skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write to defend myself when I dare (gosh!) to write proprietary software.
The subway in NYC is what makes it one of the most dynamic, attractive, and innovative cities in the US. The density also creates a critical mass of people in certain industries that drive spontaneous creation of new industry, companies, technology.

The real misallocation of resources are sleepy suburbs where people hide in their bedroom watching tv, while the city road and water infrastructure costs orders of magnitude more than the tax revenue or productive capacity of the land is capable of supporting.
They used to make beautiful computers.
I questioned (misleading word, I did genuinely question as in I was unsure, not question as in demonstrate skepticism) the IRC client's maturity with a ton of caveats about myself and my admitted paranoia in this specific area.

And yes, they're two completely different pieces of technology with two completely different sets of eyeballs on them. 3 years for k8s is not the same as 3 years for an IRC client.

> Yes, more development resources have been committed to Kubernetes, but that does not make it solid.

It's a strong indicator of stability, and pretending like it's not kind of tips your hand here, I think.

Do you honestly think the two are even remotely comparable?
籝籱籮 籺籾籲籬籴 籫类籸粀籷 籯籸粁 米籾籶籹籼 籸籿籮类 簹粁籁簹簹簹 籭籸籰籼簷 http://rot8000.com/Index?%E7%B1%9D%E7%B1%B1%E7%B1%AE%20%E7%B...
My coworkers thought I was making a sarcastic comment (apparently I have a reputation) when I suddenly said out loud "That is adorable!". I then had to explain what I was talking about.
Depending on how strict you are, you can trace string theory all the way back to the 1940s, or at the very least to the late 60s [1]. Supersymmetry is from the early 70s [2]. They are exactly the mainstream kind of thing which Hossenfelder is referring to when she writes about "physics beyond the standard model which the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was supposed to find". For every lone wanderer exploring a long shot like octonion math, there are thousands writing yet another paper on some variation of the old theme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_string_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry#History
I question why you push an immature technology so hard in a public forum, that is all.
The only thing keeping me in Dropbox is the fact that I use several very important apps (one of which is an encrypted password vault) across very different OS-es -- think iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.

They offer transparent syncing so all your app instances work with the same data and sadly trying to get the developers of the apps to include self-hosted solutions (with added configuration step: the IP/port) is not happening and isn't likely to happen.

And both Apple and Google aren't open to the idea of allowing cross-ecosystem app synchronization (think game you play for an hour on your iPad but then want to play it on your specialized gaming Android device when you are out and about later; in the case of games this problem is solved by using Google or Facebook as login providers on all your devices). And until that's true then Dropbox and other popular cloud storage providers (mainly Google Drive and OneDrive) will always have a place.
That is an incorrect comparison. They punish those who use cash illegally, just like how they seek to punish those who use cryptocurrency illegally.
The article indicates they had never missed a payment.
A lot of doom and gloom here. I feel ya but I want to point out we have the necessary solutions to save ourselves if we just notice and apply them. For example, olivine just might "cure" atmospheric CO2. [1]

The primary things to look to are: Bucky Fuller's "Design Science Revolution"; applied ecology (aka Permaculture); and Neurolinguistic Programming to help us get over our BS.

[1] https://climitigation.org/category/olivine/
Exactly. The author was ignorant to the facts and just used his own personal taste.

I was stating I don't like Heinlein but his is absolutely a top 3 author.
Just like 98% of all front doors are easily opened with brute force. Just because you can circumvent something, or doesn’t make it unusefull.
0: Have a collection of unwanted but not illegal material.
A checkpoint is in no way training wheels. It's for additional security.
California fire near nuclear accident site
I assume I'm not the only one who read the abstract and still has no clue what this is about?
And I question why you care more about going home at the end of the day than delivering the best product to your clients.

If you think I'm affiliated in any way with Kubernetes, you can look into that. I've tied my account on HN to my identity, I'm entirely Googleable.

Also, we're arguing about whether or not it's immature, what you just wrote is textbook begging the question. :/
Gold isn't a currency, and price fluctuations are TERRIBLE for currency.
you're right, I did misread.

>> the result is that the bread keeps getting better.

I think its because of generalized answers like this that the author is thinking its hubris. Perhaps they need to do a blind test and see if they can notice, but I dont think the author is wrong to think that some of these "innovations" are just hype or an old style re-packaged and marketed.

>> Perhaps no single part of his technique or the resulting bread is 100% new or original, but he managed to compose several characteristics together in a way that was new and exciting.

