skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the other side would be: how about stop throwing free stuff at me that I don't need anyways? But since it's already there, sure, I'll consume it?
The market tought people to be like this.
I never click on adds, and I never buy what's advertized in an add, what's the market value of that?

For a while, I tried what everyone else tried: "like and subscribe, like and comment!" but 1. it didn't work and 2. I felt more and more disgusted with myself.
3. I had a friend, who did this, stuck with it and became very weird, always hunting for agreement, couldn't take any feedback at all (unless it was positive and stroking her ego).

All this stuff is reshaping human behaviour, and nobody knows what it's doing.

4. All adds are telling you that something is missing and that you need it. Be it software or hardware, creams and food. Essentially the message in a lot of these things is: you're inefficient, ugly, slow, unproductive, uncreative, too thick, too thin... Who wants to listen to that kind of message all the time?
Most of my comments on reddit are replies to borderline insensitive arguments because I believe that it is very easy sound more aggressive than intended.

Generally I found that if you explain to someone how their comment might have been out of place, or maybe they just did not consider a nicer interpretation you get a nice response back.

> "you are an X, therefore your argument is junk because you are stupid/evil, here is why"

The problem with this type of comments is that generally people are not very good at complaining about them, or at suggesting better way to frame criticism. This is especially relevant in internet forums where too many personalities interact to be able to generalize and it is hard to gauge how much criticism is warranted.
And this is why laws like the GDPR are needed:

"Journalists recently revealed that Australia’s most popular medical appointment booking app, HealthEngine, routinely shared 100s of users’ private medical information to personal injury law firms as part of a referral partnership contract.1 Although the company claimed this was only done with users’ consent, these practices were not included in the privacy policy but in a separate “collection notice,” and there was no opportunity for users to opt-out if they wished to use the application (app)."

Too bad most of the worst offenders are in the US or other countries with non-existing privacy laws.
If his blog was now finally moved including the comments, why has oldnewthing lost all its comments?
all we can do is observe our universe and try figuring it out. so far what we can observe matches a coherent scientific model up to a point, but there are severe issues left to explain:

* so the universe was at one point pure energy at a scale smaller than an atom core? how did this happen?

* why did it first inflate so fast so it wouldn't fall back immediately? what happened to this inflation force after it was done?

* what is that force that accelerates expansion?

* why can't we observe most of the mass required to hold galaxies together?

* how does gravity effect the quantum world?

I'm hopeful that these can still be answered, especially since gravity may actually allow us to observe what's behind the CMB. But with such severe gaps I find intelligent design still as good an answer as any - intuitively it looks to me like a lab experiment that has been tuned to produce interesting results. If we do find answers to the above, intelligent design can probably be ruled out, but otherwise a valid hypothesis is that our universe does not make sense internally because there are external forces acting on it that come from an outside universe, potentially steered in an intelligent way.
Why should the crime rate end up reduced when you pay people to commit crime?

AshishBora's point was that crime rate overall would increase, as there's a clear financial incentive to start committing crime.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Neat! Looks like it just animates a few ASCII sprites and confetti. The source is right there anyways.
> Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?

Not if the company will continue being run by the legal department. From industry insiders, I heard people having exchanges with them like "you are gonna fail, thus we are not gonna be working with you..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18701898
Yeah that's more what I meant by "distributed". Doesn't have to be over the network though, loads of side channels on a machine…
Just a bit of defense to this assumtion:

When it comes to privatizing stuff that really should be handled by a welfare state the “optimal resource allocation” argument comes up frequently though.

And it completely misses the point of supporting a welfare state.

It’s of course not about being optimal with resources, it’s about providing the best standard of life to as many individuals as possible.

Do this and the number of incarcerated will most likely drop.

It’s all a big game of balance, the way I see things.
Facebook stored passwords in plain text
The problem is private prisons openly lobby, and secretly collude, with the government to increase their profits.

This is also why insulin is expensive (the discoverers and patent holders made their patents freely available long ago). It's regulations which keep insulin, and other drugs, protected from competition and therefore can be expensive... Really, there are endless stories about this.

The gov vs private debate is kind of academic when the reality is a lot of the problem comes down to collusion and cheating from both of them.
HL1: Yes please, it would look so cool.

> they added PBR layers

and fluid simulation for explosions

I'd rolling in joy for Max Payne and GTA San Andreas :)
I generally tend towards Hayek in thinking that the market is an amazingly useful creation, and one that we tinker with at our peril. But on the other hand, there are some that become successful whist contributing nothing to the greater good - no innovation, no efficiency - and just succeed at being better hoarders of wealth.

