skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, that was a toungue in cheek question. This was encountered more recently here: https://www.imf.org/external/about/histdebt.htm

The answer last time was global recession. Mainly because there was no alternative to USA and Soviet Union (which was crumbling). Third world countries were used as pawns.

This time though, most other countries have solid institutions of their own. More likely, they will unite and start trading with each other in other currencies, gradually reducing dependence on dollar and trading with the US.

The bitter truth about the world is that the US was a hero in 80s and 90s. Today, it's a toxic material that everyone deals with simply because of petrodollar.
There was massive fuel and food shortages in Sweden. I doubt that very many people had normal vacations.
Never was a fan of 'GeekSquad'. I feel it is derogatory.

But, it was well parodied in the series 'Chuck' as the 'Nerd Herd'.
how about they just use ML for once and detect the typist and mute her automatically?
I use Anki everyday for medical school and for personal learning-- geography, notes from books I've read, research ideas I've thought up I want to review later, etc.

If you put in the time (I do at least 45 minutes of Anki a day, which turns out to be roughly 300 cards, 50+ of which are new) and you're consistent, the volume of information you can retain is truly staggering.

I have a retention rate of 90.1% and I've learned 15000 cards over the last 16 months.

About 2000 of those cards are my own-- the rest are fromv arious premade medical decks. Using premade decks is perfectly fine, but you do need to make you get a first pass of the material through some other method first-- Anki is not ideal for learning material, just retaining it.

Mnemonics can be successfully integrated into Anki cards-- but I think they're best for information that's easily confused with other bits or for really tedious stuff. Example: remembering which random medical drug is best for which genetic mutation, or which chromosome is mutated in which disease. Stuff like that is just pure tedium-- so translate it into images with the Major Mnemonic System or into memorable images like Sketchy Microbiology does.
HN doesn't take PII (just a username/password), and doesn't take a birthdate either for verification, so COPPA probably would not apply.
Fascinating! Though, I'm not sure I would call that "communicating".

Perhaps a more truthful title would have been: "Naked mole rat behavior may be influenced by feeding on hormone-carrying feces of the queen"

But that doesn't have the same appeal, and indeed: I probably wouldn't have clicked the article if it had that less click-baity title.
Try "apples instead", all red and a single lime green.

It's amusing having a background in software development and this is the first thought I had. (like many here I am sure would) I don't know exactly "why" this works, but knowing that it likely would before trying. (like hitting refresh when your web app barfs)

Someone else suggested cause of the apple logo... and it seems they are likely right. :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&tbm=isch

Shows the "holes" in this method.
His point is clearly that they are devoting an extraordinary amount of energy worrying about a paltry amount of resources and thus to the extent there is a problem it is largely a figment of their imaginations.
I also like AirVPN, and ExpressVPN - I'd choose between them based on the location of servers and which client software you prefer.
Arrggg! Sorry about that. It's up now. :)
Making new friends, me being in my late 30's with young kids.
I'll be honest. It was my silly mistake - not HN. Though HN hug of death would've been better. :)
I have a learning disability that I overcome by being methodical towards approaching and solving complex problems. As a result, I require more time over the average person for the simple requirement of being organized before I can move on through a process. This has been a challenge that I'm still learning to overcome. Lastly, I have a difficult time accepting and allowing room for failure which is a necessary outcome or experience in engineering disciplines.
Certainly the philosophy when you're developing software for medical devices or rockets is more rigorous and careful, but the speed would be pretty much unacceptable for, say, Facebook.
Yeah! I made something similar when I was a kid. Audio transmission via laser pointer using an inline microphone to modulate supply voltage, then an opamp on a photodiode to receive. Quality was horrible, but hey, it was pretty cool!
Computer Science – A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong
Thanks! Would love to hear your feedback on it!
Anyone who does Monte Carlo simulations would at least be interested in the notion of Quasi Monte Carlo, in which points are sampled "more evenly than random."

As noted in OP, this can lead to O(1/n) convergence of averages to underlying target values, rather than the expected O(1/sqrt(n)) convergence ("n" is the number of probes of the underlying system). This is shown, strikingly, in Fig. 2 of the OP.

There is a conference, tutorial papers etc. E.g.: http://mcqmc2018.inria.fr
People who run BSD
I'd prefer to pretend that some of those names are made up, but I know they're not.
Thanks Steve!

I watched your video and although I don't understand everything, I learned a lot. Separating my program into functions is a good idea. Your video clarified the map function for me.

Through your video, I understood that I was running code multiple times, when it only needs to run once (how I parsed my rules was one of these instances that you went over in your video), so thanks for pointing that out.

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to review my code. I really enjoyed your feedback.
Yes completely agree.
Maybe MoreoftheSameSlack.
Understanding Shell IO redirection (2015)
I'm with ExpressVPN. The performance is fantastic.
Interview with ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Co-Star Jason Altman
>> The economy is growing but it doesn't appear to actually be flowing back into most citizens pockets. The unemployment rate is very low but wages aren't rising.

