skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the most important paragraph in the article: "Everyone is competing against everyone else. If one firm succeeds in making the market more efficient through quantitative techniques, then there’s less money left over for other people to make exceptional investment returns. There will be one or two firms that are good at innovation and recognizing things that other people haven’t recognized. But everyone else will be fighting over scraps."

The market is, in theory, not a zero sum game. Algorithmic systems, in practice, are. In theory the only way you can genuinely beat the market is when you find an inefficiency in it. And inefficiencies are generally based on a lack of knowledge. If everybody knows what you know, that inefficiency will no longer exist. And now pair this with the reality that most (and it's probably safe to say all) algorithmic systems are not really especially complex. That doesn't mean they're easy to make though. The 'secret sauce' is in exactly what data is used, how the pieces you have interoperate, the way inputs and outputs are massaged, and so on. But this drives a huge need for secrecy. Nobody who is successful is going to want to talk about how their system is designed largely because most would not be especially difficult to replicate if they provided more than very abstract details.
Yes, but hopefully your average founder will wise up to the following: The chances of you being super successful, happy and content are much higher with a "lifestyle business" than a VC funded one.

Why?

Well, the biggest issue is that VCs can diversify (as you point out, have a lot of bets counting on a few successes), while founders can't.

I think for the vast, vast majority of people, there are greatly diminishing returns after a certain amount of money. That is, if you have a 1/10 chance of having a $10 million payout, vs a 1/1000 chance of a $100 million payout, I think most people would take the former. Put another way, most people are willing to take a good deal of risk for "fuck you" money, but fuck you money for most people is MUCH lower than what VCs expect with a unicorn.

Since VCs do always need to swing for the fences, they invariable will say no to ideas that don't have a huge potential market. My belief is then that there are a number of "mid market" businesses, i.e. ones catering to smaller niches, that have a lot of potential but have lower competition than huge, winner-take-all type businesses.
Google is abandoning the notifications widget
/second all of that the 787. It's the least jetlag-inducing plane for long flights.
Quoting somebody who posted in the deleted duplicate thread:

"To modify a quote from The Dark Knight:

"Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington Post and pays out of his own pocket to send rockets to space, won't stand up for himself so your plan is to blackmail this person?

Good Luck "
OP here. I actually wrote a post about Pulumi in this very space a while back

https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2018/09/20/using-pulumi-for-k8s...

I do think this is more like what we should be doing, but as dismayed to see Pulumi’s free tier get sunsetted
I like looking at YAML when it doesn't use any of the insane YAML features. Even so I'm not convinced it should be used (at least not as widely as it is) for one big reason: it can be truncated almost anywhere and still be valid. This causes way more issues than you might think. JSON has no such issue - the only case I can think of where you can truncate JSON into valid JSON is if your JSON is just a number.
Nurx Is Hiring a Head of Machine Learning
But Negative Income Tax has actually been tried and it didn't produce quite the results that people were hoping for.
I... No. The OpsMop Twitter has a tweet from January 31, so it seems like if the project had died it would have to be really recent. That would be sad.
First Thoughts on Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript Runtime
> .. the ECS dashboard does not yet support .. Terraform ..

They haven't yet matured enough, it seems. Cloudformation is the right way to code your infra, not web Console or anything else.

Good sign, though, is they use ECS, not Kubernetes :)
This has been going on for two decades now. Teenagers have grown up used to the sound and aesthetic of compression. Whether you like it or not compression is here to stay.
Michael DeHaan threw his toys out of the pram because he wasn’t getting the user numbers he wanted and discontinued them
Try the following:

- Make up a scenario.

- See who gets how much money.

- Ask yourself what I would predict.

- Then, and only then, tell me I'm misunderstanding something. And then tell me what it is.
Just call every noun a 'Dingsbums' (thingy) and you are all set - no more memorizing!
Ill suggest notepad. Ill slap together some basic html doctype a head with style and script tags, yes inline, a body with some simple divs and in no time at all it will look as good if not better than the hipster 50 000 line Frankensteins monster of bloat.

In the 80's we knew that a single small optimalization was worthless but if you acumulate enouh of them the sum of the parts blew the mind of even the most sophisticated software wizards. The trend nowadays is to hoard deoptimalizations while arguing it doesnt mater.