> academics who have never built a business, hired employees

When I see this type of argument made I often think a. as if someone else wouldn't have come along and created/serviced the market sooner or later, yet we heap praise upon the person that happened to get there first and b. the wider benefits are really just happy side-effects - if a business's costs could be lowered by automating all tasks and employing zero staff, wouldn't it be compelled by capitalism to do so?

If it's employment we want, we can just follow Keynes and employ people to bury money and dig it up again..
Except that you can point to cases where free market does work.
Start from LyX if it helps, but just make sure that you grind down the rough edges.

Fully enough, I would have exactly the opposite recommendation: Start by writing LaTeX out manually, then move on to LyX when you have a good understanding.

This is due to a combination of (1) needing to already know about LaTeX features before you can know to look for them in LyX (buried in menus or whatever) and (2) although LaTeX errors are much rarer when you're using LyX, when you do get them they're often really confusing ones. I'd say that using LyX requires greater knowledge of LaTeX than using LaTeX directly, just applied less often.

The benefit of LyX is not that you avoid needing to know about LaTeX. It's that you don't have to see it when you're editing your content. Equations with a lot of subscripts and superscripts come to mind; anyone who claims that it is easier to find and fix mistakes in a nested superscript in the raw LaTeX rather than just clicking directly in rendered representation and fixing it in place is, frankly, lying, if only to themselves.
LSP refers to Language Server Protocol[1], a protocol created by microsoft to help text editors provide smartness (autocompletion, go to definition, etc.) for programming languages.

[1] https://langserver.org/
Haskell is easier to learn than it seems : https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/

Just get the basics down and write some stuff. For a lot of things, you don't need to know how they work underneath in order to use them. It is helpful to implement functors, applicatives and monads for some of the basic data structures to get a feel for things, but then beyond that, just use what has been provided. Don't try to write your own monad transformers, just use the mtl library. Lenses are really complicated to understand, but really simple to use. The servant web library uses some high end type level stuff in order to work, but it is really easy to use. The compiler has your back.

If something just doesn't work and doesn't make sense, just move on and find a different way. After a while you will understand more and can return to it.

Don't try to understand the academic papers that have been written with Haskell. There is a really tradition of making the Haskell code as incomprehensible as possible. It will just get you down.
probability - the iPad mini is too big for a lot of people to use as their primary "phone".
Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Helped Scientists Create New Diagnosis Method
The 5 Highest-Paid California State Employees All Work in the Prison System, Make Over $500,000 Per Year

https://www.laweekly.com/news/the-5-highest-paid-california-...
> maybe these could be in the README.md

Currently there isn't a whole lot in the README; part of the goal of this post is to find questions that people would like answered in it.

> Is an object file used for this or does the assembler just use the labels in the open files?

The compilation is done entirely in memory and I don't recall any of the classes being analogous to a traditional object file. One of the things I would like to implement in the future is linking with ELF object files, and loading, executing and exporting ELF executables. However, that is a relatively big addition and I don't fully understand the ELF format.

> Is there a list of the system calls you implement?

I don't believe there is an easily accessible, static list. But RARS generates a list of available system calls accessible from the help menu.

The classes for the system calls are all in this directory [0]. If its a supported system calls, its in that directory.

> Did you follow an example or standard or did you just make up some system calls?

In the translation from MARS, I kept a lot of the MARS/SPIM specific syscalls. However, to have at least a semblance of Linux (and with any other existing simulators) compatibility I implemented a few of the easy Linux system calls and remapped some of the MARS system call numbers to the ones used in Spike [1].

> Disclaimer: I'm no RISC-V expert and I didn't look at RARS for very long, so these might be stupid questions.

No worries. I can't expect you to be an expert and these are very reasonable questions. Thanks for asking.

[0]: https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars/tree/master/rars/riscv/s...
[1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-sim
and because of those population changes, the old ways of short incarceration and rehabilitation have stopped working...

2014, NOTE - Before the Great Migration

"With prisoner numbers falling and jails closing, Swedish criminal justice works, says director-general Nils Öberg"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/26/prison-swede...

2018, A few years AFTER the Great Migration

"Sweden's rapidly filling prisons – capacity has jumped from 85 percent to 95 percent in just four years – is a problem officials had predicted." https://www.thelocal.se/20180712/violence-on-the-rise-in-swe...

"Sweden rape: Most convicted attackers foreign-born, says TV" ... " he SVT programme revealed that in cases where the victim did not know the attacker, the proportion of foreign-born offenders was more than 80%. " https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

you get the picture...

I hope this is not too sensitive to post here on HN, as I know these facts goes against many of the beliefs many of you hold. But why be afraid of facts? They may tell you something you didn't knew before.

