skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an embarrassing untruth told by one who has no idea how most of the US lives. A huge portion of the US lives a few paychecks away from default because so much of most families incomes is needed just to keep your head above water. Rising home prices made homes look like an excellent investment that Americans could no longer afford to pay for when the bankers tanked the economy in the process of milking as much as they could from it.

Losing a home thrusts one either out into the street or onto the mercy of families because the financial ruination may make it somewhere between difficult to impossible to rent even if one has the money. It ruins your credit, breaks up families, ruins relationships, hurts ones job prospects even.

The idea that people faced ruin because they didn't have the character to live up to their obligations is more than offensive.

When I lost mine after weathering a number of crisis the bank wasn't interested in anything less than all back money due immediately or nothing so catching up was impossible. Hell there was even a government program to help people stay in their homes that would have lent every bit of the money required to catch up and the bank wasn't interested.

In brief shove your crisis of responsibility because you have no earthly idea what peoples lives are like or the shit they have had to slog through.
That's an interesting take, as often the ABC is accused of pandering to the left and being anti-government. Living outside of Australia I rely almost exclusively on the ABC website for news about Australia, and IMO most of the time it presents quite a balanced perspective.
Are you the original author of QuickBasic?
The "article" is just a glorified link to the paywalled subscription only content.
> have we as a collective lost the ability to discern the real from the fake?

I don't think so. Even people who frequently click on fake news articles probably would accept the content they read is probably fake. Those articles satisfy curiosity and relief from boredom on a level that's different from the one we use to think critically. Even if the content is fake does not mean that it is not fulfilling its purpose or even harming readers' ability to see it as fake.
4 Week Manifestation Review, Work or a Scam?
My common sense tells me that it probably depends on ease of doing it. Consider these scenarios:

It will transmit on non-amateur bands if you...

plug it in.
push a particular button.
type in a particular password.
flash the firmware.
short two pins.
physically remove a limiter component.
physically add a limit-override component.
take a hammer to it and rebuild it from scratch.

Somewhere along that scale it will decided to be compliant.
I'm seriously considering switching away from gmail for two reasons:

1. Privacy concerns

2. The new and painfully slow Gmail UI

I think I finally realized that there are no free things in live and you usually have to sacrifice something. Here it's privacy.
https://outline.com/uzZP8x
Email isn't an interface, it's a transport mechanism. This is like saying that you don't think http translates to an easy git interface.
Arınma Gecesi – The Purge 1. Sezon 4. Bölüm izle
plain text version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=652546095
A lot of people feel that is a confection by Zionists, supported by israel, aimed at making criticism of Israeli policies equivalent to anti-semitism.
Everything I’ve read on the subject supports that Greenspan played a significant role in creating the crash of 2008 and unfortunately his disciples have been running the show since.

We are in a debt fueled rally that will crash and we might be out of ammo to keep the system going.
Hofstadter's Law, data breach edition: the breach's always worse than you think it is, even after you factor in Hofstadter's Law.
It seems to be a parable. Maybe the story is not true, maybe it is, it doesn't make it less insightful about the trends of the last decade about the emergent phenomena of massively profitable fake content publishing.
What are we going to do?

Should some kind of 'Basic Assistance' include fairly unlimited metered doses of whatever drugs a person may want?

Fully legal, regulated, and taxed?

What would an idealised harm reduction programme look like?
This is not really a good comparison: the author acknowledges that the C and Rust programs are using different data structures, and while he tries to vary the problem a bit to explore that difference, it's still not a fairly matched comparison, and the headline leaves the reader with the incorrect impression that we're comparing similar things.

I'm not sure that comparing "Rust" and "C" performance is even meaningful. The latter is a multi-implementation language, and in most implementations, can be written in a way that gets the compiler to generate the same machine code that the Rust compiler does. (Frequently, they both just go through LLVM.)
When a Facebook headhunter reaches out to you
Could you please point to pieces by The Economist that made you unsubscribe?
Seems to be trendy these days to say that there is going to be another downturn or collapse whereas in 2007 saying such things you might be branded as a heretic. Ever since 2009 some people made careers out of saying there is going to be a collapse, indeed Zero Hedge has predicted 11 of the last 7 doomsday collapses in the USA since then. I've come to see people like Zero Hedge, Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, as permabears and as such not too interesting to hear about their particular predictions. The massive inflation never happened, and there was no collapse. But what is interesting is that there is a chorus from the opposite end now, that is saying it is inevitable. That seems unusual. Seems that the concensus among these sorts say that things will probably be fine till about 2020 then it blows up. It being about everything that is overvalued, which is also nearly everything. I actually lost the entire bull run because of fear.

