skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The surprise and mild indignation that you seem to be expressing makes no sense to me. Unless you're doing heavy computational work on your personal workstation, any reasonably modern laptop (past 5-7 years or so) is going to be powerful enough.

I use a 6 year old Thinkpad and a 4 year old Macbook. If I need to compile something big, I ssh into a build server.

The mid-2015 and earlier Macbooks are better anyways.
Those admissions processes are actually seen as very fair processes in those countries. IIRC, there is very high economic diversity in the top colleges in China and India which can't be said about the Ivy League schools.
Here I was messing with running Colin McRae Rally (v2 I think) on Linux through Wine, oops: https://i.imgur.com/wJZ9cFG.png
I've thought about this a bunch.

I think the reasons are:

* Mediocre IQ.

* Lack of grit and persistence that I can't develop

* Natural lack of charisma

A combination of all of these make me very unhappy and very poor.
Wow! This looks awesome. After signing up and playing around with it; I can actually see this fitting in to my real workflows. I see you guys have integrations coming soon, and the only request I would have is Asana support.
You could still infer sound areas such as certain structs and patterns for using them. They could introduce sound mode or patterns for areas as well.
filtered by IP and Useragent.
The post scarcity economy is going to be so cool.
Bram Cohen has his own crypto company called the Chia Network.
It’s simple; a lot of the QE from US left US and went to emerging markets, when there was an interest rate difference between those markets and US’s 0 percent. Overtime, the profits earned from those overseas investments stayed overseas. However, when China’s stock market collapsed in 2015 and more money started flowing back into US, US raise interest rate in late 2015. This prompted more return of money back into US, which prompted more economic slowdowns in emerging markets (enhanced by political instability in turkey, Russia, and rising debt in China). With fed raising rates higher and higher, and emerging markets slowing down even more, more and more of the QE money flew back to US. Thus the real estate boom in Silicon Valley, NY, and Los Angeles. Ironically, a lot of China’s QE resulted in the same flow; lots of money went into US real estate. And now we have dollar strength, rising interest rates, emerging market crisis, US gdp growth at 4% in q2
Can't wait for my robo maid to roll a joint for me.
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Hey Guys. Shalin here. I have taken live the new website for Springzo. In its earlier avatar, Springzo was your typical Content Marketing Agency - helping brands with their content marketing strategy, content development and its distribution.

Springzo has been that lifeboat when you fail at your venture-funded startup. My mind starts racing when I think of those tough times - investing all of the savings in the startup, raising venture money, product getting good traction but business model doesn't, the decision to throw in the towel. And the very next day, you don't know what to work on now (they say, you are always smarter in hindsight).

That was the time when I launched Springzo on the back of a typical agency model - it gave me an opportunity to work with several dozen brands, build a great team, put my finances back in order and know what we're really good at.

I think it's time to let Springzo evolve in to an offering that brands appreciate the most when they work with us - our content.

I have taken live the new website for Springzo as a productized content service.

Do let me know your thoughts on the homepage. If you have any questions on the offering or want to give it a spin, feel free to ping me.
> To me the biggest mystery about the 2008 crisis is why so much QE has resulted in so little inflation.

Inflation doesn't work as simply as you might expect. What people believe is actually a big piece of the puzzle. As proof of this look at the Paul Volcker interest rate hikes, that squashed run-away inflation. While his hikes did eventually work, in the short term they did nothing to combat inflation. Why? Because people didn't believe they would help (in fact many thought it would make the problem worse). You had to get the minds of the the investors and spenders on-board before you actually see results (despite what the math might say).

I think the reason QE hasn't caused much inflation is because people either don't care or don't understand (most likely the latter). I am sure intentionally obscuring "printing shit tons of money" as "Quantitative Easing" also helps with the psychological factor so as to not panic the masses.
I didn't read the book but here's the way I think about things.

Federal Reserve Notes represent a proxy for some "work" to be done in the future. Gold represents a proxy for "work" that's already been done.

If what Graeber is getting at is the notion that I'll give you these widgets or perform this service now in exchange for some widgets or work to be done later then I would agree, debt did exist before money.
Typescript is not a part of Javascript yet. Maybe I underestimate the marketshare of Typescript, but CoffeeScript has improved Javascript everywhere by being the inspirator for ES6.

And while I'd like to agree with you that having types in Javascript is more important than the coding comfort CoffeeScript brings, I still think ES6 was more important than Typescript is or will be. Before CoffeeScript coding in Javascript was at best annoying, and at worst absolutely terrible.
Idk about fast... Not to mention the incomprehensible errors.
It's because preventing crime ought to include reducing motivation for committing the crime. It's not like before Roe v Wade no abortions happened, and availability of abortions in Canada is probably even easier now than then. If we truly want to prevent abortions, we might want to address some of the causes, which include poor access to birth control and very low state-mandated support for new mothers compared to other wealthy countries.

