personally (Scala/Akka specifically).

The way it makes you think about your model and the boundaries it introduces seem good. I really love the way it forces you to model the communication between parts of your code as a data structure - it feels like a much less costly version of the "everything as a micro-service" dream.

Scala seems like the ideal language for it - you need really simple, powerful data types for it to feel good, otherwise those messages become painful to make or get overloaded in bad ways.

Akka was still struggling with type loss in the system the last time I used it, which really felt like a pain, and where I feel it adds the boundary that makes it harder to understand.
With respect to the activism/pushing for improved corporate governance near the end of the article, I like to think it is happening on the 401K and individual side and that the reason it is behind the curve is because 401Ks are a more recent invention than pensions.

Here's an example of it happening on the 401K front.

https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/audrey-choi-ted-talk-...

“Today we have more choices and more opportunity to make our voices heard than ever before,” says Audrey Choi, head of Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing. And collectively, we have the power to change the way companies and other institutions approach environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Finance, she says, “can be one of the most powerful forces for positive social change at our disposal – if we ask it to be. We have the power to make sustainable investing the new normal,” says Choi.

Choi calls out the fable that many of us carry in our heads that if you care about environmental or social issues when you invest, you probably aren’t going to make as much money. To bust those myths, she cites studies showing that investing in companies with strong sustainability strategies can result in the same if not better returns than investing in those that don’t.
How does Hearth achieve the "decentralized" status? I assume Hearth is offering a small-volume pinning service on the side as a charity right now? If that's true, it's essentially no more "decentralized" than a normal website.

What am I missing?
I'd like to mention actix, it is an actor framework for Rust language. it is single process at the moment, but distributed version is in development.

https://github.com/actix/actix/
>>We need more "fire and forget" solutions. If we want to save our environment and slow down global warming, we need solutions that at most require people to do something relatively painless 1 time.

Yeah, make sure to let the world know when you figure out what that solution is, because it will win you Nobel Prizes in multiple categories.
usually, reactions like this are indicative of being more, not less susceptible to advertising.

case in point: LiveCD is a branded capitalization.
As a non-american, what's wrong with walmart? Apart from them being 'big'?
Would it be possible to incorporate dat:// support into existing browsers as a plugin?
I love pemmican. Just be careful on the berries though, as they can vastly reduce how long it stays good.
I've been pretty happy with the Asus C101PA... It's small, light, convertible to a tablet, and is fast enough for most tasks. Retails for $249.
https://www.amazon.com/Chromebook-C101PA-DB02-Quad-Core-Ligh...
RT is certainly losing my favor, it's Disney garbage everywhere, the top movies consist of whatever came out in the last 2 years, the algorithm just isn't good.
What you say is true. But when you say "a part", how much of a part is it?

Consider this: in any period of human history there will be political tension of one kind or another. Art will be created in response to that tension. Some we remember, and some we don't.

The art we remember is remembered precisely because it adheres to generic standards of beauty in art, these being eloquence, daring novelty, or something else.

It's not about the message, but how the message is expressed that makes us cherish and remember art, whether it is explicitly political or not.

Yes politics are inescapable, and they color much of what we do, but what defines timeless artistic beauty is separate from the political motivations of the art itself. Otherwise we would not be able to appreciate ancient art whose political climate has long passed.
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> The two were encouraged to marry in a system with undertones of eugenics, the controversial gene-pool manipulation espoused by the Nazis and previously trumpeted by Beijing.

Strangely, no mention of US' being really into it before WWII
This is the link http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/
I find that Beaker doesn't cut through corporate/university firewalls as good as IPFS. I'd be interested to know others experiences.
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A Model, You Know What I Mean?
It's funny - the author isn't just some guy, it's George Dantzig. Relevant because he is one of the fathers of linear programming. He and his simplex algo are actually referred to in the wiki page
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This is actually slightly different issue.

Regardless of the dimension, the volume of n-ball is V_n(r) = c_n * r^n, where r is radius, and c_n is a constant depending on n. The grandparent observation is that surprisingly enough, c_n goes (rather quickly) to 0 as n goes to infinity, so for unit n-ball, that is, a ball of radius 1, the volume is exactly c_n, which is very small. This is surprising to us, because in familiar case of n = 3, c_3 = 4/3 pi, which is moderately large.

