skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the creator and users of Pale Moon luck but I just see using this old version of Mozilla to be a loosing battle. As time goes on it will be harder and harder for basically a one person program to keep up with new features.
Direct Link to DOD Report:
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Dec/14/2002072642/-1/-1/1/DOD...
If WW3 ever starts, nobody will really know what works and what's been hacked. We used to have M.A.D., now we have M.A.H: Mutually assured hacked. WW2 weapons may be the only ones that still work.
> Plenty of places have friendly policies and are taken advantage of by a few, but they keep the policy because people like it.

It's changing:

> Every time shoppers return purchases to Best Buy Co. BBY -2.65% , they are tracked by a company that has the power to override the store’s touted policy and refuse to refund their money.
That is because the electronics giant is one of several chains that have hired a service called Retail Equation to score customers’ shopping behavior and impose limits on the amount of merchandise they can return.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-your-returns-are-used-again...
These are amazing news for people with brain damage conditions like Cerebral Palsy. If they can replace the "dead" areas with new cells. Not sure about the diseases since they will just make the new neurons damaged again.

I wonder what are the implications for healthy brains. If humans are born with 80 billion neurons and you can increase that number...
>The kind of insight that we value is obviously not a state of mind. Let's not nitpick verbiage and risk missing the point

I'm afraid the nitpick is necessary. For example, nobody said or implied that an LSD user comes out with full schematics for a CPU or some new laws of mathematics.

So, to avoid further confusion:

1) I wasn't referring to some technical or quantifiable "insight that we value" and that is "obviously not a state of mind".

2) While not on par with the discovery of calculus or the internal combustion engine, I (and many others I presume) also value the kind of insight people do get with psychedelics (and several other means, including philosophy). Even if it doesn't arrive in a readily communicable form.

3) That doesn't mean there's also no mere sentiment manipulation done by these drugs. But, even though those are there too, people have used them to come to significant personal and artistic etc insights for millennia.

4) That said, other drugs, have helped people (including scientists and engineers) achieve actual technical insights of the "kind we value", and perform impressive feats of concentration etc (amphetamines etc).
Science loves trump
Zoom on the monkey poop on third page of this paper.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20427-9.
Oh right. I just googled. Why add two canonical sources when the original github does a fine job and is also publicly editable (by pull requests)?
How can it not be indicative of insight if it produces value? Isn't insight value to begin with?
What the Popularity of ‘Fortnite’ Has in Common with Pinball
It makes logistics easier I'd think. The mistake Amazon is making is that Product A is Product A is Product A. It means they have 2 less things to track quantity of and they can have 1 count that matters instead of 3. On the surface it seems 100% logical...

Reminds me of story where (and I'm going to butcher parts of this) a town is making a huge vat of wine (or maybe it's food related) and everyone household is supposed to bring a bottle to pour in. A couple of people decide to cheat the system and bring water instead expecting to hide under the radar. It turns out way more people than a few take this path and so the "wine" just tastes like water with a hint of wine in it.
if Amazon doesn't want to address this issue by fixing its reviews, it should just acquire/incorporate Fakespot itself
Sam Harris deletes popular Patreon account, citing political bias
Did anyone get an account opened or make a deposit before this got shut down?
Have you read any of Linus Torvalds' emails?
It was announced, not available.
"putting in some necessary optimizations"?

That sounds suspicious. If it's an optimization, it should be contributed upstream to benefit all the users of Gecko/Firefox.

Or are these optimizations to XUL-only codepaths that are not present/executed in Firefox anymore?
CNN Legal Setback Points to Tougher Times Ahead for Media Companies
Albuquerque resident, can confirm, we returned all the electric buses we ordered. Pretty sure one of them even broke down shortly after leaving the city.
It seems odd to me that they would make such move in the first place without proper legal analysis. Especially, given that it's fintech which already is quite tightly regulated and Robinhood has been in the stock game for a while as well. Or was it just "the magical ampersand" as the article suggests and hope that they would slide under the radar.
I'm going to be a Visiting Professor there in 2019, and I'll be teaching a deep learning course.

One interesting thing about Cornell Tech is that the faculty all work in an open office space, and I think that's to embrace start up culture. Faculty have "huddle" rooms for meetings. At my home institution, I spend 20 hours per week in meetings. Faculty do have dedicated huddle rooms, though.
Oh, those are perfect for my kids. Thanks!
Is there an argument in this?
This whole thing was a net negative PR for Robinhood. The fact that they removed old tweets, blog post and started calling this cash management is downright fraud.

It doesn't make sense even as a growth hack, because they already have millions of users, it's not like without this, they will not be able to acquire more users. My reaction was, "What were they thinking"?
Improv is one the most fun and useful thing I've done. I don't think I had any diagnosable social issues, but it's made me better socially. It's also made me better at presenting and pitching. And it's given me something to spend time on that's not work or tech related.
I've adopted profit-first accounting (https://profitfirstbook.com/), which basically boils down to: For any revenue you generate set aside a fixed percentage of that revenue for both taxes and profit.

