skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the problem that the author tries to explain away. Which transformations preserve the aspects of the utility functions depends on the underlying scale. (Or, better to say, the admissible transformations characterize the scale.) On an ordinal scale that merely represents preferences, any strictly monotone transformation is allowed. What you refer to is an interval scale, which is a type of cardinal utility.

The problem is that it makes no sense to even formulate a nonlinear utility function for an ordinal scale, because there will be a linear function that represents the same preferences.

EU makes no sense with purely ordinal utilities either, but economists use it all the time. When they do so, they assume cardinal utilities, contrary to what the author of the original article asserts. Note also that e.g. the Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility makes no sense with purely ordinal utilities.
Ars Technica has a great comment section on its space articles, be sure to check that out too.
> There is nothing wrong with them having a beneficial tax system [...]

Yes there is. I wish we could throw them out of the union already.
> Homebrew 1.9.0 no longer runs on 32-bit Intel CPUs.

Where does this constraint come from? Homebrew is written in Ruby.

To cut down on compilation from source issues? Or Homebrew uses language features from Ruby versions greater than what Apple shipped in their latest 32-bit supported OSX versions (as homebrew insists on using the system default binaries)?
China's NDRC's antitrust findings were later affirmed by counterparts in South Korea, Taiwan, and the EU who found the same violations in their investigation in 2016 and 2017. Now, are you also arguing that there is no law in those countries/union and they just made it up on the go like China?

And appease USA? As I noted earlier, Obama's USFTC filed a lawsuit challenging Qualcomm's licensing practices. Who exactly was the NDRC appeasing? Qualcomm or USA? The NDRC's action is contrary to the USA's policy and China isn't going to win new friend by contradicting US's policy goals.

Again, the system level licensing is not only widely accepted and upheld industry practice. Take another instance of the UMTS IPR Association's statement on system level licensing in wireless industry:

" ...
The royalty “collection point” shall be the last manufacturer in the manufacturing
“chain.”This means that chip and subsystem manufacturers shall be indemnified for sales
made toLicensees of certified Essential Patents who are the last manufacturers in the
“chain.”Licensees shall not include those manufacturers of component products which
are incorporated into final assembled products for which royalties are paid to their
respective Licensor(s)
..."

* 3G Patent Platform for 3G Mobile Communication Systems – Definition, Function,Structure, Operation, Governance, UMTS IPR ASSOCIATION, Section 8.2.6 (June 15, 2000)
It doesn't require it:

- You can create the nix store in some directory you own. But this entails recompiling every package, because the precompiled binaries have dependencies on the store being in /nix.

- If user namespaces are enabled, you can bind mount /nix to some directory that you own:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Installation_Guide

Of course, it is more convenient if you can convince a sysadmin to install multi-user Nix. From there on, every user can install their own packages (in a non-conflicting manner).
You know they can do this without stars right? Just by seeing which pages you visit.
Climate change: 'Right to repair' gathers force
Eh, not really surprised.
I've had iPhones since the very first one in 2007, tried switching to Android, but just never stuck with it.

Now it's Apple itself who are forcing me to switch because for whatever reason they decided that nobody needs 4" phones anymore, instead, everybody is supposed to use massive devices which are defacto phablets.

If there was a new 4" option from Apple, I would have gotten a new iPhone this year, but due to a lack of those, I'll instead either be forced to get a new SE as a future replacement, while they are still available, or switch to Android for good where plenty of smaller form factor options exist.

That's business Apple lost based on their own shortsighted decisions, nobody to blame except for themselves.
At this point, it feels a little bit like the "Apple just making iPhone bigger" meme, back from the first iPad release, has actually become reality. [0]

[0] http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/iboard-im...
Online wayback machine downloader/website downloader/CMS converter
I enjoy coding just as much as I did when I started doing it over 30 years ago. I'm a lot less enthusiastic about the things I and my colleagues are asked to build though. All the scandals and exploitative uses of technology that have come to light in the past few years make the field feel much less fun and innocent.
Dyson may have missed your memo: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/23/dyson-to-begin-construc...
There was a good podcast about the founding period on NPRs how i built this. Worth checking out
Evolutionary programming – the next big wave of growth in A.I?
Warning: There's a very large disparity between data structures in courses and in real life. From courses you can learn about the general ideas behind them. From successful projects you can learn how to implement them in cache-aware, low lock contention, space efficient way. It's a bit like learning about heat engines at school -vs- disassembling a modern computer-controlled-injection ICE.

If you really want to do that, check out almost any open source database. But I'd recommend starting from the courses.
Golang has a similar tool called 'present' [0].
Sample presentation: https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go-may.slide

[0] https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present
Feudalism is generally defined to be about a hierarchy of relationships linked to land ownership and associated payments or service.

e.g. Here in Scotland the last elements of feudalism were only removed in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc...
What a fascinating story.