The truth is out there.
Thank you for bringing some light into this cavern of ignorance.
Might as well ask why there isn’t peace on earth given that’s clearly seen as the way things should be. Not always easy to achieve.
This, of course, brings in the devices that shake the trackers just right[0], to scam the companies(I remember reading about it being a thing in the USA).

I would guess that if this gets mainstream, insurance companies may purchase user data from other apps to cross-check users lifestyle and deny claims where the user appears to be jogging on the insurance app but sleeping according to the totally free and fun sleep tracking app.

[0] Phone rockers, like that: https://shopee.sg/Phone-Steps-Tracking-Rocker-i.7049223.9511...
When it comes to prison, it's more like:

"food", "housing", "healthcare" and "security".
> * Liberalizing height restrictions across the board from 4-5 story houses to something closer to 8-10.

Will that improve anything? There are places in Amsterdam where they builds higher, but those rarely turn out the way people hoped. Take the old Bijlmer flats, for example.

> * Finding some realistic compromise between the preservation of truly historic buildings, and the current policy which pretty much just enacts a blanket policy of preservation on the "look" of pretty much all existing houses in the Centrum.

But that "look" of the inner city is a big part of the appeal of Amsterdam.
Putty definitely requires you to edit its default settings, but I was in general really surprised at the level of control you have (on a Windows application).

Side note: Am I in the minority for disliking how Solarized looks? It's so damn popular but I really can't seem to find its appeal.
I guess better tools for developers could mean in a benefit for the player: less time working on one thing could mean more time in others, giving more room to improvement. I guess...
And the person who killed five police officers and injured 11 more people in Dallas was a fan of BLM. And John Hinckley Jr. thought he would impress Jodie Foster.

The views of madmen don't reflect on the celebrities or groups they're fans of.
How interesting to witness common sense in a non-sensical world.
Physics Explains Why Time Flies as We Age
Actually StatusNet had a good solution for discoverability groups. An equivalent is an outstanding issue for ActtivityPub https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/328
>1. None of the things you listed are anywhere near a free market in the US.

A, the "no true Scotsman".

The main thing (except insistence on dogma) free market adherents have with leftists (and their similar: "Stalinism/Maoism/Pol-Potism/Tsaucescuism/Titoism/DDR-ism/etc wasn't real socialism" defense).
U.S. firm FIS buys Worldpay for $35B in payments deal bonanza
Or to the Netherlands, like Norway did.

"Due to lack of space, more than 1,000 inmates in Norway are waiting to be placed in prisons, where they are often assigned to individual cells. To solve the problem, Norway has leased Norgerhaven prison from the Netherlands."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/norwegian-inma...
No, it's only going to happen for all the people who would become criminals. Would you become a criminal if I paid you $75k for life afterwards, assuming the court found you were in poverty and needed the money (probably most criminals). I for one know I absolutely would not commit crimes no matter how much money you paid me.
All the Linux Networking Commands and Scripts I Could Think Of
A performance issue caused by NUMA
Facebook’s reportedly been storing millions of user passwords in plain text
The Christchurch shooter was also a self-described "eco-facist". That doesn't mean environmentalists are evil.
Depending on skills you can earn a magnificent hourly rate in comparison to full-time employment and have more freedom in the types of projects you pick. Location matters a lot though. Be ready to jump on a plane / train to discuss with potential clients. It takes a lot of grit especially if you build your own client base and wish to avoid middle-men who broker to the larger companies.

For larger firms though you won't get in without middleman (because of preferred supplier lists (PSL)). The bigger players pay you usually competitive rates (unless the middleman is fucking with you which is rare but happens), but you won't own the relationship with the client (the middleman does). Work for smaller firms and you run a higher risk of losing money, not getting paid or getting shafted simply because they think they can.

Ask a lawyer to help you draft contract templates which reflect how you envision any business relationship and then make your clients that you work for directly sign that (rather than expecting them to talk to their own lawyer which the won't do if they never considered bringing in a freelancer).

Find other freelancers in your region to speak to and get a feel for what they charge and how they go about acquiring new clients.

Biggest question when pitching to middlemen is "do you have any freelance/consulting" experience. If no this will be a read flag. So be creative to get your foot in the door.

Ensure you stay on their radar: Send your professional profile to every middle-man in the country and keep updating them with the latest version and your current availability.

Always say yes to any opportunity when asked for an interview (even you're busy right now with something else, or it is slightly off-topic for you). It's a chance to network and to practice your pitch (practicing the skills of interviewing and marketing your skills/brand is even more important than knowing your technical stuff, the latter should be taken for granted).

Gerald M. Weinberg's "The Secrets of Consulting" is excellent for anyone starting out in consulting or for those who consider hiring them (in any case your world might never be quite the same after reading this book):

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...
That's pretty cool. Imo, I think it really paid off and I'm thankful to get the kind of insight into Microsoft that these bloggers managed to give. I think it humanized Microsoft and their developers for a lot of people (including me).
Well, the UK in general and London in particular are particularly bad, because income (outside banking) is very so-so-ish, cost of living (not just housing, but that in particular) spectacularly high and quality of life (again, housing, commutes, infrastructure, etc.) not so spectacular.

Berlin may have comparable salaries (for me it was actually better, but that was probably specific circumstances), but cost of living is dramatically lower and quality of life dramatically better.
For comparison, German federal government research grants (from the BMBF) explicitly have a 20% markup that is reserved for non-research stuff. Typically this goes to the university to cover the offices of the employees who work on the project and into a fund for other stuff (grant application overhead etc). The rest is all used for salaries and project specific investments.

Theoretically that's pretty good. However if you look at a lot of the research projects you kind of scratch your head at the actual output (which imo is the real problem).
I think one reply to your concern about the importance of businesses who accept the currency is this. Businesses will basically want to trade their goods for any sufficiently liquid asset; government currency has no special status except that it is what they need to pay taxes. All US businesses might move over to bitcoin for some reason, but they’ll need USD for all their taxes, so government currency retains its value as compared to other conceivable private means of exchange. The theory is about sovereign money in particular, and the only essential reason businesses are interested in the national sovereign currency (when they could transact in any medium of exchange and store value in any valuable asset class) is taxes.
Switzerland doesn't lead the world in pharmaceutical development.

Uhh, Roche? (which also owns Genentech)

Novartis?
Shutting down Facebook Live is rather extreme, isn't it? FB didn't waste time removing offensive content when it was reported. Who wants their social media to be a monitored, censored, walled garden as is WeChat?

If we must endure screened, delayed communication, nonfree (as in freedom) then the terrorists win.
Read every single article on daedtech.com related to software consulting (and maybe some that aren't) -- the amount of insight contained inside those articles for free is insane.

99% of the people who think they are doing consulting (me included) are not doing consulting. If you're getting paid to write software, you're not a consultant, you're a freelancer/service provider. Let those words shake you then read all the writing on daedtech.com to learn why and see if you disagree (you won't).
The Facebook Pixel: A Newbies Guide to FB Advertising
When I dug into it yes that was the process - I do know how to use taskmanger.
One example that continuously irks me that recently started happening is if I search for "python list index" (without the quotes) the official reference material is ranked 7th. I don't need a tutorial or a second hand source, I need the information I'm looking for which is in the official python documentation. Not on programiz, or tutorialspoint (twice), or w3schools, or geeks4geeks.
AFAIK healthcare (insurance companies and many hospitals) are private in Switzerland.
Re 1:

In regards to health care, US public spending on health care is similar to that of other western countries, although it does spend more on private. Make of that what you will but saying that the US doesn't spend on public healthcare is just incorrect.

> While the U.S. has similar public spending, its private sector spending is triple that of comparable countries [0]

Same is true about public eduction

> In 2014, the United States spent $12,300 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 29 percent higher than the OECD average of $9,600. At the postsecondary level, the United States spent $29,700 per FTE student, which was 81 percent higher than the OECD average of $16,400. [1]

Private prisons house a small portion of California inmates:

> The California State Prison System is administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Adult Institutions, which had 136,000 inmates as of 2014. The state of California also relies on private and leased prisons. The number of California prisoners in private out of state facilities is around 8,763 and 4,170 are housed in leased facilities within the state. [2]

[0] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart/u-s-similar-public...

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_California
To me it doesn't demonstrate that incarceration and rehabilitation don't work, it just shows that crime is correlated to misery and ignorance
If they have 2 AoA's and they disagree, they can indicate that with the light AoA disagree, disable MCAS and display on the CDU that MCAS is disabled. So the pilot knows what's happening and take corrective action.
How is this relevant? 2 and 4 can still have most of their revenues from where 1 and 3 have them (e.g. not by blood-sucking the Swiss society).
Healthcare isn’t state owned, or even single payer in Switzerland. Everyone pays for their own insurance.

The rate they pay is fixed by the state but all the assets — the insurance companies, the hospitals, the insurance policies — are in private hands.

In Germany none of that stuff is state owned, either.

This is one of the strangest things about the healthcare debate in the United States: we frequently contrast our system with “public” systems that are actually well regulated private systems.
> So why isn't it a free market in the USA when free markets is clearly seen as the way things should be?

Because of lobbying

> Why does the US government not respond by putting a cap on prices for hospital treatments?

Because that's _socialism_, and it means the Communists have won