skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More state backing is great when starting out on the path because it’s relatively straightforward; provide education, infrastructure and stability and your country will take care of itself. You can even goose the figures a bit by boosting a select few companies to be your champions.

The problem is that as you get richer and move up the value chain, you start requiring industry that is more creative, or entirely new creative industries. When creativity is required state backing is horrible at picking winners. And then those industrial champions are now sucking up a lot of the capital within a country.

Eventually the champions become slow and sluggish. But they’re too big to fail; as an extreme example, Samsung’s revenues are 17% of South Korean GDP, to say nothing of their suppliers.
I would say that go is very compositional in a simple manner that makes it easy to grok and hence the tools end up being highly reusable.
Not all languages push you toward decomposition, but I would argue its the most important trait of a language and its community.
But you know how programming language discussions go =P
FWIW, you used to be able to activate Stripe by setting the address of your store outside the US, turn Stripe on, then set your address back. Not sure if that still works though. Just pick a country where Shopify Payments isn’t offered.
If you're reaching these values then it's extremely likely that either:

(a) You're doing something wrong (usually, not standardizing your data, etc.) which means that you're not thinking about the fact that computers have finite numerical precision and adjusting your problem accordingly (e.g., have a wide dynamic range of numbers).

Or, (b) your problem is pretty ill-conditioned and there's probably no solving it in any useful way unless you crank up the precision.

Almost every problem I've encountered of this form (whenever I've worked on optimizers, or, more generally, solving problems) is of type (a). There aren't many more choices if your problem is of type (b), since you're almost always losing digits somewhere in any implementation of a numerical algorithm.

The mean of two numbers is a particularly easy example to analyze, but I don't think that the implementation is "wrong" since every (even slightly more complicated) numerical algorithm will run into the same problems. I think this is a good post in its content, I just don't agree with the author's final interpretation.
2 weeks by train is still no alternative for planes.

2 weeks is also no replacement for ships, because of scale. It's something in the middle where there is no alternative.

It's also insignificant alternative in the scale against ships.
What happens to the denominator when you have 3+ elements?
I'd like to believe this were true. Personally I've found it very difficult to find paid work that allows me to exercise even a fraction of my general knowledge. My best results so far have been with underfunded startups who are trying to do too much with too little - they need people who can tackle a different challenge every week, because they can't afford to hire specialists. But it's not a spectacular way to build a career.

Of course there are other kinds of value than monetary.
Most software development methodologies - including what's become of some of the supposedly "agile" ones - are a vain attempt at formalising and industrialising a process that's inherently non-industrial.

Writing software isn't the same as producing physical goods but instead is similar to designing a product.

Therefore I'd recommend design thinking and the double diamond model for design processes: 1. Explore the problem space. 2. Narrow down to the actual problem you want to solve. 3. Explore the solution space. 4. Develop and deliver the appropriate solution from that space. 5. Rinse and repeat.

These aren't rigid methodologies but rather general approaches.

Furthermore, proactive, goal-oriented communication is essential.

The people / roles responsible for designing and developing the deliverables should also be the ones to gather requirements and talk with the users. Additional layers of organizational indirection such as dedicated business analysts often are detrimental rather than beneficial.

Relevant communication should be recorded digitally and relentlessly.

Requirements only exist if they're available to everyone through some sort of digital system, such as JIRA and Confluence, which are tremendously useful and usable tools if configured for enabling communication rather than for imposing some rigid and often inappropriate process.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (2012)
US declared China as main competitor last year (as declared by VP pence), enforced high tariffs as punishment on China, and the US military is on high alert with China as the main enemy focus for years to come. Because they realized Xi Jing Ping the dictator was a paradigm shift.

Europe is now just doing the paradigm shift, urging its member states to act as a unified front against China. Something that Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, India, New Zealand, and Vietnam has started to do
Andy Grove and bill gates probably have a different opinion. Everyone has a different opinion.
The EU advertising industry is only slightly smaller than in the US on a per-capita basis. So obviously those consumers are being monetized, otherwise businesses wouldn't be spending so much on advertising.
Because you're placing a higher weight on elements that come later in the list. Try it for the list [1, 2, 3, 4]

The mean is 2.5 if you sum them all and divide by 4.