I figure this stuff is being dredged up because of the 10 year anniversary of 2008. The whole world is going to change by April next year, I think the US economy might be chugging along even in spite of the hell everyone else is about to endure in their markets because Trumps tax cut is basically a multi-trillion dollar cash stimulus in the economy that goes broadly to nearly everyone.

I made a couple observations: The fed is now afraid to show its cards. No longer will it give forward guidance because they are not actually sure what they need to do. If they raise rates they risk collapsing prices on debt instruments, if they lower rates they fear inflation. As for protecting the currency, they don't need to do that. The dollar is already a policy nightmare for most of the world as to its current value. Inflation isn't bad at all either. Employment is as good as it gets I think. So why raise rates? But this is their plan. They plan to raise rates all the way to 2020 (familiar year reported) and then... what? Also, I've been seeing ads for adjustable rate mortgages at very low rates. Are they going to reset everyone's mortgage in 2019 causing a huge downwind pressure on home prices? That seems to be the 2006 2007 2008 pattern all over again.
Original looks to be at https://medium.com/s/story/confessions-of-a-fake-news-writer...

Can you see the irony here.
And while the selection is much much worse, Target will match Amazon prices if you do find something you want there. Heck, they match the Target website as well, which is regularly much cheaper than the retail prices.
See, weirdly, part of the solution here is to not get all up in people’s business over drugs - if it were less risky to use more traditional drugs, people would do that instead. They use spice because it’s (supposedly) hard to get done for it - working around the system that seeks to prevent them from using their drug of choice.

The other part of the solution is to provide actual help to people, not contingent on things like “priority need” (aka you can’t generally access housing help as a man without children), and before people wind up being forced to disclose a criminal record to any potential employer.
Rust and C may encourage different data structures, but a benchmark of two programs that happen to use two different data structures doesn't demonstrate this difference. To demonstrate what you claim, you'd have to perform a more holistic language analysis than we see in the article, and you'd in practice have to talk about C++ too.
I find that I'm significantly happier when I don't read or watch the news. In this case; ignorance is bliss.
The thing is, both of those are irrelevant in the long term, because there will be a time under either scenario where a) or b) will not protect their six or their balance sheets.
That’s not legitimate. This is a documented api the firmware can use to get Windows to run a binary at boot.
I’m not that familiar with Minecraft. I mean the kind of mission where the objective is repeated numerous times across the map, eg. Climb x towers (Assassin’s Creed), blow up x enemy encampments (Just Cause), etc.

This style of side mission just pervades open world games nowadays. Spider Man is no different with its towers, street crimes, environmental cleanups etc. but the world is a joy to get around in so I enjoy it a lot more than other similar games.

To use another example of an open world game, take Breath of the Wild which has a huge world but with a lot less of these typical trappings of modern open world games, apart from the korok seed hunting.
I’m still very much in the earlier stages of learning, but I’ll say negotiation. Recognizing that virtually any situation involving an “exchange” between two interested parties can become a negotiation has been a great insight into control for me.

People often think of negotiation as business, however it can be much more personal than that and can be very useful for your interpersonal relationships as much as it can be for your professional relationships.

Understanding how you can leverage another person’s empathy (and your own) in your favour without exploiting the other person is tremendously valuable whether you’re trying to get your kid to eat their vegetables or trying to convince a terrorist organization to free their hostages.

I’ve learned a few simple techniques that have honestly improved my ability to not only negotiate but communicate and understand people better in general.

I bought Chris Voss’ book on negotiating and it’s been really pivotal for my understanding of, well, humanity to a certain extent. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make a stronger person out of themselves.

No affiliation with the book btw but I’m a huge fan of the author as a result of his book.
Not sure if it's a joke or not, but at the bottom of the story I have this:

"YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Read These 15 Books Before Starting Your Next Startup, Side Project"
Someone should give Japan the memo.
Wow that's amazing! Good job :)
Speaking of news, and the negative effect some people here share it brings them, I've been received "bit of news" by email everyday and it's great. A few important news everyday. I usually don't even read the articles, just quickly glance at the headlines.

http://bitofnews.com/
Had plain old cannabis been legalized 20 years ago, I doubt that these synthetic cannabinoids would have become notable articles of commerce. Maybe a handful of adventurous psychonauts would use contract research laboratories to make small quantities and post trip reports. But cannabis wasn't legalized, so hundreds of chemicals with sort-of-similar effects, selected more for "not technically banned yet" than "believed to be safe for human consumption," are being tested on human subjects without safeguards.
It works when done right. a) verification code that is big enough under the scratchpad b) verification process on the vendor site shows how many times this code had been checked before.
> Writing an FFI for some C++ so that C code may call it takes almost as much work as doing the same for Rust

where "as much work" means putting `extern "C"` in front of your functions and having a few `static_assert(is_pod_v<type_that_i_pass_in_argument_to_my_c_api>)` or only using opaque typedefs, ie it frankly amounts to nothing
This may be an urban legend, but I've heard there was once a bank robber who dipped his fingertips in acid. After a few months, his fingers healed, and the prints were exactly the same as before.
And in this particular benchmark, they didn't choose the same compiler backend too. Namely GCC -O2 vs LLVM -O3. This has a large impact, often larger than the frontend language, when measuring programs in native languages.
When I lived in the UK I did receive a couple of counterfeit items, one was a "Global" knife, and the rest were all compact-flash cards.

