skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought experiment: Suppose you bet 100% of your bankroll every round. If at any point you lose a round, your bankroll is now $0. Any money you made from former rounds is for naught. Whoops.

bankroll_final = (bankroll_initial)(round_1)(round_2)(round_3)(...)(round_n)
$0 = (bankroll_initial)(210% )(210% )(210% )(...)(0% )

Taking the "non-log" Expected Value would be optimal if your bankroll were "renewed" to the same constant each round. Because the outcome of each individual round would be independent from other rounds.

Bankroll_final = (bankroll)(round_1) + (bankroll)(round_2) + (...) + (bankroll)(round_n)

But since the outcome of each round depends on previous rounds, we want to optimize for Expected Value of Growth. For which we'll use a geometric mean rather than an arithmetic mean. Also,

EV[bankroll_final] = EV[(bankroll_initial)(round_1)(round_2)(round_3)(...)(round_n)]

is equivalent to

EV[bankroll_final] = EV[(bankroll_initial) e^ln(r1 + r2 + r3 + (...) + r_n)]

which allows us to discuss wagers in terms of e^(x) and in terms of growthrates.
I have been telling people this for over 15 years. Catches include: we economic migrants have reduced access to the market, less progressive regulatory stance, shifting and complicated bureaucratic visa/banking/tax processes to deal with, and even difficulties getting capital out again. One summary is: it's relatively easy to make big money in China, but hard to make a liveable salary - this affects Chinese people more than migrants. Macro economically, lots of cash was recently won on real estate (like in many developed economies recently, such as my native Sydney), and prior to that outright corruption, though both avenues are now closing and priority is being placed upon technology IP by the government (read: free government handouts for local competitors, foreign companies generally excluded).
> that rate of return is (roughly) less than 2% yearly.

Don't forget to factor in Trumps' heavy spending over those years which greatly reduces his rate of return. You could just as easily say that he is keeping his value level with respect to inflation and spending the rest.
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Not a website takes you to other websites using shortcuts (try: hn)
A resource allocation system that didn't have this problem should out-compete one that suffers these information masking flaws. So we just need fully automated space communism* to arise once, and it will overwhelm the less effective resource allocation systems.

* I'm not expressing an opinion on what this future more effective organization method would look like, just I'm pretty sure it wouldn't create incentives to keep masses of people less effective than they'd otherwise be.
See, “compilation unit” tells the uninitiated reader many things: it’s something that gets compiled or at least has to do something with compilation. And it’s a “unit”, so it’s probably a chunk of source code that gets compiled together. It brings to mind analogous concepts from other languages/ecosystems so we can place it somewhere in our mental model from the outset.

On the other hand “crate” tells you nothing at all.
I've been making plans for a three planet scheme, but the complexity keeps increasing so I'm not sure I will finish them.
The point of the article is that you shouldn't treat a standing desk as a magic bullet to fix the "sitting all day is bad for you", and there is no evidence to support that claim.
From what I have read, it is kind of a "movement" to develop co-ops or other DIY rural internet. It is being compared to the movement to electrify farms about a hundred years ago in the US.

So it's not hard to find stuff on the subject, for example:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689496/Remote-vill...

https://offgridsurvival.com/offgridinternet/
Just FYI, there's a pending enhancement in PostgREST[1] that would allow us to take advantage of HTTP/2 multiplexing and have multiple requests executed atomically in a single transaction.

[1]:https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/286
I am not worried about rich people propaganda, all the rich companies in the silicon valley supported Clinton, all the rich in Hollywood supported her and in general most people in the upper class supported her but she still lost, there are always other companies who will support the other side and people in general will decide who to believe anyways, today even 4chan basement dwellers can spread propaganda if they want.
I suppose my sarcasm wasn't indicated well enough. Google doesn't have any special duty to fund the news, anymore than Zuckerberg does personally, or George Soros, or any other financier. You can't just go around and demand someone pays for something you think is important.
A index fund doesn't follow the index. There is a broker fee, stock transaction fees for the broker to keep the fund balanced and stock falling out of the index (because of the company eg. halfway to bankruptcy) is a loss for the fund but in the index the next biggest stock just takes it's place.

To keep up with the index is probably really hard.
Its just a thing they made for the last Google IO to show off their doodle-to-thing ai recognition. So, yeah, the thing picker is the point.
Moss is a great nerd though and a lot of the jokes are aimed at nerds. Better than the relatively insulting big bang theory
Is that the same thing you say when a kid gets LEGO's?
It's all predefined shapes anyway, no creativity anywhere.