Prosecuting him seems like much ado about nothing, as it is pointed out that 80% of the falcons in the wild die within their first year, and they do much better if captured into captivity. Still a fascinating story.
amazing how you keep avoiding to talk about the other mw implementations. simply amazing.
"text-only" is a good description of bad slides to me. Why do people do that? The are plenty of Markdown slides tools so there seems to be a need.
India's Online Travel Battle Royale in 10,000 Words
A Simple Implementation of the Erlang VM in Rust
By mentioning sexism, when the parent comment doesn't, you're already assuming only women can be cheats. Please don't be a sexist, it's against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure I understand your argument, the Mises Institute could make valid contributions to the field of economics without being a distinctive school of thought. I mean the paragraph you've quoted says exactly as much, in full:

>I conclude that while self-labeled Austrian economists have some valid contributions to make to economics, these are simply not distinctive enough to sustain a school of thought. The task of developing an alternate Austrian paradigm has largely failed, producing an abundance of meta-economics (philosophy, methodology, and history of thought), but few substantive results. Whatever Austrian economists have that is worth saying should be simply be addressed to the broader economics profession, which (in spite of itself) remains eager for original, true, and substantive ideas.

He doesn't say that Austrian economists are always wrong, he says that even when they're right their works do not justify a completely different economic paradigm. The fact that anecdotally you saved some money by following their advice doesn't really contradict that IMO.
Brazilian certificate authority (ICP-BR) hacked
this is impossibly naive. Of course it's illegal to lie to shareholders, but guaranteed 100% of publicly traded companies do.

What's the SEC going to do? They are in furloughs right now and have no budget to go after anyone. Looking further ahead, if a company has enough money, they can buy off the SEC by getting laws passed that will let the do whatever they want.
But still, if it fails a test you want to be sure it's because of something you did, not just dust/ or an animal chewing through something etc etc.
Mortgage delinquency rates hit 18-year low
I regularly eat eggs or porridge (cream of wheat) for breakfast. I feel better on the eggs days. Could be the choline.
> Isn't that a bit too high to be manageable?

Yes. See many past conversations on why Github Issues become unmanageable.

Labels help to segment, but aren't enough.

I find the number of 'open' issues a demotivator (bordering on depressing) for my projects, or when I look to work on others; even if most aren't issues but support questions/feature requests/on hold. If not triaged well, digging through to find the real bugs takes effort.

Github tried with 'Projects' but I haven't seen many (any?) projects using them successfully. For individual workflows they seem to work well. Big projects have fallen back on milestones.
If I may ask, which master are you doing exactly?
I played Splendor for the first time a couple of weeks ago when I visited my parents and immediately bought my own set, it's just such a simple premise that lends itself really well to interesting tactics.
I felt the same way after CS, and then working a year as software engineer. And I think it's because of two reasons:

1) I never loved coding (even though I thought so). I loved the process of finding solutions for problems, and solve them. But coding was not the deciding factor in this. The research, investigate what should be done, speaking with customers etc. _This_ I loved. But I did not love coding. All those problems, debugging of code that does not work etc. I'll compare it to an architect drawing the buildings, making sure that they live up to the requirements ("solutioning"). But the architect is not building the building (coding).

2) What I loved about coding in those 10-15 years I was a hobby-programmer before CS, I was working on small, fun projects. They were quick to get working, and then I was quickly moving to the next thing. And I think that is a problem when working as a professional. You get sucked into large projects that (seemingly) never ends. And that's not the spirit you had in the beginning.

Have you tried going to hackathons? I can really recommend it! Having a weekend where you hack with other hackers and do some coding is a really nice way of working, and can get you the spirit back!
In 2016, Maltans got around 200 (two hundred) euros per person more from the EU than they put in, and in the previous year they got 20 (twenty). For comparison, Greece steadily gets ~400 EUR/person, and they have a lot more people too.

http://www.money-go-round.eu/Country.aspx?id=MT

http://www.money-go-round.eu/Country.aspx?id=EL
It is kind of funny to see this. Evolutionary programming was around for a very long time. Is there some novelty happened recently that brought it into the spotlight?
I find that how much sleep I need depends on how present and moral I feel in my life in general at that time.

At one extreme, I once attended a week and a half meditation retreat in which you're up at 4, meditating for about 11 hours every day and the whole thing is silent. I felt such heightened moral and mental clarity by the fifth and sixth days that I began sleeping less, sometimes lying awake until 2 or 3am (and up at 4), but felt full of energy each day.

At the other extreme, carrying on in a big city, I indulge in vices, deviate from my notion of perfect morality, exaggerate in conversations, eat meat, engage in reactive behavior with others, fail to keep up a meditation routine etc., and I end up sleeping 7-8 hours like clockwork.