With that method it is:

mean([1, 2, 3, 4]) = mean([1.5, 3, 4]) = mean([2.25, 4]) = 3.125
It doesn’t compute the average. Consider this test case: [0,0,0,0,0,0,4]. Your snippet would return an average of 2.
In all of these cases it could also be argued that the mean is not a useful metric for the data.
That only means that the US DOES rely on economic hitmen, it doesn't necessarily mean China does NOT have economic hitmen.
This is a really useful write up, thanks for putting it together. Pairing fighweel main with the prepl seems like a very powerful combination. One feature I use a lot in fireplace.vim is "doc", hopefully you can add that feature in Conjure soon!
PDF and eBook versions at https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/master/publishe...

> Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video on demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.
That is highly dependent on the quality of renter and quality of your property. One of the key values of having multiple rental is the economies of scale, for example:

* Property advertisement - Preparing material and advertising for 1 property can be more expensive than multiple properties

* Material for fixes - Purchasing material for 1 property can be more expensive than multiple properties

* Vacancy - The cost of vacancy for a single rental is higher than having multiple rentals. The other rentals may off-set the cost of the vacancy lot for a period, without requiring external cash flow.

* Experience - Multiple properties will give you the opportunity to experience different issues and allow you to take proactive steps to diminish certain risks.
If you when calculating an average actually reach overflow in a double without messing up the precision first and making the calculation worthless in the first place, some numbers in the list of numbers is bogusly big anyway.
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34ms on Verizon with an iPhone XS in the burbs.
There's plenty of blackbox recordings and transcripts out there of pilots losing control and freaking out instead of trying to stay calm and try to fix the situation. Most recent example is lion air. How the fuck can you seriously think every pilot on this planet would stay calm, act absolutely rationally and not panic if they can hear people being shot behind a closed door, especially if they'd been told they can make it stop by opening the door? That's like a hundred times more psychological stress. Seems like you should get out some time, have interactions with real people.
Kind of disappointed in how few images there are there, considering the scale of child abuse mentioned in the article it is odd how there is only a dozen or so images to look at and try to identify.
The blockchain system was rather underwhelming. It was supposed to be demo'ed at SIBOS last year but I guess that didn't happen. We'll see how JPMCoin goes, but knowing JPMC systems, don't expect anything impressive.
One option is to convert to a bignum representation, which is slow but works.
Thanks! I'm actually thinking about releasing it as a standalone Jekyll theme some time.
So how is this in any way relevant to the article? How does it make anything of that any better or worse? What reaction do you expect from this? What are we supposed to take away from such comments? I honestly don't get it. It's neither news, nor does it add anything to the context. The only thing it does for me is to point away from the topic at hand starting a completely new one. What's the point of that?

PS. it's not "once" like in "one time" but "once" like in "once upon a time". But somehow I'm sure you knew that already.
Russians grow wary of Chinese investments
Maybe the seduction page would seem more relatable if it actually were diaristic, talking about some real life experiences rather than “theory.”
I thought the EU eliminated most of the fragmentation in laws and regulations?
Right, I don't quite understand why there's so much secrecy around OBOR projects if the CCP really believes these deals are a partly altruistic and fully mutually beneficial agreement. It would seem to be be in their interest to publicize the terms if that were the case.

Especially given the CCP's documented history with bribing foreign leaders to agree to similar deals.
What if the presence of beta amyloid is not the cause of Alzheimer’s but rather the symptom? In that case, these drugs should be ineffective.

It would be interesting to see how brain function continues to be impaired even while the beta amyloids are suppressed using these drugs, helping us get to the real process.
Yes, thats why the chinese, colonized by the japanese are still heavily supressed - oh, victim narrative break down...

My family has shizophrenia as curse, and a part of them is all high on this narrative.
Its always some conspiracy, some evil external force, and due to them running with this view through the world- and the world reacting, it becomes a self fullfilling prophecy. There is never that one point, where somebody says "Now im really free, and responsible for all what happens".

Get help. Real help. Not this eternal victim narrative which allows for barricading in ones missery.
Not that it holds up to daylight anyway, now that the former victims, become the new colonial masters.
If you have thousands of “expert beginner” level developers, perhaps a training programme would be a better option? At that scale, you would surely have the resources to systematically increase the skill level of your whole staff instead of merely trying to compensate for their current limitations indefinitely.
I don’t agree with this. But, I bet you anything that most HN readers do have relatives they could call on if they found themselves without a job and not able to pay rent.
Or the list is just very long.
The evolutionary psychology explanation is a couple steps away from the biological explanation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24485492/

I prefer the biological explanation because someone will invariably nit the EP for being infalsifiable, and at least with the bio explanation there is a pharmacological “solution ” to any man or woman who wants to be more risk tolerant.
One of the problems with capitalism is that it's a race to the bottom.

If your competitor is doing something shady they're going to make more money.

If it doesn't become an externality to them then it's profitable and more profits means that they can re-invest those to grow their business -faster than you can grow yours.

So now you're torn... should you do this highly unethical thing or go out of business?

Taxes are a good example. Say your Google and don't want to do the double-Irish jig to avoid paying US taxes.

You want to pay your fair share. However Apple is now making BANK and they can use that money (at least in the future) for R&D and shipping new products.

You're going to be more and more and more tempted to do these things because they're never any pushback.

As an entrepreneur I WANT quality government regulation and oversight.

I don't want to have to do this type of shady crap just because the market forces me to...
It would be great if that was possible. But in the meantime human beings are amazingly good at this kind of thing. Our brains are highly optimised for this kind of work.
Cool dialogue between PG and Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow cofounder) on the tweet thread -
From Jeff:
“You can always borrow concepts and ideas from other startups, too. It's good to look, and understand the competitive landscape in detail, but not to obsess over.“
So dont live in a high cost of living area. Don’t own two cars with car payments. Don’t have expensive phones or cellphone plans, or cable TV. Don’t buy a Starbucks coffeee everyday. Minimize your burn rate, save 30-40% of your income and invest it, generating a passive income stream that you supplement with income that is drastically less obviating the need for a full time job.

I know it can be done because I know more people than I can count on my fingers who have done it.
It's not that I understand the argument, my point was that many of the mechanisms that provided enormous advantages to Western nations is often rarely spoken about. For instance, US can often infuse large amounts of cash through the central bank because it's position as the global reserve renders it very unsusceptible to inflation. There is also the inexorable power of WTO/IMF and these "international" agencies that are often steered entirely for the benefit of the US and its allies.

I understand this may not apply to EU nations to the same extent, but then there are all sorts of historical inequities in their favor (esp. Britain) that one wonders if this new found "righteousness" is a bit ahistorical.

Consider India - it's basically run by erstwhile cronies of the British empire, who basically transferred all of its generational wealth to the city in little under 200 years. This while it was made into a cocaine tanker to destroy China. It was made to fight European wars, while being footed with the bill, and now the British groan about the pittance they pay India in foreign aid. Never mind that this aid, is mostly geared towards the Anglo-Saxon eugenics schemes of all sorts.

India currently owes about half a trillion to the IMF, after being run by a IMF crony, and his Italian mistress for 10 years. It's easy to guess what the IMF will ask for (far more loudly) when it inevitably goes belly up.
Top notch idea. Can't count the number of articles I've read that suggest swiping apps are driving feelings of isolation and disconnection rather than creating healthy connections. Your feature set may solve some of those problems.

Getting users will be your biggest challenge. Rather than make your app available everywhere, I'd go to college towns and partner with the best bars and clubs for singles. Start small and be exclusive. Use the in-app check-ins to reward users with exclusive drink specials. If you seed your app with the right crowd, I can see bars paying you to make their location a "singlespot hub." $20 per month gets a bar owner access to customer acquisition tools.

Build a feature that allows users to see who's checked in before they get there. Pay $1 a month to see who's there before you commit.

Improve the experience of the on-boarding process to make the user feel like they are gaining access to something new and unique...an app that has the ability to completely change their dating life. Tell the story of what your app can do for this user.

So many ideas! Great start by the Singlespot team!
bs. it's like telling a PhD candidate no need doing reference research. being a good startup is not only about solving customers problem well, but solving in the best way and preferably first to solve.
It's possible your emails went to spam and we missed it. That's not so likely though, especially since you say there were repeated cases. We look through the spam bin and try to fish out all the HN-related emails.

More likely, if you emailed us repeatedly and didn't get a response, is that your previous accounts were involved in some form of abuse and we didn't believe that the emails were in good faith. Either that or it was 5+ years ago, when pg was running HN and didn't have time to respond to emails like we do.
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 214.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (defun mean (seq) (/ (sum seq) (len seq)))
mean
2> (mean '(8.988465674311579e+307 8.98846567431158e+307))
** out-of-range floating-point result
** during evaluation at expr-1:1 of form (sum seq)

Works for me; error is caught. Breaking news: floating-point has a limited range! Detailed story at 11 ...

