skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, (a) in totality, Bitcoin is still being mined and therefore inflating, at a rate of 3.81% per annum at the moment meaning the BTC inflation rate today is approximately double the US dollar. Obviously that's slated to change, but it's definitely not true now. It's been inflating massively all these years and yet its' value is still going up; fascinating. Almost like inflation isn't a bad thing?

(b) The effective inflation rate is massively negative because everyone keeps losing their keys. A friend asked me re: Satoshi "If he didn't believe in what he built and the future, why isn't he moving his genesis coins? What kind of man would do that?" My answer was: "the kind of man who lost his keys."

(c) The inflation rate of the crypto space in totality to your point is astronomical, since anyone can just fork a currency, give a few tokens to some promoters/shills/exchanges, get listed, and boom, that's a dump-truck of sweet sweet crypto.

(d) I'd watch the hell out of the Jack Dorsey reality TV series.
As someone living in the Midwest, those numbers are mind-boggling.
Although the population swapping test does enforce the Golden rule ("treat others as you'd like to be treated") it does fail to capture the fact that there are population-level disparities in education and other opportunities.

I respect that many disagree with affirmative hiring policies, but just saying that it's be unacceptable to do the same thing to different races is a rather naive approach.
I would say the lack of limitations is the problem.

Quoting from my notes for my 2006 conference talk:

The Easter Island west of Chile has
- One flight departing today, one flight arriving today. Friday there
was no flight at all.
- fares touching Easter Island covering this flight: 1432 published,
160,000 constructed

Apparently I didn't count fare-by-rule fares. Yes they have 2 mechanisms to make up fares during the query.

The rules are complicated. In fact Turing-complete. So you can have unlimited number of fares, too.

"400x400 itineraries" means you construct 400 ways to get to the destination and 400 ways to get back, for a round-trip which is what most people search for. So if you go Boston-Hamburg all the intermediate airports cause variants. The same flight at a different time is different and causes a new itinerary. So this is really not as deep a search as you would think.

When I abused my testing rack at ITA to search for flights home (Hamburg), I used 3500x3500 itineraries (using a specially compiled QPX with limits raised). Rarely but occasionally it would find obscure flights that would make it cheaper, flights not covered by regular limits.
Ask HN: How to Foster a Sense of Urgency?
Hi HN,

I have been working at a startup for about 6 months as a frontend developer. Our team size is in the teens, and if it matters, and we're located in a large city in the Pacific Northwest. Everyone who works there is quite talented and friendly. We are targeting the right market and we have a general alignment on long term product direction.

I am starting to have concerns that we lack a sense of urgency as a team. It seems like we are over-engineering the product and haven't released anything. We probably won't release something until Q3. People seem to take it for granted that we have time and will succeed. We have raised a lot of money so it isn't baseless.

Building a good product takes time but I'm concerned that we don't seem to have a sense of urgency / hunger in our culture. It seems like in all the success cases you hear about, the employees were "hungry".

In your experience, is it possible to build that kind of culture? Is it even necessary in the first place for success?

Thanks for your thoughts.
Mapping “Micro-Level Segregation” in Boston Using Mobile Phone Data
How does this "improve" at all?

In fact, that example will eliminate any chance React might have of batching multiple updates into a single render pass.

React wraps all event handlers in a call to `unstable_batchedUpdates()`. All updates that are queued in that event handler will be batched together.

Splitting updates into multiple ticks will keep them from being batched.
A thoughtful idea, the article is about an app:

RecordMeNow
http://recordmenow.org/

that prompts someone with questions that most children would liked to hear answered when they're older.

There's also a very good podcast version of the article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p072kvnc
Also 98% chance OP is male. I'd say 50-60% white, since we're on HN. With the other 40-50% being Asian or Indian.

In summary, yes, usernames tell you a lot.

