skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like Spectrum, I tried to get other people to join it but my "friends" are always stuck on Discord and Reddit. So finally, I only lurk it occasionally.

However I don't understand why GitHub would acquire Spectrum: what do they have to win from this?
Doesn't GitHub already have their own "forums" for communities per Git org?

I tried to use these git forums/board (https://github.com/orgs/lnug/teams/), sadly it never ever really get going...
I also blame GitHub's notification system which is absolutely badly implemented and confuses new-comers.

Back in the day we hyped-up and used Gitter for our community ( https://gitter.im/lnug is where I am at ). Now I wonder, is this why GitHub would want to buy Spectrum? To show GitLab they also can do community threaded discussions a-la-IRC ?

I am confuse, friend.
Sure, I'm not attempting to say that this person was not taught that singular they was not a proper usage, just that it has been a proper usage for longer than any of us have lived.
Or at least hire review coordinators who can manage the program effectively. Our volunteers review 15,000+ loans a month. Happy to share insights with Mozilla on how to run an effective volunteer community and keep the pipeline flowing.
It's also easier for me. I have no problem skipping breakfast and then skipping lunch takes a little willpower but I'm often distracted by work. I have friends who find it easier to eat a big lunch as their only meal. Worth experimenting for each person to find what works best for them.
Same thing here. Except I also refuse any refined flour, Co sidering it sugar. I only eat whole foods, no milk, very little cheese, barely any meat. Lots of vegetarian meals. Dropped 50+ lbs without much drama. I cycle extensively in the warm summer months.
I'm going to upvote your comment because I don't think it deserves to be downvoted, and at the time of writing it's grayed out for me.

That being said - you're incorrect about about competition between active investors and HFT. That's a common misconception. HFT primarily occupies a marketing making role, which means they try to play both sides of the spread very quickly for a very, very small profit on each trade. There are elements of valuation here, but what's really much more important is very small holding times and low latency turnaround. The ideal goal of an HFT operation is a trading strategy which earns a profit 51% of the time and trades very frequently.

In contrast, active investors - whether quantitative, fundamental or some mix thereof - care more about being correct on fewer bets, which have more money behind them and which are held for longer periods of time (hours, days, weeks or months). These funds are not competing with HFT: HFT only competes with HFT. This is because HFT activity and active investing activity are completely alien to one another. HFT has a material impact on the profit margins (slippage), volume and liquidity available to active investors, but strictly speaking they don't actually compete (except in the narrow sense that you "compete" with a car salesman to buy a car for a better price).

HFT is a relatively tiny portion of the financial industry which gets outsized attention. It's generally more accurate to think of HFT firms as financial utility providers rather than investing firms.
there are lots of FBA apps that will let you scan a bar code and tell you how much it is selling for on Amazon, and will factor in Amazon's commission, shipping costs, etc and will tell you the absolute max you can pay for an item and still make X% money off of it.
Juul employees upset over possible Altria deal
O11ycast #7, Observability at Asana and Honeycomb
While the article is a little sensationalist, I do agree with the point that the tangential tools needs work. The most frustrating part of working with Rust for me has been dealing with getting an IDE up and running to the point that I often just resort to Notepad++ and command line which switching to a different computer. If they had an out of the box IDE configuration that you could just install and go with little investment, I imagine it would go a long way toward adoption.

Think of it like the popularity of Anaconda, which is a just a collection of pre-configured available python packages.
Also, Apple doesn't ground their existence in "we want software to be Free (as in Freedom) and we want you to be able to control your own device to do what you want". If anything, they want something that's mostly opposite.[1]

Mozilla does claim to live up to that standard.

[1] This isn't to say they're wrong; there are legit reasons to want a device with good defaults that are hard to bypass.
Sometimes refusing to ship means that you just lost first to market advantage to someone who did. There are always trade offs, cost benefit analysis, and risk analysis to do with these decisions. For most software out there, assuming that a person at least has a name is a pretty safe assumption.
Prefer not to think of the sequels if possible.
I second this. KiCad is a great software, but it's workflow between schematic and PCB layout is confusing and its parts management is a mess. Hopefully the ideas of this project will make their way into KiCad.
I wonder if anyone else has the experience of complaining about and pointing this problem out for a decade or more before emojis become widespread, and pretty much nobody cared ("they speak what language?"). But as soon as emojis became more widespread suddenly proper Unicode support became everyone's problem.
You don’t need to imagine. $9b per year (USD).

https://www.ft.com/content/aa4465aa-2349-11e8-ae48-60d3531b7...

This chart helps too:
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
I've tended to think that a lot of it is about different social circles. If everyone you know makes $50-100k/yr, you feel fine making that yourself, and may not even be sure what you'd do with a million dollars. If your social circle is full of millionaires and multi-millionaries, all of the sudden making a million feels like barely getting by and you think about all of the cool stuff you see people around you getting that you could get if you had tens of millions.
"its about beating the other guy. I think its the same mechanism that will drive someone to grind for many hours in an MMO or suchlike."