As for the mass being concentrated around the peel, suppose we have an orange of radius R+e, and its peel has thickness of e. Then, the ratio of volume of the peel to the volume of the whole orange is exactly:

(V_n(R+e) - V_n(R))/V_n(R+e) = 1 - V_n(R)/V_n(R+e) = 1 - c_n R^n / c_n (R+e)^n = 1 - R^n/(R+e)^n = 1 - (R/(R+e))^n

Now, since R/(R+e) < 1, for large n, (R/(R+e))^n will be very small, and so the ratio of the volume of the peel to the volume of the whole orange will be 1 minus something very small, so close to 1.

Note that the peel argument works just as well with "square" oranges -- they also have most of their mass concentrated around the peel, but contrary to round oranges, their whole mass does not go to 0 as the dimension increases. To see that, note that the volume of n-dimensional square with side of R is exactly R^n, and if you do the above computation, it's exactly the same (note that the constant c_n cancelled out anyway).

In this sense, your comment and the grandparent ones are about two different phenomenons -- grandparent is talking specificly about the geometry of the sphere in L_2 norm, while you are talking generally about n-dimensional volumes.
Unitarian-Universalist churches have a lot of atheists.
I didn't downvote you :( but I am guessing the reason people did (ugh) is that the last picture is just the initial setup, and they want "real" finished products, anyways, thanks for trying!
PB&J are great if you don't want to break camp. It sounds lame but they're basically fruit nuts flour and salt.
Hello everyone! I am Jon Dishotsky, the CEO and co-founder of Starcity. I would be happy to answer any questions directly about what we're working on.
I don't know enough about make to know if this is correct, but the post last week on using make for js started of by saying "If you are writing a frontend app and you need code bundling you should absolutely use Webpack" which, aren't the majority of people using webpack writing frontend apps and need bundling?

The other issue is that essentially no one uses make in frontend development. So you go and convert to make from something that was working fine and is the standard in that part of the industry and what's the pay off? Now no one in your team or who you hire knows how to change the build chain? Great.
We can defend pedophilia on Hacker News but such content wouldn't be welcome here. The article is about Facebook.
United's new bonus system angers employees
> Often it seems tech/IT is simpler. A software engineering team in California write the code, then it's clear that nearly all of the value was created in California. It's fairly easy to price the cost of foreign datacenters for cloud hosting.

I don't follow. Just because the software was written in California doesn't mean they don't have customers and derive profit from other regions. Likewise, sales tax on physical goods is applied at the point of sale, not manufacturing.
> people clamoured over Black Panther as the first positive representation of blacks on screen

There were lots of things that people praised Black Panther for, but the one you point to wasn't what any significant subset were praising it for, in fact...

> while conveniently ignoring decades of black cinema.

Breaking out of the black cinema stereotype that films featuring predominantly black casts are a niche good for black audiences while films featuring predominantly white casts are mainstream products for everyone is, for instance, one of the major things Black Panther has been celebrated for.
Why would it?

You can literally write it as a shell script

#!/bin/bash

N=2

while true; do
clear
echo Every $N\s: $*
$*
sleep $N
done
>Why is GDPR disproportionately a problem for foreign tech?

The legal resources being actively applied against foreign companies, and I'm including the legal resources of civil groups that receive state funding in that definition if it matters, is concentrated predominantly on foreign entities. The raw economic impact, in part due to the concentrated nature of the legal action being pursued, is much larger against foreign entities such as FaceBook, Google, etc. Put succinctly, it's disproportionately a problem because the realized effects of the GDPR have been more hostile towards those entities.

> You really think there isn't tons of work to do for many local companies as well?

I think you're either being rhetorical or you've misunderstood my point. I'm not arguing EU companies don't have any work to do. I'm arguing that from a legislative perspective it's a small trade when you compare the size of the foreign sector to the domestic sector. In my parent comment I acknowledged that this doesn't immediately imply foul play before going on to say that it's hard to not view these actions as such when the EU treats its own corporate scandals/misbehavior so lightly by comparison such as in the case of Volkswagen.
Because, according to Reuters, who claims to have seen the draft, it's targeting companies with EU digital revenues in excess of some large amount. After you get above Spotify's digital revenue, the only companies left are American (and Spotify looks like it's exempted).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tax-digital/eu-plans-n...
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"Now, this evidence exists mostly in hearsay-type form: blog posts, forum posts, huge reddit threads. You can find similar stuff for BBB and Angie's List. There are also a couple thousand FTC complaints against Yelp, at least."