Why on earth did you write your post? What does your negativity bring to the world?
Office Space, Idiocracy, and Silicon Valley. It's practically a NatGeo series about the USA.
Lol are you aware of the backlash against advertising?
>For convenience and comfort, it’s nice to have options if you have various aches and pains — “Alternating standing and sitting while using a computer may be useful for some people with low back or neck pain,” he said — but people shouldn’t be under the illusion that they’re getting exercise.

Yeah and how do many people get to having back and neck pain? From sitting all day! Talk to any spine specialist and they'll tell you that. Since I switched to standing most of the day my pain is definitely reduced, and I know I'm burning more calories because I often incorporate more movements than I would typically do sitting. I stretch more often, do a yoga position, whatever, the point is that incorporating movement is much more likely when you're already standing.
A P2P Internet is not only practical but used in practice. BitTorrent at one point accounted for the majority of Internet traffic.

My problem with that technology is that, if the main character actually wanted to do good, he'd donate that algorithm to Apache and the show would be over in ten minutes. Or, if he wanted to make loads of money, he could license it for millions. Instead he wound up launching an ICO. The show should have been over in half an episode, but they turned the hero into a moronic sociopath to drag it out for five seasons.
Senior CS sysadmin works around university-wide computer purchase freeze
I’m saying it must not be to their economic benefit, otherwise it would have happened already.
https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/sql-layer-in-foundationdb/...
I'd recommend noting down your area. You're going to get a lot of advise, and it's probably very good advice in general. But as someone not in the US, a lot of what I'm reading does not reflect my local market.

Edit: That similarly applies to the "current salary" discussion. Six figures could be a lot, or very poor.
Capitalism is working quite as intended right now. The goal is to move more and more money to the capitalists, and that goal is increasingly faster being reached.
At first glance this seems semantic, but I think it hits on something that really makes a huge difference between my current work situation and my previous remote work experience.

I naturally gravitate to remote work -- it works for me. Where it's tough is at the edges of "my" work. What is mine, and how does it interface with everyone else's? This was a constant struggle with distributing the work at my old company (and this was prior to Slack's ubiquity, which doubtless would have helped).

My current company uses Holacracy as its organizing system, and even besides the fact that the tools are better now, the role clarity and distributed authority provided by Holacracy make an absolutely massive difference. From talking with friends at other Holacracy-powered companies that aren't remote, the difference is still big there, but a lot of the highlights are extra-highlighted in a remote setting. Things really get "distributed" in a meaningful way.
> If you have a single CS bone in your body, you should be able to grok at least the basics of regex.

Sure, but I don't think the existence of this lib implies the author disputes that, and I can only imagine they're pretty familiar with regex themselves. I think they're trying to fill a legitimate need in frontend dev, which is: if you're only touching regex a few times a year, it's pretty intimidating, and not at all maintainable. SQL can also be difficult to grok if you don't write it often, and ORM interfaces make it easier.

Would the world be a better place if everybody knew regex perfectly? Yeah ok it would, but investing a bunch of time learning something you will only occasionally use is a poor investment IMO.

> If you don't, then go back to designing* I guess, and ask for a programmers' help

This seems to be needlessly condescending? You can be an excellent programmer (particularly in frontend) for years while avoiding regex. It's not a make-or-break thing.
I have some pollen type allergy in the fall, one drop of sesame oil in each nostril in the morning, before going fishing, does wonders during the day...
This is what everyone who voluntarily paid for a certificate tells themselves. As a hiring manager (for ~10 years now) in software security who talks to a lot of other hiring managers, I am pretty confident that the supposed ROI for certification is not there. Also: if you're dealing directly with HR filters when trying to get a job somewhere, you're already playing to lose. A much higher ROI would be gained by learning how to seriously pursue a targeted role.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more development already with HTTP/2 REST APIs. It let's you do your API at whatever logical level makes sense and then do your orchestration independently.
Deployement strategies guide from single node cluster to single datacenter to multi region. And how version upgrades happens
Yeah correct, alcohol is technically a positive allosteric modulator of the GABA-A receptors, which means it potentiates the effects of GABA in those receptors. Over time, the receptors downregulate to compensate for being over-stimulated. Upon withdrawal from alcohol, the GABA-A receptors are unable to respond strongly enough to the GABA which exists, so in effect you're undersupplied and that contributes to the DTs. Alcohol is actually a very messy drug that acts on a huge range of receptors but the effect on the GABAergic system is probably the most significant.
It's pretty accurate of tech, especially SV.
The point is literally in the title. The health benefits are overrated. That's not a judgment on you for using them. If they benefit you that's great. I don't understand how any of this is a problem and why you take this so personally.
Isn't copyright implicit, not requiring any kind of notice to "exist"? I don't understand what those website footers matter at all.
Remote / distributed requires discipline and wearing different hats while you sit in the same physical chair (if you work at home and not in remote co-working spaces). And you must be damn good at distilling your thoughts into a succint text -- in short amounts of time.