I've argued in other places that cutting funding to planned parenthood is likely to increase rather than decrease abortions due to the improved access to birth control that PP provides.
> Can HN help me understand why TRON is better than the sea of competition

It's not. It's just a pump and dump scheme with no solid tech at all. 60% of all tokens were given privately for example.
We primarily use Azure, and only 1 .NET legacy app lives there. Everything else is Python and JS! I'm enjoying Azure a lot!
That is what I was thinking as well... made me wonder, did my mind create your comment 2 hours in the past when I had the thought? Are you even real?
Oh hey! I would like to use Goodreads, but I whenever I try to load the page (with JS enabled) I get stuck in some kind of weird automatic-login->login-fail loop. I can go hit the page and give you more details if you want.
A lot of this discussion revolves around lending libraries getting rid of junk nobody wants to read and which is likely available elsewhere, but the article largely concerns destroying the world's only copies of newspaper runs, which seems different in kind to me.

Also, with digital stuff perhaps the calculus is different (although long-term preservation of that seems like a potential challenge), but they're on to something when they say microfiche copies are inferior.
Very interesting what happened.

IANAL and IANAAmerican, so I'm not familiar with the specifics of regulatory stupidity in the US, but from what I see two things don't apply here:

1. We're really the uber and not the ride-sharing uber.
2. We operate in Europe

I wonder why flytenow didn't just move their operations to Europe, or Asia. Are you in any way connected to those guys? Would be interesting to hear how they did it (technically) and why they didn't move to some other continent.
This is the correct answer. Bank deposits at the USFED skyrocketed. It was FED money, lent to banks to be redeposited with the FED, on which deposits the banks earned interest I might add. It was a both a liquidity injection and a handout. And, it wasn't just provided to US Banks.
Don't admission officers actually come from worse educational backgrounds than alumni? I think many AO never reach educational or career heights that would help them appreciate the accomplishments of applicants while alumni do.
> economics was a science built upon the assumption that people are rational actors

You may have taken a statement made in jest literally. Homo economicus is a known fiction. Just as frictionless, airless physics are a known fiction. They're useful, however, for (a) defining a limit or ideal, (b) pedagogical purposes and (c) starting to think about a problem.

Microeconomics makes falsifiable predictions which can be repeated in experiment. (I'll go ahead and quibble over whether macroeconomics is a science. It's closer to an art, like politics. A field with its own rules and lessons worth learning, but without the capacity to experiment and make falsifiable predictions.)
>let's compare Mars with Antarctica as candidates for large human populations.

200 years forward - Mars is another planet suitable for humans. If by that time we make Antarctica suitable, then the rest of the Earth would become unsuitable and we'd better have another planet to replace the Earth :)
Yes the great Jewish conspirators are pulling the strings....

Seriously what has HM come to these days.
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My metaphysical philosophy has always been:

- Objective truth: the physical world as it is. There are no "chairs" in this world (would an ant recognize a chair, or a bacteria?) - only data from which we can derive patterns.

- Consensus truth: what people have agreed to be true, often via perception or abstract logic. This is math, that is red, this is a chair, that is democracy.

- Subjective truth: what I believe to be true, by my own rationality or my own perception. This can sometimes deviate from consensus truth (eg. optical illusions).

There must be a term for this philosophical position, but I haven't found it yet (or the thinker associated with it). Obviously this is due to my ignorance because this is not a particularly profound metaphysical position to take.

Does anyone know the name of this?
Could you give some citations?
> a day trader can cash out in a second; you and I will will have to wait two business days

Why the delay?
Nicely put. It's been a while since I saw a product so nicely curated.

Well done.
I make amazing food, using quality ingredients.
Is there a good writeup somewhere on how the phone apps you mentioned prevent tampering? I'd be super-interested in reading it.

Alternatively, are you available for consulting on the topic? I couldn't find any contact info in your profile. :(
What does a "great type system" mean?
Ahem... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, if you please (for the time being, at least).
Totally agree with your post, I explain it like this:

The problem with the old monetarists was always that they assumed a constant demand of money (or velocity) how they called it. Now they had some empirical reasons for this (see PhD under Friedman) but they missed something that earlier economists had already figured out. Namely that monetary demand can shift for all kinds of reasons and that any good monetary system needs to adjusts to that.

However they were totally correct on interest rate and that interest rate are a terrible guide for monetary policy.

When you actually study New-Keynesian it is perfectly clear that it is not the interest rate that sets monetary policy (or indicts it) but rather interest rate relative to the natural rate. Why New-Keynesian never explain this to anybody when giving interviews or anything like that boggles my mind sometimes.