I think their sense of identity is tied to their performance. I noticed the same thing in sports or even in school were students compare exam scores.
This isn't exactly accurate. One of the requirements for publicly traded funds (ETFs) is that they need to be "replicable", meaning that anyone should be able to read the methodologies (which are required to be public) and understand it and be able to come to the same final basket of securities at the same weights.

This, in practice, is very difficult even with everything public, though, due to a variety of differences such as data differences between vendors, "expert judgment" for unforeseen circumstances, and the mere fact that sometimes methodologies can be confusing, complex, or have vague language. Most indices, unlike the 500, are pretty hard on rules. The 500 is a rare index that is purely discretionary. They do give guidance on general guidelines, though.
Depending on definitions, you could also include rocket.chat, and Zulip (open core). There's a bunch.

As to federation, the ActivityPub protocol underlying Mastodon, and a bunch of other projects, was originally designed to support it -- but the devil's in the details, particularly regarding finding a common data model (do you have topics within channels, like Zulip does? what do you support within a channel beyond plain text messages? etc)
I don't know the whole story, but I'm inferring that the signing change affected the ability for people to sideload plugins.
If it was just distribution through the add-on app store, that would be one thing. As of Firefox 48 however, in stable builds of Firefox, unsigned addons (which haven't gone through Mozilla's review process) cannot be installed. Period. The about:config setting meant to override signature checks (and allow third-party extensions), `xpinstall.signatures.required`, is plainly ignored in stable versions from this point forward, so it's AMO or bust.

The only way to install an unsigned extension is to install the Beta or Developer builds of Firefox, which still honor the above setting. Or, I suppose, to use one of the many forks of the Firefox codebase that restore user choice.
Sure; taxation should be pricing in externalities.

Buying a less polluting car that costs more is effectively a charitable donation.

Most individuals don't make charitable donations of $1000+.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons Tesla are so great. It's fun to drive, so the extra cost isn't purely charitable.
Ha! I have a friend who emigrated to Canada; his family name was Penus (pronounced Pen-woosh). He had to change it :)
It was so laughable he got a Nobel prize for it. That's not to say Kahneman is always right, but he is always worth listening to.
Boy, ungoogled chrome and brave are looking mighty appeasing at the moment. Im not sure how long I can continue to support mozilla.. Why do they keep doing these things? They can't just be satisfied with what they were?

Profit over all, always and forever.
The really stupid move was bragging about it online, now he's going to get competition.
>Nostrums

def: A medicine

>drugs work today

....

Seriously though, the problem is that, regardless of cause, we're fat and lazy. Throwing more drugs to take care of diabetes and heart disease is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I'm watching my boomer parents realize that medicine isn't going to help everything, and they are going to have to be accountable for their help. They've gotten much more physically active and lost weight because they are seeing that my grandfather's heart medication may be stopping the heart attacks but it isn't stopping his diabetes or inability to climb the stairs, and the gamut of surgeries are just making him more and more crippled. A pill won't solve our problems. It may solve the current health crises, but it won't stop the next one. Losing weight, eating better, and being active will solve the whole set of problems.
Federal, state, and local governments. Taxis. Ford Focus did well too.
Having funds is not the same as having unallocated funds.
Sure, but that's so far outside the norm as to be almost irrelevant.

The average family size in the US is a hair over 3 (two parents, one child, roughly). In 2017, light truck sales were roughly double the sales of cars.
Whole milk has a lot of carbs. Something folks might want to know if they are trying to reduce carbs.
Fira code is great, but it can confuse others when they're looking over your shoulder.

I consider it essential when working with Javascript, thanks to the ~~boneheaded and objectively wrong~~ personal-opinion-based decision to make the strict equality operator longer than the coercive one. Making sure you have the right one is important, and while linters can also solve the problem, I like having it be very visual and obviously apparent.

Regarding `it's`: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=063jQAM6N8I
Probably better so. Toolbar shit can't install their crapware anymore this way.
those three conditions are needed to learn anything.
> even with proper following distance, seeing more than the car in front of you adds to your safety.

The proper following distance is around 100 yards, and at that distance you should have no trouble seeing around an SUV.
> Once Americans began driving Hondas and Toyotas, they discovered that these cars had a lot more going for them than just gas mileage

This resonates with my experience so much I couldn't help but write this. After my previous Japanese car saved my life in an accident, I went ahead and bought the new model, about a decade later.

I am seriously impressed. Things which were premium a while back are now standard. And the look-and-feel of the car, the comfort and driving feel is just amazing. I could go with a bigger more powerful engine but I mean the mileage is hard to beat. And I won't even mention the abundant safety features (which decreased my insurance premium!).