Fail these two and of course you will think remote/distributed doesn't work.

It's not for everybody. I only find myself improving all the time by working at a home office.

I respect the people who dislike it but they rarely return the favor.
On that we can agree. Then gagain, we're both Mediterranean :)
How Juul, founded on a life-saving mission, became 2018's most embattled startup
OSCP covers a significant part of my actual subfield in security, and I think it's pretty silly.
It should be (slightly) faster, since you don't need to interact with the email a second time -- instead of writing an email to yourself, write it to 5pm@fut.io and it'll get sent back to you at that time.
I think it's really weird that you can't draw people or animals. I tried to add a t-rex to the world :(
The Montreal spice bagels here are very good! It's the perfect weekend morning spot located in an old warehouse that has a vintage furniture store on one side and a used record/book store on the other. After I'm finished with my bagel and coffee, I love taking time to explore the other shops. They always have weird and interesting stuff.
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I do exactly what you just described!
Show HN: Asyncio-foundationdb
The local folk seem friendly, but do get noticeably uneasy and fix their smiles, showing slightly too much teeth, whenever visiting strangers ask why the wind turbine is required to be fireproof with sharpened metal blades.
The Need and the Folly of Bitcoin as Payment Method
Hmm nope. "The Creative Independent is ad-free and published by Kickstarter, PBC."
I’m not sure why you think anyone is advocating for change for its own sake. Is there something about the thread context that has confused you? The quoted statement seems perfectly valid to me.
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Improve your writing with old-school Unix style checkers (2006)
The lesson from left-pad should have been to vendor all your deps rather than bet your org on third parties with no SLA commitment to you.
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ANECDOTAL: I went off of the lowest dose (37.5 mg) of Venlafaxine (effexor xr - SNRI) earlier this year. I felt like I was hungover most days, and a general vertigo feeling. It sucked ass, so I reached out to my doctor and he suggested I try to use CBD oil to help with the symptoms.

I tried it and it literally dulled the withdrawal by at least half. It made my days tolerable to the point that I could go to work and function like a human being.
Start here:

https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/
So looks like the 80s is when things start going south (increased income inequality) so I looked up who was president during that time, then looked at their wiki page to see their economic policy and found this gem of a quote:

"Soon after taking office, Reagan began implementing sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending."
I'm still amazed at how effectively we have collectively shunned thought along these lines by turning the founding father of the relevant branch of economical philosophy into a real life he-who-shall-not-be-named. Anyone who wants to talk about these problems either has to either re-invent the wheel or mention the unmentionable name and doom themselves to immediate dismissal as a kook.
We do recommend using keyed elements (indexing using <tag@{mykey}> syntax) for large lists. It includes automatic pruning of cached unmounted elements etc if you reach a certain threshold of unique memoized nodes within a list over time).

It performs a lot better for a platform like scrimba at least - which is pretty dynamic.

I just hope other frameworks will adopt our approach, because it really is a huge step forward compared to most of what is out there today.
Give China another 20 years and they will surely have overtaken the USA in world leadership.

Consider their new Silk Road initiative. 3rd world/developing countries and America's numerous enemies alike are lining up to ally themselves with China.

Meanwhile the USA shits on its closest allies.
Where do you live? There is tech demand everywhere. You don't have to live in SF, NY, Seattle or DC to get tech jobs. But these are probably going to be standard office jobs at non-tech companies doing boring work. Pay is lower, but so is cost of living.
> Outside of the last decade or two, every sitcom had to have a laugh track, period.

More correct: every live action sitcom used a laugh track and/or live studio audience.
Start here:

https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/

Cryptopals is great! :) If you've gotten all the way through set 6 and are interested in a first software security gig, get in touch. Those challenges have been a pretty excellent predictor for us.
I remember the first time I encountered "Fat-free Half-and-half" in the grocery store. I must have stood there for a full minute, resisting the urge to stop passers-by and ask them, "But isn't that just milk?"

;-D
Among other factors, advertising was taxed in England through the 1850s.

https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1675

Taxing rents generally would be beneficial.
He has an entire section on "Post-REST: Per­sis­tent con­nec­tions" which you seem to have missed.

"As for the rest of it, sure, you might have a queue, or some orchestration layer. Is that your consumer-facing API? Just b/c I push a message into some queue implementation does not mean I want to expose that implementation to my caller."

