skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes "debasing" is used to describe the deliberate attempts to devalue money, either by printing more money, or, in earlier times, actually decreasing the amount of precious metals in favor of base metals in minted coins.

There's not really a term for deliberate attempts to increase the value of the currency (as this is a policy goal not really pursued by modern central banks, as deflation is considered to be bad). Demurrage is a related concept, but rarely used in this sense.
Many Californians have been moving to Boise.
You like your coworker, you have a shared interest with your spouse, you succeed together
I see one tech startup that changed addresses about 6 months ago. Is there a correction button?
For someone having no clue on this topic, could you give some examples?
tl;dr "You don't have to take my word for it: No less an authority than JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has identified crypto as a bubble just waiting to bust."

Is this satire?
It's a ridiculous bar for many jobs.

But "head of a billion dollar VC firm" is not really a position that allows for much work-life balance.
Jack o lanterns
Virtual compound screening – the state of the art
Exactly right, and the NYT did a great job of making Trump's points about the media for him by publishing this anonymously.

To be clear, I find his attacks on the media horrifying, and it's one of the things that's so disgusting about this NYT op-ed.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-anonymous-...
But it should be sufficient to have it be visually non-dirty. UV-C get's through a thin oily film or such non-thick coverage...
Meeting with clients and investors often but not always involves travel.
I would like to reply that both your assumptions are wrong.

1) a state has the right to deny marriage on any grounds other than religion, race or nationality. So a state has the right to impose conditions on marriage that have to do with gender. Hell, the treaty almost says that a state has to impose some limits (without specifying what those limits are)

Article 16 UDHR (paragraph 3)

2) You DO NOT have the right to treat either adult different because of their political opinion EVEN IF IT DID VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS.

Article 1 and 2 UDHR

So not only did both of these individuals not violate human rights, you did.
Sometimes there aren’t good answers. Prosperity for some displaces.

You can’t be surprised that those who aren’t rich, and we’re already here, are angry at the situation.
> "Chrome autofills the port"

Sounds like they'd visited the URL in the past and had it in their history.
>for example, when I type `localhost` in my nav bar, Chrome autofills the port; FF doesn't (it just puts `localhost/`, which is useless).

What? Isn't it the opposite? I have the exact opposite experience with Firefox and Chrome, FF autofills the ports and Chrome doesn't oO

I just checked it right now to be sure I reminded correctly
I find this alarming as well but its not just HN, its the tech industry as a whole seems to be moving in this direction in the last few years.
I’m not sure about the sitch in Berlin, but here in the SF Bsy Area they do try to push for policies and development, they are seldom successful. They get lots of pushback.
I don't see anything right now growing the way the PC revolution did. But, thinking in terms of what stocks you would want to own 10 years from now is IMO still valuable.

Oil companies are still going to be making tons of money in 10 years, but people will start to doubt their future without heavy diversification. Whichever company wins to battle for solar cell manufacturing is going to become the next Exxon, but it's going to be a long brutal slog. Still if your in your 20's buying and holding any company that looks to have an advantage in this space is a long term winning strategy even if most of them will fail.
Do they dam up sand, or is the dam made of sand or why is called a sand dam?
If you own a Samsung phone, the calendar app is good. I wonder if you can install those Samsung apps (which for some are just forks of unmaintained AOSP apps) on a regular Android if you somehow get the apk.
Lehman’s Lessons, 10 Years Later
What's the current state of OCaml on Windows? I'd love to use OCaml on more of my projects, but this has been a roadblock for me.

What I'm looking for is the ability to produce native binaries without Cygwin. I just checked without installing anything and it appeared as though OCPWin was still the choice, but it's been stuck on OCaml version 4.01.0, which was released five years ago. I know that OPAM is pushing toward a 2.0 release very soon and I didn't know if that was going to coincide with a stable OCaml/OPAM release on Windows, which would fix my problems. Does anyone have an idea?
On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs
An Overview of Volume Level Replication for PostgreSQL Using DRBD
One of my first ever jobs they announced minor redundancies on, say Tuesday afternoon, 1M$ in EMEA (maybe 5000 people). Not too concerning. On Wednesday afternoon the same person "corrected" themselves, 2M$ in this office (200 people). The environment after that was... frenetic.

Also enjoyed the same person later responding to suggestions that we could save money across the board by some sort of pay reduction (so that we would lose fewer jobs) "ah, well we already pay significantly under market rate so if we do that then we're likely to lose our best talent"
I agree entirely. I don't expect that my real persona can succeed on a typical job board (e.g. Indeed, Seek, TradeMe, 104).