> Could you link something that supports your opinion?

This does: Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy?
(https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/upshot/big-corporations-i...)

> The biggest companies may be influencing things like inflation and wage growth, possibly at the expense of central bankers’ power to do so.
> but more basically as an unavoidable side-effect of globalization.

Globalization or overpopulation.
I think the best feature of the RISC-V instruction set is that is very clear and very simple. The RV32I instruction set is composed by ~40 different instructions and, depending of the environment and the implementation, you don't even need implement all them, as long the compiler will never generate some instructions. A simpler core means faster clock rates, less logic and more cores per chip, which much more performance. By this way, although the performance in the FPGA is not so good as in a ASIC, the results are not so bad:

https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc29...

With 1680 RISC-V cores running in parallel at 250MHz, the result is impressive, even working in a FPGA!
What the heck are they spending there money on? Food, and Clean clothes should not cost that much a month?
Yeah, I always chuckle when I see that. "Leading" is another good one.

https://www.google.com/search?q="we+are+the+leading"

https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+provider"

https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+source+for"

Every press release: "Foo Corp., the leading noun-er of noun, announced today..."

Googling site:prnewswire.com "the leading" - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprnewswire.com+"the+l... - "About 98,000 results".
> Maybe it’s time to take a cue from our proudly pro-intelligence and pro-education cultural cousins across the Atlantic.

Nope. I can live with the downsides of anti-intellectualism in trade for escaping the cult of "genius". People who claim to know better than the rest of us are dangerous.
Retrieve TextInput Entered Value on Button Click OnPress in React Native
(did they switch it on wait 5 sec then back on ) ADVANCE FIX KEY
Salves are not infinite regen and regen-heavy deathball strats with high sustain have been a thing in the past. Calling it unfamiliar makes it seem like it's a completely foreign, unexplored strategy.
I really don't think it's close to double digits. I don't even consider myself as having travelled a lot and I've taken two international trips per year for the last five or so years on average. There should be people who do dozens of international trips a year but there must be a lot of people who do two or three international trips a year.
The challenge of the next 10 years will be housing. We are not building nearly enough. A fraction of what we need even to slow price growth. We still have these quaint subdivisions built in the 60s and 70s full of nimbyism and voting down all development. We need a big move here.
Social media has just distilled this pointless behavior into the purest form possible. The behavior is just like the good old days, but the tools aren't (you'd have to invite people around to show off your photo album persona). There were (and still are) tribespeople that demonstrate this behavior with affluence: living an outwardly great life (by having cows, goats and what-have-you on public demonstration) without substance. Politicians and celebrities are no different.

This exaggeration of this behavior has increased contrast. It is both easier to identify and self-identity people who aren't victim to this pattern. There were never the good old days, speaking in a formal logical manner. However, in the good new days it is easier to identify this bullshit and pry oneself away from it.
There is a severe lack of good LOCAL ocr options for documents. They only ones I know are Abbyy (very good and very expensive) and OCR.space Local (affordable but not as good) and of course Tesseract. But i feel Tesseract is increasingly left behind with regards to OCR quality and speed.
Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes
I wish this attitude was applied equally to people in private industry like Elon Musk instead of only slamming government employees like the original article (and most similar articles).
Maybe not about news, but what about content provided at search, and videos. Youtube and google search. Everything else is dwarfed by Google in that sense.
Oh god it's an ugly, slow mess.

- Why does it have list of users with their avatars and everytime new person comes in it has a huge, slow animation lol

- ads for other rooms and quarter of the screen is "best comments top list"

- the chat user avatars are unaligned, some are bigger, some smaller, some have usernames under avatare, some on the right.

I'm not sure if it's a late april fools joke or what's going on here.
I thought this NYT article gave some good context. Didi promoted the ride sharing service as a way to meet people and for hooking up: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/technology/china-didi-chu...

> So through suggestive ads hinting at hookups through driving, Didi pushed Hitch’s romantic possibilities. In a 2015 interview with the Chinese online portal NetEase, Ms. Huang compared Hitch cars to cafes and bars.

And:

> While it wasn’t obvious to female passengers that their drivers might want to hook up, the drivers knew. Until Didi deactivated Hitch, the car-pooling service allowed drivers to share comments with other drivers on the looks of their passengers, leading some male drivers to seek out the ones others had declared attractive.

Murder is very rare in China. Very few Western countries have a lower intentional homicide rate (America's is 8.5 times higher), and I believe other violent crime is similarly low.

(I hope this comment is okay.)
I am not sure how much of this is true. In India for example - people do get called "Kitabi Kida"(bookworm) and I forget but there is a insult for people who have gained knowledge from reading books but aren't street smart.