What is new and exciting about it? Ive had tartine, years ago, and last month, ive baked my entire life, nothing about it was mindblowing. I hope you can change my mind
That is extremely incorrect. If for example we know for sure that the observations we've made so far lead to supernova explosion in 10 years and thus the resulting life-threatening gamma burst reaching Earth in 2028, it would make sense to do something before the actual "observation" of the burst.
> And I question why you care more about going home at the end of the day than delivering the best product to your clients.

Because I work to live, not live to work. Why would I give my time away for free to an employer or a client? I suggest proven solutions that require limited or no support outside of business hours. Several of my clients pay overtime to their ops staff when an on call event occurs. Time is literally money.

Your definition of "best" seems to be Kubernetes. My risk-adjusted recommendation is not. No more, no less. Appreciate the discourse!
They aren't classifying these as loans, so they are able to side-step regulations.
Reputable loans from well-known banks absolutely contain this kind of clause. Source: I've signed one myself (business Line of Credit).
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
I mean, specifically the Duncans didn't take on more than they could afford. They were just defrauded.
Even if they have to sign it to get the loan, there’s a straightforward solution: don’t get the loan. This wasn’t a mugging. Nobody put a gun to anyone’s head to force them to do anything here. This loan industry is scummy and shameful, and it’s tactics should be curtailed, but the small business owners had agency: they ultimately made the decision.
> Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of grumpy, resentful introverts.

Well, the Linux kernel did, but I think for the most part you are correct.
Is that really what is happening though?

They don't react to my statement at all - I don't think they disregard it, I think they don't listen to it in the first place.
What if we add color or even UV/IR to an existing QR code just to increase data redundancy? Backward-compatibility FTW!
As if it's known that meaning itself is not a physical quantity
Its almost tears in my eyes level. I didn’t expect to have that reaction.
Likely answer: People like reading Matt Levine's column and he usually links to Bloomberg articles (as you might expect).

The two Bloomberg links I see on the front page were directly referenced in his column today.
The photo at the top of the article reminded me of a sight in northern New York, and apparently being duplicated in many parts of the country: Tens of thousands of obsolete and unneeded tanker cars sitting idle on rural sidings and unused lines:

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/14/440173575/what-to-do-with-rai...

The collection I saw last year next to Route 12 in New York was at least 10 miles long, and there is another one in the Adirondacks. It's an eyesore to say the least ... possibly a pending environmental hazard. If there's a declining need for oil to be transported around the country on trains, and the cars are expensive to recycle or transform, what will happen to them?
In Extraordinary Statement, Trump Stands with Saudis Despite Khashoggi Killing
Most companies do not want to deal with the hassle of finding someone to perform support/bug fix work on their software. They want to be able to call up a vendor and get an answer today about a bug fix or support. Most open source projects do not have this level of support.
Cool. How does Apple's iPhone-to-Watch pairing animated graphic work? Maybe their technique has higher bandwidth.
Because you signed a contract with your employer/client saying you'd do that? Unless you're hourly...

My definition of "best" isn't k8s, I merely don't exclude technologies just because I've arbitrarily decided to stop learning at some point in time and mask this decision in "skepticism" for all technologies developed after that point in time.

Your risk assessment seems to be calibrated around "was this tech around when I was a technical contributor", and that will continue to hurt your clients/employer for as long as you continue to do it.
Linux would never had taken off without the contributions of companies like IBM, Intel, Oracle, SGI, Cray,....

Which aren't properly any FOSS angels, when we examine their product portfolio.

Actually IBM is the king of patent submissions.
For example, in the USA the Democratic Party’s passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 (which took a few years to show its effects) was initially so unpopular vs. a barrage of negative propaganda and an opposition that rallied against it for political gain that the backlash knocked the party out of power in the House of Representatives for the next 8 years.

And that’s for something (healthcare) with very clear and direct effect on people’s lives, where the remedy was a centrist approach first proposed by Republicans.

Taking larger-scale action against an even longer-term threat where the only visible benefit is “see we prevented calamity” and where some of the richest multinational corporations’ short-term future is directly threatened will be much harder still.
British scientists develop a genetically modified virus that kills cancer cells
True, but most producers use it anyway. If I make any of those myself I can avoid it or substitute something else, but not so easy with store bought.
Is there a "human readable" bar code variation?

Like a UPC code? Those have the contents printed right underneath.
In case you aren't aware, the full original trilogy was recently remastered (that is, I and II thus far, they're still working on III), and they released a 'Part IV' with a whole new game engine. I haven't played the new one yet, but have heard it's good-- just a bit buggy, which they've already made some progress on rectifying.
Absolutely, their important work foreshadowed and inspired so much great stuff. Also Douglas Engelbart's NLS pioneered many of the ideas of visual programming.