After trying with that method, I experimented with many other routes. Most expect me to already have a work visa. I've been trying since March. I rewrote my résumé twice. I updated my LinkedIn. I asked recruiters for help. I put side projects on the web to try to get attention. I asked friends who I worked with at a local company when I was there before. I found random people on Github and offered to work for free on open-source projects just to get an introduction. I contacted computer repair shops and asked them to put up posters advertising data migration services that I could do with my old Apple II. Nothing has worked. Now I'm spamming every company on the Accredited Employers list (whether in the tech industry or not), just to try to get some new ideas of how to approach the application process in that country.
Expatriate in Shanghai since 201708, I don't speak Chinese and cannot use Didi for this reason. About half of the ~50 Didi rides I had (always accompanied by Chinese-speaking people) implied such a conversation with the driver, and nearly any of them speaks English. BTW this problem also arises with all apps I tried, as most are not available in English, and among the rest some are poorly translated and all display from time to time a slab of text and set of buttons in Chinese, leaving the ignorant me completely stuck.
I've never thought about that before, but it would certainly make for an interesting news story!

"Meals on Wheels is accused of receiving insider information about big market movements from dozens of investment bankers. The Meals on Wheels endowment has seen 10x growth in the past 18 months. It looks like the group they provide for will be fed forever, even if we went through another Great Depression-level financial catastrophe. Should they be allowed to keep these funds? It certainly looks bad for the government to fine them hundreds of millions of dollars with the recent cuts in government-provided social programs."
His brain has always been faster than his mouth.
> And yes, institutional racism also exists in France (and in every other European country) but it’s much less normalised than in the US.

This is the line that white people in France often say, but it's completely wrong. Racism is much more institutionalized in France than it is in the US. Racism is so institutionalized in France that it's almost impossible to talk about it, because it's woven into the legal and societal fabric and so deeply embedded.

> Basic personal safety is a prerequisite for freedom

You are dramatically overestimating the extent to which it is safe to exist in France as someone who is Black, Arab, or Muslim. Which is a common mistake, given that France has literally made it illegal to collect data on police brutality and incarceration rates of minorities in France, the way we can in the US. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, or that France isn't also an incredibly dangerous place for minorities - and arguably much more so - as anyone (like myself) who looks Black, Arab, or Muslim and has so much as traveled to France or lived there can attest.
1) He's speaking in general terms. Some settings could quite possibly leak into fingerprinting, even if that particular setting doesn't.

2) Or does it? I could envision a timing attack in Javascript that can detect rendering speed accurately enough to determine if the window is being composited with transparency.
There is no difference in kind between two hungry IT students developing better web search, and several hungry artists developing awesome dungeon of animatronics. Either start off poor, but once they get major traction, the money starts rolling in. Of course, the web search scales faster, but that's about it.

Point being, the artists' den would become expensive bohemian district of the city anyway, startups or not, as "new money" people learn of it and start moving in to bask in the splendor of the underground culture. Eventually pricing out the actual artists.
it's done all that in the <12 months Buffalo has had Uber/Lyft?
When a language has algebraic data types -- i.e., data types that have multiple, disjoint constructors -- pattern matching generally means determining which constructor was used to create the value being matched, and branching on that. I'm guessing this is the kind of pattern-match that TypeScript users would be eager to have.

What I don't see is how this requires the addition of a "runtime" on top of the JS model to make it work. I don't use TypeScript, and don't know how it implements its data types, so there may be something obvious here that I'm missing.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly et al. has some interesting chapters on pre-computer data processing in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
http://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Mono...

For the IARC, inconclusive translates to probable.
Tesla erupts in chaos after senior executives leave and Elon Musk tokes up
I think there is more than a grain of truth to this.
>I think you may be confusing "agenda" with "perspective". He was pushing one perspective: his own, as all authors do.

If you're used to science, it can come as a surprise that a person can willfully ignore (not just focus away from, ignore), all but one option for an entire book, and it still be considered an intellectual effort as opposed to a sales pitch or campaign tool.
There are a lot of scams and swindles of the last few decades.

Student loans and medical billing are outright scams in the United States.

Purchasing a used car and many types of home financing are quite scammy as well.

Bitcoin is an asset with a wildly fluctuating price as people attempt to find a viable use case for it. It benefits from a strong network effect, not from its particular strength in storing or transfering wealth.
Brokerage fees are getting lower and lower. I understand Interactive Brokers will pass through exchange rebates for setting orders that add liquidity. Negative fees add up too.
ClassicPress (a WordPress fork) opens community voting
My mistake. Thanks!
"Freedom of speech is the right above all rights"

Then Twitter has the right to choose who's speech they want to amplify.

"Concepts of racism, harassment, violence, fascism and the like are creeping into inappropriate territories. This is not a time to start making decisions about what people are or aren't allowed to say."