But site demographics tell you a lot more!
It's not quite that expensive. I paid less than $200 a few weeks ago for 32GB of SODIMM to go in a NUC. I think $300 for all the guts of a machine is probably pretty optimistic, but the RAM would only be about a third of it.
But there's something about using the default system tools that keeps me attached to Terminal.app.

The big thing that keeps Terminal in my dock is iTerm's sometimes flaky Unicode support. In Terminal it always works. In iTerm, it's about 80/20.

I still use iTerm when I'm doing something requiring a bunch of panes. But if I'm doing something Unicode-heavy, it's Terminal.
> How easily can the OS take the memory back from Chrome to run something else (that one is easy, it can not, except on the last case scenario where it kills process).

It actually can. It's called swapping. An amazing technology from the 90s.
Discrete optimization and automatic differentiation.
Assuming the people involved are intelligent and also aware of how the system works, why consider the student as “damaged goods” over something which is not their fault? I have no horse in the race but as an outsider it seems stupid so I have to assume I’m missing something. I can’t be more rational than all these scientists right?
Automatic Finances
He talked about a systems project nobody would attempt. Microsoft did with Midori. It was amazing result. Then, they shelved it outside use in one service. (Sighs)
Except if you bought the S&P at the all-time high you'd still have 95% of your money, instead of 10% of your money. Further when the stock market crashed, BTC did too, it didn't help. My point is there are so many hedging options out there, why this one?! If gold dropped to 10% of its value one day how many goldbugs do you think would be screaming HODL and STORE OF VALUE? Or "what if there's a financial apocalypse" when their portfolio looks like they've already weathered Black Tuesday. There are tons of assets out there that haven't dropped huge amounts. Is it sunk cost? Religiosity?

I guess what I'm trying to say is nobody would declare nascent tech stocks to be a great store of value and a hedge against the apocalypse. There's tons of volatility and by most peoples' assessment (not mine though) it's the young up-start go-getter. What makes this different?
But Jared Kushner is fine. Cool.
Are you an over the top 35/36 year old?
I find is surprising that this stuff gets discussed on HN at all, and then I'm more surprised that comments like your own aren't the highest voted.

Every reasonable person agrees that (lower case) social justice is our goal. Let's use a scientific approach to get closer to making it a reality.
You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
Developing Trading Applications with Shrimpy’s Crypto Exchange API
I want something like that, but if I'm asked to shell out $50 for a box that does what I can do on Imgur/Instagram/Photos for free, I'm going to turn my nose on it.

With 99% of the images I want to share on the web - I don't really care if they aren't going to be around in five months time.

Also, what if the vendor of the box (That handles the integrations with third-party hosts) goes out of business? Am I going to now have to figure out how to hack my hardware to be allowed to talk to <Whatever the new image hosting service> is?

This is an inescapable rabbit hole of third-party dependencies.
A potentially better syntax would be 0o100, e.g.
Nothing but positive experiences with the app. The price is usually around the same, but you can find smaller boutique hotels and hidden gems depending on where you are going.
> an unsophisticated economically distressed person is forced into taking a poisoned deal

Forced by what? By their personal situation? Even in this case, both sides stand to benefit. Any better hypothetical deal simply isn't on the table. That person still has the choice not to take the deal or to try and find another deal.

> Perhaps you don't believe labour standards, collective bargaining rules, minimum wage, and other pro-worker laws exist, but they do.

Indeed, there is always and at any time a great deal of lawmaking and lobbying underway to regulate things that presumably need regulation. This in itself is not proof that the market mechanism needs such regulation.

I already dealt with minimum wage, it's price fixing and it doesn't work.

Collective bargaining (like any bargaining) requires no laws, it is a natural right. You are right insofar as that there are some anti-discrimination laws in place presumably protecting union workers.

Safety standards are an interesting topic. Last I heard, there's no law forcing employers to publish statistics on accidents, to properly inform the laborer on the risk they are taking. They're expected to trust "safety standards" set by the government and (presumably) checked by the government. Yet they fully bear the risk of their job. They are responsible for themselves. They can and must refuse to perform an action that they deem is endangering themselves unduly.