I keep wondering why popular modules so rarely make it into the language. I joked the other day that it would be nice to have sortable <table>'s out of the box. Imagine the table code was <table json="{}"/> and that we could do <form json="{}"/> too. The amount of code we could discard. lol
17/65ths and falling
The home recording revolution is something that just never gets its due, because people want to find a problem with it. Auto-tune is a style now. Smushed dynamics is an intentional choice. You can make a Superbowl halftime show song with a shoestring budget.
For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
100% — Let’s be realistic. Between two consenting adults is there anything non-violent that is truly that weird? We have a few pleasure bits attached to our bodies. Some people get excited by objects (fetishes). When you step back a level, the window dressing becomes laughably irrelevant. You’ve seen my dick? Oh no. You saw me courting another female? Private, but oh, the horror.... it’s just so silly in the scheme of it all. I would laugh and laugh at anyone that tried to extort me in this way. “Hey team, someone stole some dick picks of mine, don’t look at them if you want eye contact to remain comfortable, lol.” Life goes on. Am I being a little flippant, yeah, but seriously, step back, in 10 years this won’t even be a footnote on his Wikipedia page beyond the fact that he spanked AMI like the bad toddlers they are.
Yep, otherwise he'd be their hostage...do this other thing or we'll release the pics.
Unwise and unnecessary. It's high-enough profile that the DoJ might obtain a warrant for their data, and Bezos would be chuffed to comply.
Can a DA get some political mileage from prosecuting this?

My guess is yes.
This seems like the whole don't learn CSS, learn bootstrap, foundation, bulma, etc. Don't learn javascript, learn react, or vue or angular. You can do a hell of a lot with css and html(including interactivity), and considering the amount of cross browser support you don't even really need a framework these days.
I genuinely don't understand how to use Plex for its primary purpose anymore. The UI is so irritating that I just threw it off my server.

Spotify doesn't seem to suffer from any similar issues. It appears I can reach the music I'd like in the same number of straight-forward clicks as before podcast-related features were introduced.
I am not commenting on the law. The law says a divorced wife gets half of whatever. I don't care.

What I do care is the notion that the growth and success of Amazon is 50% due to the wife. That I disagree with.
That's the general argument against big government and even big business. It creates inefficiency because somebody else is spending the money that is removed from the current situation.
I won't say it's easy, but it's easier than you might think.

Word use follows a power law distribution in all languages ( Zipf's Law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE is an excellent vsauce cover of the subject ), but the short of it is that within a relatively short amount of time spent studying you'll be able to pick out common words and build from there, even if you started from zero.
PECKERGATE: Jeff Bezos reveals emails from Enquirer to publish his naked selfies
Thx for replying.

When you say yes to making a living but as an employee is that because of at an institution you are trading with much larger sum of money and hence there is enough return to pay for your salary bonus and then some or something else like getting a regular paycheck in a other wise very volatile return world? Essentially is the amount capital the key thing or something else.

Also how do traders typically come up with a strategy? Original insight or mostly copying the herd with their own variations?
I always got the feeling that developers were expected to maintain their own caches of datasheets and reference manuals.

But then again, errata are constantly being updated. That evergreen http link might end up being the best resource.

What do?
A little less than a year ago, AMI/National-Enquirer published a 100 page ad-free magazine dedicated to the praise of MBS and the Saudi Kindgom [1]

The Saudis claimed they had no involvement in it, although an Associate Press investigation revealed that it had circulated among Saudis weeks before publication [2]

This issue was distributed at supermarkets across the United States.

Whether there was an untoward arrangement behind it might be under investigation.

1.https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-publisher-pal-puts-saud...

2. https://nypost.com/2018/04/24/the-strange-saga-of-a-pro-saud...
I have not written a new PHP app in years but recently I had a look at the latest and greatest from the PHP community and its pretty good. The frameworks and tooling look about as good as you will get anywhere and PHP appears to be fast now.
For whatever reason footprints, pinouts, and dimensions have been distributed via pdfs as the de facto standard, leading to a bunch of wasted work as people have to create their own foot prints, symbols, and 3d models over and over again.
Great story. At the end of the day, we all need to be building something we can be satisfied with.
Buffalo has made it a pretty pleasant experience in the past year or so
Total compensation has almost doubled since 1970, adjusting for inflation.

Looking at wages alone is only half the picture.
They have President's blessing, who is already acting above national security interest. So yeah, they don't care.
I would like to see a camera access indicator in the iOS status bar, which appears whenever a camera is active.

Another approach could be to require a separate permission for “covert” (off-screen) camera usage — i.e. capturing images or video without a camera preview on the screen.
> All we are saying is that in the United States, what the Supreme Court says on this issue _categorically_ makes it constitutional

This is a political assertion you are making. It prevents invoking the intent of the constitution without some contextual disclaimer, thus hindering critiques of whether the current government has run aground of its charter.

> There are groups that think all of those decisions were bad and unconstitutional -- but the Supreme Court has the final say

The final say over whether the government considers an action constitutional! While the Supreme Court interprets the law for the government, it does not have a monopoly on the definition of the word "constitutional".

