skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"labor had enough clout to eke out a greater chunk of the revenue stream at the "cost" of creating a slow growth economy in terms of capital gains by non-practicing investors". I think you are referring to the 80s. So in the 80s labor was getting too much, making it a slow growth period, and now we are not giving labor too much, growth has slightly increased? But labor is screwed. Non-specialist lucky people who aren't software engineers aren't getting that much right now. Please explain, I probably don't understand what you are getting at.
powerful, this puts everything i do in pale comparison, this person's acts are really changing the world and directly saving lives. i also don't see him trying to profit on this, but instead he's trying to replicate this work in another 3rd world country.

this does put a massive black mark on the medical device industry and medical industry as a whole, trying to profit off what should be basic needs of hospitals. in general, companies making profits is only natural, and some of their research does require heavy research funding, but to the extent where their pricing may be killing off people is a little contradictory. i imagine the device costs have been subsidized by some governments of rich countries, but these standards cannot be applied to all countries. this is certainly a political issue, where are all the funds for bangledesh heading?

this also reminds me of the efforts going on at fourthievesvinegar.org we need more open source medicine and medical devices, this seems to be a lot more meaningful than creating enterprise software or social apps.
By "reality" I mostly meant "what is statistically often found almost everywhere" -- sorry for not clarifying. By saying "when reality sets in" I mean to say "when one day nobody can carry you through life anymore, including your luck from previous phases, and you actually have to work really hard for a fraction of what you barely worked for before".

And yes, reality is maleable. That's both very good and very bad.

As for me assuming the world is fair, definitely not! The world is anything but fair...
I'm in the UK, and always use yr.no for overviews. I love the occasions when a .no site uses their heavy snow icon for what passes for a blizzard around here.

And, I (ab)use the sites of local folk who have their weather stations and webcams available when I'm about to go for a bike ride.
Please don't make inflammatory claims based on "smells". That's unsubstantive and just leads to people repeating the same flamey things in every thread. It also breaks several of the site guidelines, such as the ones against flamebait and shallow dismissals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I've wondered the same thing. Also consider that

[t]he energy released by a cosmic collision increases as the
square of the incoming object's speed, so a comet could pack
nine times more destructive power than an asteroid of the
same mass. (https://www.space.com/26264-asteroids-comets-earth-impact-risks.html)

ʻOumuamua reached a barycentric speed of 87.71 km/s. The tables on Wikipedia's Impact event article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event) assume a speed of 17 km/s relative to Earth. The energy of objects local to our solar system is limited in a way that interstellar objects are not.

With a single observation we can't deduce much of anything concrete except to floor the incidence of these interstellar objects at greater than 0. I'm no astronomer, but I assume models of interstellar objects as they reflect actual risk to Earth wouldn't be very useful without more observations. Whatever the average density in galactic space, I'm betting they're not uniformly distributed. Our solar system is speeding through space that could be littered with clouds of objects.[1] Are we entering a cloud? Leaving a cloud? We can't know without more observations.

[1] There are theories that posit that the ~30- and ~225-million year cycles we see in extinction events are a function of our solar system's orbit in the galaxy, which takes about 200-250 million years. Shorter cycles could relate to the inclination of our orbit (and other stars' orbits) relative to the galactic plane.
>>I suspect the reason is that actual capitalism (as opposed to the ideal construct) is more based on Social Darwinism and capital accumulation than on trading for the mutual benefit of all market participants.

The ideal construct of a market economy is not based on "trading for the mutual benefit of all market participants".

As Adam Smith so sagely put it 250 years ago:

>>It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.

The mutual benefit is an emergent outcome, not a conscious intent of any particular participant.

Advocacy of market economics is largely based on a sober outlook on the nature of man, and a pragmatic plan for improving its condition.
I think they are referring to Alibaba (allegedly) being a front for the Chinese Communist Party to launder money.
See also https://github.com/tdda/tdda, which has some of the same features and can run tests against new data. It runs on Pandas dataframes, CSVs, and can generate hand-editable JSON constraints for a dataset.
Skepticism is good, but stressing systems is certainly better than just hoping things will be okay. There's no rule of the world that says growth has to follow certain limits, but it's prudent and reasonable to think that things are not different this time. But the primary reason one should be concerned is we screwed up our countries macro-economic future by giving rich people giant tax cuts and juiced the economy to grow, but poorer people are facing increasing loss of the social safety net, we are building an ever bigger group of people who can't do anything but pay off their college debts. In other words, there are clear reasons to be worried about the future financially.
256 bytes is a reasonable amount for a "first stage bootstrap"; in other words, it's useful enough to enter a bigger program such as an assembler, through which you could eventually write a compiler... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17851311