Although I can afford it, I have absolutely no interest in the premium brands.
I have been approached by clients asking for a discount before in trade for equity.

If they are willing to pay the legal fees and you can afford to lose the time, sure? It is nice for them for you to have buy-in, nice for them to get a discount, but what do you gain?

Can they run a business successfully? Your (probably) small share is not going to mean much in terms of running the company.

Do you trust them enough not to get into major legal trouble that is going to cause you crazy headaches down the road?
Did you just essentially argue that it is ethical because it is easy?
5 ways how technology shapes the education industry
Togolese innovators turn the world's junk into robots
There have been several generations of PhD psychologists working studiously to figure out how to manipulate the mind into buying extra crap you don't need. Our primitive monkey brains are little match.
U.S. govt issues guidance for political activity of federal government workers
...which is why REPLs, fast test suites (1-5 seconds), etc. are so important. It's not just a quantitative thing, you get a qualitatively very very different process happening.

People have known this, er, intuitively for some time. Kahneman gives us an handle on why it is: it lets us develop an intuition for the software we are working on.
As a developer, yes I do - it will only drive up the demand for skilled practioners of the craft.
the next affordable EV to come to market with be the Kona. While not a sedan independent testers are already seeing 5miles per kwh which is incredible and its price points are very good.

the issue is availability, in the US it is expected to be a CARB state car only for awhile.

When I decided to move from my 2017 Volt to a pure EV I really wanted a sedan which led me to the TM3 I did buy but I did try to give the Bolt a chance but simply put, the killer app of the TM3 is the super charging network. That and i have found the spartan dash has made me rethink the need for dozens of buttons most cars have.

Recent Kona review https://youtu.be/LATZ0g-Sz2s
Facebook and MIT Want to Use AI to Create Addrs for the Blns Who Don't Have One
Building a pet monitor in Android with Fritz
Deep learning for pedestrians: backpropagation in CNNs
The real question is, what is the minimum number of active investors required for accurate pricing of risk in a market dominated by index funds? I'm not aware of an answer that is widely accepted as clearly right.

In theory it might only be one! If there's only one active investor, and they find stocks that the index funds have not priced correctly, then the active investor can pounce, make some money, and move the stock toward a more accurate price. The more they do this, the more money they will make, and the more resources they will have for finding and taking advantage of mis-priced stocks.

The real trick is telling what an "accurate" price is, so that you can evaluate whether the market is working properly. Since the purpose of the market is to find the accurate price, asking whether the price it finds is accurate seems like begging the question.

Is the stock market pricing risk accurately now? Was it pricing risk more accurately 40 years ago, before the growth of index funds? There have been plenty of bull and bear markets during that time... and some nasty unexpected shocks.
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They do apply reasonably well as long as you're solving similar problems. Even if programming language differs...

It is similar with mathematicians. A mathematician may smell a rat in a proof like a programmer a bad pattern in code, but you can only really trust their intuition in their specialty field.

E.g. web frontend programmer intuition won't do in backend, desktop UI, mobile, HPC, video game coding, embedded programming, real time applications or safety critical software.

This does not preclude polyglots and polymaths or generalists.
By default in the US the person paying the contractor to write the code owns it.

But, that does not mean there is anything wrong with the contractor asking for an alternative agreement.

I do a lot of contracting work and my clients always own 100% of my code: but I could see that if I were to be approached to write something I could then market to my other clients (a lot of them are in finance) maybe I could ask them to develop for free or cheap to do that.

I don't see any problem with being honest with your client and asking them.
Org-mode and literate programming.

Bring all the code into a set of org-mode files each file has one code block, which emits back the original code. You can verify this using diff or (better) putting the initial repo into git if it's not already and seeing if your emitted code causes any unstaged changes to appear. Start dividing the blocks into more logical chunks (includes, declarations, definitions, one block per function implementation, etc.). Use a hierarchy like:

* foo.c
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c :tangle foo.c :noweb tangle
<<foo-includes>>
<<foo-file-variables>
<<foo-functions>>
#+END_SOURCE
** includes
#+NAME: foo-includes
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c
#include<stdio.h>
#include "bar.h"
#include "foo.h"
#+END_SOURCE
** file variable declarations
#+NAME: foo-file-variables
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c
int x, y, z;
some_struct a, b, c;
#+END_SOURCE
** Function bodies
#+NAME: foo-functions
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c :noweb tangle
<<foo-baz>>
<<foo-quux>>
#+END_SOURCE
*** baz: int->int
#+NAME: foo-baz
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c
int baz (int i) {
// some logic
return some_val;
}
#+END_SOURCE

Those variable names are useless, figure out what they actually mean and document them in the org file. Consider renaming them. There are no test cases, create a tests section in the org file and start writing up simple test programs (or use a unit test framework, but you may need to do some significant refactoring before you can do that).

