skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know they’re desperately trying to say that they are not silencomg conservatives.

And then they go and silence Alex Jones the very next day...

> Jones went up to a reporter from CNN, screamed in his face, made anti-Semitic remarks about him, AND POSTED IT TO TWITTER.

He confronted one of the key people responsible for deplatforming him.

He wasn’t screaming and he didn’t make anti-Semitic remarks.

He did get in the guys face and was making a lot of offensive comments.

> The only thing that would make any sense is that he PURPOSEFULLY did this to get kicked off as “proof” he’s being censored

Of course he did.

Now all conservatives have to do is document all the offensive left-leaning tweets over the next few weeks and Congress will drag Jack right back to explain his clear bias against conservatives.

Or alternatively Twitter will be forced to start applying its rules equally to the left (fat chance). I’ve reported 3 significantly more offensive tweets already today.

If Jones did nothing then smaller less popular conservative voices would continue to be unfairly silenced and in the long term he would surely be banned as well.
There are some important rules when doing day trading.

1). never stop studying about what is going on

2). practise, practise, practise (otherwise known as paper trading) before you ever lay down any coinage

3). don't let emotions ever take you away from whatever strategy your paper trading comes up with

4). whatever the environment you had when you did your paper trades, don't allow that to change when you finally put some coinage down.

5). take a holiday from trading if the markets get too volatile (your definition of volatile applies here)

6). remember that many of your trades will lose coinage, it is up to you to determine what you put in place to mitigate this, others will make enough to cover these losses, if you keep to the rules you have.

7). if your success at paper trading does not see the same success in coinage trading, stop and do a complete review of what has happened and go back to paper trading.

8). keep meticulous records of all your trades, paper or real and continually look for further insights into yourself as you do this.

9). continually look at what your goals are and why you are doing this.

10).don't spend any coinage that you cannot afford to spend on this, in other words, keep calm and steady.
Acquiring a skill takes money (if there's any kind of accreditation) and time. If you're living paycheque-to-paycheque and looking to change employers, chances are you don't have much of either. Not everyone has a safety net.
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What part of the DNS standard governs how URLs are displayed, exactly?
A Top10 list of Kubernetes applications
This is going to break a lot of sites.
1. no preferences window
2. no resize option for text
3. "Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm-kitty'." ie screen doesn't work in ssh

makes this hardly usable
The internet generation, or generation X (the one right before millennials).
Network effect. Lots of people still use it.
I was looking for a tutorial on derivatives the other day and most of the results popping up at the top of Google were a bit dry.

This one is very good though. Excellent work.

How did you do the diagrams?
Why does the site has 4 movie clips of shady people? SEO or to weed out false positives or just because.
It's an interesting project, and I enjoyed watching the video, Thanks for sharing.
A large part of accelerating AI loads in H/w lives in the software stack, not in the chip itself.

If people can run TensorFlow loads directly on the chip via qroq's s/w stack, who cares about Cuda.

That will be the differentiator for this company, not their h/w manufacturing prowess.
Yes I have, and he literally showed me his water filter and offered me a glass. Doesn't change my point one bit.
> a single beneficial thing about cigarette

It calms the nerves. (I'm not a smoker.)
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Humans tend to know less about environments that kill us rapidly.
Did I say it was better? I was just pointing out the schtick
Having to use both for supporting complex web apps, I can't really agree that FF is noticeably slower. Chrome does seem to have less silly bugs though, like quick searching doesn't find multi-select box text in FF. Works great in Chrome.

Regardless of FF's little quirks, I use it almost exclusively for personal stuff. I would rather deal with those types of things than the mentality Chrome brings to table.
Discovery is going to be interesting.
Nice. You know the market has been in a historic long bull run these past 9 or so years, right?
Capital market has strong influx which they don't know what to do with. On the other hand they have liability to create money from money. We usually don't realise but investors needs as much opportunity as startups does.
Play Conway's Game of Life
Looks a lot like the Volkswagen’s emission software /s
This is wonderful. It has usefully sharpened my understanding of what it means to read, how to do it, and why. I understand now how my perception of the task of reading has been confused and how this confusion has been harmful.
Formula 1 cars probably couldn't even beat a Vespa in a 3000 mile endurance race. Does that mean f1 cars are slow? Does that mean Vespas are fast?

