skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg Beta just dumped detailed investment documents onto GitHub
I almost spit out my tea! This is brilliant :)
Bsf: Modern C++14 library for real-time graphical applications
Maybe, but there's a legitimate fear that this thinking will eventually lead to everyone being required to be implanted with a microchip to participate in the economy
As an architect do you really want to live in a world where "structural stability is a top priority" at every company?

Does such a world even make economic sense after accounting for the opportunity cost of the time most that building designers would otherwise spend actually building funky new shapes?

Investing in solutions that assume buildings will collapse seems reasonable to me.
The library format concepts are quite different, so using them directly probably won't be possible. But there is a Eagle converter somewhere in the sourcecode (although it's not exactly userfriendly) :)

But creating or generating own high-quality libraries is surely the better way forward. See https://github.com/LibrePCB/librepcb-parts-generator
Very hard to calculate. Two different YouTubers can get wildly different ad revenues for those same 100k views.
> the perceived increase in value is purely aesthetic

Aesthetic value is still value. Most people would prefer not to eat Nutraloaf three meals a day.
Patent law includes a provision for situations like this - it’s called “derivation,” meaning basically that someone stole another person’s work and tried to patent it. The rightful inventor can initiate a proceeding at the patent office to invalidate the patent and get control of the work.
off-topic: the phrase is, "at first blush"
This seems to be mostly in keeping with the spirit of index funds. It's a hands off approach that lets the company run itself.

In theory an index fund should never own that much of a company, because that means it would own >50% of all publicly traded companies. The whole point is to spread the risk evenly so you can realize the average returns without having to put any thought into it. It shouldn't mean it's buying $100k shares of GE and also $100k shares of Mom&Pop Pickle Fork Inc.
I don't doubt you, but I've heard a wide range of numbers. What I've never seen is a screenshot of someones actually stats. Maybe I'm not looking, maybe it's against TOS, maybe no one wants to share because it's not as good as it seems.
3 Blue 1 Brown has a much better introduction than any course I've seen:
http://www.3blue1brown.com/essence-of-linear-algebra-page/
Came here to say this. Lack of memory protection and preemption was atrocious. But the UI was dead simple and a joy. I also used to like to pick apart things in ResEdit.
More exploits: the great PLC hack
For the same reason we drag YouTube into copyright complaints. You're correct in identifying that there needs to be some kind of fair balance here, but AirBnB makes a lot of business facilitating illegal transactions. I don't really think there are apartments in New York City in which running AirBnB is legal, for instance, and yet NYC is one of their biggest markets. But yes, they also have legitimate, legal business. The trick is it is very difficult for landlords to monitor their properties for this kind of behavior, and also difficult to enforce action against it (getting proof can be extremely difficult, for instance).

Because much of AirBnB's business is flat out illegal due to zoning, property laws, HoAs and leases, I think requiring them to provide a better system for accepting accountability for the negative externalities they create is reasonable.

> I don't really want to live in a world where anyone on the internet can destroy my income via anonymous complaint.

That's not at all what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting an easy way for landlords and others to determine if a property they own or one near them is being listed on AirBnB. After that there are a ton of avenues for justice one could take, and it would probably include, along with government/HoA response, a procedure for forcing AirBnB to take down the listing given proof of ownership or something, similar to DMCA, but this is not an unsolvable problem by any means. It's one AirBnB is choosing not to solve because it would destroy their business.
> a million bucks is nothing in his line of business

they are just a startup now, $1M is pretty big money.
> the stock market is not sufficiently regular

Stock markets are a lot more than just "not sufficiently regular"; they actively remove all regularity from themselves (that being the byproduct of how markets calibrate prices of things—regularity is the signal that makes people money, and so it gets exploited away.)

Or, to put that in more precise words: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-ar...
Can't read the article (in the air, data constrained).

But if you have what you think is a patentable invention, file a provisional application before you interview. The USPTO gives you a filing receipt, which might help here. Let your interviewer know you can talk about your invention because you've got a patent pending. It costs $70 to file as a micro entity. See Nolo Press for a good resources on how to do it.
Example link: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paper
> ...as a country real estate provides a huge amount of our economic backbone.

I could do without the economy depending on real estate being a good investment.
Well, computer science is all about making stuff.
> Yes, yes I do as a developer! The thing is that a lot of these "hacks" aren't even that sophisticated. A lot of them are engineers not paying enough attention.

I dont think you have quite thought it through. Do you honestly want to have to do code audit on all libraries you use? Freeze all versions? Have a chain of signoffs for every change?

