skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Other countries may also be looking nervously at America. And about time. An American recession would scarcely be welcome—even if for the moment Asian and European economies seem to be doing nicely on their own account. However, the true cause for concern is that just as America's housing boom was part of a synchronised global binge on cheap money, its bust may be part of a global story too."

"The trouble with the housing market", Economist, March 2007
> I know that what I basically described is basically just a feudal system

Or, when nested within a society with a different formal government, a mafia.
And why didn't QE lead to rampant inflation? In the crash, about $4 trillion evaporated. The danger was a deflationary spiral, not an inflationary one. So the Fed injected $4 trillion back into the economy via QE. The result was that we had a bad recession, but not a deflationary collapse. We had the Great Recession, but not Great Depression II. That was actually extremely well done by the Fed.

Of course, the danger always was whether they could unwind in without making a mess. They seem to be doing well so far.
Binge reading was serious problem with the Stieg Larsson Millenium novels, starting with 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. I didn't sleep much until I finished them.
This doesn't make sense with the concept of rollbacks.

If I rollout server version 2 and client version 2 which each use a new required field, and then realize that there is some terrible error in server version 2, I can't roll it back to version 1, since it will reject all client calls from v2 clients.

The only way to make it work is to add a translation layer, as you suggest, on the server, wait a while, push the new 'required' client, wait a while longer, and then push the server without the translation layer. That's the "strict ordering with appropriate soak time" GP mentions.
I’d say that’s not quite what’s going on here. You can’t tell when someone else is wearing an $800 or $55 pair of shoes, but in my experience the $55 shoes tend to bite my heels and fall apart within the year. If you don’t care about the brand and have a middle-class income, I might spend $55 on shoes for a growing kid but $200 on shoes for myself that I know will last for years.

Not saying you can’t get good shoes for $55, just sharing my experience. Someone will come in with the Terry Pratchett quote about boots here any moment, or you can look up the quote for yourself.
Cheesy aviation idiom: "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing, any landing you can use the plane again is a great landing."
wow, interesting investigation.
reminds me of this scene from the movie Innerspace
https://youtu.be/hnj0lYvWYHo?t=133
I can't reply directly to Multicomp, but: https://i.imgur.com/KksKcLk.png demonstrates your point on my machine. That's pretty funny, actually.
So, kudos to the maintainer to solve the issue, as it is a valid bug to be fixed... but it's not likely (or a case of suboptimal design) that such a defect would ever be encountered for real.
Yeah, I don't think racial diversity counts for the trust issue. Obviously there are some people that won't trust someone based on their race, but it seems like most groups are willing to accept anyone as long as they follow cultural norms; skin color just seems to be a quick proxy for "they look different, so they're probably culturally different". Just watch the aftermath of a local football team winning a big game. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, black or white, everyone in the city celebrates together.
>and my mind purposefully avoids important tasks until almost no time is left, and then it is so much more easy for my brain to concentrate on the task and I achieve a level of focus that honestly produces much better work than when I've deliberately tried to work on a task in a timely manner

This was high school for me. I would have weeks to finish a significant paper. I would inadvertently wait until the night before, stay up all night working on it, and generally I would get a good grade, often an A. It was like the time and effort I would have spent on it was concentrated into a single 12-hour rush where the deadline pressure squeezed my best efforts out of me.

At no point did I think "I should work on this paper, but, nah". In my head I was always getting around to it, but never did. Same was true for homework. I would be trying to finish first period's assignment on the school bus, next period's assignment in homeroom, another assignment in study hall, another assignment at lunch, etc. A lot of copying people's work.

Also I have crippling ADHD and can barely hold a job.
About time ;)
Sure thing. I was blown away with the intelligence, experience, and humility of the people on the engineering team when interviewing. I went into the process thinking "this could be cool, I like the mission" and left the process with "These people are really sharp and down to earth, I hope this happens." Since we're a small team here (<10) I get to learn something from them every day.

I don't want to make it sound like I'm bashing my old team, because they very good at the layer they work on. The depth of knowledge across the stack is probably deeper at FBN. For example:

I was having an issue with Hibernate not doing what I wanted it to do. A knowledgable former team member showed me the bug ticket that had been open for some years and how to work around it.

At FBN, my first project involved multiple systems + the front end, a I was annoyed by a networking issue. I raised it, was showed a workaround by using socat, and the root cause was fixed a couple days later. I had no idea socat even existed.
Extraordinary renditions come to mind. While murder wasn’t the primary aim, it happened.
That involved numerous democracies.
The startup was vertex.ai; I worked there for a little over two years.