It's a habit rather than an automated process, though. There's no banking software that I know of that allows you to automatically initiate a new bank transfer for any incoming funds.
Corporate bonds mature and the principle is paid back. Unlike publicly traded stock, the bond asset never has to be sold on the open market to get rid of it so this part isnt a concern.

If there is a threat that the corporation cannot pay back, or if the corporation merely feels like it, they will issue new bonds and use the proceeds to pay back old ones. Yes it is exactly what it sounds like and there is enough investor appetite for it.

When the corporation’s bond offerings are no longer investment grade then there is less of a chance of their being investor appetite for a future bond rollover and the corporation should try to pay the existing bond.

Therefore the SIZE of the corporate debt outstanding is only clickbait.

This article talks about how there are signs that some companies historically wouldnt be able to tap into bond investor appetite to issue new bonds to cover their cash shortfalls on current bonds. Investor appetite may still be there or the company puts more resources into paying back current bonds in full before they mature, YEARS from now.

Notably this article didnt talk about maturity dates.
Chuck C. Johnson isn't actually racist. LOL.
It’s not a replication crisis. It’s an innovation opportunity
And fwiw I have had quite a few Android phones; including Google's Pixel2 and G2X. So far, this one seems to be the worst.
I originally learned to program in 6502 machine code. Typically I would write code in spiral notebooks while watching the late late late show and hexkeypad it in afterwards. made it a little easier to edit things that way...
There's no free lunch. A quick check of the markets and where short-term treasuries are trading can tell you that 3% is too good to be true.... Glad it broke quickly rather than deluding people into thinking their money was safe and getting a good return.

High Reward =~ High Risk...

If you can call 3% high...
Bottled water is the number one selling packaged beverage in America. That's fucking stupid considering clean safe drinking water is abundant and ubiquitous in America.
No, that would not be "as a result of compiling", but you can do that anyway (with attribution and patent though), as incorporating Apache code into other code is fine in general.
For me, my money is mostly automated through taking payments via ACH and Credit Cards, that are deposited directly into my business checking... well, except one client that insists on sending me a check every time, but even this is roughly automated (a check scanner on my desk at home).

I've used Quick Books Online and Gusto for years, now, and I don't really have to think about it.

I am an S-Corp, so I have to pay myself a W2 with a reasonable salary. So I deposit all of the business income at once into my business checking account, and Gusto (for a pretty hefty fee) direct deposits my paycheck weekly into my personal accounts.

QBO only takes a few minutes each week (or month if I'm lazy) to go in an categorize expenses and income, then at the end of every "tax quarter", I look at my profit for previous period, and cut a check for 20%.

Then at the end of the year, my CPA goes over everything and does all of the year end stuff that I don't understand, and moves registers around and categorizes stuff that I did wrong throughout the year.
I think PTFE would be a hard nut to crack for microorganisms.
It is much more impressive that Knuth came up with and wrote TeX than that it was bug-free or written all in his head.

Computer time is no longer at a premium and bugs can be fixed.

Useful, creative, and clear solutions usually trump perfectly correct ones, except in special cases such as when life is on the line or you're writing programs to fly to the moon where getting it right the first time is of utmost importance.
This was a delight, thank you.
Whataboutism is rarely a useful argument. Also even Linus now asserts that he was a bit of a jerk. Also linus only calls for you to be retroactively aborted he doesn't threaten lawsuits normally.
My favorite book from Knuth isn't computer-related at all.

3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

https://smile.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089...
The Fallout (2017)
If your program is calling LLVM APIs directly, the exception wouldn't kick in. So any JIT project using LLVM would have to comply with Apache 2.0.
The thing is, if you target only live editing case, you can become slower for "batch compilation" case. For source browsers this probably isn't too important, b/c one can add caching using something like LSIF. However for command line compilers a similar caching won't work: in the majority of cases, you compile new code. But adding fast "batch mode" on top of "live" editing seems easier than going in the opposite direction.
Show HN: Inject secrets from AWS KMS, SSM, or SecretsManager into your app
Why not? Isn't there an outcry for more American-made products? Aren't factories closing down because jobs are being outsourced to places like China? I know Keyboardio's products won't save hundreds of jobs, but they could try looking at the U.S., a place where a language barrier is almost non-existent, before trusting someone thousands of miles away.

I'm not a business expert and am probably oversimplifying this. Corrections or a better explanation is welcome.
If they had to, I'm sure retailers would use pricing to force a flatter purchasing pattern. If prices doubled by November, you'd shop in August right?

