skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> easy to set targets and measure them while in the gym

The cost of the gym will pay for a GPS watch and heart-rate monitor pretty quickly.

But I understand that some places might be too high density or unsafe to run, or the weather is too hostile.

I'm fortunate enough to live 10km from work, so I switch up between running AND riding the distance.
This was by design. Reduce income and leave no choice but cut spending.
Visualizing and manipulating should probably be seen as seperate domains though, or at least working on seperate levels of abstraction: effective visualization implies hiding operations; you don’t want to view, or visually edit, your stribg manipulations. But re-ordering your functions called from main() might be more malleable

But even then, how often does such a reordering not constitute detail changes as well?

I think visualizations are much more useful for “reading” code, than for writing it. Which is why visual editors are so appealing: they’re showing off the reading aspect.

Im pretty sure something like the grandparent, or that visual-haskell project whose name I cant remember (where code and visualization are directly equivalent) is the way to go: there’s no paradigm shift to be had here.
Given that he isn't anonymous, claiming to have not profited is the wisest course of action whether true or not.
> you just need to get close to the massive stream of money that the Fed is constantly dumping

I hear this all the time, as if the Fed creates money out of thin air and gives it directly to crony capitalists.

But I never hear about the actual mechanism that's used.

Since this story rarely gets specific enough to really understand what's going on, I tend to think it's a fairy tale.

Can you describe how this massive money stream works?

Do rich people check their bank balance and there are mystery billions from nowhere?

And just how massive is massive? Are we talking billions of dollars a day or what?
Also look at the interest paid on the debt, which is also low relative to historical levels
Blurb Blast: Paul Allen, Nanotech Travel, Alt-Right Loves YouTube and More [pdf]
Combat zone tax exclusion.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/combat-zones
Learn to love wasting time on the internet and then you won’t need a life coach.

I agree that self-motivation has its limits but I think the solution is to just do less.

Is there any reason you need to be building all of your side projects, getting into shape, learning a foreign language, and whatever else you’re trying to do right now?

Maybe just work on one side project. Maybe focus on getting in shape and six months or a year from now, once you’ve built some good habits, start working on that foreign language.

I understand the temptation to do everything ASAP but I believe it’s an unhealthy way to live.
Complexity is a choice in most programming ecosystems. The most simple applications I have ever worked on are node applications.

In some ecosystems it is more consistently complex (Java?) but others just have many approaches with different complexity levels for you to choose from (node?).
You are perfectly free to produce a superior product or service that achieves a near total share of the market.

That is not what is illegal.

However, once you hit a certain market share (40% in the EU) you may no longer use that market share as a weapon against competitors in other areas.
There has been a clear trend for decades now showing that the defecit grows under Republican presidents and shrinks under Democratic ones.

Aside from cultural issues like abortion the Republican agenda seems so far removed from what their constitancy needs it's hard to fathom.

The next time Democrats are in control you'll be sure to see GOP complaints that the defecit is a problem and entitlements should be on the chopping block.
Does that metric work well on this timescale? I thought with how much debt we have spending will pretty much always lower the ratio in the short term.
"No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd." <- not really Linus but hey
Not sure why since I was talking about percentage change in deficit.

And I am more concerned whether the tax cuts delivered an effective ROI.
Is it just me or has the HN front page been more overtly political in the last few days? This is #1, some fear-mongering about China from Bloomberg is #2 (as if we forgot their technical fear-mongering about China the other day), and both of the stories are mainstream news (explicitly discouraged in the Guidelines) and have no particular "hacker" angle, except insofar as many hackers participate in the world economy just as many normies do. Earlier there was an NYT opinion piece from a sad conservative college professor (flagged), and before that a page from GOPUSA.com calling an internal Google presentation "the end of free speech as we know it" (flagkilled).

How is this stuff getting upvoted?
"security of American assets and personnel"

Post-war Iraq is not the same as a war zone, so protection of the civil service, bureaucrats, diplomatic corps, etc. I think can be done by some kind of other trained force.

In fact, it might be better in some ways - soldiers are trained to have a very aggressive posture, a very 'lean in' kind of assertion. The 'killer instinct'. And it involves a lot of training in heavy weapons, assaults, recons, urban warfare etc. etc.. We don't need that for these missions. Because in any serious engagement they should be calling in the actual Army.
> regular special forces. Anyone with slightly better than average intelligence and physique can make it.

From personal experience I can say this is incorrect. The 'regular' special forces are the Green Berets (Top 5% of the Army). Elite special forces (CAG/Delta) 5% of the 5%
Several satellites, including the first X-ray telescope, Uhuru, was launched from a former oil platform off the coast of Kenya:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broglio_Space_Center
> Now I see why you’re so bitter.