Please note that my original comment even used the term "anticonstitutional", because I did somewhat anticipate this authoritarian fallacy that courts define truth. Regardless of arguing the semantics of whether "constitutional" and "unconstitutional" are constrained to only referencing the legal scope, the argument I'm making is that the practice of stopping and harassing every traveler runs directly contrary to what the founders intended as well as the values our society purports to hold.
Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
OK, but I'd restrict the set even more to exclude voluntary indentation. I mean, you'd want that caught by style checkers anyway, even if the language didn't require it.

So we're left with the cases where you'd like compact code / one-liners but are forced to use multiple lines for language syntax reasons.

I'd say that that's a pretty small set of cases and long way from the phrase "I don't like whitespace sensitive languages" which you (and many others!) use.

I conceded it can be annoying in Python and I do wish there was an escape route sometimes.
Well, that’s great for anyone using the EC2 parameter store, but isn’t really helpful for all those situations where you’re not.

“This is not a problem for my specific set of use cases around AWS” is not a “solved problem”
I loved my customized Google News. When they dropped customization, I searched for many options and ended up with Apple News. There apps are iOS and macOS, but no web version unfortunately.
If we made a pro con list, what would you say are Amazon's greatest negatives to society? It saves people time and money, and AWS has enabled many start ups and small businesses. I can't think of any big negatives other than the general hate that people have towards big companies.
BTT Price Down 11% After CoinPayments Integration
I have seen this go both ways. Some spouses give everything for other to succeed while some become extra work in addition to what you already have. Lot depends on circumstances, personallies and loads of luck. Let’s not be judgmental here.
I'm the same way. I think it's a difference in my expectations of a programming language versus a hierarchical data storage format. I'm fine with (and even prefer) enforced whitespace in data formats. That makes it easier to view and edit.

In programming languages, it makes me twitch. I don't have any problem with "accepted" formatting styles (i.e. linux kernel c style), but for the language itself to enforce that for some reason feels like it's adding perpetual cognitive overhead (like whenever I use python). I don't know why; it shouldn't be any different than using a particular formatting style voluntarily in a more flexible language, but somehow, it feels different.
I've been trying to learn German (at least enough to carry on a light conversation,) so I'm hoping this will help me. I've mostly been learning to speak it, haven't really focused on writing/spelling...though I do understand some basic German grammatical concepts from speaking.
Incredible article. Thank you for taking the time to share and educate the world (and me) about your experience as a startup founder. I'm so happy and proud of you to hear that you've found your way as an entrepreneur, who you are in life and what you want to do with it. Good job!
I suspect we could do much faster landing/takeoff in airships nowadays than before, with dynamic positioning and azimuth thrusters or similar (rather than relying entirely on tether lines and/or mooring towers). It might be possible to have a faster cycle than airplanes due to VTOL abilities and more on-board infrastructure allowing for landings at smaller airfields than most commercial flights are able to use - though I imagine most local airfields would require some degree of retrofitting before they could support airship landings.

While I doubt they will ever be a primary transportation medium, I wonder if there would be enough demand for a cruise-ship-style airship to be commercially viable; I for one would absolutely love to spend a month on a luxury cruise around the world, landing every other day without the limitations of only seaside locations.
>Is it possible for Rust to have any new or surprising mechanisms that cause loss of constant time execution?

The ubiquitous assumption that all code should be executed as fast as possible isn't new or Rust-specific but it will be a continuing source of security surprises for the foreseeable future.
> Backus-Naur form for Japanese grammar

For a limited very subset only. The rules presented there are way too easy to handle most natural language statements.
That being said the core of Japanese grammar is quite simple for a human learner and the recursion is more obvious there than in most other natural languages.
oh, hell. Sandman. Dream of the endless has a library full of all the books their author's didnt' write. Like Marlowe's "The Merrie Comedy of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus", or Wodehouses' "Psmith and Jeeves".

How'd i forget that one...

http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/12/15/the-library-of-drea...
Hey! Thanks for the reply. I’ll definitely check that link out. It’s really nice to know more about the process behind delivering binaries.
I actually like XML templating, it's the only one that supports it in the file.

I export custom queries for data to xml, Json, CSV and HTML.

Where HTML is XML + XSLT. It works great. And clients can even theme it
Furthermore, the farther back you go the of an issue you have with survivorship bias. Finding all the companies that went bankrupt or bought out at a discount and correctly accounting for the losses you would have made investing in them is difficult.
Did their agreement specify that they wouldn't commit any more federal crimes?