Comparing returns between income-oriented day traders and compounding-orieted mutual funds is like comparing top speed between f1 cars and endurance cars. You can certainly do it, but you're not doing anything worthwhile with your time by doing so. My strategy has high returns but low capacity and no compounding potential...simply put, I'm not competing against the S&P 500, I'm making an income. In fact, most of my excess returns end up in SPY.
Which completely bypasses the point that their parents had to be wealthy enough to provide for his education at a school that had computing labs at a time that they were very rare. Bill Gates and Paul Allen certainly had to work their tails off, but negating that having a wealthy parent puts you in a far higher likelihood to be successful is just silly. The average child of poor parents is not likely to have the same opportunity as those of a child of wealthy parents. It's exactly what perpetuates the cycle of wealth.
You're right. Reverb sounds way better with the version of timidity available on Homebrew. I noticed that brew is installing TiMidity++ (http://timidity.sourceforge.net/) instead of libTiMidity (http://libtimidity.sourceforge.net/) which is what I ported to WebAssembly. I'll look into the differences between the two, but if anyone knows more please share.
Maybe if it tripled battery or something
>the best MIDI player written in C (libtimidity)

Ouch. Has timidity fixed the issue where playing 2 of the same note in sequence cuts off the release tail of the first note when the second starts? Fluidsynth is written in C and doesn't have that issue and sounds better (I assume this behavior matches good MIDI hardware, but not sure about the crappy Windows GS Wavetable Synth). fluidsynth-lite is a Fluidsynth fork with dependencies removed.
It's purely a consequence of being in the majority. The exact same feedback can be given to you in an environment where you are a minority and there will be a good chance you will actually begin to factor it in.
"We had some extra cycles so we added a few more neural nodes and a laser . . ."
Maybe they can buy Atlassian now.
It’s almost as if, and stay with me here, preventative care is cheaper than reactive care.

Well, that and hospital billing is bullshit. Got charged $500 because the doctor at the ER we went to for a sudden emergency was out of network, even though the ER wasn’t. How the heck I’m supposed to do something about that is beyond me.
He never said he's making money on long positions though. Options allow you to buy and sell volatility, and short underlying securities.
Using "weird" as a euphemism for unethical, or some other problem?
It’s estimated that keeping a homeless person on the streets can cost the local government up to $1m/year in terms of police, jail, and hospital resource usages.
German is not an agglutinative language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9m03s&v=pr5cIRruBsc

This video is hilarious. Applause for a slight cosmetic change to a URL that basically amounts to a subdomain?

How do people at Google find such work fulfilling? If I was given such a meaningless project I'd be depressed. It seems that at a certain point such large companies run out of real work to do, and insist on making such changes that don't really matter anymore just to create work for people to do and present on stage.

This is going against everything that the web stands for. I assume the next logical step in this line of thinking is for Google to require developers to start making pull requests to Chrome when we want to change the style of the text on one of our pages?

It seems like what could have happened at Google is they are fed up with web sites draining the battery on their precious Android devices and want so desperately to beat Apple in the battery life game they are willing to neuter the web in order to do it.

This is exactly what happens when you hire an aggressive queen and don't have any checks and balances in your behemoth tech company that is becoming more and more accustomed to her dark soul.
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker is a classic starter manual
> I would really like a newspaper if it provided decent content.

It's the catch-22 though, isn't it? If you want good content, you need newspapers to pay good writers. If you want them to be able to pay for good writers, they need a revenue stream. If you don't want to help provide a revenue stream until they provide good content, where does that leave you?

Note: By "you" I mean "everyone"
I would happily make money for n-years and lose for one, provided the amount lost was a fraction of what I earned.
Because they want to waste time. It's a free country after all isn't it?
I trade futures and currencies. Short positions happen about as frequently as long positions. My average trade lasts less than 5 minutes. Macro trends don't really affect my strategy outside of the fact that I tend to watch Fed and ECB news announcements as a way of predicting short term volatility.
Because one strategy returning $50-100k a year is a pittance to an investment bank. And (I bet) those strategies require a lot of manual intervention. Plus the risk value if they go haywire.
Refusing to work unless conditions improve.
This headline is one of the reasons I don't take boing boing seriously anymore
missing postmates, which is an sf company since inception
Trading is essentially an activity of showing numbers on a screen between funds deposits and funds withdrawal.

Traders are playing with numbers. No one actually expects the paper shares to be mailed after stock purchase.

Brokerage guarantees successful withdrawal event - and if not - then it's a present and clear fraud.

So if brokerage does not actually do anything, but properly updates the numbers on the screen according to security prices and commission schedules + guarantees proper handling of deposit/withdrawals - no one essentially cares?
Well yeah. But typically that is done by cross bracing. Lighter and more effective against the leverage of the whole bridge.