I have briefly done consulting in a place like that -- developers were absolutely miserable. Think about every single corporate IT policy that exists and apply it not just to your desktop/laptop/phone but to what you do on that desktop/laptop/phone.

Security is about management of risk.
He also warned in 2017:

Bogle noted that trading would dry up if the stock market comprised only indexers and there were no active investors setting prices on individual issues. Everyone would just buy or sell the market.

...

Shareholders of index funds could then suffer more than owners of actively managed funds, and they could take their losses harder due to the perceived security they feel precisely because they merely own the market and aren’t trying to beat it. That might make active investors feel a bit of schadenfreude for indexers who have been free-riding at their expense, but the feeling probably wouldn’t last. The greater price swings that could ensue in a heavily indexed, less-active market are likely to exacerbate losses for everyone.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-bogle-has-a-warning-f...

It seems a good bet that this warning, like most pre-downturn warnings, will only become obvious during the next major downturn.
vscode gives me the impression of a shitty microsoft product.
That is being worked on! It’s called Orchid:

https://www.orchid.com/
I've had the same thought. Unfortunately at the rate we wipe out other species I don't know that they'll get the chance! But when debating conservation efforts for various species it does seem like there is the possibility that on one hand we could be allowing the extinction of a species on the cusp of "intelligence".
No longer? When was there ever? What was the system providing a roof over your head in the 30's or 40's? Or for that matter 1830's? Religion?

No, what's changed is expectation. In the 1830's a lot of people just got old and died, were impoverished and angry about it, but what were they going to do? Now we have widespread literacy and a middle class that doesn't expect poverty until you die as a retirement plan.
The Chinese government are even integrating Han Chinese "mothers" into Uighur families: https://www.apnews.com/9ca1c29fc9554c1697a8729bba4dd93b

What we're seeing is a complete cultural genocide by the Chinese government. The propaganda, cameras, and security noted in the article are just the tip of the iceberg. The US government should be hitting China hard with the Magnitsky Act for these human rights violations.
thanks, italki looks promising
I see lots of pickup trucks (which are common in urban Atlanta) slowing to 3mph before a speed bump that can easily be taken at 12 in a sedan. It's obvious that the truck can handle the bump with alacrity, but the drivers are very cautious about risking the slightest damage.
Right, so you're a modernist, and that's ok. You have an implicit assumption that the larger culture is better, and that being more economically productive is desirable. Many hunter-gatherer societies offered more leisure time than modern cultures. If that's your point of reference, Western culture is an abject failure.
Powerful earthquake hits just miles from Anchorage, Alaska – pictures and videos
Well, intuition is an output of a neural network, it's just that the neural net is implemented in meat instead of silicon.
Agreed. Added the clarification so that people who are from countries where such things are allowed in public won't avoid the article for nothing.
Apple Faces a Serious Security Threat on iPhones and iPads Running iOS 12
Totally speculating, but from the outside it seems like stagnation & resistance to change. The Corvette still uses leaf springs. All three of the Big Three hung on to SOHC & other relics for far longer than Japan. I also remember as a shade-tree mechanic, Japanese engines were always precise, intricate, and sharp (suggesting computer design & milling) while the Fords of the same decade were not, and frequently the arrangements were irrational. Rangers needed the intake manifold removed to access the spark plugs. This always suggested to me more casting & hand drawing.

American automakers seem to make some great stuff when they are actually pushing the envelope- the EcoBoost line I hear is very solid, and the aluminum frame in the F150 seems to be doing great (notice: lots of FUD when it launched, silence ever since). The Volt & Bolt have had many great things said about them.

Whether it's conservative engineers, or tight purses, or unrealistic schedules, or even just myopic American Exceptionalism, I do not know.
The server software is available here: http://strezhi.ru/temp/2015/websdr-dist11.tgz

Binary only, but not obfuscated or anything like that, so reverse engineering it isn't too onerous.
How Iran spreads disinformation around the world
That had nothing to do with the move to WebExtensions and the associated compatibility issues though...
> Yet, for the most part, Descartes did not think very highly of the inner life of nonhuman animals. ‘[T]he reason why animals do not speak as we do is not that they lack the organs but that they have no thoughts,’ Descartes wrote in a letter in 1646.

That's borderline whitewashing his thoughts and actions on the matter. He did stuff like nail his wife's dog to a board and vivisect it to prove that it couldn't "truly" feel pain.
Sounds much like conditions to a successful solving of a problem when modeled with machine learning. Have enough data, immediate (as opposed to delayed) feedback, and enough structure in the data. That neural networks in our brains might be learning an embedding or two :)
> As an architect do you really want to live in a world where "structural stability is a top priority" at every company?