No, the "evidence" exists entirely in hearsay form. All you ever see are stories about parents, friends of friends, distant cousins, and so on. There's almost never so much as a link to the business page. Why? Because it's trivial to debunk these claims when you can see the reviews.

"It seems silly to believe random people on the internet over tossed lawsuits and a dropped FTC investigation."

Not just silly, but absurd. It's internet conspiracy theory, and people are just thoughtlessly repeating it as fact.

"But I see this as the likely result of Yelp being cagey about how reviews and advertising interact, and being able to hide behind a policy that promises a scrupulous approach and proprietary algorithms."

If Yelp revealed how reviews are filtered, the filters would be rendered useless overnight. It would be the equivalent of Google publicly documenting their search algorithm. And while I think Yelp does many things badly when it comes to this stuff, they're 100% clear about how reviews and ads interact: they don't.
Remove Their business license if they are continuing to run whilst not "making a profit". If they continue to do this indefinitely, they should be removed from the market, for the good of the ecosystem. They would be pushing out potentially profitable competitors (who would pay tax).
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Ah, gotcha. Bold? Doubtful—that too would make things louder. HN writers have enough textual inventiveness to do without that (and allcaps), if they want to.

IMO your comment would read better and be more persuasive if you'd simply downcase the allcaps.
I'm glad globe-making is still being practiced. For my money, there's nothing quite as cool as an artisanal globe!
The Great California Genocide
what do you do?
And all cumulative distribution functions, x^k where k is odd, all functions F(x) = integral(f(x') dx', -inf, x) where f(x) is continuous..
I can't believe you've been down-voted for these two posts. If you convert your js projects to make you are going to be the only person on your team who ever touches them again for no pay off.
HPV can actually cause other cancers besides just cervical.

https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/parents/cancer.html

>HPV cancers include cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, or anus. HPV infection can also cause cancer in the back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils (called oropharyngeal cancer).
The Four Phases of a Data Science Project
Well I personally despise all tech companies selling out their users whether they are from the US, France or Peru. Its a fact on the ground many are from the US though.
I'm skeptical of the side-effects...

Because of how VAT works we have a lot of companies in the EU that lives by essentially reselling stuff. These chains can be long.

If you apply revenue taxing to low profit margin businesses with high turn-over and long supply chains we'll see some negative results.

It's a decent way to hit tech giants, because a substantial part of the revenue is profit. But the unintended victims might be numerous on this one.
Ahh, so this bit of an add on only helps after 90mph?

Guessing he is single, close to it, or coupled with someone just as adrenaline powered :)
Are Democrats and Republicans really 180° apart? From where I sit they seem to waver between 9° and 10° apart... sometimes as much as 12° apart? Much less, of course, when there is a ruinous foreign war to pitch.
The survey is classic selection bias.

Anyhow, it does not distinguish between "has no discretionary income" from "spent every dime they have". The latter is a common problem even among higher income folks.

People seem to be able to find the funds to buy iphones/booze/drugs/airjordans even down to the lowest levels.
I think there's a second angle to this, which is that the assumption in your example is that the tech company is the one distributing the good within a particular country. There's an argument to be made that, unless the company has hardware housed in the nation, the transaction equally resembles someone crossing the border to purchase a good and then coming back across.
It's saying that whether it affects latency or just throughput depends on how those pauses are distributed in absolute terms, not just the ratio. There's a big difference in 99th percentile latency between a 1ms pause every 400ms and a 10 second pause every 67 minutes, but they both work out to 2.5% by the ratio metric.

So yes, at the `infinitesimally small` end, time would be 'stolen' evenly from all request threads and would not be a contributing factor to the 99th percentile.
The playing field is not equal, therefore you cannot speak of outcomes as being a function of choices.

When did I ever say that outcomes were a function only of one's own choices? Outcomes are determined by both choices and other factors. Some of those other factors are pure chance; most (including inheritance) are the result of other people's choices. Forcing equality of opportunity has all the same problems as forcing equality of wealth or income—you can't do it without eliminating choice.

Since you brought it up, merit is a function of what you do with the opportunities at your disposal. One who achieves a little with limited opportunities shows just as much merit as one who achieves much with more significant opportunities.

Instead of an individual foot race, perhaps it would be more instructive to look at life as a relay. Each participant does what they can before passing the baton to the next member of their team (the next generation). In the beginning every team started from the same position (bare subsistence). It would be wrong to judge the fairness of the race based on individual starting positions; you have to consider the cumulative efforts of the entire team. (Always keeping in mind, of course, that life is not a sport, so the value of such analogies is necessarily limited.)
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Not having a good GPA does set you back temporarily, in the form of less access to graduate schools or an initial job. Which in turn lessen chances of some traditional advancements, like fast track management, doctors and lawyers, or finance careers.

Everyone else, zippo.
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Here's the actual Nature letter, for anyone interested. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25791
I think it's lamar that frequently runs spots that say something like "if you see it/it works!"
It bugged me a lot too that there are a lot of sloppy editorial errors that were somehow not picked up by the journalist, nor the copy editors, and the editor(s) in chief before publishing a headline story like this. It reminded me of how far we've slipped in journalism quality :/
My “aha” moment – Accept interfaces return struct in go
When a state puts matching funds in workers 401(k) plans each year, that is an easily quantified expense. A state that makes pension promises can minimize the stated expense by using unrealistic investment assumptions. Government workers' unions and politicians have collaborated to make promises that are ruinous in the long run. If politicians had been more honest and unions less greedy, I would be ok with public pensions. But both groups have shown that they are not to be trusted.
Ninja is used because it's simple, multiplatform and very fast. The mainstream alternatives offer at most 2 out of 3.
> if your project is Windows-only, you can get a second compiler’s opinion on your code, and Clang’s warnings might find bugs

GCC (mingw.org and mingw-w64 triples) has existed and been able to do this, including and especially cross-compiling, for a long time. No need to manually download a Windows SDK either.

edited to add: to be fair, it's not ABI compatible with MSVC. But it deserves a mention and it's an easier option than MSVC-style build systems for many open source projects.
The author just kind of brushes by this, but my main problem with pensions in general is their tendency to be underfunded. It's just one more way for current voters to externalize the costs of their benefits onto future generations.

401(k)s by design can't extract funding as future liabilities. Are there proposals for ways to do this for pensions? I know there are pushes to "fully-fund" them, but the temptation to use overly optimistic projections seems like it will never really go away.
Exactly. Immediately from the premise of the paper, I was looking forward to a discussion on how they tried various strategies to tune their JVM/GC parameters and found nothing. The "well I guess we gotta replace this with a C++ solution" sentiment smacks of poor software engineering practice, despite the results.
Or just try and benchmark Azul VM with pause-less GCs ?!

(I have used Azul in low-latency production environments. It has pros and cons but it certainly beats re-writing the storage layer... )
Yeah, I'm a bit befuddled as to how a journalist can miss these.
Emulating the GameBoy CPU on .NET
I'm having trouble reading past "Go print the pdf". It's 220 pages.
Fair enough, but in the meantime passengers are not trapped aboard airplanes (which are considerably more comfortable than hyperloop pods). On a few rare occasions passengers have been trapped on airplanes for several hours. This was considered unacceptable and led to major changes in policy.
No, Orwell's book is a classic that happens to be about politics. It's not about Orwell's political message, it's about the way it was delivered, which indicates there are foundational artistic metrics we use to judge art.
Would love to connect to hear more about your experience and perspective. If you have a minute, please drop a line: contact at companydomain. Thanks for the pointer!
No one has yet mentioned today's lack of community...We rarely share an emotional connection and sense of place with our neighbours that our grandparents would have known.

A big part of this is the degree to which people in their 20's and 30's are willing to unperson someone in public spaces -- even in person -- just for the suspicion of holding to the wrong ideological viewpoint, or even just for being from the "wrong tribe." It's so common to encounter some sort of unfounded imputation of hidden unsavory motivations. This sort of thing manifested itself in the 80's as a bigoted/snap judgement questioning of one's religious affiliation or sexual orientation.

It was back in the 80's and 90's when I started to develop my information-flow technique for evaluating people: I would watch how they would evaluate me, and gauge what information they used to jump to which conclusions. Bigots often jump to wildly inaccurate conclusions quickly on scant information. Bigots often impute under-the surface motivations without justifiable evidence. I've seen such jumping/imputation in rural South Carolina and from people in poor white neighborhoods in Ohio. What's surprising to me, is the remarkable frequency with which I've seen essentially the same jumping/imputation in the Bay Area.

If you want community, start by exercising the Principle of Charity. Allow for a Loyal Opposition. The vast majority of people have well-meaning (as well as self serving) reasons for their positions. If you want community, let people speak and listen to them. If you want to destroy community, then silence people and impute dark motives.