I wonder how big implementing the equivalent functionality with an x86 PC would be --- my guess is somewhat shorter, because the x86 ISA is denser than 6502.

the constrained space means woz used a lot of tricks, like having a routine "fall thru" to another instead of calling it explicitly

Basically tail-call optimisation with jump elimination. Nearly all compilers can do it too if you have the optimisation settings right.
I had to buy a new router since for whatever reason the Apple Airport Extreme wouldn't correctly discover the MTU for PPPoE over my new fiber line (1454), and Apple in all their wisdom are the one router manufacturer that doesn't let you configure it manually...
Some people have real friends and don’t need to have pretend friends at work. Sounds like the guy you hired missed some red flags when accepting the job; hopefully he moved on to something better.
As the other answers say, you will need something specific to drive at. The field of software engineering is vast. You'll be repeatedly overwhelmed by its size and scope without getting anywhere unless you start, and develop skills on the way. Phrased differently, you don't know what you don't know. By far the best way to explore what you want to do and to gain the skills necessary is to do it on someone else's dime. Get a job.

Easiest way into a tech company in a technical role is through front end. (Let's kill a myth here: not because FE is easier—it's not, necessarily. But the risk is generally lower, since it's hard to really screw things up in javascript and your mistakes will usually be more traceable for others to clean up after you than they would be in, e.g., devops.) Give yourself 3 months to learn everything you can to pass an interview in javascript, html, and css. Then go to a non-silicon valley town with lots of tech (Austin, Boston, Chicago, LA come to mind) and go out for every front end job you can find in a mid size company.

If the company's too big, you'll get locked in the front end role without opportunities to explore other things. If it's too small, you risk (a) that it's the founder's lifestyle business without any real innovation, or (b) that it will grow so fast that you'll have responsibility piled on you and no time to learn. (I recently interviewed a guy like this. Super smart, but he joined a high-growth startup as a cheap early employee, and his expertise stayed unfortunately narrow because he had no time to grow, only to prop up his part of the system.) You're looking for a place with 30-70 engineers, whose senior technical people are over age 45.
I'm a Brazilian, living in São Paulo state. I've lived here for 35 years, and before that lived in a number of other countries. In my current role, I do roughly 50% international travel. There's only one thing I'm certain about this post: it's that most brazilian commenters here will zero in on everything that's wrong about Brazil, regardless of the facts. I don't yet have a grand theory for why this happens, but it usually does. Anyway, on to the topic of the post.

Brazil has a really great startup scene, and there are many small and new companies popping up everywhere with interesting ideas. I've had my own companies participate in acceleration rounds and pitches and have been positively impressed with the quality of the programs and participants. In the past five years, funding has become much easier to get access to, and there are good hubs to exchange ideas and find talent to hire. Lots of interns and trainees coming out of university are hungry and talented, so there's a real talent pool to leverage. And the potential customer base for any class of product is massive.

A lot of the negativity will be around legislation, taxation, etc. From decades of experience both here and abroad, I can say Brazil doesn't deserve it -- it's easy and cheap to start a new company, and while taxes aren't trivial they are for the most part handled entirely by an accountant for a monthly flat fee. Yes, there are some vexing circumstances -- I've had companies subject to double taxation due to bureaucracy, and handling the chain of tax credits for physical goods that cross state boundaries is annoying. But by and large, for software companies, these are not very relevant concerns. And even with physical goods, there are lots of companies doing e-commerce nationwide, so it can't be that bad.

If there is one defining challenge to startups operating in Brazil it is that B2B deals are very slow to close. In my experience this derives from a tendency to undervalue services delivered by small companies, which for young startups is often the meat of a serious B2B contract. You can spend a year working on a 5-digit deal at risk before seeing the first payment from a customer. Often you don't have that runway and have to give up, pivot or die. In comparison, American and European companies tend to be much more agile about buying services. However, the transition to SaaS has made this problem tractable and I have seen many startups selling higher-value SaaS subscriptions successfully.

In summary, if you can manage to ignore the negativity, the country has great potential, and another round of successful startups should follow the existing crop the article mentions.
In a black hole I can at least see why people might want to keep it that way.

