skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not change what I wrote. There is no time machine. What is produced now and the services brought now always are for the people living now.

Now, whether society allocates less resources to some people and more to others despite being perfectly capable of producing enough for all is an entirely different question, that's a problem at any given point in time. Such as right now, today, in the by far richest country on this planet in the last four billion years. The numbers stored in computers don't force this upon us (there is no law of nature that connects the tiny electrical charges in silicon with a family not getting adequate housing, a dentist, or food despite all of those easily available, or easily producible), that is all completely man-made.

"Saving for retirement" on an economic level must be one of the biggest scams in history. Unless the government stores products and services (like doctors) in warehouses to be used 50 years from now for retirees paying to get all of that produced and stored right now - and I don't think the government or anyone does any of that that - on an economy level there is no such thing as "saving for retirement". What will be needed in the future will have to be produced in the future. They also don't need "saved money" of today in the future, since it's all virtual they can and will create that on the fly anyway, just like today (money creation process).

It could be useful if the original purpose was still true: When resources (work, machines) are scarce, do you use them to fulfill today's consumption dreams, or do you use them to build capacity for the future, i.e. instead of building consumer goods you build more and better machines and factories. In that case "saving" actually has a meaning. However, today we don't live in an economy that has that restriction. What is not being consumed now does not increase the work put into future productivity in any meaningful way or amounts. Well, maybe in some countries, but hardly anywhere in the West.
The ethics of copyright transfer for scientific research
he lost me at C++
The global logistics business is going to be transformed by digitization
Let's?
In practice too: http://www.voltframework.com
It sounds like SV is becoming the monaco of the US; you need to be rich to just get by there.
Literally everyone? It's trained based on the emails you respond to.
Why wouldn't wages stay flat for the poor and [bottom half of the] middle class? I think of the value of a dollar as pegged to the value of an hour of undifferentiated labor rather than pegged to an ounce of gold or barrel of oil. (Said differently, basic wages and inflation are tied to each other: inflation of wages is linked roughly linearly to inflation of prices.)

People selling hours of labor are selling those hours in some ratio of dollars and that's what their labor is worth. What's happening on the high end is that advances in technology, finance, and manufacturing have made gains in excess of inflation, and under that set of conditions, of course wealth flows to the owners of those advances.

(I'm not saying that what we have today is exactly right, but I'm sharing my mental model of why it's entirely unsurprising.)
> How suitable or unsuitable is APL for matrix multiplication

Matrix-multiply is just plus-dot-times or +.×

> which language has faster execution times, Python or APL?

This is tricky to answer. For most problems, I'd say APL, but this is isn't quite fair.

A competent Python programmer who has made it "as fast as possible" without resorting to extensions will be creamed by a novice APL programmer, so you need to consider third-party modules like NumPy just to compete.

Now NumPy is very well-optimised, but you'll really struggle to do well against k/q[1] an APLish that actually focuses on performance, and if you run into a problem where it doesn't, there are extensions you can use to eke out even more performance.

At this point, you might try using Tensorflow -- which gives Python a great edge -- but are we really programming Python anymore? kdb+ can use Tensorflow as a library as well...

[1]: http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html fastest non-GPU
How is this different from Evernote's scan function?
> The thing that’s crazy is that this can cost 2-3 million dollars in many places in the Bay Area. The housing crises in affluent cities is absolutely the driving factor of our growing inequality issues.

how can this be so? i agree it sucks that {insert middle class profession} can't afford a 3br in the bay area or NYC, but how can that be the root cause of inequality across an entire nation? there are tons of affordable 3br houses around where i live (mid-size coastal city).

i see that it is a bad thing for service workers the wealthiest cities to be pushed ever further from their place of work, but this seems like a more local problem.
> markets

We regularly hear people concerned about the hypothetical existential threat of a paperclip maximizer AI being invented in the future, yet this concern reliably ignores the AI overlords we already have: paperclip^Wprofit maximizing corporations. The VM for this type of AI has an incredibly slow clock rate and an extreme CISC ISA that often modifies itself in the RTC interrupt. The AIs are not a future threat; they already enslaved us.

The problem is our unregulated capitalism. Until that is addressed[2] we are merely debating which profit-maximizer AI we want to serve.

(my thanks to Charles Stross for the maximizer-AI/corporation metaphor[1])

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future

[2] I suggest heavy regulation to protect the useful parts of capitalism. Left alone, capitalism destroys the very markets it needs to survive.
The word forms are not operators, they're control flow, like "if"
Destination-Driven Code Generation [pdf]
> I, for one, think that society would be so much better if production of value like what Einstein did or what Tesla did etc, was rewarded with richness, rather than selling something.