I'm not the one that is expressing bitterness about this reality.

> Still others shouldn’t have to face the same fate as you.

Sure, in a perfect world there would be no resource constraints. Of course, property crime (and even property itself) probably would be a lot less of an issue in that case.

Scarce resources require tradeoffs. Some property crimes not being pursued is not any where close to the biggest issue to address with that.

> Did you take your own advice and file a civil suit?

No, in both cases the damages were insured with a deductible which made it not worth pursuing that even if it might otherwise have been worthwhile (and in neither case did the insurance company seem interested in litigation, either.)

> they don’t get paid to solve crimes;

I never said that. I said that solving crimes is often a negligible portion of the resource cost of pursuing them, so that the fact that a crime is easy to solve doesn't automatically make it worth pursuing.

> And just like a politician you gloss over everyone else’s point and maintain it’s not for the criminal court

I didn't say that, either.

> but why then, do criminal courts have power to order restitution?

Because, where criminal prosecution already serves the public interest, so does integrating restitution, since the courts are a public resource and economy of justice increases the capacity for any given cost of that resource. That doesn't mean it serves the public interest to prosecute every apparent crime, even when there is a near zero cost to solve the crime.

> rather than having tax payers pay for both a criminal and civil case.

Sure. That clearly is true where otherwise there would be both types of cases. But when the criminal case wouldn't otherwise be worth expending resources on, there is no savings to the public by pursuing criminal process for private restitution.
No, it has nothing to do with "amateurs". Whether the source is open and what the license dictates are two wholly different things. The danger is exactly in conflating the two.

Take for example the NPOSL-3.0:

A variant of the Open Software License 3.0, this license requires that the organization using it is a non-profit and that no revenue is generated from sale of the software, support or services.

https://tldrlegal.com/license/non-profit-open-software-licen...

The source is open, but you can't use it outside of non-profit orgs. It's "Open Source™", it's approved by OSI, and it can still get you in legal trouble.
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when ppl think of household debt, they think big screen TVs and other discretionary items, but it's actually mostly mortgages and student loans https://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/US-Hous...
The process I underwent for The License Zero Reciprocal Public License last year, and the process described to me by participants affiliated with OSI during those discussions, did not match the process described on the page you linked at the time, especially its "What Will Happen" section. At least one participating member of the board seemed to be learning, as well.

Best I can tell, the process page was prepared by a former board member pushing to reform the process and make it transparent. It was and remains aspirational. But those aspirations aren't shared by remaining participants with sway.

The most straightforward summary of the process I received was that discussion proceeds on the mailing list until it reaches consensus, and then it's entirely within the board's discretion what it does or does not do. It was also written repeatedly that the board may not approve professionally drafted, novel, OSD-conformant licenses, for unspecified policy reasons.
Wouldn't they just take whatever they need from the citizens and then make the numbers say whatever they want? Any objections from the citizens would be put down or censored appropriately. Seems like a no brainer for China.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-andro...
Joker: Clojure-like language on GoLang that's really fast
sklearn-porter can be used to compile some scikit-learn models to C. For instance Support Vector Machines, both linear and RBF,polynomial kernels.

https://github.com/nok/sklearn-porter/blob/master/readme.md#...
I'm assuming you're not being sarcastic. Is there a monopoly on SAAS for Mongo?

I don't think this takes away from MongoDB picking the wrong license and business model.
Ask HN: Does a centralized supply coin like IOTA have any benefits at all?
Maybe I cannot picture the usecase, but my understanding is that IOTA is used to track data that a company themselves submit.

There is the obvious issue of GIGO, and makes IOTA feel like its literally a write only database.

Am I missing something? Can anyone find any purpose this could be used?
Uber and Lyft are being blamed for most of the traffic in San Francisco
This is a report on the competitiveness of the US economy. Seems pretty very relevant to a group of entrepreneurs.
You are missing the distinction between AOSP's license and google play services' license. You can do as you wish with AOSP. If you want google play services (which all OEMs do), a whole new set of things kick in.
I've never seen an employee monitoring system that's built to the benefit of the employee. But nothing a company does it to the benefit of the employee. HR isn't there to help employees, HR is primarily a risk mitigation and compliance department. Who would assume employee monitoring systems are any different?

"They try to never speak up, never stick out, do nothing that might get noticed by management. This leads to a vicious cycle, whereby management grows more suspicious and feels justified in ratcheting up the surveillance."