As well as holidays there are sales. Do sales increase total yearly spend for the industry as a whole? Otherise, couldn't retailers just agree to stop doing them?
Language features are definitely in the near-term plans for xi, and depending on what stage Rust Analyzer is at it could definitely be a good initial target for some of that work.
Doesn't amazon make it fairly obvious when you're ordering from a 3rd party or not?

There's still a measure of control in who the supplier is, and the reviews for that supplier too.
> The standard passive indexing approach used by middle class individuals scales in a cost-effective manner to the billions of dollars of assets

Family offices are more like endowments and follow similar strategies that will have a portfolio that includes a mix of public equities, bonds, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate. Many of these investments are illiquid and have long holding periods, so aren't available to normal investors but can provide much better returns than index funds.

In addition, when you have >$100m in wealth, consistent, predictable returns become very important and index funds don't give you that. It took 8 years for the S&P 500 to recover from the dotcom crash and 6 years for the 2008 crash.
Here is mediKanren (from the same authors): https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren

It's used for automated search through medical databases for drug discovery: https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-me...

Here is the Gerrit code review system: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/

It allows you to specify complex rules for workflows, who may sign off on what patches etc. Those rules are written in Prolog, but I guess they might as well be written in some other logic language.

Here is (or rather, will be) Gigahorse, an Ethereum smart contract decompiler: https://2019.icse-conferences.org/event/icse-2019-technical-...

The abstract doesn't say what "declarative, logic-based specification" is used in the implementation, but I know that two of the authors do a lot of work in Datalog, so it's Datalog.
Google will continue to have the upper hand in public image until stuff like that happens. Yes, this would be a PR challenge, but one MS might even be able to spin in a way they can benefit from...
Comma.ai releases dataset for HD maps
That one won't or doesn't do the things to speed up a site has nothing to do with my point. After the low-hanging fruit, give your site to me and let's just see how much faster things will run.
Yeah what’s the TL;DR but for dummies?
What a wonderful and genuine human being! It helps explain why his books are so incredibly humane while remaining deep on a very broad topic. Thanks for sharing. ️
Google is your friend. There are many cases, but this is one of the more recent.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/apple-ret...
It's not necessarily low level optimization. You get better optimization results if you're willing to change things at all levels of the software stack (including user expectations); so it's really about understanding what's going on all the way down and all the way up.

As with all things, the way to get experience and knowledge is to try things. Take a look at some software that you use that does something slow, and try to make it faster; it's easier if you have the source available. Lots of applications these days are slow to start, and that's easy to time, and probably easy to bucket things into things that don't need to be done or things that can be done later. If you interact with any long data processing loops, those are often good choices for optimization as well.

This skill set is most employable for companies that have scale; when you have ten servers, being able to turn off one of them because of efficiency gains doesn't help that much; but it's nice to turn off ten percent of your 10,000 node cluster. It also leads to nice claims on resumes "made efficiency gain in X, leading to Y% cost savings on servers", and since you're likely to spend a bunch of time on a single issue, you'll be able to have a good discussion when it comes to 'discuss some of your interesting projects' in interviews.

The only downside is you'll be super frustrated about everyone else's software being slow. You'll likely gravitate towards classic games because they don't have load times; I hope you like pixel art. :D
For those who are believers, there is a no-cost ministry in Tulsa, OK (God's ER, godser.us) that helps people work through trauma by similar means. They also have means of remote ministry. My daughter no longer registers on the autism spectrum after working with this ministry. I have friends that have worked through some heavy things in their past and now have high degrees of emotional function.
A tale in two acts:

Act 1: Checking available to everyone!

Several days later...

Act 2: Sorry, no more.
> But, if a company is paying a 4% dividend, and can borrow at 3.5%, buying back stock reduces the dividend payout, and the company avoids lowering the dividend per share (something that is considered sacrilegious in America).

It's also essentially an arbitrage opportunity at 0.5% gain. The company is borrowing money, buying its own shares, and then using less than 100% of the dividend it would have paid on those shares to pay the interest on the debt, and having the rest left over.

That revenue stream goes away as interest rates rise -- you can't arbitrage 4% ROI against 4.5% borrowing costs -- but it takes time before that has to happen. If the company borrowed by issuing ten year bonds, they're effectively still paying the original (e.g. 3.5%) interest rate until the bonds mature.

At that point they either have to re-borrow the money (which only makes sense if interest rates are still low) or re-issue the shares. But even if they re-issue the shares at that point, they're still better off than having not done it, because they still have the ten years worth of arbitrage profits.

This makes even more sense for the companies that have a pile of cash sitting around making <1% returns, because then the arbitrage profits are even higher (and continue to exist even if interest rates rise more), and they don't even have to pay anything back at the end.
I use a service that checks the reviews on every Amazon item I'm going to buy and reject any products with gamed reviews.