In any event, you are dragging in a lot of stuff that goes beyond "a trade" and into labor law. Labor isn't "one transaction" that could be deemed fair or unfair. The terms are re-evaluated constantly and if there is a disagreement, either parties can terminate.

> Take a look at the SEC, then. They perform the exact same function, but for wealthy investors. Do you hate them too?

You can drop your "hate" allegations, please. Insofar as we are talking about regulating fraud, it is fine. Insofar as we are talking about being the nanny for foolish investors to not make foolish investments, it is unwarranted.
You can make most anything halfway decent taste good or at least non-offensive with an Aeropress. Just reduce extraction time and increase or decrease temperature.
Be mindful of where you get your coffee. Intensive coffee farming is environmentally destructive: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/64/5/416/2754235

Absent urgent climate action wild coffee will likely be extinct by 2080 and farming will likely have to move regions or move indoors: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coffee-cou...
I'd imagine lackluster pay and red tape eclipses this by far.
This is a pretty disingenuous comparison, but a great way to advertise your business. I'm sure everyone involved will gets exactly what they pay for.
It was already forked in its early perl days, and thus it's very hard to use it properly as build tool, as the non-GNU version has an entirely different argument syntax. eg on macOS or BSD. You really have to probe for the GNU version (the more popular and newer one, with this awkward citation and begging),
but for longer tasks it speeds up processing immensely. There's no need for Hadoop when you can use parallel. I'm processing hundreds of log files in one of my build-steps (similar to pgo, profile guided optimization), and with parallel it needs 30s, without 3min. This makes a difference.
One could say that deciding where to hold recruiting events dictates which people go from the "zeroth stage" of not being in the application pool at all to th first stage of resume review.
I look forward to seeing AI be as conscious as it can. I hope they model reality and develop their own models of the universe. What I would like to see, is how humanity and this form of consciousness can work together to further development of life. I think far reaching space travel will not be possible (at least, for a while), with out cooperation from an intelligence like AI. I also think we are far off and away from seeing man and AI cooperate, which is a bummer.
Lying with Science
Like Trump...

So you know it is not a intellectually honest critique when you start off with some fact light guilt by association argument. Trump breathes air, you breath air, you bad like trump.
Another example from my 2006 conference notes. Assume you want to go from Easter Island to Aalborg, Denmark. Not a commonly traveled market. Cough. Just the number of fares filed by the data directly for this route is 57. Direct fares (for calculation without considering using 2 fares) from Easter Island to Copenhagen is 157.

You can see that when itineraries between other locations want to try out going through Denmark they pull in a lot of those fares. They add up if you do 400x400 itineraries.
It's kind of unfair to compare raw stats of kids who went to elite prep schools vs poor public schools.

Like I was thinking about the amount of activities, tutors, private school my SO and I could pay for if we had a kid. And it was kind of insane to compare that versus what we grew up with, and how different our own HS resumes would have been with the same level of resources.
Thanks so much, this is it! The play online link was what I'd been linked to.

https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2F...
Memes are absolutely art. Why not?

That's actually the thesis behind my startup, Memes On Canvas: https://www.memesoncanvas.com
but also seems likely that the exact opposite approach of banning private schools and assigning kids to public schools by lottery would also improve things

Can you imagine if that were done to you?
You're unnecessarily fixated on the 1% threshold I set out earlier. While nothing you said has changed my mind (my estimate is still <1%), I'm not really interested in the exact number. My point is that your concerns are qualitatively irrelevant (practically, not morally). So what if, in the absence of gerrymandering, there would be 100 fewer Republican congressmen? The Senate still isn't passing NN, and Trump is still stacking the judiciary with conservatives.