This is the most troubling thing about surveillance, it changes peoples behavior. The people who implement these systems don't understand the psychology of surveillance, so they use the change in behavior as a indicator of increased risk. Its a vicious cycle.
They don't need to sell at once, and if rates continue to rise there will be increasing appetite for yields
Show HN: Python and Minecraft
I had a friend involved in the community a few years back. Some of the stuff they did was pretty funny (like sponsoring a NASCAR car). However, the inner circle was basically a group of people in a chat room running pump and dump schemes with the currency.
How does sending data to a journalist imply malicious intent? That doesn't make any sense at all.
>Too many devs take pride from coming up with complicated, overengineered abstractions

This is what I feel about the current JavaScript ecosystem. I feel like web development became popular so programmers from other disciplines (C, Java, etc.) jumped in and found it to be too simple so they've hijacked the ship and created a new JS ecosystem that is as complex as their old environments.
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When you compare Signal with Telegram on this axis you actually end up with Telegram being "safer". Because while Telegram needs phone number for initial registration you can just throw the SIM away after that (how to get anonnymous SIM capable of receiving SMS is left as an excercise for the reader, but I believe that getting reasonably anonymous burner SIM for this single use is possible and even easy anywhere in the world, with the extreme approach being "borrowing" it from some random IoT device) as the authorization of new devices occurs in-band.
Isn't the Bloomberg thing literally about hacking? Or are you talking about a different China Bloomberg article than I am
Sincerely asking: Are you serious? Do you have sources, good or otherwise (even rumors or talk of this topic)?

What exactly is it that you think is happening, if I may ask? Does a Chinese citizen, perhaps vacationing in the US, walk into BoA or WF and ask a wealth management advisor how to move money to their newly opened account there?
True!

A good look into this further is Mike Duncan's The Storm before the Storm that leads into the Sulla era: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic...

Duncan's The History of Rome podcast is very good overall and very much worth a listen.
It moved up from #2 last year. A less sensational headline would be something like "A bunch of countries with approximately equal competitiveness scores had their scores change by approximately 1%".
This guy has a gear template generator and lots of tips in addition to documentation of his own projects: http://woodgears.ca/.
> enough opportunities for niches to exist

Exactly.

How many times have you heard the argument that cryptocurrencies will never completely replace national currencies, so they should be worthless?

Or that because it's harder to buy a coffee with Bitcoin than Euros, that Bitcoin is a fraud.

It's not either-or. It isn't all or nothing.

Cryptocurrencies can co-exist with national currencies and do just fine.
Yeah your right, sorry Dang. As you mention in the other comment, pftburger's response was the right way to go about it.
HN: no politics allowed, except when they are.
Yea I've noticed that too, especially the number of bogus Bloomberg articles. They get upvoted because people don't know the guidelines and just vote on stuff they find interesting, so perhaps it's a moderator who should be trimming the feed a little more closely?
Well, I'm happily married and my wife is a Silicon Valley native, so ultimately I "succeeded" at the dating game.

It was pretty miserable while I was in it, though. Silicon Valley is not really a place where the culture encourages "branching out a little", nor does it attract people who are interested in that. This is self-reinforcing: people who were born here and aren't interested in tech tend to move up to SF/Berkeley/Oakland while they're single, which have greater cultural diversity.

I was in some sense lucky: I met my wife when she had recently moved back from Peru and was re-establishing her career here. Another year or so and she probably would've moved to Berkeley.
It's approaching 100%. As for the deficit, it's at 4% and rising to 4.7% in 2019.

During full employment. During what can reasonably be called boomed times. Historic deficits.

This isn't normal.
I don't, sorry. While the app was unhealthy, it was spinning up dozens of instances. While it was healthy (on standard), I recall it ran on less than a handful of instances.

It currently runs on two fat flexible instances (GCE VM), but could easily run on one. We only run on two for some redundancy.

I've measured throughput of ~thousands of requests per second on a F4_1G on apps I've worked on previously. They were CPU-constrained, but not doing very much (JSON serialization).

The new runtime might be even better, since GOMAXPROCS is no longer 1.

correction to my post above: 1 GB is the max memory for standard:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/#instance_c...
Twilio goes all in on Flex, customizable UI
Compaq, Chess, and the Art of Anticipation [2016]
Unbelievably, Venom is a hit
A rose by any other name...
Well, big argument about this was as it's technically "about" hacking, it just seems that they made most of it up. It is definitely China fear-mongering, though, so I'd say you're both right.
How is this stuff getting upvoted?

I dunno... prob because it's popular and people want to read it.
There is no such thing as "the top of the evolutionary ladder." There is well fit to an environment and not well fit. To say "top of the ladder" implies that evolution encodes the concept of "progress". It does not. This notion of "top of the ladder" has been used to promote all sorts of pseudo-scientific racism and used to justify all sorts of bad conduct up to and including genocide.