In a different tangent I found myself disgusted with AliExpress lately when every listing I was looking at had semi-related bait items for higher listing position when sorting by price. Amazon isn't that bad yet.
There is a service call Track (https://www.track.tax/) that kind of does this specifically for self-employment taxes.

It wouldn't be TOO dificult to implement a similar service for yourself that did a bank transfer of X% using plaid+stripe. Problem is that it would cost 0.8% (max $5) per transfer.
The criticism are not about the protocol itself, but about a particular implementation. rust-analyzer also uses LSP as an interface.
I use fakespot.com to try to suss out which reviews are reliable. But it's difficult to tell if Fakespot can be trusted.
Their having to remove old tweets, blog posts, and marketing material likely had to do with pushback from regulators.
Being Helpful While Still Saying “No”
No, quite the opposite for me. I think debt is more a symptom here. Here is your life (however you got here - maybe you made bad choices, maybe you didn't), there is no escape. One of the things holding you down is debt, but wiping that out will not help you because you come up short every month. You'll just be back in debt next month.
Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed
Manipulating the "music industry", which has its share of problems, is one thing. When spun/phrased this way it can make it seem like a positive... "this guy is sticking it to the man!"

But in reality, he screwed venues, his band members, and others, and seems not to care that humans and small businesses were hurt in the process because "LOL music industry"

He got his 15 minutes of fame, his following will probably dwindle, and all for the small cost of his dignity/trustworthiness. It's pretty gross, honestly.
I believe that "higher" means higher female ratios than many other CS programs, not necessarily more females than males.
>The only fundamental problem with IntelliJ Rust is that it is not written in Rust, and I would really love to have a pure-rust solution for IDEs. Why? The main reason is that Rust is the perfect language for building these sorts of tools

Citation needed.
> I am not strong on early stage primordial soup and what went on there

Clearly, since the "giant mushrooms" and "primordial soup" were separated by 3 billion years (75% of the earth's existence)

> I find it a little hard to believe that something went completely extinct and then something completely new appeared. Surely there must be something that survived no?

Yes, they're called "offspring". You are basically assuming that an organism has the same eye color as it's 800 millionth great grandparent.
You can buy CDs from Ally Bank that give you 3.1% with only a 90 day interest penalty for early withdrawal. Not too far off what they were offering assuming that you aren't using it as your main checking account.
High-Performance Web Fonts, Front-Trends 2018
They were hoping to collect a different type of finical data, mainly how the ATM card was used. They thought issuing an ATM card was easier than it actually is.
Can TLS encryption be used here and does it support encrypting the storage?
Several years ago I wrote a falling sand game for the Parallax Propeller chip, which is an 8-core microcontroller. One core was needed to drive the video output, and I had up to 7 other cores running a simple ruleset:

1. If a sand pixel had an empty pixel below it, exchange them.
2. If more than two sand pixels are stacked but there's space to the side, kick one sand grain out to that side.

These rules were enough to make the sand form simple hill shapes. All of the cores bash on the same shared memory array; rather than use locks or synchronization I just had each core start in a different column of the screen and all move left to right by columns - in theory there should be enough separation that they'd never conflict.

However - and this is the part I thought interesting to post about - somehow after a few seconds or minutes the 7 cores would catch up with each other and start running in lockstep (effectively reducing the speed of the simulation to equivalent of 1 core).

Barring a bug that was simply crashing cores, what I think was happening was that not every control flow path took the same number of cycles, so a core processing a column with a complex sand pattern might slow down and allow another core to catch up to it. Once two cores were operating on exactly the same data, they'd be doing the same deterministic logic on the same inputs and writing out the same result, effectively just duplicating the work in lockstep.
Not probable. Slugs aren't conscious and eat much more mushrooms in variety and weight than we eat. Even very poisonous mushroms that could kill easily a human.

On the other hand, there is not much (chemically speaking) in a mushroom that plants can't do. If the humans had achieved conscious eating "X", X could be anything. There is not need to fill the gap in this hypothesis with a mushroom.
Why does a company have to grow, if it's doing what it does well, workers are happy, and customers are happy, and growth is not occurring naturally?

Could it be that the expectation for all companies, everywhere to grow at a constant rate is not reasonable?
It looks like a Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110
In public speaking, I used to turn red, sweat and babble...
In business school, a three day seminar with theater actors made me realize it didn't have to be like that - it unlocked my attitude and set me on a self-improvement path... I am now at ease speaking anywhere anytime - it took a few years but improvisation with actors has been key to start heading there.
Microsoft told us they definitely did not plan to make any kind of language server registry, so we saw a community need for an informational site to exist with more details than the wiki page they had. We’ve heard it’s useful, but we don’t want to create duplication. Want to file an issue on the langserver.org repo for discussion?