Handling the returns was mostly painless, but if I were to live in a country with a local Amazon-site I would only use it for books/similar these days.
This looks a great resource - thanks!

Quick query - both lessons 1 and 7 are titled “Introduction to Random Forests”, is that intentional?
Ask HN: Are any teams working on ML based code generation?
I've been hearing a lot about supervised learning being used to generate simple UI's and the like, but one thing that seems particularly interesting is using ML to generate logic. Is anyone working on this? Do you think it could be a lucrative opportunity?
Inside DoorDash: Machine Learning and Logistics
Point being the Bitcoin supply is increasing at a rate higher than fiat.

What is that called? It's not deflation.
> This sounds highly useful for changes you can do in a few hours. Or for toy projects where I can keep the whole application in my head.

Welcome to HN.
It absolutely the same. Try continuing to use food and shelter but without the money to pay for it: you'll be attacked by men with guns and thrown in a cage. Sometimes they'll even shoot you.
> What would you make different from that?

I haven't fully thought it through and I'm not even sure if it would be viable in practice, but it involves BitTorrent + Magnet URIs.
Also uk based, I stopped buying clothing as it just doesn't seem reliable. Ordered the same shirt with quantity 3 and got 3 (slightly) different shirts. pair of Levis jeans also feels very different than the same pair bought at House of Fraser. Don't know what is going on there.
Bugs would be found in a Rust codebase all the time as well. The difference is that a certain class of bugs is going to be absent from safe usage of Rust. (Unsafe Rust gives you just as much rope to hang yourself with as C).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099453
I was going to say the same thing! For me it is baking/making bread, but cooking generally is rewarding and a practical skill.
Programming: I've spent the longest on this but I can now use a computer to solve some of my problems.

Guitar: I like being able to make music come out of an acoustic instrument.
JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens
That is impressive, how long does it take to restore a typical photo?
So if it were to be used as a server OS, would it have the potential to be faster/more integrated than Linux? Or at least as well?
How so? If google wanted to save bandwidth, they would simply up the cache time of their page(s), baking some version into the browser only saves the very first load. Doesn't seem like a decent strategy to face potential backlash for baking in their search page when the same thing, sans the initial load, can be accomplished with other techniques
It would never ever work, and it would in fact be all "unelected bureaucrats"
Why Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native
> I bought Chris Voss’ book on negotiating and it’s been really pivotal for my understanding of, well, humanity to a certain extent. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make a stronger person out of themselves.

For people wondering, Chris Voss is the former lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI. Here's a podcast where he talks about negotiation [0] and the link to the book the above comment refers to [1]. His talk at Google about the same subject might be interesting too [2].

[0] https://fs.blog/2018/01/chris-voss/

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32444582-never-split-the...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZa7mQV1l0
Their website might not appear in search results, you can bet on other hand google will prfioritize these
This actually seems to be a common effect of zero tolerance systems. If the rules are too harsh, and there's a negative effect on the authority for handing out bans, then the rules end up not being enforced unless absolutely necessary.
un-AMPed url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/28/boredo...
> Same dev team does whole stack, from kernel, kits, drivers, servers to user space. In theory, it is all integrated and has direct path from server to kernel, resulting in more efficient system.

Except, while that's often what the blurb says, the implementation is typically paste in whatever somebody else wrote and call it a day.

For example years back Haiku announced it was going to have WiFi. Its own WiFi stack, far more integrated and reliable than things you were using on other systems. Very exciting.

And then as a "stop gap" it pasted in FreeBSD's PCI 802.11 driver subsystem, and the WPA Supplicant you've seen on all your Free Unix systems. And that's where they stopped. Last time I checked they had a version of WPA Supplicant vulnerable to KRACK but I'm sure they'd updated for the Beta.

How does their "integrated" solution handle your WiFi credentials? They use the powerful Haiku "KeyStore" password protection system. Here's how that works: You write the plaintext password into a file. Don't worry though, in KeyStore they wrote "TODO: Actually encrypt". Which I think you'll agree is almost as good as using encryption ?

> BeOS core API was designed for multi core systems from day one, so the design is more modern than older systems.

More modern is relative. "Older systems" in this context is stuff from the 1980s, because BeOS is roughly the same age as Linux, started in 1991.