I think spreadsheets also qualify as visual programming languages, because they're two-dimensional and grid based in a way that one-dimensional textual programming languages aren't.

The grid enables them to use relative and absolute 2D addressing, so you can copy and paste formulae between cells, so they're reusable and relocatable. And you can enter addresses and operands by pointing and clicking and dragging, instead of (or as well as) typing text.

Some people mistakenly assume visual programming languages necessarily don't use text, or that they must use icons and wires, so they don't consider spreadsheets to be visual programming languages.

Spreadsheets are a wildly successful (and extremely popular) example of a visual programming language that doesn't forsake all the advantages of text based languages, but builds on top of them instead.

And their widespread use and success disproves the theory that visual programming languages are esoteric or obscure or not as powerful as text based languages.

Other more esoteric, graphical, grid-based visual programming languages include cellular automata (which von Neumann explored), and more recently "robust first computing" architectures like the Moveable Feast Machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...

Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation (Moveable Feast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

>A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator. See http://nm8.us/q for more information. Apologies for the poor audio!

Programming the Movable Feast Machine with λ-Codons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DauJ51CTIq8

>λ-Codons provide a mechanism for describing arbitrary computations in the Movable Feast Machine (MFM). A collection of λ-Codon molecules describe the computation by a series of primitive functions. Evaluator particles carry along a stack of memory (which initially contains the input to the program) and visit the λ-Codons, which they interpret as functions and apply to their stacks. When the program completes, they transmute into output particles and carry the answer to the output terminals (left).
I mean, there are many solutions to this which aren't an immediate hike in property taxes which would cause much market disruption. But its important to acknowledge that the California Housing market is indeed a market distortion on an Epic Scale. There is just no way that everyone can get the prices they're asking for. And this is perhaps the major reason why I won't personally invest in the CA housing market even though I love the state otherwise.
There's a test for BMP characters being even: https://github.com/rottytooth/rot8000/blob/master/Rottytooth...

More critically, if the # of valid chars changes, previously rot-8000'd text will no longer be reversible through the tool
The hard part of this Ive found is faking being interested in their answers.

I find it hard to be genuine in these interactions and I think it shows :(
I find this difficult to watch.

The only thing that would make this less difficult for me to watch is if he had his personal fortune invested in his hedge fund also, and so was similarly wiped out. In which case I'd like to hear it.

Otherwise if I was an investor I couldn't help but think: "sure, but you only lose our 2 and 20 this year, what happened to the 2 and 20 you made through the last few decades?".

It would actually be an interesting law:

"Operators of investments must have a higher fraction of their wealth invested in the fund than any of their investors".

Obviously difficult to implement but the spirit of it is fascinating to me. That way, when a hedge fund fails, the entity which has been the most ruined by it (fractionally speaking) is the CEO. It'd create genuine skin in the game.
And there are plenty of war stories in “business success” books where $founder leveraged his credit cards and mortgages to the hilt, before the wave broke to
make him a billionaire.

They curiously tend to avoid mentioning that, 9 times out of 10, that sort of behaviour ends up in bankruptcy and tears.
Do you also pay the developer of FOSS app A so that he/she can keep working on it?
Your analysis is exactly backwards base on history. One of the main drives to create corporate campuses outside of cities was to prevent competing firms from recruiting employees. Same goes for creating company restaurants and dry cleaning etc. keep employees on your campus and a way from competition. When they work downtown and walk out into the community they bump into people randomly and those unexpected connections can create new relationships.
An image classifier of yesteryear had some problems with sand dunes: https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn...
I’ve seen Friston speak a few times. My favorite quote along these lines is that “your arm moves because you predict it will, and your motor system seeks to minimize prediction error.”

He’s been a huge figure in human neuroscience, bringing statistics to all those psychologists with fMRI scanners
Confessions aren’t enforceable in Florida, where the Duncans signed theirs. But New York’s courts are especially friendly to confessions and will accept them from anywhere, so lenders require customers to sign documents allowing them to file there.

Well, that's diabolical. Wow.

Duncan was running a struggling Florida real estate agency with her husband, Doug. She began each day in prayer, a vanilla latte in her hand and her Maltese Shih Tzu, Coco, on her lap, asking God for business to pick up.

This was the first line that made me feel they are just not very good business people. Praying to god for business to pick up instead of starting the day searching for ways to improve the business sounds like the exact sort of thing that "No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan" quote is aimed at. She's just kind of hoping things get better.

The couple had owned their agency, a Re/Max franchise, for three years and now had 50 employees, but they still weren’t turning a profit.

See, I don't get this. How do you have 50 employees and no profit? I don't understand that.