I'm not accusing you of any of this, just pointing out that a seemingly innocuous, almost cliched term like "evolutionary ladder" can carry a lot of unwelcome baggage.
As our deficit nears 1 trillion..
Isn't it too early to say what the cost of the tax cuts were? If the Republicans are right, they'll spur enough economic growth to be a net gain across the board in both new economic activity (wealth). I don't know if there's a proper name for it, but I'd much prefer a dollar spent in the private sector so the government doesn't have to spend two just to accomplish the same thing.
I think they mean the one that is #2 right now about China's hidden debt.
If the system doesn't have central server then it would become more difficult. You cannot subpoena a Tox network.

The threat that was brought up was an actor with state-level resources, coercive capability and lack of scruples - the specific example being the threat of murdering someone's family, not subpoenas.
I'm not sure if this is a puff piece or an ad disguised as an article, but it is quite fluffy.

A more apt title would have been 'Chuchu TV is pretty great, but could it be greater?'
The Fed manipulates interest rates in an attempt to stabilize the economy. The strategy goes something like this: slowly raise interest rates while the economy is humming along, and when a downturn comes along they quickly lower them in an attempt to boost the economy [0].

One of the dangers inherent in this strategy comes in the timing of the rate manipulations. Be too aggressive with raising rates and you may lose large amounts of economic momentum. Be too slow to raise rates and you may have nothing to lower in the event of a recession.

So if China sold off a ton of US debt and it negatively affected the world economy, the Fed would likely cut interest rates in an attempt to counter the downturn.

[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...
Cool, I haven't seen that one. I'll look at some reviews. It's easy to allow biases to creep into one's thinking when the only books on socialist history one's read were written by people like Bo and Solzhenitsyn. Those were "histories written from within," too, but they neglected the bright spots like pioneering work in certain scientific and technological disciplines.

My understanding (and, yes, my bias) is that those few bright spots in Soviet life weren't worth it. We might disagree if, for instance, Hosking extols the fact that the Soviets were first to feed, clothe and house their entire population, because I don't agree that housing a large fraction of them in prison camps while exiling another is a valid solution to that particular problem.

As an additional example, my thinking is someone, presumably the US, would have been first to launch an artificial satellite in the absence of Sputnik. Someone, again presumably the US, would have educated and encouraged the first female astronaut. It's true that we missed out on those 'firsts'... but how many opportunities did the Soviets miss because the prerequisite researchers and teachers died in a gulag somewhere for purely-ideological reasons?

Am I overlooking any other instances of triumph mentioned by Hosking?
Ex Schutzstaffel?
It does makes sense from their standpoint though. In their mind, everything they want to spend money on is necessary, while everything the other party wants to spend money on is wasteful.
But their GDP hasn't been growing much either. They've been fighting deflation (or non-wage inflation) for a long long time.

I'm not sure a deflation is good for us.
Sounds promising from bandwidth perspective, but I think the use will be restricted as this frequency has very low penetration through walls and obstacles. It would require a huge number of APs to cover an entire office, just as no home user would understand the low coverage.
Correct: blurb blast link Paul Allen Tributes, Nanotech and more [pdf]
I'd say "perpendicular" but that's somehow even more niche, despite being a word everyone learns in high-school geometry.

I guess there just comes a point where you've solved so many optimization problems that it's hard to not think of a bunch of solutions with different attributes as being embedded in an N-dimensional space?
Don't know why they don't try increasing minimum wage there, since everyone seems to think that leads to inflation.
Cost of houses and education are both way up, so it would make sense. Does this stat get calibrated against inflation or wages?
I’ve been noticing this for some time as well. Either HN is becoming more political or someone is manipulating the voting. I honestly think HN is at its best when it’s apolitical.
Former contractor here: We were armed 24x7 and had VERY restrictive, defensive only ROE. I slept with a loaded VZ58 next to my bed for years. We drove around armed and wearing body armor whenever we left a compound or base.

Our supervisors, the organization which employed our company, and their senior management were exceedingly clear that we were only authorized to aim or discharge a weapon in self defense.

People reading articles like this may get the idea that the vast army of "contractors" which were shuffling around Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2003-2011 time frame were somehow in offensive roles. Even Blackwater had a fairly restrictive ROE. The actual number of contractors who were in any way proactively engaged in combat operations, usually embedded with an organization with the ANA or ANP, I would estimate at about 1% of the contractor population total.

The remaining 99% were confined to a strictly defensive ROE. Nobody wanted to piss away their $170k a year, nearly tax free job because they'd mistaken something that wasn't a threat, for an actual threat.

VBIED, BBIED and other threats to vehicles while driving around are not going to be solved by shooting at people anyways.

In the entire multi year time period that I spent in operational areas, not a single person from the company that I worked for ever discharged a weapon, for any reason, outside of the shooting range.