Almost any non-trivial calculation that overflows can be massaged into something that avoids overflow. One important motivation behind floating point is to have enough practical range so that you don't run into overflow.

If this is an actual practical problem someone faces, the tool to reach for is wider floating-point, not to mess with the code. A bigger "E" than +307 is a thing.

Also, multi-precision floating-point is a thing.
Presuming Bill Gates has track record in finding cures?
> Where is the value in your comment?

To urge people not to engage into this pointless debate, you won't change their opinion by calling it whataboutism and will only enforce it since neither you nor him provided any valuable points in the discussion.
You mentioned it was your first and only felony a couple of times, like that is something to be proud of. Truth is it was your fourth time GETTING CAUGHT driving while impaired. Obviously the first three times the punishment wasn't strong enough to break your habit of making bad choices. I'm concerned that you have now decided to stop drinking all together and that your using the drinking as a scapegoat for your selfishness, the problem with this attitude is the cycle of addiction sets up the situation that when you relapse eventually, as most people do, chances are you will get behind the wheel again.

Now that I'm done ranting...It is definitely not over for you, your felony will have an affect on your life but that will be the case regardless of your career choice. You are still young enough to build a great career and succeed at life. I would start by looking into online courses such as Coursera or maybe one of the places listed on this site:
https://acethinker.com/web-videos/sites-like-coursera.html

Unfortunately a felony conviction does make it difficult to receive government financial aid and grants but it is still possible to get help through private means. I would also suggest volenteering, there is no easier way to gain practical experience than this and it will go a long way towards getting your felony expunged once enough time has passed. Good luck, it's not going to be as easy as giving up but nothing worth doing is.
I agree with you. Calling out anti-semitic speech as "that's not OK here, even if you first flash it overtly and then make it slightly less obvious" seems to me to be the exact opposite of that accusation.
Ah the variance is a good point. In addition to the these higher average costs (unpaid rent, extensive repairs). Especially since the average landlord is small, an cannot average over hundreds of properties.
I think it may be more regional. I'm definitely under 40, but have never heard a prostitute mention her job, let alone proselytize. Same with drugs, though you're right that marijuana is not taken as seriously.
Some of it is probably a debt trap. The Djibouti port and Hambantota are perhaps warning signs of things to come.
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Crazy, I didn't know Telenor was in Serbia.

I have a mobile provider that uses their network here in Norway, I got 171/40 and 22 ms ping. I'm in the countryside approximately 50 km from Oslo.
An 'online' mean calculation might resolve some of the common issues. Something like -

def mean(ls):
mu = 0.0
for i, x in enumerate(ls):
mu = i/(i+1) * mu + x/(i+1)
return mu
The hosting cost problem becomes acceptable if the pub server is fast enough and hosting is cheap enough. Look at IRC.
Would you stop please stop posting unsubstantive comments and ideological flamebait to HN? Your comments in this thread have been well below the standard HN users are asked to stick to, and even well below the median comment in this pretty bad thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The Vision Fund needs more governance
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How about…

using known stable numeric methods? Kahan-Babuška summation?
You can’t kick people out immediately if they don’t pay their rent. It’s been awhile so I’ve forgotten all of the terms.

In my relatively landlord friendly state, it is a long process.

1. You have to give them a written notice and they have 7 days to pay rent.

2. Then you have to go and file an eviction notice with the court and wait up to another week for them to send a notice to the tenant.

3. Then you have to wait for a court date. The tenant can basically say anything and buy time.

4. If you are successful, you have to wait for few days to schedule a police officer to come out and you have two hours to put all of their stuff on the street. You have to have at least 5 people(?) to move their stuff out.

At any time the tenant can pay the rent and stop the process. If you do everything right, it can take two or three months and you can’t go into the property while they probably tear it up.

If you want to recoup your costs, you have to go back to court to get a judgement and if they don’t pay you have to go back again to try to get their wages garnished.

Each step comes with fees.
Because it doesn't solve the problem the author is trying to solve? The goal of this is to be able to produce backwards compatible tar.gz files that can be served from a docker registry that also can be on demand streamed instead of predownloaded.

If they just wanted a S3/GCS fuse filesystem there are plenty of open source options out there.
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