It was very educational (in a good way), despite the uncertainty around paychecks (just from the higher odds of going under at some point down the road). For people who’re in a financial position to handle some paycheck risk, I’d definitely recommend trying a startup.
Recently one guy reverse engineered Apple Notes. It is a CRDT. I personally made a CRDT sync for Yandex. There is also list on Github... https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT/issues/40
> Idle states are not free to enter or exit. Entry and exit both require some time, and moreover power consumption briefly rises slightly above normal for the current state on entry to idle and above normal for the destination state on exit from idle. Although increasingly deep idle states consume decreasing amounts of power, they have increasingly large costs to enter and exit.

What causes this? I would have thought that "stop computing for a bit" would be a simple thing to do, but I clearly don't know much about processor design.
There is good reason to be cynical considering that the real motivation is to sell ads and not to provide a good search experience.
There's been a flashing indicator light in the subprime auto loan sector for a while now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/never-min...
A quote from the comment section:

I'm surprised nobody proposed : "This person is promoting a social norm more stringent than my current behavior, I'll whack him.".

The part about promoting social norms is accurate. Interestingly enough it translates to other areas of life making people fear things like "the promotion of homosexuality".

I guess societies that in the past were forcefully transformed tend to be conservative.
I've actually tried porting some existing R applications that are currently run with RApache to Graal to try and get simpler deployment and better/more consistent operational support. Unfortunately at the time the gsub() function was broken, and that broke some of our core logic.

Hm... looks like the issue may have been fixed. I'll have to try again.
So move/merge the locations since that is clearly the intention if the user has a redirection setup. A simple message confirming that "there are 2 Documents folders and would you like to move them to a single location" would be sufficient.

This is just a project management failure that somehow got through, but the fact that it did seems to show major QA issues.
Show HN: Office keeps freezing carrots so I built an app to warm CPU and thaw em
I like the subtle bittersweet flavor of a fresh red delicious apple. If you eat it before it gets mealy it's a very good fruit in my opinion :(
Everyone used the money handed out to buy property, and now your real estate prices have gone up an enormous amount, to the point where it's been pointed out as one of the biggest property bubbles, and young people will have an incredibly hard time affording a home.
proto-molecule ? :)
I feel like this guy was up late and on edge and just wanted to rant about something, some pretty obvious things were missed in his analysis of Amazons practices. For instance he appears to have totally missed the fact that the $9 bottle actually was two 32oz bottles, so it was 64oz for $9. His distrust just cost him a ton of money.

Considering the author also admits to accidentally subscribing to things in the last. I would say they have a reading and paying attention to detail problem. :x
100% agreed. As a coder, the comfortable thing for me is always writing code. But every unshipped line of code is a bet on what I believe users want. It's only when I have people try it that I find out it's useful.

And really, one can learn so much about what people want without having them use anything. User context interviews are hugely helpful. But my favorite thing is real-world tests even before there's a product. If most of your sales will come via people clicking on an ad and looking at a landing page, test that first! If people won't sign up, there's no point in building anything after that.

A good example comes from my cofounder at a startup we did in 2010. At the time, we had theories about an app that people would mostly discover through their Facebook feed. We used Greasemonkey to do user tests and found out that although some liked our idea, most people hated it. So we threw that out and did something else. But two other startups went on to build the same idea and fail with it. We estimate we saved $2m in learning what they learned. Ignite talk here: https://vimeo.com/24749599
Heat and Humidity Are a Killer Combination
Two in a row is a coincidence, three in a row might be a rule
> Since this happened at run time, any reader macro you registered affected all files that were read later

Common Lisp has readtables, which you can create and change. So you can read certain files with a different readtable, leaving the default intact.

> It is super confusing to manually call a method

This is just the usual super method call in most object-oriented programming languages. If you have method and you want to call the method from the superclass, you have to explicitly call it.

> loop macro

The LOOP macro is not CL specific. CL has inherited it from Lisp Machine Lisp, which got it from Maclisp. At MIT it was even a single source file for several different Lisp dialects. The origin of this macro is actually Xerox' Interlisp - where it was called FOR.

It's not that bad once one masters the basics and the documentation is in the ANSI CL standard.

The upgrade from LOOP is the ITERATE macro, which even more powerful, but with more parentheses:

https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/
Does that mean you would turn down a lucrative acquisition offer from a big corporation?

That seems to be the paradox of founding a startup for the reason you stated.
What happens when an entire town is poor, or washed over by a hurricane? They pick each other up by each other's bootstraps?

What's your theory for the Great Depression, that persisted until WWII's nation-wide economic coordination?