Or did it say they wouldn't commit any more crimes?
Personal story:

When I first moved to the USA from India, 20 years ago, I sought the help of a realtor to find a house in New England Area. He figured I was earning more than his clientele base and started showing me houses which were secluded and touted it as a huge plus. My reaction then (now I am sympathetic to isolation as a luxury and privilege) was that he was showing me such dives because I was a minority. In India, you were never far away from people and isolation was a novelty that you dabbled with in your vacation time (mountain resorts and such). As life would have it, I ended up in Manhattan later in life.
Probably using a bloom filter
No comments is... fair. That does put a limit on the legibility of JSON files, unless you want to count dumb hacks like comment strings.

Having to quote strings in JSON, however is still simpler than the multitude of ways strings can be declared in YAML. You know a string is a string in JSON because of the quotes... knowing whether something is a string or not in context is more difficult in YAML because of the more complex syntax.

You can learn the entire syntax of JSON in minutes. Objects, arrays, string keys, and a few primitive types... that's it. How long would it take to learn all of YAML? How explicit is its syntax versus JSON? Of course JSON is far simpler, and being simpler, it's easier to read.

I dismissed "inane comma requirements" as an opinion, not everything the commenter said. The only reason it's "inane" is because the commenter doesn't like it personally.

Not having multiline strings, to me, doesn't affect readability much at all, although it is unfortunate. Turn on text wrapping in your editor, it's the same thing.

Typing support doesn't affect readability either. I'd like to have a date type in JSON too but

2013-03-01T16:15:09+01:00

or whatever is just as readable as

"2013-03-01T16:15:09+01:00"
Professionally, a much more important question is how can I trust this data? Any perceived convenience in data aggregation strikes me as all for naught if specific details will require corroboration from the horse's mouth anyways before having sufficient confidence to make a design/procurement decision. Otherwise, it's a nice resource to leverage if its inherent risks are within your comfort zone.
You're seem to ignoring what AMI was demanding from Bezos/WaPo. Wanting funding from Saudis is no big deal, unless you compromise your core business to do this sell-out. Maybe the deal would have fallen through with it becoming public? Why do we need any much bigger conspiracy?
> All words ending in -chen are neutral. Similarly, “das Bübchen” could refer to a young boy and is also neutral.

Now this actually makes no sense.
It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piece of this story.

EDIT: Here [1] is a reporter from the Washington Post backing that up. The Bezos' camp believes this is a politically motivated attack and the data was acquired by a "government entity" (logically the US or Saudis).

[1] - https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/109371533307931853...
Nope. Rates are based off a prime lending rate which is equal amongst all the big banks. But like they said, you are free to shop around.

Credit unions usually have good offers.

Ideally you’re not buying a home that you can’t afford if rates go up too much.
Now I have referred myrepos on gita's homepage too
I prefer octopart for this sort of thing.
Maybe a combination of defiance and comic relief:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7f9D4KclJw

(David Letterman talks about an extortion attempt on him)
Assume you need atleast $100K to start a business but you have only $90K. Your friend comes around and puts in $10K but only if you are willing to offer 50% ownership. Given no other choices, you agree and work your ass off for next 25 years to grow business to $100B while your friend did nothing else for it.

Does your friend deserve $50B? I am not asking from legal point of view because that answer would be yes. I am asking this from philosophical perspective. Clearly if your friend didn’t lend you $10K, you wouldn’t have your $100B business. But that’s the seed stage only work your friend did. Does he deserve fruits of your 25 years of labor? Does your friend deserve that stack because he took risk without knowledge of how future would turn out?

This is one the deepest question that has huge consequences all the way in to the concept of money, capital, debt, rewards, collaboration and purpose itself.
> At any time other than a load emergency, yes. The ideal pricing mechanism for a 100% renewable grid would be to pay a flat rate based on your service size (100 amp, 200 amp, etc.) and then get paid by the grid for dropping your load when the grid is overloaded. That would give the power company the incentive to prevent overloads by providing adequate capacity.

So, do I understand you correctly that someone who uses their electric oven (so, ~ 3 kW) once a day for half an hour but uses no other electricity should pay the same total as someone who runs some 3 kW machine 24/7, unless the grid is overloaded, in which case the latter pays less?

> That price doesn't include externalities. It can make sense to use pricing to discourage usage of resources with otherwise unpriced negative externalities.

Except that's not what is happening here?

> Network equipment may use more electricity when forwarding packets than not. But when this is in the amount of pennies per TB of data, the accounting overhead of keeping track of it would exceed the measured dollar amount.

Except that that's a minor part of the marginal cost of moving a packet?
> arbitrary words on newsprint automatically makes you qualified.

Who gets to decide what is arbitrary?
As someone who was about to ditch the PHP ecosystem 6 years ago for something like Rails... frameworks like Laravel absolutely changed the PHP ecosystem.

Also since the release of PHP 7.0, core development seems to have really picked up with good stuff in every release (7.3 was just released a few months ago).