India elected Narendra Modi who is decidedly nowhere as educated as previous prime minister. The state I am from(Bihar) had series of Chief Ministers who weren't all the educated(or even intelligent as a matter of fact).

I think people select their politicians differently than how they would select their Doctor or mechanic to repair their car or engine. I don't need my doctor to relate to my economic difficulties to treat my illness but this may be a desirable trait in a politician.

The point is - smart people are not always likable and in a politician likability and ability to relate yourself to him/her(even if faked) are desired qualities.

The author may have a point about schools spending lot of money on stadiums and sports and ignoring investment in science and technology but there may be other reasons for that - other than unbridled hate for smart people.
How do CRUD apps not require or reward technical excellence? The velocity of a SaaS business is arguably more closely linked with the TCO of CRUD software than for any other type of business/software.

Success in SaaS is really just lead bullets over units time, which is a function of the TCO of each feature and the entire system.
Public - I work for a state university in the vet. college. I sometimes get to work with practitioners, but I'll admit I have better contacts for that on the human side of the equation, though we're working to build it for vets as well.

I'm faculty, so the notion of value is sort of a funny one, and it's less obvious than it might be at medical schools, but it's getting there. The biggest constraint, as with everything in vetmed, is money.

I believe my email is in my profile - feel free to reach out if you want to chat more.
Aha! Got it, that’s good feedback.
Yes, capacitance of the junction.
Also sounds pretty close to a spotty VoIP connection.

http://www.voiptroubleshooter.com/problems/robotic.html
DevOops Consultant here, all of those technologies are 100 percent on point and heavily used. Also random fun fact, every time a stack includes CloudFormation, it brings the owner of said stack slightly closer to becoming an alcoholic.
Coinsquare to Launch Its Operations in Europe by Fourth Quarter
Burning Man has been ruined 27 out of 30 times
It need not be. But almost always is. As your ability to take risks diminish you live an "ordinary" life. To provide stability for your family you almost always take that route. Sure there are exceptions, but those are just that.
Yeah, rice has an awful lot of calories (that's why it's a staple food so many places).
This disappointed me so much about the software industry. I thought it was going to be a bunch of excited passionate people working like at a Makerspace.

Instead the places I've worked at have been cattier then a sorority house.
The key is not to stop completely, it's to get down to a speed that's highly unlikely to be fatal to a pedestrian, 15-20 mph. So if you're on a street with obstructed sight lines, that means your max speed should be 15-20 mph.
> There's tons of research on this.

Can you link a study showing that <1600 calories is dangerously low? Or that a <1600 calorie diet will slow your metabolism?
As other commenters said - learn the bloody language man!
I've been living in several countries and while I'm a huge snob when it comes to language the benefits are _insane_, especially when it comes to Asia where english is not that common.
> Why didn't someone say "Hey Helen, you know you're not on mute right?"

Helen was dealing with puking, crying, screaming and crapping themselves. We were taking too long planning a budget.
> It would be nice if TripAdvisor or Google had some sort of 'tourist jam' avoidance algorithm,

But why, it sounds like it is working perfectly. You would prefer it if a large percent of those people were send to your small town? You are a tourist, you are part of the problem.
Yep. Works pretty well for terms that return highly relevant images. Try "baby poop", for example.
I hope your eyesight stays 20/20 for the rest of your life.

Jerk.
For folks that are curious, lurk on the site a bit and swing through the #lobsters IRC channel.

Be prepared to demonstrate some kind of technical competence (online code, writing, whatever), and please don't join to shill your products, projects, or spam news articles, content marketing, or political stuff.
Mirror of the extension: https://my.mixtape.moe/byutfi.crx
I hate censorship. This isn't any kind of illegal (though the name I can understand, if not agree with). Hopefully Slack recants for being a bunch of twitbrains.
i can't wait for Apple to figure out AR
I would kill to be a normie
I haven't personally used this feature of PJON, but they have an apparent way of communicating bidirectionally with a single LED on each side. The one wire software bit bang method worked for me though.

https://www.pjon.org/AnalogSampling.php
What social programs are Amazon (or any other employer of low-wage laborers for that matter) fighting against?
Bro I feel the same way Kubernetes is so fragile.

Docker have gone along way but Kubernetes they need more and more version. I feel as I get older I'm more incline to wait a few version for the bugs to be fix and the api to be solidified. The majority of the software out there that come out with version 1 is just marketing to get people to adopt it and they work out the kink as they go on.
Given that so much of it is medical insurance, why is that what you should be looking at?
I agree with everything except "it's much cheaper" - Private Internet Access, for example, is $3.33/mo. if you pay annually. A DO instance running Algo or Streisand will be $5/mo. I know Vultr offers some even cheaper VPS tiers, but they have more limited bandwidth (500G/mo. - which might or might not be problem, depending on how much traffic you wanted to send through them).
Wasn’t 8th Light “Uncle Bobs” sons consultancy?
I'm definitely more of an open borders guy myself, but I don't agree with this characterization. There are plenty of places in the US that used to be completely white, English speaking neighborhoods where you can now spend a few hours and not hear a single person speaking English. It doesn't make one bit of difference to me what language anyone speaks ever and I much prefer the diversity, but I don't think it's accurate to say that immigration doesn't involve people coming and completely changing the nature of a place. It's not always like that, but it's regularly like that.