However in Haiku you won't find anything like IO Completion ports, or futexes. You won't find any privilege separation because everything runs as "root". Everybody else moved on and Haiku is stuck being really quite good by 1990s standards.
Learning how to create OS packages.
Learning auto mechanics.
Mastering UNIX.
Those are 6 year old editorials, in other words, opinion articles. Microsoft has every right to run ad campaigns however they like. Apple attacked PC with it's "I'm a Mac, I'm hip and cool and PCs are bloated, etc." ads in the 00s. They were effective, I'm not convinced the Scroogled campaign was effective at all. Ad campaigns resemble political ads because political ads are ad campaigns. They're all different flavors of the same damn trade.
Cannabis is Adiyogi's favourite food.

And Adiyogi is one of the most influential thinker of his time who barely got any recognization for his work when thinkers like Aristotle appear pale in comparison to his work.

If Cannabis helps someone think clearly, why should it be banned and these alternatives popup in vaccum where the treatment of cannabis is either grey or black.
Yes, but I’d credit Stripe for increasing the overall dev-friendliness of processors by introducing competition. And there were several companies started in the years before their competition caught up. I built two applications in 2012 using Stripe. One wouldn’t have existed otherwise, and the other would have cost my client a lot more money.

I’d also credit Atlas with new revenue. I don’t think that program has a peer yet.
I started to get into calligraphy. I got quite good at copperplate/engrosser's script (I was never quite clear on the difference). My script was good enough that people thought it was printed. But I just don't know where to take it from there. I feel like I need a good book on the subject. Like The Art of Computer Programming, but for calligraphy. I've been unable to find such a book, though. Any suggestions on how progress?
Transcript of Facebook's Press Conference on the security breach [pdf]
JavaScript: Module thinking,principles,design patterns and best practices
Definitely this. The majority of people I've worked with over the years have used a keyboard as their main interface but simply do not know how to use it. Learning the keyboard does more than just making typing faster. It enables you to banish the rat and achieve far greater overall efficiency.
I recently (as of about 5 weeks ago) stopped working in gun sales. (Relevance in a moment.).

While I think this case is absolutely outrageous...

There’s a form called the 4473 that you fill out when you purchase a firearm in the US. (Among other forms depending on state ).

This form has a bank of questions such as “are you the actual purchaser of the firearm” to “are you an addict and illegal user of drugs”. And while you would think no one would answer “yes” to the wrong questions, people do.

I will also say, I wish literacy (is that the right word here, it’s very early in the morning where I am at ) was a requirement. A frequent question I would get for one question, which read “have you ever renounced your US citizenship” would be variations of “is this asking me if I’m a Mexican?” Or “re-no-unsed, is that like a place?”

Though perhaps I need to be less judge mental. I denied a lot of sales.
Nobody mentioned Bitwig Studio[1] until now. The GUI is written in JavaFX. It works absolutely smooth. (You would notice micro-lags in a DAW).

Just try the demo. It's amazing.

[1] https://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio.html
No, as much work means that you can't use 99% of C++ in C FFI. You have to fully instantiate template functions, template structs (you can pass `std::vector` to C FFI), etc. before you can expose them to C.

If you are writing C++ in such a way that this does not matter, then you are basically writing C already and `extern C` is all you have to do though, but then you might as well just have been using C this whole time.
what stops them from having the same "valid" serial number for 1000s devices.
Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?
Hi all,
I have some programming experience (mostly with Python) and would like to launch a product quickly to get user feedback, without spending weeks/months learning web frameworks like react, JS, node etc. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to spend the time to learn this, but before I do, I would like to see if I can get some user traction.

All I really need is a basic page that can host data and display a few bar charts and text (ideally in a UX pleasing way).

I thought of a simple Wordpress site, but thought I would ask here in case I am missing something better.

Does anyone have some good recommendation on what might be the best solution?

Thanks
Proof Without Words: Gregory’s Theorem
"Our 135 person team has built more than 40 products. 32 of them failed, but we didn’t give up."

That matches my experience, after my first product I thought I knew enough to avoid the mistakes and it would be easy the next time. It turns out it's hard to know what will succeed and what will fail.
Tendencia y Estilo  Peanut butter and jelly, un pelo de Mermelada con Cacahuete
Well, BeOS is the same age as Linux but Linux was an implementation of older concepts (Unix) while BeOS was designed from scratch.
Nose Jobs Have Declined 43% Since 2000
One of my favorite articles on the Internet.

I remember thinking this was a powerful confluence of genetic algorithms and reconfigurable computing, two pretty hot topics at the time, and was sure that real applications of this were on the horizon.

GA's seem to have been generally replaced by various facets of machine learning (although I'm hard pressed not to see GANs as Darwinian in nature) and the whole reconfigurable computing thing just seems to have dropped off the map. I sort of get the former but am curious if anyone on HN knows what happened to the latter.

Still love the article.