We clearly need better support for small businesses in the US. Small businesses are frequently being run by people who simply cannot compete with corporations and otherwise successfully "swim with the sharks."

We also need better support for micoenterprise -- for businesses with fewer than the ten employees that you need to qualify as a small business. The lack of good support for that sector is part of what is wrong with this country. We haven't created such support and I feel it is destabilizing the country.

Everything is "go big or go home" and that simply isn't healthy. It's fine to have some folks shooting for the stars, but that shouldn't be the only viable option.
I wish you luck but here are some things to keep in mind that you can do if you find yourself not into the therapist/self help stuff for whatever reason.

You can get better at knowing what they need vs what they ask for and push back in the form of raising concerns. Realize this is brainstorming and email/slack suck at this. Get in a room and draw what you’re going to build. Tell them why ask x won’t be useful/won’t work. Lastly, encourage a project manager type person to get involved even if informally. Your boss might be a good person for this if you have no one else. They can do the back and forth and some of what I said previously if you can’t. Also have some sort of project committee so only approved projects get your attention. Lastly, charge your cost to their budget. They won’t waste your time for long when it cost them a bonus assuming your company is setup that way. Get the finance guys involved. If there’s a culture of wasting time/resources they can help come up with a plan and they may own many of these ideas.

A lot of this assumes you’re at a bigger corporate company so YMMV.
“the program invites foreign entrepreneurs to work part-time at a school, either as a mentor or an adjunct professor. In return, entrepreneurs may get a cap-exempt H-1B visa that gives them the latitude to work on their own startups”

Seems like the bar to get accepted is pretty high
US Diplomat speaks out about unknown electromagnetic attack in China
It is! And a fun reminder that open source projects need help with more than just code, contributions to documentation are a huge help as well.
Sounds kind of like that plumber got himself into a hole, realized there is no way he could get out of it, and decided fuck these guys and took out every loan he could before he would be forced to declare bankruptcy regardless. I can't really blame him after he already got into a hole, hopefully he stashed a bunch of the value do after things blow over.
Such is the life of an option seller, especially naked option sellers. You are picking up the proverbial nickle in front of the steam roller.

The really unfortunate part of this is that some of his clients actually owe more money than what was in their account.

There is a scummy way of managing money that some CTA's use where you don't get the proper license to manage others money as a hedge fund and instead just have people put money into accounts and then they give you the right to trade. Due to the use of leverage when the market moved against their naked short Nat Gas positions all the collateral posted in the accounts were not enough to covert the losses so some people are not only out the amount they wagered, but more.

And the worst part of it is the manager blaming this on an unforeseen event. Everyone who sells options knows that rule one is never be naked when you are short as your losses can be unbounded.

The reason for this is that if you have traded for even a short period of time you realized that while the market is liquid most of hte time, there are times when its not and the only thing you can do is watch it move while realizing you can't exit a position.

This happend to short sellers of KBIO when they thought they were riding a shitty stock to zero, when Martin Shkreli bought it for a premium causing margin calls for everyone short it.

See:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/112315/did-m...

As a side note Martin has a blog.
http://martinshkreli.com/

its actually pretty good as this is what he does for a living and when hes out of prison he's going to try and go back to it so this is really the only way he can redeem his brand. I expect him to put everything he has into the blog. its' a good source of trading ideas.

TL/DR

- never sell options

- if you do then never sell naked options

- if you do make sure you can get out of your trade

- if you can't get out of your trade make sure you are well capitalized for loss absorption

- if don't have enough to cover your losses don't apologize for losing your clients money while wearing a $10,000 watch and post it for the rest of the world to see.
"Why can't a visual programming language be functional?" - there is one: https://luna-lang.org/ and it also has a dual textual/visual representation.
Imagine downloading a manifesto or something from a protest sign in a newspaper or on TV.

Imagine downloading a working application from a barcode (perhaps assuming you have the "reader" app which includes a set of software libraries to do some of the heavy lifting / batteries included) -- gameboy did it. It might be useful in a disaster, or an oppressive regime scenario, but at worst, it would be fun.

3D models? Retro game console with games distributed on paper?

My imagination is limited, but I have a feeling that barcodes are something waiting to meet some newly-possible potential with the advent of handheld scanners and very high capacity barcodes.

We tried VR and PDAs and cellphones and stuff in the late 80s/early 90s, but it wasnt until the 2010s they became something really useful; I wonder if barcodes will find some new life in the future, now that more capable and available hardware exists.
It's nothing about "financial education", it's about an artificial right being created by a dysfunctional government and granted to thieves. Common law prohibits "unconscionable contracts", and this is surely one.