I agree that the people complaining the loudest often employ ugly arguments, but the crux of both the anti tourism and anti immigration arguments seem to be "There are lots of people in my city who don't look or speak like me and I don't like the way they act." As you said, it's a matter of balance, but I think most of the anti immigration people are closer in opinion to the anti tourism people than the anti tourism people would care to admit. We don't really get to choose how tourists or immigrants behave, they get the same freedoms as locals, and that includes the freedom to be rude with suitcases and speak Chinese unapologetically. Basically everyone is ok with immigrants provided they meet a bunch of qualifications that make them much less foreign, that's not exactly extreme open mindedness. In the US, it's often the people accused of being racist who say they don't mind immigration at all if the immigrants adopt American customs and learn English.

I also don't really see a difference between complaining about a street full of gift shops or complaining about a street full of llanteras.
Active Desktop - not sure what Windows version that shipped with, but the long term strategies and ideas were kinda cool - oh, nostalgia. I believe Microsoft soon after shipping 95 and threatened by Netscape realized that the Internet is the future, and the browser the OS. The rest is an antitrust lawsuit settled more then a decade later.
In what ways have our "cultural cousins" across the Atlantic succumbed to the cult of genius? What have been the consequences of that?
hmmm... I promise investigate this topic in the future!
my voice is in there :)
Continued tribalism and polarization of group think facilitating exploitation by state and corporate actors to the detriment of all.

And impunity from data breaches from said negligent irresponsible parties.
Kinda a strange way to go about this, but interesting none the less. I don't know much about Lyrebird or how long they've been around, but as others have noted... this sounds like a really terrible voice call at best (so far as the samples have shown).

I want to use it, but I wouldn't use it for any real products today. Amazon Poly isn't amazing either, but sounds more natural than these samples. Yes, it's only a few stock voices, but it's a lot closer.
Response to Senator Sanders
and
- range based for loop

- deduction guides (C++17) (no more make_some_type)

- structured bindings (C++17)

- optional,variant (C++17)
Love and hate are pretty similar, both are passionate emotions. We just need to remember that, and then it's easy to choose the right one.
+1, reminds me of Destroy All Software
KismetMobileDashboard – Mobile UI for Kismet
Oh wow. I see it was just missing from the docs until May, which was why I hadn't seen it.
Most of the world (and especially China and Mexico) cannot withdraw from the largest market for their goods without their economies totally collapsing. That’s why Trump is going to win his trade wars. Money talks, bullshit walks.
While it's true that wage growth has been slower during since 2009 than in previous business cycles, it's false that real wages have actually gone down (it's up about 1-4% since the end of the last recession depending on how you measure[1]). Additionally, benefits have grown quite a bit over the long term, which makes looking at just wages misleading. If you look at total compensation, we've seen a 60% increase since the beginning of the 70s and about 30% since the 90s[2].

Slightly off topic, but I also found it interesting that net transfers (e.g. from the government) also make up a much larger percentage of total household income than they used to (growing from 5% in 1950 to about 17% now[3].)

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=l1e2

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=74dI

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=7rNW
Which other currency? It’s been a bit since I was involved in currency trading but back then that was a huge question.

People wanted out of usd for lots of reasons but the other choices were worse.
The way this company operates is inspiring, but as a recent churned customer, the resulting product is lacking. The web UI mixes up order of operations when dragging posts around and when I looked at implementing an API client for their service, I quickly realized why the UI had out-of-order problems. The API doesn't respects any sort of contract, changes types of responses in inconsistent ways and is basically impossible to implement in a typesafe way. The API used by the UI seems to rely on ordering of events received on their backend, but these events don't seem to be commutative, and each UI update seems to be its own API call...

All this to say, I appreciate the goals of Joel in building a strong culture and strongly support this, but the product itself isn't that great to use as a customer, which is probably why growth isn't what VCs want. And I'm just hypothesizing that a hard look at the tech stack could maybe help.
- Cognitive

- Solutioning

- Learning as a noun, as in "these are some good learnings"

- Most things mentioned in Weird Al's brilliant lampoon of Judy Blue Eyes using corporate-speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
And this article is ABOUT Abbyy!
+1 Please and thank you
Haha, this is pretty clever. They’re going to make every other taxpayer subsidize projects for the rich. I only regret I’m not brazen enough to eat my fellow man like that.