On the contrary, this move by Twitter is a step toward fending off some of those concepts.
I'm surprised this article is still here. A few months ago, a well-written article by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet criticizing cryptocurrency was removed by the moderators.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren't exactly the kind of authors who you flag... You're free to disagree with them, but they do know a thing or two about amassing large quantities of wealth!
Am I extremely out of the loop by just thinking that it's a hot desk company that rolls up all the expenses of the office adds 10%-25%, throws in some booze and lunches and says it's changing the world?
Isn't that true for any browser though?
Unfortunately I can't think through it now, but I would bet there is a fun connection to be made with 3*5=15. Something about roots more frequently getting repeated, or zeros in the s-plane going to a higher order maybe? I'd be delighted if someone can chime in with the connection, if there is one.
Thanks for all the feedback! I can address of few of these.

1. Threads should be sorted by date of most recent email, regardless of importance. This sounds like a real bug and I'll dig into it.

2. Yes, great feedback. You could archive it, does that work?

3. What's the use case? Why do you want to keep spam? You could forward it to yourself and it should work (a bit hacky, i admit)

The last 3 are all not going to happen for a number of hard reasons, unfortunately.
If you visit Tesla's management's page you can see only 3 names; Elon Musk, CFO Deepak Ahuja and CTO JB Straubel. No exec stays for a long period in Tesla. Who is going to resign next? CFO or CTO https://news.alphastreet.com/tesla-motors-cao-chief-accounti...
Conformity is a means of social cohesion, yes.
No different than the rest of the clickbait bullshit coming from corporate media. The fact that people are making a big deal about this is depressing.
I remember in high school, my French teacher said racism was much more overt over there and in Europe in general.
I'm unaware of any anti-malware/phishing tool that uploads every address, because it'd be far too slow (you want to know if it's malicious before you show the user anything, to avoid them having the chance to interact with it). They all have some local partial list that is used for a first match, and only if that matches do they interact with any online service.

MS don't have a publicly documented API, which makes it harder to know what's being sent (short of reverse-engineering it), but Google's never uploads actual addresses (it almost always only uploads the uppermost 32-bits of the SHA256 hash of the address, and it never uploads the full hash).
>You have zero idea what their technology looks like or what it's level of sophistication is

I don't? I dunno if you missed it, but at the top of this page there is a linked article specifically talking about the sophistication of their technology, and particularly, how it failed to catch even the most egregious errors in their process. Maybe you should read it, it's really interesting.

>The link you provided explains pretty clearly how machines are used, and that is in splicing up the documents and doing first-pass OCR on them.

Yes, and you'll notice that my comment didn't say anything about the usage of the machines, and was focused on the marketing speak phrase of "groundbreaking collaboration between humans and computers" and "machine learning". Regardless of how the machines are being used, those phrases are meaningless bullshit.

>I imagine they're only delegated to humans under a certain confidence level.

Let me get this right: you're criticizing me for not knowing what their technology looks like, and then in the same comment, you yourself are speculating about what their technology looks like. Really?
Well, Berlin has a geographic center. It doesn’t have a center in any kind of sense that the social life happens around there, you’re right in hat regard. There’s also the mystic “Innerhalb des S-Bahn-Rings”.
Is that USD or CAD? Also, according to that site, there has been a 32% drop in prices since last year. I wonder what the reason for that is?
Threaten the panopticon police state and they will label you a terrorist. Good luck getting work after that. Hopefully you'll avoid a long prison sentence too.
What's the maximum current carrying capability for this standard 800 kV DC line?
Humans Are Destroying Animals’ Ancestral Knowledge
Obviously, everything I write is my opinion.

Uber, Didi, Lyft are free to prove me wrong by turning a profit. So far, that doesn't seem to be happening.
Do these settings sync? Or do I need to do this on every one of my machines which has firefox installed?
Smoking it in public is obnoxious I agree. Hopefully people choose to eat or vapourize it rather than burn it.
have you talked/written about this in a longer form anywhere? I'd love to read how you got into this if so.

There's plenty of Rust-talk here on HN, and plenty of numerical/ML talk, but they seems like very non-overlapping user groups. Particularly curious why you chose Rust over Julia or even Go, given that (to an outsider) both seem to have a lot more people excited to do ML with them.
Short IDs Are Insecure, Are Actively Being Attacked, and Should Be Removed
What would happen if we all took smart drugs?
Except it only works when serial numbers are sequential, I believe the common practice today is to have serial numbers to be random alphanumeric strings.
Is Automation Really to Blame for Lost Manufacturing Jobs?
I'm wondering how hard they try relative to their other lobbying efforts. You don't see major news stories about tech execs appealing for more housing for their workers. Usually it's about building a new HQ, such as Jobs in Cupertino or Dorsey for the Market St. office.
Why do you think nothing has worked? Also you don't have an e-mail contact or anything in your profile for anyone who might actually be interested in your background!
This list is somewhere between worthless and dangerous.

Chesterton's Fence: Presumably Mozilla has already optimized the privacy and performance of Firefox as much as they've felt comfortable doing. If they could change each of those settings as recommended without tradeoffs to help the user, they would have done so.