Where there's already LTE, not so much.
You might be thinking of ORCA/M (which is 'macro' spelled backwards), ORC/ASM would have been a bit too edgy even in those less-corporate days.

There is a lot of NES programming info out there these days and if you haven't had a chance to, it's entertaining to take a look at it - it's a machine with the same CPU but real graphics hardware (for the time). Bitblitting into the mildly non-linear Apple ][ frame buffer will look pleasantly simple. The NES can do an awful lot more, of course.
The pizza in the article looks horrible. But random.

I don’t see why the author states randomness is a hard problem then proceeds to show various ways of creating it via imagery. Lava lamps also work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
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But I don't know it off the top of my head, because I never did a CS degree, and frankly it's knowledge that's not very useful to memorise because it is very easy to google.

If the confluence of 2 or 3 requests you were implementing were to cause a nasty O(n^2) or O(n^3) time or space workload, would you have a good chance of realizing it? If your answer is yes, then you'd have what I'd be looking for. If your answer is that you'd figure it out after the fact, after the problem reports came, by Googling, then you would cause a problem and require an additional spate of diagnosing and patching that a better trained programmer would not have.
I don’t understand. What does it mean that they sell order flow to high freq traders?

How are they fucking me?
So, n-realizability seems to mean you can make a model of the graph in n dimensions, with every edge the same length. (i.e. much more strict than the usual planarity) What is that useful for?
CCX = Core Complex
https://www.custompcreview.com/wiki/ccx/
Trust, in an economic sense, is how much material is being dedicated towards a corporation's future existence... A corporation can be an individual, or a company of individuals...
Although the free space attenuation is inverse square, interference effects can increase power attenuation for radio waves in the far field limit. If there is reflection off the ground, the power attenuation is closer to inverse quartic in the far field.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-ray_ground-reflection_mo...
I've use something very similar in practice. Haskell's fixed point operator is:

fix f = let x = f x in x

This allows you to turn a non-recursive function into a recursive one, it factors the recursion out. It turns out that you can write a similar combinator (usually called mfix or memofix as I recall) that will result in a memoized version of the same recursive function.

So it allows you to abstract away the memoization, write it once and then use it on any recursive function. That way you can write quite natural recursive functions and just memoize them in one wrapper call.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/memoize-0.8.1/docs/Data-... looks similar to what I ended up with

I used this in competitive programming for a while, it was nice for certain types of dynamic programming problems where the interesting part is the recursive definition, so once I found that there wasn't any more to write. Quite satisfying when it applied.
What's so bad about this? Other trading firms are also using HFTs. I assume Robinhood is making more because they have more trading than other companies. It sounds like a good strategy. I don't see a red flag in this.
Also rocking a ModMic5 and a keyboard with Brown switches. Never had an issue transmitting when I wasn't actually speaking. Both in Discord and Slack.
I’m super skeptical that it’s actually a financial cost saver. The data infrastructure and sunk costs are quite high for systems like this, and the non-zero defect or failure rates mean you still generally have to employ most of the same staff. They just do something else on the computer or deal with other gate check issues, stuff they generally still had to do already while scanning people onto the plane.

Face recognition systems are notoriously difficult to implement in a way that actually saves money.

Even if boarding huge flights happens faster, the limiting factors are usually runway traffic delays and other problems anyway.

All this infrastructure only so sometimes on a few international flights, when no special issues pop up, they can possibly save a small amount of money (relative to other costs involved) by boarding slightly faster (a matter of a few dozen minutes, max) and potentially depart sooner if there’s no other type of hold up.

It doesn’t add up.
People overestimate how useful the degree is in general. Like, a lot of it is likely folks with connections choosing to get a Finance degree to leverage them. Or for the CS degree, some of the increased income is explained by average IQ (rather than the choice to get into computer programming vs other activities)
HFT is front running.
I misread this as "Autism Raises $65M."

For a moment, I was proud of my humanity.
I specifically said almost. Look at the number of lynchings and count how many in cities. Even in cities it's not in the upper sections of the society. That's the point
China: Massive Crackdown in Muslim Region
This is very well done! I love the comparisons, and the fact that it compares different languages.
> Anyone know why cloud providers have such high markup on bandwidth?

1) because they can

2) because they may not really want that type of clients

3) because due to the nature of peering agreements, they want to avoid paying as much as they can

Not sure which of the above applies, but the list is very likely at least part of the reason.
Awesome.