I'm not here to defend Republicans (I think they're pretty bad) or the practices you described (I also think those are bad). But that doesn't change the fact that gerrymandering and power grabs and Fox News are nearly completely inconsequential in explaining the world in front of us. Quit with the liberal wishcasting. People don't vote Republican because they've been misled by some sinister conspiracy. They just don't want what you're selling.
> Of course of some are useless equivalents, but many aren't.

No such thing as a synonym. On the face of it yes many words share meanings. But a mutt is not the same as a dog despite what thesaurus.com says
Wave needs a critical mass of users to be useful so that created difficulty with no existing (public) service after Google shut their instance down.

Google completely botched the roll-out. Wave is essentially useless without others to use it with (no value above Google Docs to use it solo, or standard email/IM to chat with others). I had 10 invites, I sent most of them out. Only two people of the 7 or 8 I invited received their invites. It was completely useless to me because one of the two was someone who just wanted an invite (but I didn't interact with much), and the other was an fellow tabletop gamer and the rest of our group couldn't get in.

When Google finally opened it (looked up dates, I remembered it was short but didn't recall it being this short) to the general public it was May 2010. They announced that they were going to stop developing it (switch to sustainment with plans to shut it down) in August 2010. They gave the service 3 months, and said it didn't have sufficient interest.

No shit, it was three-damned-months!

As best I can tell, someone at Google had intended to shut it down from the start. The fact that their attempt to launch it failed doesn't mean that the system (or its concept) had no potential. But killing it did kill the potential, because you needed that critical mass to gain any value from it.

It had federation which would've been useful, but with no public instance there was little reason for a small group to run their own instance. There was no one to talk to.
>I however enjoyed turning the bullies into the bullied by isolating them for a few days and reintroducing them.

That reminds me of the story of a baboon tribe Robert Sapolsky studied:

"The males [...] had contracted bovine tuberculosis, and most died between 1983 and 1986. Their deaths drastically changed the gender composition of the troop, more than doubling the ratio of females to males, and by 1986 troop behavior had changed considerably as well; males were significantly less aggressive."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387823/

I wonder if a similar phenomenon would occur within a flock such as yours (or within chickens altogether)
Those shades of meaning can be described with other words.

What is the minimum number of words needed to define everything else?
Looks like everything he does can easily accomplished using emacs orgmode and pandoc

Ripgrep is maybe an alternative for ag
Eventbrite ($EB) crashes 25% after hours after giving weak guidance
It feels a bit faster, yes. The reason is that the input value is updated earlier.

The problem is, that the UI is still unresponsive when the timeouts fire which you feel if you type fast or look at the animation/fps meter.

Instead of a setTimeout, you could also debounce the two expensive updates (as I've noted in the post). This would at least make sure that they are batched so if you type fast you only need to re-render the list once.
Yep, I got so annoyed I was compelled write blog post about it, documenting the ways facebook is being transparently manipulative.

https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-...
Twitter: Scott Knaster – Apple's New Leadership Page
To be fair, I've had surprisingly good luck at searching for photos in Google Photos by text. The AI there seems pretty solid.
> Rust proponents want to separate 2 from 1 and 3, and make a language where you can do things by hand and do unsafe things on purpose, but the language has more guide rails to prevent you from doing unsafe crap by accident.

The first systems programming language to introduce this concept was ESPOL , created in 1961, already with the notion of unsafe code blocks.

Even better, according to surviving manuals, binaries with unsafe blocks were tainted and required enabling execution by the admin user.
AWS Lambda@Edge should do most of the same thing, so it's not entirely locked-in.
I think this is trying to be a leading question but I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say.
your friend is lucky. I accepted an offer from AWS with top-level security right out of college.

They asked if I smoked in the last year. Dumbass young me says yes but it was ~6 months prior.