So in New-Keynesiansim everything hinges on your assumption of the natural rate. 1% interest rate can be contracting or expeditionary depending on the natural rate.

What happened in 2008 is actually quite simple, the Fed had the interest rate fixed and didn't lower it (inflation fears because of oil prices, see FOMC meeting late 2008).

While in the real economy the natural rate was making the Fed policy more and more contractility.

Modern monetarists (Market Monetarists) like Scott Sumner have been point this out since 2009 of course.
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It seems obvious that this should be developed, but to take it a step further it would be great if consumers could purchase something that gave them access to these plugins without needing to know how to setup OpenWRT. This will be challenging because most ISPs provide the router and firmware for the majority of their customers.
Don't ignore this question OP. Every single employer is going to wonder exactly the same thing. What have you been doing for 20 years, exactly?

If you've been tilling the rice fields in bangladesh and becoming one with nature to start your own religion, own it! You have to be forward with that information otherwise employers will get cold feet.
Invest in the ugly duckling – decentralization, product/market fit, and the law
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I guess quotas is such a vague term maybe it’s pointless to argue this. There can me more or less effective/fair implementations of a quota system. I’m not sure what better ideas are out there that don’t involve measuring the result in terms of diversity in a certain field, and optimizing to increase that result... which is in effect a quota.
We have a reasonable way of dealing with this

- bugs found in code reviews MUST be fixed

- coding style violations MUST be fixed (ideally all of these are caught by lint but not all are)

- everything else is treated as optional

Some code review tools even provide the ability to specify required vs. optional feedback. We now use github reviews which doesn't have this feature so we usually just add OPTIONAL to any review comment that isn't in the MUST fix category.

Occasionally a reviewer and reviewee will get into discussion/disagreement over the approach a particular code change. In those cases if it isn't clearly a bug or a style violation we err on the side of the reviewee.
I:was really confused for a second, until I realized they must mean Bussard ramjets, because standard ramjets are very much in use and lived up to the hype. It’s a good article, although I still disagree with some of it. In particular...

NAFAL trips mean crossing time as well as space. But that shouldn’t prevent exploration; anyone who would consider racing off that far into the future probably wouldn’t have friends and relatives about whom they deeply cared in any case.

Maybe, but subjectively a few years into your journey when tens of thousands of years have passed on Earth, and you’ve been totally forgotten, your technology is equivalent to rocks banging together, maybe you’d care? When you arrive in a subjective 30+ years and millions of years passed on Earth and people aren’t even remotely human anymore, and you’re a relic of a relic its going to be weird. Who are you exploring for exactly? Not humanity, they moved in without you, so unless it’s purely about starting a colony it’s a pointless exercise.

Even more galling would be the result you’d encounter if FTL turns out to be viable, unlikely as that seems today. You arrive in Andromeda only to discover that human colonized it a million+ years before your arrival. Whoops. Relativity is a stone cold bitch.
Austrian Economics is not a serious idea. It clashes with empirical evidence and almost no serious thinkers in the space take it seriously.
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Because ops is overhead in terms of dollars, time, and mental capacity. It’s a pain the get good people, especially after the hype cycle of “devops” this decade making every junior IT admin aspiring to it in terms of labels but not skillset due to comp differentials.

To do it right you need people on call, round the clock team, etc. in the end serverless is one of those things that if you can get away with it and chase product market fit while spending a little more on opex while keeping headcount costs down its a no brainer.

It’s not without risk because of course not every problem lends itself to the architecture, it’s very hyped at the moment, many engineers hate it because it’s inelegant/leads to lock in/is different/etc so culturally that’s going to be a minefield if you’re not starting from nothing.
You are right about the lack of diversity with respect to the economy and a general over inflated sense of importance. The second in particular is something I only noticed after a long time spent living elsewhere, my friends that haven’t lived elsewhere don’t see it that way. The U.K. is headed to becoming a firmly middle sized economy over the long term but friends in London often act as though they’re almost the USA or almost China.
The coming age? I do software development coaching and most every developer I'm contracted to teach doesn't understand what running code actually means (to use your phrase).

To take it another step, pretty much none of them understand how the JVM or V8 run their code.
Similar concerns, I recently used Google Express for a purchase, it worked fine, and then I deleted it. My Google account is my main email, and every new Google service is another opportunity for my whole account to get irreversibly banned.

Using Google with their famous lack of customer service to make purchases that I could conceivably need to put a chargeback on felt uncomfortably risky.

Tie my home internet connection to that? How do I know I won't get locked out of the cloud-integrated admin app? Why would I want it connected to anything Google?

The "one account everywhere" thing is convenient and great for their branding, but it's not great for my peace of mind.
So here's how I see this (and what I believe you're missing)...