I have a twofold theory
1. Internal monologue creates excess pathways in the brain that need to be pruned, creating the need to sleep. Decreasing the amount and degree of our internal monologue (sometimes called 'being present') decreases the amount of these pathways and thus the sleep we need.
2. Failure to act rightly/morally/virtuously creates the need to sleep. The more our daily actions are in line with our sense of right action, right morality, the less sleep we will need. The deeper theory here is that immoral acts cause neurological agitation that creates toxins in the brain that sleep flushes away.

My theory is supported by my understanding of sleep as having the function of 'flushing toxins' from the brain and 'pruning' neurological pathways that the brain determines not useful, such as a thought you had that day in your internal monologue. Immoral acts tend to nag at us, even if only a little act and a little bit, creating anxious internal monologue, compounding the need for sleep.
Algorithms are not racist but they might very well be biased, intentionally or not. As a programmer I make assumptions every time I write code and I rarely have 100% insight into the full implications of that code.

Sometimes I generate machine learning (ML) solutions and then this holds more true than ever. All the best (least biased) matchmaking solutions will be ML, as well as all the worst (most biased).

Also, matching for the best DNA/RNA/gene expression match, wouldn't that just separate us into different species of humans?
IBM Just Unveiled the First Commercial Quantum Computer
If it can get to Mars then it could certainly fly itself into the sun too. Possibly wouldn't be the best use of SpaceX money, though.
It's also probably increased in relevance since then, given that Mises-style Austrian economics has been much more successful in establishing itself as an important theory on the internet than it ever has been in academia.

Above all, it's a well-reasoned piece from someone who was sympathetic and proximate to leading contemporary Austrian economists.
Samsung's earnings have been hit, but not by similar factors.

Samsung's declining earnings has all to do with the declining memory price. The company had been under pressure to increase production to lower the price of memory products all year last year. Apple's problem is in China, fewer unit sales -- their timing is pure coincidence.

Also note that Samsung's market share in China is almost nil, from #1 just four years ago. The company has really nothing to lose at this point.
An explicit approach using mimblewimble and sharding for high throughput
Cyprus, Ireland, Hungary, (for now) the UK, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia etc all have relatively low corporate tax rates and beneficial tax systems.

Shall we also throw them out while we're at it?
How to Build a Technical Writing Portfolio
the day Apple fixes itself for Indian market, they will likely open a sales flood gate

[...]

Apple products are just impossibly expensive for almost all of India

Bit of a conflict there. They’re not going to lower prices elsewhere just to expand in India.
Well Singapore is 10 times more populous though. Not to mention the strategic location of Malacca strait.
"if machines take over the economy, and earnings and capital are therefore increasingly concentrated in a few hands"

What earnings, what capital? When no one has any, it has no value - value is assigned by the people using it.
Tesla sued after fatal crash, accused of making “unreasonably dangerous” car
Python-Awesome Tutorial
From: https://docs.brew.sh/Linuxbrew

> Linuxbrew does not currently support 32-bit x86 platforms. It would be possible for Linuxbrew to work on 32-bit x86 platforms with some effort. An interested and dedicated person could maintain a fork of Homebrew to develop support for 32-bit x86.
Sega 8 bit "mappers" used 16KB slots, so you can use 4KB pages to emulate them. The mapper is solely to bank switch memory and doesn't do any of the support chip fun that more complex NES mappers do, so it's generally simpler. Only thing to note is the first 1KB (ie the interrupt vector table) is fixed on most mappers, which presumably would need a workaround.

Details: http://www.smspower.org/Development/Mappers
It would also be telling if certain types of papers known in the field and findable with Google Scholar or similar indices were missing from Sci-Hub.

Anyone researching the health effects of sugar would conclude that some research was being withheld from them, not that research concluding that sugar is harmful doesn't exist.
Sometimes what you need is change. I am sixty-five years old. I was a programmer for fifteen years, started a consulting company, then a software business. Was acqui-hired. Became VP Product Dev over 27 locations, 1200 developers, hundreds of products, then semi-retired for four years and worked on digital audio production. Got bored, did another startup, wrote code. Sold it and became CTO of a product division. Later worked for an investment group, became CTO for one of their acquisitions for almost ten years. Six years ago went back to technical work on my "reverse career plan" (junior programmer by the time I'm 75 ;-) ). Wrote js/react analytic front-end apps, Python back-end analytics, got into machine learning, co-authored a book about it, got some big data consulting gigs, learned Hadoop/Spark. Currently hands-on dev for Spark and ML apps.