Concrete has low Young's modulus, so you need very wide concrete casing to get the same benefits in stability you would get from steel truss of similar dimensions.
It depends exactly what you are measuring the income for. 59k is per household while the median per person 15 or older is about 31k[1]. Median wage for full-time workers is about 45k[2]. Not sure where they are getting 37k from. Maybe income per person for some narrower age range.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
Pretty cool!

Does anyone else get strange clumps of 'Gates'? Surely a city wouldn't need a whole block of gates, or am I misunderstanding something?

Edit: Just realised they are always around gates in a wall if the wall is enabled. ie. they are sections of the town that flank the gates.
Fair enough.

I don't have data to support my conclusions, but I subscribe to the Hygiene Hypothesis... humans have lived in filth for millennia, and our bodies haven't evolved to live in sterile conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
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Panda Express is an odd chain, perhaps even odder than Chick-Fil-A (which is closed on Sundays). They participate in Landmark Forum which is a retreat where you spend most of a weekend having some rowdy guy tell you what they think really matters in life. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-corporate-culture-of-Panda-Expr... Like Chick-Fil-A, their unusual beliefs and practices probably just makes the insiders prouder of the company.
I feel like it's a lot easier to just get a job or start a business that makes at least double the average successful day trader
I'm guessing this is implemented as s/www\.//
The post's author seems to be outside the valley too, in Norway (from the domain, and also Twitter user info).
Yeah, saw that while looking about for atfork stuff.

Ironically, I was involved in https://bugs.python.org/issue6721 which is one of the major bugs leading to the acceptance of https://bugs.python.org/issue16500, which is the patch including atfork().
It is actually interesting as 'Mamluki' is Swahili term for mercenary
Nice and simple, I like it
Yeah, Huawei also sells shitty phones with locked bootloaders. Not interested in any case, cheating or no.
The specific term for what you're talking about is arbitrage. You're making a high wage in the city, but choosing to live in a lower cost of living area and keeping the difference. As someone who commuted hours each way for years, this absolutely works and you don't even need to be a specific ethnicity. I've worked my way up from crappy jobs cleaning up sewer damage, to a call center, then an IT dept, and now into IT management. This is possible for anyone willing to put more work than average, and who is ready when opportunity/luck/karma comes knocking at your door.
Great idea. Would love a small writeup explaining the stuff happening under the hood and the challenges faced by you and the workarounds you came up with to make it work.
I see. So you yearn for a world without capitalism.
Anyone who sells services like this is obviously full of shit - if their ideas worked, they'd be making money off them, not selling them to other people.
> Network effect. Lots of people still use it.

Cigarettes are legal pretty much everywhere and easily found at any corner store.

Network effect.
It is not 50%, even if you are allowed to post passive orders (quotes) and pocket the spread (instead of loaing it) commissions will eat a lot.

Effectively, brokers and exchanges have almost infinite ROI: with small and fixed investments in infrastructure and marketing they take _percentage_ of your traded volume.

And shady trading rooms will screw you on commissions, spread, high margins on volatile instruments, and in very unlikely event if you manage to cash out more money than deposited, they will hold your account for "review of illicit trades".

But even on real and legal exchanges far less than 50% of capital wins, I assure you.
Highly recommend The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz. But it's a very high level view about being a CEO in a billion dollar company.
FB does not sell user data and Tim Cook knows this very well. Puzzling that he reduces himself to propagating such FUD.
In general, every time you buy something or browse a site where you have logged in on multiple devices your user agent details are stored for each device (and generally sold). There is an inherent uniqueness to much of the UA details stored. That combined with your browsing habits allows companies to collect this data from multiple sources and then resell it as targeted ad marketing. So if you use multiple devices they can still track and target you as a person instead of a device. The advantage of this method and others like it, is there is no dependency on cookies or other things that can cause cross site issues. Content providers use this data to advertise you things which you might have an interest on based on content you have consumed, hence your sanitary napkins ad.

You can check out companies like Geocommerce, they do location based targeting, but also follow the user from device to device.