There may be 200 things you MUST do when you open a cake shop or burger joint. This being one of them.

Having a service available, for a reasonable price, to help you take one of those 200 items off your plate is a value add, allowing you to focus on other areas of your business.

Further, yes, you can miss out on nonverbal and facial communication. But, you also get an honest answer. Most people don't want to give negative feedback face-to-face, and will lie just to avoid it.

Calling this lazy is, well, a bit harsh. It adds value.
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I don't think so. If you remove salt or sauce from salad then it's just cut up vegetables. And a sauce without salt won't be very popular too say the least.
You wrote: "are you trying to defend your prior conflation of behavior and thought?"

Where do I do that?

You wrote: "You seem to be struggling with the prioritization of diversity of thought over skills that are actually need to perform a job."

First, I am struggling over how to identify 'diversity of thought' during the interview process. Is it something different than "can come up with innovative solutions" or "out of the box thinking" or "creative problem solver"?

Eg, freedomben writes that 'diversity of thought' can include "different socio-economic status ... different political views, different learning styles"

While your focus is only on "the ability to reason in a way unique to your team".

These seem like two different interpretations of that phrase, and I lean towards ubernostrum's down-voted comment that "diversity of thought" seems often used as a euphemism for "put up with assholes" (my interpretation).

You wrote: "You hire the guy who points out that you did a poor job of framing the problem."

Which means you end up biased towards rules lawyers. Which may be what you want, but bear in mind that you are presenting one performance goal while you have withheld a secret goal that you are actually looking for.

Here's a less secret goal: the test is meant to see if you know what modern C++ is like (and not simply the C-ish subset), and if you have a good idea of what the POSIX mindset is like (so you don't end up asking pointless rules-lawyer questions).

Which of these possible secret goals should the interviewee try to optimize?

You commented "unless you modified it to include the possibility for interviewer-interviewee interaction".

Well, yes. But no matter what scenario you come up with, the essential problem remains - does "diversity of thought" differ from "highly competent and creative problem solver"?

You wrote "newlines as argument delimiters". In my description, the first argument is a filename. The contents of the file are a set of lines, terminated by a \n. The goal is to sort those lines by byte value. Otherwise the desire to sort the contents makes no sense.
US GDP growth spike may also be due to companies buying foreign supplies before the tariffs hit.
Okay, neat! Had a chance to skim. It's really cool that you have the Cloud Formation code up and accessible (as well as the Glue script). But, is the lamdba accessible from anywhere? (or did I just miss the link?)

We used Terraform instead of CloudFormation, although there are a few places it didn't/doesn't cover.

We're also doing protobuf -> parquet instead of JSON; Scala instead of Python, and one of our major feature/issues is that the incoming data is out-of-order; Firehose outputs to partitions based on when the event arrived, and we're repartitioning based on when the event occurred (according to a timestamp in the message)

I see you ran into the capitalization issue too :) I ran across docs somewhere that said something along the lines of Glue downcasing column names, which definitely fits observed behavior.

I'm hoping to turn what we've done into a similar post, although I think it'll be a month or two before I can get to that.

Edit:
Oh, I also got a lot of mileage out of the Zeppelin Notebooks. Way better than a raw dev endpoint, but watch out on the cost for both :)

The notebooks can be provisioned with almost a single click from the Dev endpoint console, but they changed the recipe halfway through my work on it, and now you have to also SSH into the box and run a script to setup some of the security. :/ Still totally worth it, tho.
It's new for those who haven't read it. ;-)

There are a bunch of oldish Lisp books, but which might be read with some benefit even today. I'd would for example mention Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems (benchmarking Lisp), Keene's CLOS book, PAIP (writing classical non-trivial code and optimizing it), AMOP (meta-objects, extensible architecture), On Lisp (macros), Land of Lisp (fun&games), Common Lisp Recipes (Lisp lore), ... and also the Lisp Machine Manual ...

For a bunch of, often old, Lisp related books see my list: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/lispm&tag=lisp
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Also appropriate, since Quake has become synonymous with wide angle field of view.
I enjoy criticising my country as much as most British people, it being a national pastime, but your statement is just plain daft.

Since 1940 the UK has contributed hugely to the world - from the NHS and modern welfare state to scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, pioneering computing, music, literature, contemporary art...

I agree its current political situation and economy is a mess, but retain some perspective.
Nobody said "realistic." But higher-quality graphics (in a realistic style or not) are obviously more immersive. There's more to graphic quality than tech, but tech is a major factor.
While programming, I end up reading the source of most badly documented packages on Hackage that have some interface that looks like what I'm doing. Nearly all that mostly low quality (correlates pretty well with lack of documentation) code is perfectly legible (although some have other problems).

I have never seen any language get near Haskell on the legibility of random code on the internet.