REST for external APIs, and queues for internal, more tightly coupled micro services seems like a good way to architect things.
Nearing completion of something similar:

Phase I
C# -> python / Django / some simple html forms

Phase II (in progress)
Django rest backend / react front end

We host the application internally, all our team members know at least basic python so updates are easy and deployment is much quicker.
My blocker is that the documentation is confusing and not very straight forward. The tutorials are not very verbose and the code (at least for python) is not written in a way that is easy for someone to understand.

I'd be very interested in usage for time-series, but it looks like to get a working example up I'd need to fully parse the documentation and tutorials in order to do it as there is no "Let's build a Timeseries Database on FoundationDB from scratch"
I know you're meme-ing, but it's a great way to put it tbh. This library struck a nerve with me today because it's a rare example of a library that's actually harmful to its intended beginner audience. The author invented a verbose DSL for what's already a DSL!

For the record, I'd never fault anyone for writing any code they want (unless maliciously ofc). "What would a method-based interface to regular expressions look like?" is a perfectly reasonable question! But the author is doing a disservice to anyone he gets to use this. Just use ''.match().
No issues I can think of, doing it for many years, because I am too lazy to drive 30 minutes to my office...

I see only benefits, can exercise during the day, take a nap after lunch, which makes me much more productive in the afternoon, at the end of the day, I just walk away from my office and I am home :-)
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> But HTTP is so... widely used, while RPC frameworks are a) a dime a dozen, b) none so widely used that you can find reverse proxies for them.

The beauty of gRPC is that it is HTTP. All proxies that support HTTP/2 implicitly support gRPC.

> REST as it is can report whatever you want because the encoding of transactions is ad-hoc, so you just have to make a provision for conveying all the error information that you want.

But at that point it isn't really REST. The single request-single response semantics are lost. The error codes don't map cleanly to the operations. In some cases they do, but not generally.
Same. To some extent the presence of certs is a lacks-clue indicator to me. That's not fatal (lots of great hires really understand security but know nothing about the industry) but it starts my evaluation of you off at 'greenhorn'.
It's a beautiful, surprisingly rich piece with details about the history and geography of the area. It makes me feel like someone who lived there could start a blog and probably make money waxing poetic about life there and many people would enjoy living vicariously through them.

Many people fantasize about a simpler life, but actually making it happen can take years or simply be completely out of reach. There is probably a huge market for catering to feeding those fantasies and satisfying them to some degree virtually.
Yes, but I suspect they bother to print anything at all is because the US is a big market. Unfortunately, this helps perpetuate those legacy units.
> There is no reason that posting content to a platform that millions of people could see should be free or instant.

So if someone is on a particular platform, such as the one we're currently using, and they post a base64 encoded image, or article, or whatever...

...you really want every possible comment screened, paid for, or be delayed in some manner so someone or something can check that the data is legit?

That can't work; sure you could probably figure a way to work around the base64 encoding and automate things, but what happens if people start using other more difficult encoding systems to publish such content in text-only forums?

Yes, this is reducto-ad-absurdum territory - but these kinds of directives would have to apply to every kind of user-generated and posted content system, including mostly or wholly text-only boards like this one.
Quick search doesn't find an article making that claim, care to cite it?
> I think one big win could be to just hide the underlying APIs with better tooling.

This is what happened with SOAP because SOAP is too complicated to use without tooling. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't work, it's a nightmare.

The reason we use things like JSON and REST is because of the transparency and simplicity that it provides. There isn't much mystery when you need to debug. That's the trade off against things like bandwidth and performance.

I'm not really disagreeing with your point; it's easily to look at all this and wonder why we don't do it better and faster.
https://xkcd.com/603/
“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)
A spectre is haunting Hacker News...
Yes, exactly! The hummus comparison is spot on.

Another example: supermarket guacamole (that green weird-tasting paste) vs. guacamole from real avocados freshly made.
Not sure if I understand your comment. Alphabet is google's parent company, allegedly created to assuage the fear of a giant entity by turning it into multiple quite big entities.
And yet most HTTP APIs are going to give you a response with an status instead of holding it. I guess because it's much easier to implement and also assumes less on the consumer part. Then there was Comet and what resulted from that, websockets and server side events.
> Other than war or complete societal upheaval, what can actually be done to solve the problem?

A wealth (not income) tax.
The kind of "tests" that most interviews use (and leetcode etc) are more riddles than anything else. Either you know the answer already and are able to recall it and pass the interview, or you don't know the answer and you'll fall flat on your face.

Hopefully, the job they are hiring for isn't "master code riddle solver", making the whole process irrelevant whether you're junior or senior. In any case, the interview checks whether you know this problem and its solution or not. That's not a junior/senior distinction.