Without listing the tradeoffs for each one, this list cannot be relied upon.
One of the things I want is a clipboard manager that removes most (or all) text formatting by default.

I'm always opening up Notepad to remove formatting.
Why is it your human right that if you write your name on a piece of paper and give it to someone, you can use the state to force them to give you the paper back or destroy it? That's GDPR.
In terms of cash flow I agree.

But, if you had a company that just did self driving and had as many cars on the road as Tesla does people would value it. Likewise for a giant battery factory, or a company putting out those solar shingles even with just a handful of installs.

Now suppose they sell those lines of business off to some other company to free up some capital. It's a path through the cash crunch that may catch people off guard.

PS: I am not saying buy the stock, but I don't think it's dropping enough to become a 45 billion dollar company any time soon.
> The turmoil at Tesla Inc. reached a fever pitch Friday
The byline is 7:15 AM.

Curious that turmoil reached a fever pitch at the office before the work day began.

Meanwhile, Ford is recalling 2 million F-150 for fire risk.
Very fine difference between new-employee handbook and new employee-handbook. I assumed the latter, knowing that it's from 2012...
Agrippa, A Book of the Dead
Erm... Isn't the downside that op will give us an ice age of empires unpredictable severity and duration?
> There are far fewer development (or other white collar, low physical effort) opportunities in rural areas.

In my foolish youth I once tried to maintain two development jobs at the same time. That turned out to be a really big mistake. With that in hindsight, I really have to question why people are worried about how much opportunity there is. Maybe you are better than me and can handle two jobs without issue, but three? How many jobs do you really need? One available opportunity is all I will ever need again.
I'm the person who started ClassicPress - feel free to ask me any questions!
We have replaced Lords with Executives in the modern world.
I remain befuddled how the market for chat apps is apparently evergreen.
No, no, no! They print the blockchain to paper so it can be duplicated and stored in multiple secure physical locations. Blockchain in the cloud is so last year.
MATLAB, Python, and R don't have the metaprogramming tools for code generation. Tools like FFTW relied heavily on code generation, and people who wrote those kinds of tools are now using Julia for generic programming. Generic programming is difficult to handle with any AOT compilation system since you get a combinatoric explosion of possibilities leading to large compile times. Generic programming works great in Julia so there's a lot of examples of utilizing types for "free features" that would be difficult to do (interactively) in any other language.

Of course, most programmers don't know what generic programming even is. However, a lot of libraries these days utilize it in order to get different precision and all of that, which is why I think Julia will at least become a language of libraries since not too many people can invest so much time in C++.
On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of his media appearances have been widely popular. But something seems to have snapped in him recently, perhaps culminating with calling that cave rescuer a pedophile. The dude has serious problems that are probably exacerbated by stress and lack of sleep. He needs to take a break before something bad happens.
With all due respect... these are not facts. Read Julia Reda https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/, not dumbass Mozilla copywriters.
Hyphen placement makes all the difference.[0]

[0]https://xkcd.com/37/
What I found is that it was important to (a) not over-engineer what I was trying to do, (b) do something that worked for the document I had in my hand[0], and (c) be able to extend what I was doing. If I then "fell off the perch" I could come back to it later, look at the thing in my hand, and put that into the system, thus climbing back on the perch.

Quite quickly the system was useful, and I had fewer decisions to make by using than by not using it, so it saved me effort. That was the key.

[0] ... or file/email/document on the screen
The media has become that teenage girl that badtalks everyone in highschool.
I wonder which generation the software is ... from?
I would be hesitant to take this as a manifesto of how to run a company. Valve was great 10 years ago, but they are now facing competition from GoG, Discord, independent distribution, bigger gaming companies, mobile gaming, etc.

> How does Valve decide what to work on?

> The same way we make other decisions: by waiting for someone to decide that it’s the right thing to do, and then letting them recruit other people to work on it with them.

Is this why Valve hasn't released anything but mediocre hardware and steam updates? Where's the vision? What are they actually trying to do as a company? Are they just a place where people come and go and do whatever they want?

Don't get me wrong, I do most of my gaming through Steam. But I don't play Valve games. And I sometimes chat on steam, but mostly Discord. And my favorite games, Factorio and Rimworld, can all be purchased independently (minus Steam's cut I might add!). With cloud computing in full swing, indie developers don't need a store to distribute with.
> But time was you could run a website off your home computer, or your own email server. Now you have to go pay money and hand over trust to one of the huge hosting providers

You still can, and you really don't have to host with a big provider if you don't want to. The only reason we hear about it so much is because all the engineering articles come from people who work at companies with insanely high scaling requirements. If you want to throw up an XAMPP server at home you still can, though you'll need to acquire either a static IP or a dynamic DNS record to point people to.