Just did some idle digging out of curiosity, and stumbled on something that may be of interest: http://iancoog.altervista.org/HF/develop64_hf.rar

It was hiding in here: http://comp.sys.cbm.narkive.com/YJAWnSun/develop-64

There are references to a "develop64_cracked" on a retro FTP server that's 404ing for that file; this RAR seems to contain the file was was on the FTP server.

Also, backspacing the file off the path in the first URL gives a listing of some other releases, but this file isn't listed. Woot.

Here are the other tabs that ended up open:

- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22develop-64%22

- [interesting] https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24254 (unfortunately the embedded photos seem definitively dead; I checked IA.)

Interstitial: the forum post above mentions has a link to http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo/art/int7.htm. IA had captures of this just fine, but fiddling around with the dates caused me to stumble on the specific capture http://web.archive.org/web/20110724025913/http://www.radiks...., which contains a "page moved" update pointing to http://web.archive.org/web/20110813050154/http://www.mailsen... after stripping the IA prefix off that to see if it was still live, it transparently redirected me to...

- [interesting] https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/an-interview-wit...

I wish I could use bold for this line - THIS is how you keep data alive, people!! :D

Also for reference, the reocities link in the above URL is dead, but oocities.com works. Unfortunately the geocities paths are not in oocities' archive.

And these links were near the top of Google's results.

- [uninteresting] https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40768

- [uninteresting] http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.ph...
How do you front run a limit order ?
Ah, thanks! I guess I should have googled instead of just relying on my knowledge of the definitions of the individual words
Exacerbated. I think, is the word you were going for.
> my "exposure" to Singapore society and culture is far deeper than yours

Your exposure to life long propaganda is far greater.

> Trust me when I tell you, we did nothing to oppress them. We gave them free education

If there was integration of Malays as equals you wouldn't be saying 'we did nothing to oppress them' or 'we gave them' because you would think of Malays as 'us' and not 'them'
Renesas to Buy Chip Maker Integrated Device Technology for $6.7B
I've actually experimented a bit using make+pandoc as a static site generator/pdf compiler. It semantics of make actually transfer pretty well.
I'm not really sure they need to be more transparent. In this day and age you have to realize if you aren't paying for the product you are the product. Basically the same with Facebook and Google. They are making money off of your use of the service. If this isn't obvious you shouldn't be buying and selling stocks!
Wild guess is dimensional reduction. Sorta perfect PCA
It's not all that surprising when you think about this, the whole actuary field is basically taking people who love doing something, and trimming it down to a factory job for money making companies. As far as I've heard, there is no joy, no creativity and no sense of accomplishment; yet for people who rank salary and perceived status derived from a job title higher than those things, it's the perfect place to be.

(ironically, the people with the capabilities and the people that actually enjoy the lifestyle inside an insurer, bank, or other hypercommercial/hypercapitalistic instance don't overlap that much)
Pluto is most definitely a planet – should never been downgraded, say scientists
I really like The One I Love (2014), the same guy stars in my favourite time travel movie Safety Not Guaranteed (2012).
Thanks. Changed from https://www-pcmag-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pcmag.com/n....
Query structures have a huge impact on performance, this problem can be managed by scheduling SQL based ETL for your data warehouse. We abstracted this into a simple feature on Holistics, you can take a look at how the guys at Rezdy use it https://medium.com/rezdy-engineering/an-introduction-to-data...
Data Transforms SQL scheduler: https://www.holistics.io/features/data-transforms/
A C99 compiler front end in Go
If you know what other people are doing you can cut in front of them.

You can beat someone to the punch who may have traded better than the limit.

It’s worth $26 on a 100K transaction for the HFT firms. So let’s say it’s worth $50 to them. Not s big deal if you buy and hold forever. If you day 20 times a year because you think it’s free, that $50 times 20 becomes $1000, or 1% of your stake.
because there is a market inefficiency.

now they cause a different inefficiency.
But this has nothing to do with ports of entry or consular offices. It has to do with boarding at the gate. 99% accuracy is not remotely accurate enough to even begin replacing personnel at sensitive entry points.

And consider that to the extent you automate security you permit automating measures to subvert the system. The reported accuracy of these solutions describe efficacy for typical use cases; they're not a measure of resilience to attack, which is what people often assume.

Again, I'm not saying these things don't have their uses. Security just isn't one of them unless they're merely part of a larger, cohesive system (e.g. used to verify efficacy of auditing and reporting systems). In fact, they may decrease security if you rely on them as strong security measures.