Unfortunately, there's no mechanism for doing this in a decentralized, dynamic fashion.

The great strength of markets is their decentralized and dynamic nature. They are the original hivemind and crowd-sourced wisdom. Of course, they have many weaknesses (especially with the corruptibility of governments). But for now, it seems these weaknesses are best handled by continually attempting to apply layers of patches and one-off fixes, instead of altering it fundamentally. Perhaps advanced AI will enable a new paradigm... although I would certainly not want to rush into such an enormous change.

I do agree that we can do a better job of rewarding and incentivizing fundamental research and innovation. But it's not going to be easy. Part of the problem is that it often take significant hindsight to know which breakthroughs are the most important.
> Heck Googling just one, I found a Youtube documentary that chronicles the 40-year history of jingles associated with one of those numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv8zqpl8mI

NSFW:

In germany there was 0190 76 76 76 - come play with me. (seven - sex, seven - sex, etc.)
Lots of recommendations for Fastmail and while there is nothing wrong with them, here are some alternatives in case you want to shop around.

runbox.com (cheapest for >1 user)

rackspace.com/email-hosting

zoho.com/mail

www.gandi.net (free w/ domain registration)
Why is everyone using archive.is now? What happened to web.archive.org?
Width isn’t really the right measurement. Yeah, a carrier has to blanket the US, but any given user only uses a small fraction of that, and they have users all over the country. Density seems like a better standard.
You're confusing typical implementation as a technical definition. There's no actual rule which states a "cartridge" has to follow that definition (and in fact some 8bit micro computers with support for cartridges didn't follow your specification).

Given modern systems have a fat OS rather than a thin layer of firmware like the consoles of old, it would but highly illogical to build a cartridge system to the identical specifications of the 70s to mid 90's consoles. But that doesn't diminish the literal definition of the term "cartridge" just because you happen to nitpick the technical implementation.
How mushrooms can help?
For someone new to programming and very frustrated when apps dont have the desired shortcuts, can you explain or point me to an article that says how to create these myself? Thanks!
I'd say it already exists in the form of the consulting media gig. It's just not automated yet.
The seamless phone call handoff is the tricky part. As I understand it, Google Fi does the equivalent of a remote screen session. The call is originated from a google server and the phone connects and reconnects to that server.
Yeah, Eric is wrong about this.

His argument boils down to, "If we let chefs have any knife they wanted, they'd choose the ones that cut most efficiently and proceed to cut themselves! We can't have that, now can we?"

In practice, it wasn't a huge problem, but there were times when getting around it was just a waste of my time.
This pretty much summarized 90% of IG accounts.

They just need a "Look at all the famous people I know" option :)
> Of course, the Arduino can’t directly run programs out of the memory...

Use the Atmel ATmega2650's external memory bus on the mega and you could. Or at the very least, a few variables.
Apple watch, I think
That’s the entire point of those kinds of interviews. It’s a strong filter for “recent graduate” while maintaining plausible deniability for ageism. It has a secondary effect of filtering for “willing to do unpaid overtime”.
shouldnt we be using some trustless system for encryption by now?
I just upvoted you, but I don’t think it works like that.
It’s like to judge how you can paint Da Vinci’s “Monna Lisa” by using more or less strokes than necessary.
Probably you can do it but it’s not the same thing the author intended.
Art, like programming, is entirely subjective.
And, as far as I know “J” objective was not very dissimilar than yours, unless I badly misjudged what you are trying to achieve.
Well, then taking a subset of math and leaving it overnight will work. (No need to do run it on ALL sites).
Great stuff, let them get back to game mechanics.
Inbox is great, no doubt. The recent update to the iOS app is super terrible though. It does away with navigation gestures (swiping up/down) and many animations. It also no longer has an iPad layout.
Using the HHI [1], this would be classified as a highly concentrated industry, and the proposed merger increases the concentration quit a bit. I'd expect this to have a rough road with antitrust regulators.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/atr/herfindahl-hirschman-index
Archive.is is a bit superior in JS processing compared to WayBack, and ignores robots.txt
> performance isn't always a huge concern :)

This is what concerns me a little with WASM. There are already too many web development experiences that prioritise developer experience and neglect user experience, I'm wondering what future we're walking into where we bundle three different standard libraries, ignore binary size, etc etc
I don't think namesilo would do this, they're highly respected, 8.50 .com's, and free domain privacy.
PDF is interpreted too -- actually a subset of PS -- in fact you can write programs that work in PostScript that PDF will not handle in the same transparent way. The PS2PDF translator will have to render those pieces ahead of time -- in PS, the printer can render/interpret the code in a way that is optimal for the printer. That's why I used it.