Sql injection is bad but not "a bridge with 50 cars collapsed over a city" bad
I’ve read your other comments in this thread and I mostly follow and agree. I’m getting lost on this one though.

How does this monopoly(?) on the 500 work? Aren’t I able to go out tomorrow and buy the different input securities of an index, and market that as “jkulubya’s awesome fund wink wink”? (Easier said than done)

One wrinkle I see with this scheme is that I probably have to publish my own index value because yours is your ip.
Pole dancing
Global turnover. "Earnings" tends to mean profit.

Uber is somewhere around $10b gross revenue, so $400m fine for every breach. Sure it's "just a cost of doing business". It also means that it's better to spend $200m beefing up their security to reduce from 1 data breach every year to one every 5 years.

Marriot revenue is $23b, so that's a potential $920m fine.

IHG (say), who invest in security and don't have a breach, get to charge less for their hotels, or make more profit.
There's an ongoing debate over whether to go the Kicad approach with a unified footprint library or Eagle where every part has its own footprint/symbol pair.

The Kicad approach makes it easy to add new parts with known footprints but you still need to make them for non standard parts. Also if a component has a kind of standard footprint, but needs eg bigger pads for some reason, you also need to figure that out.

Eagle is a faff be user everything has to either be copied from another library, or you need to make it yourself. But once thaf library is done, it's pretty portable. I'm an Eagle user and am used to it; I can make parts fairly quickly now.

There are also parametric component generators (library.io) which takes a lot of the stress out of it.
Nobody buys an AMG for fun?
Py-splice: A Python interface to splice(2) system call
A trial did occur for Ross Ulbricht; I don't understand your point.
HN is written in Arc that is written in Racket that has bignums, so you it can handle very big numbers.

(But if you add and stupidly amount of 0's, the server refuses to use the number and start with 1. I guess it has some kind of filtering.)
Have you actually used it? I'm by no means pro-microsoft but vscode is a joy to use.
Islam is Bible-based as well (to some point). And their halal butchering practices aren't particularly humane by modern standards, even if at some point in the past they were.
>the Bolt is the affordable electric car that the Tesla Model 3 promised to be but isn't

It has an MSRP starting from $44,000 Canadian Dollars. This is affordable?
Because of lot of metaprogramming and monkeypatching Ruby is famous from.
A small proportion of people doing a weird practice shouldn't be enough to warrant a generalized headline line this.
> you have to know almost immediately whether you got it right or got it wrong

I have to imagine chess players are more certain as to whether they got a move wrong rather than whether they got it right?
For an idea of how this business goes on an average day.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/epis...
I started learning KiCad a few days ago.

Should I jump ship to this or is this something I should keep an eye on?
"Life imitates art" is the famous quote.
Like people's anecdotal perception of recent weather (extremely small sample size, for one) gives them intuition to extrapolate large scale climate trends.

"We never had storms like this 5 years ago, or when I was a kid. Things are getting really bad"
Maybe, but AirBnB has also been held up as a positive story of tenacity and disruption in this community as well. It's probably gone on so long it's become a parody of itself, but people keep writing these articles because people keep reading them.
What kind of problems company could have?
Attempting a summary since this article was dripping with SV BS. As far as I can tell, they plan to launch some kind of modular prefab home that could scale from adding a backyard cottage to your home, all the way to a multi-family dwelling. There's an indirect hint that they may be considering including some level of space saving furnishing or some other kind of batteries included prefab home.
RTR ... beat them dawgs tomorrow
I love this part of the video (https://youtu.be/FknkqT5tHK8?t=57). "Traffic is hades" points camera to traffic moving along nicely. I'd love to live in a place where traffic like that is "bad".
Sensor Tower: Black Friday was biggest day ever for U.S. mobile game revenues
Hey Debarsh! First, thanks for taking time to read such a lengthy post.

If I am not mistaken the majority of the PL/SQL glue is owned by Gert, though you might recall better. Quite some VCS history was lost while migrating from SVN to Git. ;-)

The reason we are "replicating" the entire data is to 1) determine the affected products and 2) re-execute the relevant configurations (facets, synonyms, etc.) while making retroactive changes. (For instance, say someone has changed the PL/SQL of "leeftijd" facet.) Here, the storage is required to allow querying on every field, for (1), and on id, for (2). While id-based bulk querying is (almost) supported by every ETL source, querying on every field is not. Hence, we "replicate" the sources on our side to suffice these needs. Actually, the entire point of the post was to explain this problem, but apparently it was not clear enough.

For your remarks on event sourcing and BI, I am a little bit puzzled. I will need some elaboration on these remarks. We do have event sourcing on our side (that is how we can replay in case of need) and BI is not really interested in ETL data. Maybe I misunderstood you?