For me, changes were the key. Burnout melts away. But you can burn out in any role. If you have the skills to do tech work, try to keep them alive. Coming back to hands on tech work is incredibly refreshing. So is leaving it behind for awhile when you've reached the burn-out point.
Single payer health care is not a guarantee that you get better results than what you have now. I think the problem in the US is the indirect relationship between the customer and the service provider. The best European system is quite the opposite:

"In 2015 the Netherlands maintained its number one position at the top of the annual Euro health consumer index, which compares healthcare systems in Europe, scoring 916 of a maximum 1,000 points. The Netherlands is the only country that has been in the top three ranking in every Euro health consumer index published since 2005. On 48 indicators such as patient rights and information, accessibility, prevention and outcomes, the Netherlands secured its top position among 37 European countries for the fifth year in a row.[15] The Netherlands was also ranked first in a study comparing the health care systems of the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany and New Zealand.[16]
Ever since a major reform of the health care system in 2006, the Dutch system received more points in the Index each year. According to the Health Consumer Powerhouse, the Netherlands has 'a chaos system', meaning patients have a great degree of freedom from where to buy their health insurance, to where they get their healthcare service. But the difference between the Netherlands and other countries is that the chaos is managed. Healthcare decisions are being made in a dialogue between the patients and healthcare professionals.[17]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands
Thermal Printers
SATO’s Industrial bar code printers became the hallmark of the printing products for the harsh environment and applications and it is the trusted dependability printers for a whole day mission critical operation.
https://doingsimplethings.jimdofree.com/2019/01/08/thermal-printers/
Homebrew builds individual binary bottles per package and per macOS version, but not per target architecture.

In other words: at bottle creation time (server-side), Homebrew tells the compiler to output code that runs on older CPUs. The downside of this is that end users who install bottles never get to enjoy the benefits of latest CPU instruction sets, such as SSE 4.1/4.2.

From time to time, Homebrew raises the bar to keep the balance between performance and compatibility. From Homebrew 1.9.0, bottles are built to use the features of the Penryn/Core 2 microarchitecture or higher, or in other words: Homebrew no longer supports CPU microarchitectures older than Penryn/Core 2.
Norway businessman's wife kidnapped for ransom
Obsessing Over Easily Quantified Data Often Has Damaging Results
This is a classic HN comment. Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author."

Anyway, it exports pdf.
Mises' argument was that even a systematic pattern of results in economics should always be understood as merely a set of discrete observations dependent on historical context and unobservable phenomena and therefore no valid conclusions could be reached from induction, not even falsification of a claim.
You’re missing the point, which is that not all consumers care about the upgrade, and some may be fine living with the existing version for months, years or even forever. Holding up library development to force resolving breaking changes for that consumer is a waste of time that just prevents the library from moving on and providing changes that other consumers really do want or need. Meanwhile, forcing every consumer to also continuously pay the cost of upgrading is also a waste of time, because that consumer team (and not the library team) knows what their timetable and prioritization should be for when and how to spend effort resolving breakages when choosing to upgrade at whatever point they want.

I agree that resolving breakages soon is usually smoother and allows adoption of the new version most quickly. It just turns out this isn’t important, and very often consumers are happy to pay a slightly higher friction cost to deal with breakages in an upgrade but to do it on their decided and deliberate timetable, than to be enforced to have changes thrust on them with monorepo-wide implicit upgrades at every point of a successful merge of code from the library.

This is why introducing the extra degree of separation to make dependencies into versioned artifacts stored in an artifact repository is so critical. It allows for setting up whatever automated regression tests you want bases on automatically pulling the latest artifacts. You can get all the same information about what consumer breakages there might be, but instead of that acting as a barrier to merging the code (which is a decision that only the library team should be making), it allows consumer teams to file bug reports or backward compatibility requests that can actually be individually prioritized and planned, instead of enforced always all at one single commit / revision despite the effort to do that not really being a priority for the vast majority of consumer teams.

In this sense, it is more atomic. Each set of changes addresses a smaller scope of overall state change of the library. Multiple tiny commits, each addressing different specific bugs or backward compatibility requests in isolation, even if involving coordinated commits in different repos, are more atomic because the scope of the state change is smaller and isolated in each step.
Yes. Instead of focusing on corporate profits the US should focus on quality of service (in every aspect of life) for citizens.
Payment of €9m equivalent demanded in Monero. Might this be a sign of things to come?
If your idea is in software, write a plan and write specs. Then put together a budget and hire someone to build it. Set a threshold for failure and one for further investment. Don't put the cart before the horse, write planning docs and budgets. Draw sketches. Do all the brain dump work and commit to a hard scope, out everything else in the back log. Good luck!
Lots of companies are building constellations of small satellites and advertising how their imagery can be used for agricultural purposes. Assuming this stuff needs the sky to grow well and can't be grown under tree cover then changes could be observed.
Thanks for doing the research!

This version of the story is also more in the spirit of the original article. It's not just that the government was more solvent than people thought; Voltaire is making money by cleverly exploiting a technicality in the lottery system.