The only way I can see to match your theory to experience is to observe that yeah, poverty evaporates when the poverty stricken people nearly all die off.
This is incorrect. Actually, the method used looks a lot like traditional cloning, with some gene editing thrown in:

The researchers took an egg from one mouse and a special type of cell - a haploid embryonic stem cell - from another.
Both contained only half the required genetic instructions or DNA, but just bringing them together wasn't enough.
The researchers had to use a technology called gene editing to delete three sets of genetic instructions to make them compatible.
I've recently grown to like violin plots for latency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot). I've also added 99%ile tick marks, which with the already present median mark, gives a relatively full picture of latency that is easily digestible.
> We are pattern recognition machines.

That's just one function. That's not the entirety of what the brain (and body) does.

> If you consider pattern matching unintelligent,

What do you think pattern matching IS?
Round ball round hole does not require intelligence. It requires physics. The convoluted rube goldberg meat machine what we use to do it, doesn't change what it is. Making the choice of will and approximations, are more signs of intelligence, imo.
Hey `cpsempek, Periscope Data CEO here.

In a perfect world, how would the charting in Periscope work? How would you want to go from getting 80% very fast, to going to 100%, in the same software?
Because many municipalities issue various traffic and parking citations in bulk for revenue purposes.
A number of your indicators are signs of a booming economy.

Rents go up when people can afford higher rents. Consumers take out loans and save less when unemployment is low and they feel safe in their job prospects. Inflation was below healthy rates for a number of years, and is now where the Fed likes it. Wages aren't booming, but they're up, and up more than inflation.

Chapter 11s were at the same level in 2011 -- were you predicting a recession then too?

There are also reasons to be optimistic, for example, US corporate earnings are way up -- 2018 is up 20% over 2016 alone -- that's huge.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/corporate-profits

I think that the article is right: while the US seems very healthy, there are lots of international issues that could form the next recession (China specifically).
It's a Simpsons reference, using the term ironically.

https://youtu.be/7xbW0TtZMPQ
This was already done once, if I'm not mistaken, in Japan in 2004:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2004/04/mouse-two-mothers
While I agree with you about NASA funding pork projects these days, there is another side. I don't think people realize how important pork might be (I'm speculating this isn't a firm belief for me). Without pork projects, we could have even more wealth disparity in the US. What would happen to Alabama if the NASA funded aerospace programs went away? What would happen to the low cost of living areas dominated by retired persons is social security payments went away?

I believe this is why the EU has had problems - they're all on the same currency but countries are not permitted to print their own money and they don't have international money redistribution programs. In such an environment any country with a trade deficit will eventually suffer - see Greece.

I'm not advocating such pork distributions but I think they may actually serve a purpose other than getting votes. OTOH some places get pork that really don't need it even for the reasons I outlined above.
You're talking about such a small subset of high profile sites, that are living in the SV bubble world. There are thousands, and thousands of other services out there that people pay for, that Hacker News has never heard of, and have no intention of burning VC money or playing the acquihiring friends game.
Progressive pricing of goods/commodities tied to CO2 emissions as a result of their production/consumption would be good. Transportation, energy, industry, and agriculture account for the majority of US greenhouse gas emission.

Charging heavy consumers at a progressively higher rate will ensure the heaviest emitters pay their share without disproportionally affecting low income or light emitters.
There's two, and the average startup could learn a lot from how Pinboard is run.
I want to tack on this comment by adding that everyone seems to ignore the fact that QE is essentially just printing money.

Historically this is usually coupled with run-away inflation, however since it was isolated to the wealthy sectors of the economy (rather than the typical economy as a whole) there is only inflation among goods in that sector (housing etc). The big red flag is that stocks and VC are in that pool as well.

So while there was 20 trillion dollars of growth over the last 10 years, there was also 21 trillion dollars of debt generated.

The way I see it, QE successfully generated economic growth, however none of that economic growth was "real" growth. There were new innovations, particularly in the tech space, but a huge swath of them have no method to generate real sustainable profit.

All this means we should see a MASSIVE correction in markets. Due to financial rules, banks likely won't exit the market like 2008, but the massive number of companies that took out cheap debt will be at risk.

Basically we have a potential repeat of 2008, but swap out sub-prime homeowners with corporations.
Then again this is the world of fashion where reality doesn't matter, it's all about perception, brand and connections. His restaurant prank is even better. It would be impossible to keep up these feats for a length of time , but nevertheless it is impressive how he pulls them off.
> That’s just it SCOTUS is 9 Justices ruling on issues of law...Law...not fact

The Constitution disagrees.

> yet they regularly find themselves split.