Still, advantage PostScript.
Nope it doesn't have that - I can definitely imagine it being useful but their defaults are pretty good in my experience. They do have "snooze until day of event" which is quite nice for things like train tickets or meetup confirmations. And they have location-based snoozing which is occasionally handy. Sounds like a nicer way to do it though now you mention it!
https://buffer.com is similar if you want
Such is the peril of living a full life.
I switched from Sprint to T-mobile a while back. My impression of Sprint then was they were essentially milking their customers for whatever they could get while offering inferior service - requiring the renewal of their lousy contracts to continue at any one point and naturally having an inferior collection of phones you could only use with them, having goofy conditions for getting a replacement phone etc.

T-mobile's sell was offering no-contract service and having a network that you could buy broadly available GSM phones for (where with Sprint, you to switch carriers, you had to throw your phone away).

I really hope the merger will be more a mass transfer of Sprint customers to T-Mobile (and the existing T-mobile approach) but it could well involve the opposite; A big accumulation of customers could wind-up be squeezed for all they have as the combined effort is run into the ground.
(that is a strategy that yield cash for investors, it's not more "irrational" than spending a bunch for growth, indeed, "build monopoly with low margins, exploit monopoly with high margins, little service and little capital investment" is natural for many companies and industries.)

I mean, keep in mind the two carriers have incompatible networks, incompatible phones and so-forth so soon or later, there will have to be a "reconning" where one ex-carrier's phones become useless, yay!.
He should team of with Tim Berners Lee, and get the creator of the internet to claim he owns the rights to Web.com ...
this is actually a very good argument to 'ship fast, fix later' proponents. I think 'ship half ass product asap' doesnt really work in SaaS because there isnt endless pipeline of prospective clients and word spread quickly in small circles. The product must be market ready and impressive to a certain degree to achieve positive resonance in its circle.
Opiates are legal painkillers. How's that working out?
Something came up yesterday, in the discussion about business schools, that I think is also relevant here. A lot of people — as in, practically everyone — has been persuaded over the last half-century or so that the board of directors of a public corporation have a legal responsibility to maximize shareholder value. The general acceptance of that fiction is resulting in a tremendous amount of wealth transfer from the middle class to the rich, as the long-term performance of firms is sacrificed to making the next quarter's numbers.

And it is a fiction. Here's a thorough takedown: https://hbr.org/2017/05/managing-for-the-long-term

This makes a lot of good points, but one I find particularly telling is that maximizing shareholder value is not even a well-defined goal, because it doesn't specify a time frame. A public company could be run in such a way as to cause wild swings in the share price, and the day traders and HFTers would love it, because surfing volatility is how they make their money. Of course no one thinks that those are the shareholders whose value should be maximized, but someone who accumulates a position over a couple of months betting on the price going up after the next quarterly earnings report, and who plans to sell shortly thereafter, really isn't that different — and yet somehow these are the people who have managed to seize the narrative that they are the shareholders whose value maximization counts.

And the consequences of people believing this are just massive. Offshoring, reductions in R&D, stock buybacks, a general failure to invest in the future — all of these are driven, to some extent, by this idea that the stock price must be goosed at all costs.
This is not production quality code that is running on some important business.

Then why is it used in the interview process for the latter?
You fail to take into account the New Deal and many decades of progressive taxation, the Civil Rights act, etc. The current inequality crisis only got started for real in the 1980s.
But that's my point. Are you concurring or disagreeing?
That seems like an amazingly gameable system. In particular, it would reward the ones who are best at taking credit, which are not necessarily the same ones that did the actual innovating. Further, it requires the deciding group to be reasonably free of prejudice. As little as a few decades back it would have completely ignored any contributions by women, for example. Finally, I would not be surprised if an outsized amount of the 'prize money' went to friends/family/acquintances of the people in the decider group.
You might be interested in this thread from a few days ago, which talks about ways of fighting depression:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922738
Foxconn Will Drain 7M Gals of Water / Day from Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens
If you really needed to remember it, you could employ spaced-repetition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
PDF is "bread and butter"? There is no fundamental reason why PDF's should be easier to process -- in fact, PS files are far more transparent being simple text files (also capable of holding binary data as well).
English identifiers solve half the problem. The other half is figuring out how the code maps to a tree. For example, in "transpose take x index each x", what is applied to what?

The best solution for me is to use "f(x,y)" syntax instead of "f x y" etc. Can you rewrite your examples using "f(x,y)" syntax?
This sounds like a case maybe EFF would be interested in backing.
Most people have at least a vague idea of how a combustion engine works, don't they?
You can assign a name to each of those symbols if you want and have something equivalent to what you just wrote.

tranpose=:⍉

take:=↑

index=:⍳

each=:¨

done, now I can write (⍉↑x⍳¨x) as (transpose take x index each x)

But the entire idea of APL is notation as a tool of thought.

Would you write read your maths as
five plus twenty is equals to twenty five
or 5 + 20 = 25?

Would you rather read music with it's musical notiation

or quarter note at middle C, quarter note at middle E, etc?

The entire idea of APL is that we read and write algorithms the way we read mathematical and musical notes.
A stroll through archive.org shows there was a small business sending people to and blogging about France: http://web.archive.org/web/20160805122924/http://www.france.... as .com is short for commercial it appears the owner was using the domain correctly before transfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
This is true for lots of things though, right? Programming languages, spoken languages, mathematics, muscle mass...use it or lose it, but it gets easier to re-learn/re-gain everything each time. Plus you don't necessarily have to forget or lose it if you're able to set aside the time to maintain it.
I was on Nextel which I adored until they merged with Sprint and a dark pattern in their technical support flow tricked me into relinquishing a favorable data plan I had grandfathered in. I switched to T-mobile to get away from Sprint, so this news was somewhat concerning, but it sounds like they're keeping Legere on as CEO and hopefully retaining a fair amount of T-mobiles culture, so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Domains on the blockchain?
Front End Framework Choice for Drupal Website
Maybe I shouldn't have suggested this on HN in 2016.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768980
domain = "http://178.62.195.5"
save_url = urljoin(domain, "/submit/")

Huh? What's this IP? Why does it send stuff in cleartext?
I shared an office with the founder of Sanctus for a while (James) when he was working on a different startup. Sanctus is a brilliant idea that's doing good work. If it scales well it could make a real difference in a lot of people's lives. Nice guy too.
That might be true....if we hadn't spent the previous two generations in a period of extreme wealth creation and far more equitable wealth distribution. I can certainly accept a level of inequality being healthy. I see no evidence for "every reason to believe" - I actually see the opposite: We have evidence that such extreme inequality is not necessary.

Even if the argument was accepted, one would have to prove such inequality truly generated 2x the wealth creation, which is an economically HUGE difference.

Thirdly, comparing 1@900k, 9@100k, 90@10k (1 mill total) vs 100@10k (1/2 mill total) and you see that the difference is only there for those 10 people. Were I one of the 90 (and to be clear, I'm one of the 9 in this model) I'd not give much care for arguments that the extreme difference is worthwhile.

Lastly, In addition to inequality, there's also the issue of mobility (one might defend my example by saying the 90 want the chance to be one of those 10). Social mobility has been dropping for quite a while. If you want to live the American Dream, you have notably better odds outside of America. The chance at social mobility as an incentive is not an effective argument for the point-in-time system of today. A system where it IS an effective argument doesn't have to be radically different, but it does have to be different.
When I do cool things I often meet new people. I connect with them through Insta and enjoy seeing their photos of the cool thing. I get to see their perspective and things I might not have done/seen.

I would enjoy seeing someones experience of the Borneo jungles because I haven't been and from a quick google it looks like something I would enjoy.

You do have a point about the hit from likes and I have to admit that I have taken photos with the mindset "this will go on Instagram".. but maybe that is not so bad. Insta and the people who post on it are like a community and once you approach it right you can get a lot from it.
To provide another perspective: I don't think I've ever received an email where an incorrect categorization is more than a mild inconvenience. From my perspective, it's relinquishing control over a triviality. Categorizing things that in the grand scheme are all unimportant anyway.
As both a speculative fiction author and an entrepreneur, new ideas sometimes have me on the fence for whether I should make them into businesses, or into dystopian novellas.
T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merge, create giant to rival AT&T and Verizon
I remember being delighted when I learned that .ps "images" were actually programs.

At some point I wanted to make a book of PostScript code on left pages / graphical output on right pages, but I only made four pages:

https://github.com/hrldcpr/geno-pheno#geno--pheno
I think there might be some pretty draconian side effects to properly implementing GDPR, but I'd like to hear from someone who knows to what extent these things might be true:

* The legal tracked information includes IP addresses, which means all logs must be able to selectively expunge IP address info.

* You can no longer have soft-deletes as a safety mechanism to maintain referential integrity if your data is (as is common) related to a user/account as you are responsible for being able to expunge that data.

* There are no exemptions for first time visitors, which means you can't just put up a no-EU unwelcome mat and serve up any third party tracking.

* The penalties are pretty draconian for a small business.

* It looks like retargeting businesses might be in trouble? Maybe?
Street racing from my teens, then formula ford racing. Now more just precision driving and racing style bicycles on narrow, windy, downhill paved trails.
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