A benefit of org-mode here is that sometimes you want to test some functionality (and have no unit tests yet). So you try to test baz from above. But once you build that source file and a second foo_test.c file you find out that foo has a function, quux, which has dependencies outside of just the header files and foo.c itself. To build this thing you have to build bar.c and maybe even the whole Linux kernel. "Shit!", you say, "How do I handle this?" Well, org-mode to the rescue:

* Testing Foo
** Testing baz
#+BEGIN_SOURCE c :tangle foo_baz_test.c :noweb tangle
<<foo-includes>>
<<foo-file-variables>>
<<foo-baz>>
// maybe some other things like the header references.
// some test code that is able to focus in on just the baz function
#+END_SOURCE

You've fully isolated that one chunk, and quux is no longer being included in the build for this test. Whatever problems it has don't impact you (for this test). Once you figure out how to isolate or mock quux's dependencies so that you aren't including the full Linux kernel, you can add it to the set of tests. Now the foo file is fully brought under testing and you can more effectively refactor it. And the mocks and all you've made allow you to move to a proper unit test framework if you want, versus the ad hoc initial framework we've produced here.

Even if you don't care about testing your code, the above process (sans the testing part) will allow you to perform a disection on your codebase and get it documented and specced out properly.
I can download an arbitrary exe file and run it with a few clicks. It can do anything, install rootkit in my BIOS and of course completely replace Firefox.exe or anything else. What's the reasoning to forbid me to download and run addon? I can already shot myself, very easily. Additional protection does not do any good, only harms users.
People are used to thinking of votes in terms of integers, but if you think of it in terms of points then fractions don't make a difference, really. If you own 100 shares of a stock you get to 100 votes. That's been the standard forever. This is just extending it to say that if you own .01 shares you get .01 votes. It's still the same concept and same math, just not on an integer basis.
The site has slowed to a crawl as the HN audience hugs it to death. Unfortunate that they didn't anticipate the increased interest and allocate more capacity accordingly.
The surprisingly high number of Americans getting absolutely no raises
The funny thing is most of this has been available to Lisp programmers since the 80s.
Usually type 1 diabetics (autoimmune, are more at risk for DKA. Type 2 diabetics can definitely be at risk for DKA, especially if insulin-dependent. However, they are at higher risk for hyperosmolar hyperglycemic coma, which is equally frightening.

It's definitely a risk, but not as much if your body is still making insulin to help provide your cells with at least some energy.
I actually agree with you (I was a bit drunk when I wrote that rant). If someone meets a relatively low standard of physical attractiveness, the rest matters more. I may be off in queer lala land, but that still is roughly true for me.

The argument I am encountering, the one I disagree with, is that attractiveness is a linear function and substantially the only thing that matters when dating. By virtue of being in her mid 30s, the letter writer is right to realize her value is low and declining. She will only find low value partners and even those doors are closing as she creeps closer to menopause.

I'm trying to argue that no, her value as a person AND as a romantic partner is much more than that.

I'm even going one step farther than that to say that picking a mate based on attractiveness as correlated with age is a strategy that will not bring you happiness whether you are a man, woman, or a queer degenerate like myself.

A lot of people follow other strategies, even if they are in the minority, and while it might take some time, she should seek out those who do, who value the things she has done in her life, the perspectives she's gained, all of that, and not just her youthful good looks.

tl;dr - Girl needs to chill. Her life (even romantic life!) isn't over because she's single and 35. She needs to stop evaluating herself that way.
How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-year quest
My 10 year old was diagnosed (via a thorough neuropsych evaluation, not by annoyed teachers) and my wife and I have been very leery of medication. It's not that we doubt the efficacy, but we do have concerns about its effects on growing brains and, most importantly, want our guy to be able to manage things himself.

Step one has been to help him become more self aware of what's going on. We use lots of checklists and consistent routines to ease the load on his executive functioning. We also work to break bigger projects into lots of small chunks. Working on a thing for 2 hours is hard, but working on a thing for 15 minutes is pretty easy. We'll also set a timer during homework and have mandatory "run around and do something" breaks after 30 minutes of homework. At school, he'll even ask to take a test in a separate area of the room, or ask to go walk up and down the stairs a few times when he's getting restless.

In our case, things are working w/out drugs. He's learning school materials, and the positive feelings he's getting from not being in trouble more at school and getting his homework done have made a nice feedback loop for continuing to stay with the program. That said, I'm sure there are cases where progress is impossible and medication is the only option to get results.
In your mind, how is this decision one that was made to increase profit?
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A fellow Watts fan! Glad to meet you!
I had the same thought. For the sake of clarity, Spectrum is not a cable company unto itself. It is a brand owned by Time Warner Cable, a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction.
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