I am also confused by how you relate scheduling/running PL/SQL jobs via Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc. Did you see the link to Redwood Explorer I shared in the post?
Well, real estate is a very close proxy for "this place is worth living" which is a very close proxy for absolute population which isn't a direct proxy but is certainly a deeply contributing factor to all around economic growth/success. So while there are tons of policies we can tweak, and I'm sure there are horrible ones that create artificial bubbles, it's not really fully divorceable for the economy.
For others; your last point is the most important. Semantic HTML gets you pretty far but there will always be an unhandled case. This is a fine use case of ARIA as long as it’s met with sincere concern for accessibility testing.
Same with me; it was one of the straws that broke the camels back for me. The redesign was clunky, slow, and loads a dozen iframes in the background. Combined with all the privacy and security issues, I figured I'd just do the switch. Turns out it has been far less painful than I anticipated. Glad to have jumped ship.
In any right-to-work state, a company can fire you because they don't like the color of your shoes. It may give them a bad reputation and they may find it harder to get good employees, but they can fire someone for nearly any trivial reason that does not tread on discrimination.
What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything
What possible reason would Marriot have to have details of my stay from 6 years ago on record, especially on their reservation system.
A physics or chemistry student is learning about empiricism on lab courses, and about how other scientists came-out with their advances. But more importantly, they are mostly studying science itself, not how use it to create practical stuff.
Yes, but many, many people have no use for factory hitches, 4x4, or 6500lb towing capacities. What they want is interior room for passengers, high roofline, visibility, and elevated vantage point. As minivans became unhip (& expensive), consumers found these things in SUV's, but didn't like the price, gas mileage, handling, or safety. So SUV's evolved towards hatches & wagons with better aero, car-like handling, and monocoque frames, and the crossover was born.
I found a $100 walking outside one time. Let's have an article that says a walk earns you $100
I also noticed they're talking about these new dwellings being smart/connected. I told my roommate if he ever got an Amazon Echo/Google Home device, I'd shatter it with a hammer and throw it in the trash.

Sears sold kit homes at the turn of the century (which arrived in train box cars and took 3 ~ 6 months to assemble), some which are still around today. I'd rather have something like that, which people can put together, without AirBNB doing a Google/Facebook style collection operation (I'm pretty sure they'll collect data they can sell to reduce the costs and gain a long tail profit).
I couldn't for the life of me understand how many people I spoke to didn't see the problem that lack of threading and async catch-up posed to linear chat systems as Slack gained in popularity. to me it felt like a forgetful, prettified IRC with awkward sign-up.

Personally I find Zulip to have the nicest implementation of "topic zooming" as it still allows for a global linear view of all activity. Spectrum feels a bit more "channelized" and a bit white-space heavy but prettier.

Zulip's mobile client has come a long way in recent months too.

The hardest part though was trying to convince the community to migrate away from other social platforms. Meetup was (still is) driving me mad with their forums/discussions features which are woeful.
Makes no difference to postgres. The one and only difference is that you can limit the length of a varchar when you define the column but that aside the storage mechanism is the one I quoted above for both, and for char as well:

> There is no performance difference among these three types (nb: varchar, char and text), apart from increased storage space when using the blank-padded type, and a few extra CPU cycles to check the length when storing into a length-constrained column. While character(n) has performance advantages in some other database systems, there is no such advantage in PostgreSQL; in fact character(n) is usually the slowest of the three because of its additional storage costs. In most situations text or character varying should be used instead.

And for applications which introspect the schema and display different field types depending on the column type, well you may not want a textarea for a name field.
A breach like this should mean that Marriott should immediately be in bankruptcy, since the potential damage to any individual customer is well above multiple thousands of dollars.

I wish some of these giant companies would see some real consequences for their lax security practices.
I would imagine that it doesn't have to be instantaneous. A few minutes is probably fine, maybe longer in some circumstances.
Re-reading the article, yes you are correct. Although I still feel it’s important to distinguish different types of intuion. The intuition he is referring to here, and the 3 conditions, doesn’t apply well when we are talking about my other examples, like a painter intuiting colors or an author picking one word/sentence over another. There’s no immediate feedback on those. With a book you have to make all the decisions, publish the book, and then people either like it or not. In the case of art it seems to me, there is a different kind of intuion at work. Ideas and creativity are subject to intuiton, but not the kind that the author is taking about here.
How about if 150M cars were robbed? Is SQL injection as bad as a building collapse then?
TWC most certainly did not take over Charter. The other way around, which is also why the legacy Spectrum brand continued on. Disclaimer: Former employee of Bright House/Charter.