Offer revoked
Osadl Project: SIL2LinuxMP
Why SKAGs Are No Longer a PPC Best Practice (and How to Respond)
Amazon ended music uploads [0]
But - yea, no HN outrage...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Wouldn't the takeaway there be to not do research with cockroaches?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DzBtfH
You didn’t read the entire second half of my comment.
If you look at it from a global perspective, you can find the 100,000x. Obviously people are split between it being wrong to spend 100,000x more, and people who think it's wrong to be able to only spend 1/100,000th.
I really and truly want to hire more members of underrepresented groups, but I would never take an applicant's race into account in whether or not to hire them.

It sounds legally very questionable and, in any event, is unfair to applicants. We owe it to them to judge them on their merits as an employee as best we can. If we're not getting as many minority applicants as we'd like, it's on us to examine our our culture, recruiting, marketing, inclusivity, benefits, retention, etc.
I don't travel much or look at much art, but I have happened to seen that Pollock. It is true. You can't ignore it, it's very palpable. I'm not sure I liked it, but I definitely felt something strongly.
And that's just the fares. We didn't talk yet about seat availability.

You have to ask for seat availability for the complete fare-component, the thing that a fare covers. So if you go Boston-Copenhagen-Hamburg you don't just do seat queries for Bos->CPH and CPH->BOS, you are required to ask those questions in a context that says you travel BOS->HAM.

The seat availability for the same seats on the same flights on the BOS->CPH leg is different depending on whether you ask in a BOS->CPH context or a BOS->HAM context.

You can see how asking all those seat availability queries for all the different ways to fly in the query explodes nicely. Combinatorics at work.
Children are bullies too! Why do we need to extrapolate from chickens.
If you care about free culture, don't put it up on a private (company) service. Most things on the web have not guarantee of longevity. The only thing open source about Google is some of the software licenses they use.
An interesting related talk, touching on the minimality and expressiveness of both natural and computer languages, is Guy Steele's 1998 talk "Growing a Language":

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

PDF: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847691, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174, & others
Mari Kondo Mac edition:

Google Drive Personal for all personal files : photos, tax returns, etc. Only sync files actively touched in last thirty days.

Google Drive Work for all work files : presentations, spreadsheets, contracts. Only sync things I've actually touched in last week.

Github for code projects. 60 Day Minimum.
~/Documents/codeWork

Anything that is not filed within 30 Days > trash.

Admittedly my Google Drive is a bit gnarly, but the search functions are pretty solid.
When a passion for videogames helps land that job
I think there are lots of factors involved with names, but yeah.

Even the spelling of names makes a difference. Interesting example: Dale Carnegie deliberately changed his last name from "Carnagey" to "Carnegie" so people, on some subliminal way, may associate him with the classy steel-building Andrew Carnegie family.
Well, Asians are getting hired at ~3x the rate of Whites in Bay area tech firms. So it can't just be benefitting Whites. In fact, at many Bay area companies Whites are a minority. Not that I'm trying to grind an axe here, but it is pretty much counterfactual to say that explicitly meritocratic hiring benefits Whites above all others.

For what it's worth I think this question about hiring practices is welded to the the question of whether equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome. It's really the question of "is it okay to create unequal opportunities to engineer more equal outcomes?"

Questions like these have no static answer. Rather, society develops and continuously evolves a consensus about what the right answer is.
A lot of the guts of it are still the same ones that have been in C/C++ from the "dawn of time" of calc.exe. One thing to notice, for instance is that the "RatPack" infinite-precision rational library in the middle of the repository has a Copyright date specifically in it of 1995 and that seems credible.

(Also, it's C++/CX which is similar in syntax but different in runtime to Managed C++/CLI. C++/CX produces WinRT-flavor COM bindings, not CLR-intended IL code. It sounds like some folks are hoping to migrate it, now that it is open source and could be done as a community effort, to even more modern C++/WinRT which uses modern C++ features and does away with the need of special syntax.)
Suppose they had in fact won the largest House majority in history. What exactly would it change? How would NN be faring right now? Moral grandstanding aside, I don't see the relevance of any of this.