The Supreme Court both passively and actively selects for cases that are on the edge. If it's not unusually uncertain, it's less likely to get even get to trial, less likely after that to be appealed from the trial court, less likely to have a petition for cert. filed after it's heard in the appeals court, and, in any case, near certain to have that petition denied even if it is filed.

The Supreme Court selects for the most uncertain tiny fraction of a percent of all legal cases in the US.

And, still, by a wide margin, the most common vote on cases decided on the merits is 9-0. Sure, 5-4 is the next most common and the 5-4 decisions get way more media coverage just by being 5-4 decisions, but 9-0 is still the most common.
Too bad nobody thought about that with the F-22.
Oh yes. Excuse my harsh language, but fuck SaaS, and fuck Windows if it tries to be a SaaS. And I say that as someone growing up on Windows, still using it for work sometimes, and planning to buy a Surface device in the near future (I guess maybe I should reconsider).

Actually, I should probably use the term SaaSS, because that describes the kind of software I hate with passion more precisely. I recently stumbled upon this[0] essay by RMS, and like usual, it turns out he had this thing figured out years before I've even noticed we had a problem. If Windows wants to become a service substitute for an OS, I'll save myself future trouble and migrate away completely.

--

[0] - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
I thank everyone from bottom of my heart who downvoted the comment but know this you will NOT get a gift from Santa this christmas. ;)
oh i was thinking of a different experiment
Dear everyone at Apple, Facebook, Google, etc. Please stop and remove the ability to use texting as 2FA. The mobile telecom industry is not hardened.
What? The scheduled delay isn't 25 days.
How is /proc able to list process IDs?
At the bottom of their homepage there's a link to an online APL interpreter: https://tryapl.org/
0x cryptocurrency added to Coinbase
Good work. Which CRDT alg was adopted in your product?
I think you may be reading a different article. I just read it and don't see anything about them engineering the female mice to produce sperm and a penis as you note. Rather it says, "It was easier with double mums. The researchers took an egg from one mouse and a special type of cell - a haploid embryonic stem cell - from another. Both contained only half the required genetic instructions or DNA, but just bringing them together wasn't enough. The researchers had to use a technology called gene editing to delete three sets of genetic instructions to make them compatible." Also it "did work" with the male mice it notes, however they died a few days later, vs the females who had healthy babies that went on to have their own babies.
No, I am not presuming every sentence has a straightforward translation, just suggesting that a meaningful measure for the "last mile" of machine translation would be reaching human parity at that specifically.

Being able to provide additional context would be great, but I don't see why it would have to be done in a "human" way to satisfy the constraints.
My whole point was spending 9B on a rocketship is nothing compare to what we waste (not all military spending is waste, but there is plenty of waste in the defense budget) that we can afford to buy this rocket from Boeing. We probably spending more on healthcare for retired politicians than space exploration
Machine Translation. From the Cold War to Deep Learning
They warned about the 2015 crash in China in time. They're not omniscient, obviously. But there's rumblings and talk about misalignments way before a crash, and The Economist is well placed to pick it up and report on it.
Conceptually they are not scheduling a function to be run after a month, but scheduling it to run twice per second as long as the process is running. When the process is still running a month later, it is very unexpected that the scheduling would suddenly stop.
How so? Illuminism/Enlightenment contradictory to tyrrany, not feudalism.

A monarchy can be enlightened, and healthy nations can be ruled by a monarch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
And honestly, what's the damage of the exploit in these cases? Someone who doesn't belong gets to be vaguely "part of things" for an event; that price, compared to the price of locking someone who does belong out, seems low.
I supplied numbers for homelessness in general, and homelessness in SF.

Homelessness, in general and in SF, is overwhelming caused by economic issues.
Besides VCS unfriendly, the storage space for all the additional space characters provides little utility. For the most part, computers are reading CSV, not humans (though we might scan them).
It seems like no one is hold Boeing accountable for completing the project with the given budget. And to add insult to injury, Boeing is being improperly awarded tens of millions of dollars for performance fees the company has not earned [1]. If a project is failing, just cut your loses and scrap it. This political pork spending doesn't help anyone excited about space exploration.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/theres-a-new-report-...
I absolutely agree. Essentially, corporations with huge revenue streams get major tax advantages that are not available to local companies in exchange for "creating jobs".

It turns out that each of those jobs is so costly to taxpayers that the only real benefit is for the politicians that announce the "partnerships" (and the receiving company, obviously).

Here's a couple of interesting articles on the matter:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ba...

- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/jul/0...
Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds
I think this video sums it up very well, example: Bradley Fighting Vehicle evolution

https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA