skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatives saving methods would be equities and bonds.

If regulators required banks to finance at least half their lending portfolios by bonds (+equity) instead of deposits or intra-bank loans, the risks for both bonds and deposits would be much more transparant.

Bonds would be seen as risky, but would pay a reasonable interest rate, while deposits would be risk-free and interest-free.
What is flutter?
> It is hard for me to fully internalize this point when I have a counterexample readily available, albeit one that will do nothing to convince you. I consider myself capable of making sound financial decisions

Many people do, many of these very same people are not actually competent when it comes down to it, just overconfident, or just have a run of bad luck.

> I disagree that the solution to that is to centralize funds...

Who said anything about centralising or the state? You can invest in pension funds all over the place, with many financial bodies, but you'll find access to these funds restricted in various ways.

> The rest of the quoted part of your post sounds like another non-choice (in that the it is highly impractical)

It's perfectly practical, you can move to all sorts of other nations, take your pick. It's a massive coincidence that the ones that are worth living in have restrictions and protections like these, no?
Still, it doesn't seem reasonable for Netflix to get 30% less revenue from users who happen to be using iOS. I guess the fairest thing for Netflix to do is to charge 40% more (so they get roughly the same amount after Apple takes their 30% cut) for people who sign up through Apple. That way, customers get the choice to go through Apple or not.

> I don't have to worry about my credit card being stolen.

I still think it's bizarre that you even have to authorise payment through the vendor you're buying from, rather than through your bank. This credit card-based payment system the internet accidentally foisted upon us is completely backwards.
> I get why any individual would chose Fusion 360. But I'm completely heartbroken that the community as a whole gives up so much without apparent thought, and see people advertise it "because it is free" on a thread about an open source alternative is sad.

I'm just hoping that Fusion will such a great example that the day Autodesk decides to change it enough people will know what it is and whenever you say: we're building Fusion but then opensource without the cloud stuff, it will be an easy pitch and everyone will get on board with an aligned mindset.
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Fixing the nargs() subroutine on a PDP-11 with split I/D address space [pdf]
I agree, i think I was more confused. I thought he meant the time to realize the projects, not the complete cycle from estimating whether it's doable to financing to building.

There are also project on hold for 30 years in munich.
I think the humor comes from the shock and incongruity of a "battle" where he's brutally murdering innocent civilians and clueless guards for no reason. He probably could have just sauntered past them all. It's called the WTFLOL Effect (no Wikipedia entry yet).
Only one thing stands out: "I was certainly ill-equipped."

So far in these posts everything has been blamed --engineering decisions, the psychology of panic -- except the mindset of the adventurers.

"Fight and flight" is not a normal way to describe a reaction to an ordinary oil-spill, even in a slightly less than extremely convenient location when you have the comfort and convenience of a complete house, which is even mobile by itself, at your disposition.

I think some psychological factors are left unmentioned here, with hints of spousal disagreement, grudges, an unwillingness to admit failure, and a desire to divert blame to external factors (the posts in question being an example by themselves).

There was definitely a chain of ill-considered decisions that almost lead to a disastrous outcome, but it seems like a lot of the actions were outside of the realm of the normal default choices, making me suspect there were unmentioned factors at play.

Either that or the adventurers were hopelessly unsuited for their chosen adventure at that time.

"The animality of the human mind" would have significance in describing high-pressure and continuously mounting situations where in retrospect some baffling choices can be explained by instinctive choices that turned out to be counter intuitive.

I guess:

- "I don't want to deal with this right now!",

- "Fine, I don't need a navigator anyway!"

could fit the description, but seeing how it could easily have been:

- "I don't want to deal with this right now!"

- "Maybe you're right. I'm sorry. I'll put on the kettle and make some tea. Then I'll get online and see what I can drum up."

the story really ends up having a "Why the stupid things that happened weren't really my fault" tone.
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You do find low IQ people in high places — they’re the low IQ people who have inherited wealth and social connections to those places.
I made a small site that puts remote companies on a map. I hope this could be helpful for those hackers who are looking for a new remote company to join in 2019.

It's still very fresh – there are currently 1.5k team members spread across 876 cities (88 countries). I would be happy to hear any suggestions how to improve the site and where to take this next.

List of remote companies

========================

You can combine filters on the companies page to find "small remote only companies with programming jobs hiring now" or similar:

https://remotehub.io/remote-companies

Remote company profile

======================

Check out how team members are spread across the map on the company page:
https://remotehub.io/doist

This also lists all cities and countries, open job positions, benefits and tech stack.

Team members

============

There's also a more detailed page that lists all team members with locations, timezones, weather info (just for fun):
https://remotehub.io/doist/team

(btw when there's a laptop in front of the sun it means that the person is probably working right now 9am...5pm)
Yes, there are plenty of methods, and I have a couple implemented, but an off-the-shelf one from a cutting edge library would likely be better.
I have an RV and tow a 4 door Jeep behind it, the difference in gas mileage towing the jeep vs not is maybe 1 mpg(6.5 mpg vs 7.5 mpg).

I have two kids, towing just a scooter would not be that useful. The jeep works really well for sight seeing, including off-roading while at the destination.

A large RV is not the efficient way to get around regardless of towing a smaller vehicle, but it is a great way to see the country. I am somewhat torn about the environmental aspect of it, I am not sure how clear cut it is vs air travel and hotels and related infrastructure.
I don't have autism (or at least I'm not diagnosed) and none of the faces evoked any effect on me. But maybe it is because I'm fixated on the faces and not on the bigger picture.
It appears that by "redefining" - - - - such that social media co's posts are to be treated as speakers / publishers - - - freedom of speech and liability shall now be assigned to these companies, sort of a "leveling of the playing field". This appears to be a reaction to Google and Facebook rather obviously constraining conservative speech/news.
Has sharding just recreated the double-spend problem by shattering the consensus mechanism that solved it into 100 pieces?

Are we now free-floating, hoping to find a new solution to the double-spend problem on a fragmented system?
That's like keeping the binary but removing the source code. I don't find that acceptable.
The Cuomo family are pieces of shit, always were. I can't believe NY has made the same mistake twice! Absolute corrupt pieces of shit.

Americans need to fix this political mess and start electing smart people who aren't in someone else's pocket. The corruption in NY and the whole east coast is rampant! And it's bad everywhere mind you, but NY absolutely is the epicenter of it.
Okay.

Let me try getting my point across with an insult instead.

Some dude in a marginal university in Norway has managed to convince a few people, a couple of students and a writer for a glittery university magazine, that he is a genius.

His approach is to do something trivial but bury it in a completely obscure terminology. This technically sorta works on a toy example but not really on more challenging tests. But it is very convincing for people who are not trying to understand what is going on but rather are impressed by technical words and academic rank.

That is why it is getting negative feedback here and on other technical forums.

And that is why noone can answer a simple technical question.
The Apple Watch is fine if you charge it sometime during your waking hours for ~30 minutes.
Boston and San Francisco have realitively equivalent population densities and population. So this makes a very good comparison of the two regions.

For example my 4.5 mi commute in sf takes around 25 min. That’s similar to what I remember from Harvard square to Boylston street which is an equivalent distance.
Russia is poised to add a new hypersonic nuclear-capable glider to its arsenal
This is a good Javascript-centric writeup. This caught my eye thought:

> Since JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are not signed using asymmetric encryption ...

You don't have to, but can of course sign your JWTs with asymmetric keys, and many libraries support this. Third party token issuers (firebase, google, auth0) require asymmetric, since they're clearly not going to share a secret with you.

Asymmetric also provides two-way token verification: The issuer signs the token with a private key, and receivers of the token can then verify that the token is legitimate using the issuers "well-known" public key.
dup of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805315
> Apple is the world's most valuable company,

Just a nit; Microsoft is currently $30 billion over Apple in market cap.

It goes back and forth here of course.
The reply from a Google employee when asked this question was to look at the Google AdWords team - they have invested heavily in Flutter for their Google Ads app on iOS and Android. He basically said Flutter will be supported for 10+ years as a minimum.
Random musings:

There are less rules than you might think, but you are right that developing close friendships takes time.

On the other hand college can be a nice ground zero, where you don't need to break into some weird existing cliques where everybody already has shared language based on years of in-jokes.

But my friendsip building wad reasonably low-effort, but over long time with consistency :-)

I went to bible-study and enjoyed the more personal setting than the "50 people sing hymn together in a church youth-meeting". I am order of magnitude less religious than I was back then, but I still remember the time fondly and keep in touch with some of the people I met there :)

I liked to go swimming with few friends that found the idea "swim from one end of 50m pool to the other for an hour" relaxing. Every 300m we stop at the end of the pool and chat. Then we swim again.

I had group of ~4 friends I played board-games together. Or we organized lan-parties from time-to time. 3 of us then went for a same programme at the same college and that helped me quite a bit when acomodating in college.

I joined for a few longer (several days) hikes with few people from my class. I don't keep in touch as much with them, but knowing there are few people I literally walked like hundred miles along-side is nice :-)

I learned a lot just by walking home with a friend of mine and talking Java design patterns and algorithms for path-finding through mazes. We did few projects together, and to this day (10y after we left hs) we still make point of getting a few beers together or going for Puzzlehunt every few months.

Close-ness is a difficult concept. I.e. with the friend I talked about I wouldn't call him at 3 AM if I am depressed. I think only one I would wake up like this might be my wife :) Over a beer we probably would discuss if I am burned-out at work or simmilar.

I might have few friends I would talk about my kids and raising them and the usual life-stuff. Former colleagues that I grew to know over hundred shared lunches and cofe breaks and later on beers in pubs, occasional hike or going bouldering.

I might have maybe one friend I might talk about more intimate stuff, like if I had problems in marriage. We have known each other for around 20 years and we literally met in middle-school.

I do wish you luck!
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Both MMT advocates and critics have agreed that MMT isn't particularly new; it seems to be a rekindling of Neo-Keynesianism.

And generally people do have a misconception that printing more money = inflation. For example in the last 2 decades the amount of Chinese currency has increased by more than 800%(https://webofdebt.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/m2-for-China-F...), but inflation remains at 2.2%.
This is fantastic. Although I'm currently unable to watch the videos, I'm hoping that the people controlling the robots have various forms of feedback so that the interactions can give them some much needed human contact.

If they do open a permanent cafe of this type I'll be sure to visit next time I'm in the area.
OpenSCAD's performance only scales with the clock speed of a single CPU core. On any sufficiently complex composition, the underlying geometry engine will eventually either slow to a crawl due to combinatorial node visits or fail to render due to opaque assertion failures. This is not the basket to put your eggs in for professional modeling. It will let you down and there is no clear path to making it better any time soon.
The AdWords team is the one that rescued Dart 1.0 project from being completely canceled, after the Chrome and Angular teams no longer cared.
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One of the ideas was to put a piece of insulating tape inside so that it could push from there.

It would have worked if it weren't for a rubber column inside just next to the hole which required my tape to be curved at a right angle - screwing up any proper insulation.
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> and then I responded to defend PR and FF,

who?
While some of the pricing seems unrealistic (3850X at $499), the specifications do seem to be in line with most expectations. Especially against what has been revealed with the Zen 2 based Epyc processors being previewed.

I've been waiting on this to upgrade my home desktop. Still running an i7-4790K which has been more than sufficient. It will be nice to get a 16-core option and more than 32gb ram though.
Google is porting Android to run on Fuchsia as well, similar to ChromeOS.
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There is precedence for using restrictions on freedoms to preserve those freedoms, a good example is Germany which very highly values freedom of expression - but has strong laws to defend those freedoms against anti-democratic forces - often referred to as “militant democracy”: it’s a system that’s not paradoxically intolerant of intolerance and so far seems to work well - and it shows that it is possible to draw a line somewhere in the law without needing to resign oneself to having to tolerate virulent evil in the name of freedom of speech.
I've yet to see a single explanation why Google is supposed to maintain a non-profitable project/product indefinetly.

If Inbox (or other projects commonly coming up on these whines) would be a startup, it would end up on https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ a long time ago. Why would Google keep maintaining and burning money on an unsuccessful free (!) product? Isn't "fail fast" the main praised mentality of startups here?
This is why when I got my RV I also got a Jeep wrangler to go along with. Its one of the few vehicles left that can be towed "4 down" without significant modification.

It has no steering wheel lock and you simply put the 4wd transfer case in neutral, no transmission lubrication issues.

Mopar even sells a wiring harness that ties into the rear lights directly to properly operate the brake lights from the RV.

The jeep is also a great vehicle for sight seeing especially in remote areas.
The cost is a political problem. It's easier for the opponents of nuclear to find support for stricter and stricter safety laws for new reactors. Driving up the cost, making them economically nonviable. Meanwhile the older and far more dangerous reactors are rotting away and cannot be replaced (or are replaced with fossil fuels).

It's been pointed out again, again and again. Coal plants pump out more radioactive waste than is ever released by all the accidents to date, catching a plane will irradiate you more than living next to one, etc. etc.
I'm as skeptical as you are of "handwaves", and I'd like to see definitive research into this very important topic. Government intervention should be based on proof, not skepticism or bias.

But the left won't allow research or even discussion of the topic, so we don't know whether IQ, for example, is actually a cause of the unequal outcome in software development.

Merely discussing the greater male variability hypothesis is enough to cause research to be disappeared. [1]

And suggesting that IQ may be unequal between groups is enough to end careers.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938318
Owing money doesn't necessarily imply paying rent. Some countries have net negative interest rates.

This is not at strange as it seems. In fact, throughout most of history, a negative interest rates on savings were the norm, simply because what was saved was usually grain or rice. People still saved in this manner. Even if 50% had been eaten by rats, having at least some extra food in the famine year would be worth it.
I think desktop support will always be there in some form or another because I believe to port flutter to some particular platform wouldn't be a massive amount of work. Reason is that Flutter is written to address a graphics layer such as OpenGL or equivalent. The iOS/Android apps it generates are just a single view with graphics and touch input, similar to a Unity game for example.
Working remotely is great for any knowledge job. I work remotely and have done so for over six years. The team I work on is very collaborative and we often pair program or do video chats to consult about a piece of code or a problem. Remote working is no barrier to that.

There's really no reason at all that any knowledge job -- anything where your primary work is mental and not manual -- couldn't be remote. Sales is maybe an exception to that since it often requires in person schmoozing.

But yeah, remote working is great. It's definitely more sustainable and could save a lot of commute carbon. If it saw wider adoption it could potentially also ease some of the housing pressure on cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and New York; revitalizing a lot of dying small towns in the process. Since the businesses could be based in the big cities, but their employees could live anywhere.

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For getting solar panels on people's home, one of the policies I'm considering running on is the creation of a municipal fund that would purchase rooftop solar for houses in my city, and be repaid through people's utility bills. Basically, people would apply to the fund, low income home owners would be prioritized, the fund would pay for the initial installation of the panels, and then the home owners would repay the cost of the panels over the course of their life through their utility bill payments. In this way, we could gradually get solar on basically every house in the city.

I'm sure eventually the local electric utility would get frustrated - because at a certain point the solar generation makes it so that they're losing money maintaining the lines. We have a municipal sewer utility, so we could just offer to have them buy out the power lines and maintain them - municipalizing the electric grid in the process.

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With respect to the panic attacks, I know a number of people, adults who are climate activists, who've also had panic attacks about climate change. Honestly, what would you prefer the woman to do, lie about the state of the climate and what these kids are going to be up against? I mean, I wouldn't talk about it with super young kids, but I'm not going to lie to my kids. Panic attacks are not an unreasonable response. It's terrifying and overwhelming.

Kids being born today are probably going to live to 2100, and may well see the total collapse of civilization and the beginnings of a new Permian extinction in their lifetimes if we can't change course.

Panicking isn't productive. But it is understandable. Most of the people I know who've had panic attacks are far from paralyzed, they're the among most drive and active people I know.
"pretend you don't have solutions" is not a realistic approach. The strength of people's conviction to this will probably fall on a bell curve and few can resist the temptation when the problems get really tough. Accounting for how humans are, I do not see how one can easily say "Having solutions is strictly better". I can easily think of cases where it is indeed better to have solutions but to say "strictly" requires a bit more diligence.
Yes, JWTs don't bring anything new to the table. In fact, most articles promoting their use don't even explain why you should use them. This is cargo cult programming at its utmost.
Offline data sync from an old device to a new one. Many phone carriers provide for something similar in a QR code. My team has an app we developed that has a similar function because the private keys and all of the wallet items are exclusively offline. We show an qr code today. The issue we have hit lately is that the amount of data we have is more than a single code. Depending on the number of wallet items the users have. The animated QR is a good solution for this.

If someone is interested in how we got an amazingly small QR using base-91 and some other cool methods here is a good read with demo code

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B7AJDVu5ei6c7ZuHRiTvQ_q8...
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Which method would work best for email classification into 1 of 7 categories? Problem I've seen is 1 or 2 key sentences within the email can classify the message but they are usually outnumbered by generic sentences such as signatures, greetings, headers/footers etc
For me the humor lies in the buildup. The music gives you the feeling that a fight is about to develop as soon as he gets closer. Pretty much the only thing you wouldn't expect to happen is for them to be caught off guard.
I'll add that Onshape has FeatureScript[0], a programming language for creating custom CAD functionality... similar to OpenSCAD where there's a separation between the definition (functions, features, and code) and the geometry (the result of executing that definition).

Unlike OpenSCAD, it's built off of an interactive BREP modeler with a real kernel so it's as easy to use as a regular CAD system for those who don't want to code. Actually the interactive portions of Onshape are a nice example of how to get WYSIWYG elements into a non-WYSIWYG application.

[0] https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/
Jeff's CS 374 was one of my favorite classes at U of I. It really opened up my mind to thinking about Computer Science as a branch of mathematics, and completely changed how I approach my work today.

The book form of these lectures was in EARLY rough draft when I took the class though-we were proofing chapters for him!
For me it isn't even the background technology… it's the behavior of the SQL language itself. With MySQL, every single time I've used it, I've come across something that pisses me off as an unexpected default behavior… from the borked utf8, to the multiple string quote escape characters. Every time. PostgreSQL is far more rigid and consistent in it's SQL language and implementation. Plus plv8 ftw!