There are other methods as well, just giving you one data point. My knowledge comes from having done it, and yes I glossed over a lot of the details.
How many sites do even use this convention of `m.`? In .ru territorybon internet there is around zero such sites.
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I was simply stating I have a substantially higher return than the pros. I've used that money for other purposes. for instance buying American airlines the day they went bankrupt allowed me to pay off a medical bill for a surprise medical emergency. But in that case it was literally 1000 percent return. I bought a bit of their stock the morning they went bankrupt. AMD is also an incredibly easy one to profit one. Wall Street might like to short sell on them to my benefit. From 3 dollars a share to 28 with incredibly predictable highs and lows for two decades. If I had the cash in college I could have been a millionaire by making ten trades a week on that one stock. The pros suck. I beat them year over year vs my managed retirement fund. It's pathetic.
Okay, I stand corrected. I did a bunch of research, but I clearly missed some superior MIDI players. I'll take a look at FluidSynth-lite and see if there's some way to use it.

One issue I can already see is they use a SoundFont file (.sf2) instead of instrument patch files, which means the whole 100MB+ file probably needs to be loaded before playback. My current approach uses GUS patch files which have one file per instrument, so I can load just what's needed for a particular song and start playing much sooner.

Edit: It looks the GeneralUser SoundFont is only 31MB and it sounds almost as good as the 100MB+ one. So, while this will still be slower than my current approach of loading just the needed instruments, perhaps if I start loading it in the background with ServiceWorker and cache it forever, this could work. Thoughts welcome.
> You'd be surprised how easy it is to start and operate a decent business. The difficult part is growing and scaling that business.

I could not disagree more. Businesses fall apart all the time, whether they're top tier banks, manufacturing giants, Silicon Valley venture darlings, medium size businesses, mom-and-pops, restaurants, you name it.

Operating a business is a constant balancing act between customers, employees, shareholders, the public, and your own internal vision and desires.

Your premise that "companies that provide a valuable enough product ..." is also incredibly dismissive. Creating any product that provides true value is not easy.
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> Nonko team decided to take advantage of this pattern by secretly providing some of Nonko’s customers with training accounts instead of live ones and simply pocketing those customers’ deposits.

Seems like a really dangerous move it they allowed trading on anything with low volume (options, smaller stocks). All it takes is one trader to notice their order never actually executed on the public market..
It works on iOS. You may need to just wait a bit longer, as the instrument files need to load to play back the song and there's currently no UI to indicate that loading is still happening.
I'm wondering this very same thing, now that Reddit has been flooded with Teens, Meme's, Dueches, Knobs and Troglodytes... I am seeking a Reddit alternative that features semi intelligent posts like Reddit used to provide around 5 years ago...
The Blood Unicorn (Elasmotherium haimatos) is extinct
And that's why I buy Google phones. The processor being slightly slower doesn't matter to me if I prefer the overall experience
> There is now no way to stop the sweet, sweet sound of 90s MIDI.

I kind of hope this bug never gets fixed now.
I'm not sure that's true. It is showing Spotify which is not HQd in SF.
Misleading title. It only lags behind in the US market.
> I would happily make money for n-years and lose for one, provided the amount lost was a fraction of what I earned.

Your caveat there often swallows the rule. Many bet on the market and make big bucks only to lose multiples of it later.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=henriiik...
The way traders personally make money isn't by making good bets, it's by taking fees. If they make good bets, they get huge rewards, if they make bad bets, they get fired, but otherwise lose very little. So once you start betting with other people's money, you can do pretty well, it's just a matter of how long.
It's interesting to compare this behaviour against IIS. If Apache can't identify the MIME type of the requested file, it will serve it without a Content-Type header. IIS will return a 404 instead.
>It seems to me that putting pre-stressed concrete into tension via its reinforcements is defeating the purpose of having pre-stressed concrete in the first place.

I think you are correct there. But it looks like the stays were in separate tubes with little allowance around them to separate them from the pre-stressed concrete.

That airspace around the stays then would prevent the concrete from providing any chemical protection against corrosion. And concrete as physical protection against rainwater is often only as good as the paint in the surface of the concrete. It's often way too porous even without cracks.
> they are fed up with web sites draining the battery on their precious Android devices and want so desperately to beat Apple in the battery life game

That... does not make any sense. If anything, it will increase the relative lead of Apple in the battery life game.

It's about not having information being more and more stuck in Apple News / FB because those silos are more efficient than the web.
If people use apps instead of the web, Google will earn less money.
Is money less green if it was made with luck vs "skill" ?
Way back when I was in high school what made derivatives click for me was the notion of "Rate of Change" applied to time series.

I think it is called Parametric Calculus.

v = u +at;
v^2 = u^2 +2as;

and all that

Velocity = ds/dt and acceleration = dv/dt = d^2S/dt^2

At least in my mind rate of changes makes a lot of sense to explain derivatives.

edit: i.e Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity over time.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931545 and marked it off-topic.
That's not the definition of network effect
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