skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do any of the apps mentioned in this thread have Business scenario planning/forcasting.

ex. I have my current and future expenses in the system, I want to see what will happen to my cashflow given an extra $25 a month expenses for 6 months but also between $20 and $50 a month in revenue. I'd like to see some sort of best case/worst case report and maybe show the current "scenario" at the top with a toggle button to switch between scenarios or current projection.

Cool factor would be to lock in a scenario and later report on projected balances with and without scenario. ex. If I hadn't made that decision where would I be at.
How about the annual few weeks or months of haze from tree burning to clear growth in Malaysia and Indonesia? I've heard from friends that it is a health issue while it lasts, in the two mentioned countries and also in Singapore and maybe in Thailand too; also heard that something was being done to mitigate it, some time back. Do you know if there is any improvement in the situation?
Related:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medieval-diseases...

Japanese don't see suicide as something medicalized as in the West. It's also not much different in rates per 100k from suicide in the West, and the idea that they're exceptional here is ... well, kind of a dumb racial stereotype.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
They are perhaps impressively myopic, that they overestimate a statistically insignificant chance of an undesirable side effect of vaccination, while totally ignoring the significant chance of acquiring one of the diseases the vaccine will prevent, dying from it or having life long consequences as a result. But that is the mental health problem of anti-vaxx, is not looking at the big picture.

A widespread highly contagious fatal disease puts society at an even greater risk: panic. There's all kinds of examples of humans, even in relatively modern times, trying to eject sick people from society. And that's the kind version. Locking sick people in barns and churches, and burning them down, barricading burning entire villages to the ground due to fear of contagion.

You think the anti-vaxxers are terrorists? Not a good word anyway, but when the general population starts to freak out over a disease, that will be terror. The idea we're really that different from medieval times in the face of a virulent contagion is hilarious to me, especially with all the fantastic obsession with zombie shows.
Bah, my brain auto-completed.
Excuse me? Everything I've ever read shows that Hispanics are having more kids than any other demographic. They might decrease that after immigrating to the US and becoming more assimilated, but even so they still lead the pack, and non-Hispanic caucasians are projected to become a minority in 2-3 decades IIRC.
Doesn't it all come down to: Coming up, and being able to make, something useful, that people actually want? Robots have an incredible potential to be helpful for us, but just looking at that social-media Jibo robot, I'm not really sure why I would need that.

Think about Vacuum robots on the other hand. It's still a small niche, but there's a lot of potential. I'd like to see some improvements in that direction, like if they were smarter, with better robotics & movement capabilities, they could be self-sustainable (charge themselves and empty their garbage bag etc.). Could do more tasks, remove dust, or check on things, turn off lights when you are gone... you can come up with some many things here.
>Furthermore younger kids are more likely to be killed or seriously affected by illnesses than healthy adults.

That is moving the goal posts. If adults get measles, they can pass it on to the kids. And the stated belief is that 95% immunity is required for herd protection.

Yet, we simply don't have that, and there isn't mass sickness everywhere.
I think you might need to look up the meaning of that, pal. The point is – a globally decentralised publishing network also has obvious, quite possibly terminal, problems.
Especially in light of the details that follow:

> Armed security personnel have been sent to provide "maximum" security to the island.
Does this mean we will eventually see peoples hearts being ransomware / crypto-locked?

Send 100 BTC to avoid shut-down of your heart
Hey! My company (https://qbix.com) makes something very complementary to this: apps for communities.

We are looking to integrate ticket sales for festivals and so on.

Would you like to collaborate? Email me at the username greg and domain is qbix.com
I didn't really start programming until I took an intro to programming class in university. I had been taught programming languages multiple times before, but that was the first time anyone explained the underlying systems the language was built upon. It was the first time I felt like I understood what I was doing.

A good instructor will also guide you to good learning materials. There's lots of terrible books out there, but I found good books through my classes. Though, it's probably easier to find learning materials today than when I began.
google.com will give you German ranking from Germany. You can still workaround that with google.com/ncr. The results are night and day for programming related questions.
I've heard a while ago that they want to deprecate ncr though.

Personally I use Google only for local searches and DuckDuckGo for almost everything else. Works well for me.
How about linking me to one study, in a peer reviewed journal.
It doesn't say 5% of contaminants are left, it says 5% of oil. this makes me wonder if there's anything else in this water that should be of concern.
I work for a publisher and basically these ad networks say "you'll lose 50% of your revenue if you implement 'safe frames' in Google AdManager 360. We have some publishers who do it but basically no advertiser wants to run ads in a safeframe."

So you're saying the standard practice is to let the malicious ad buyers from your network run arbitrary javascript on our sites...

"Yes that's what our publishers do..."
I use it whenever I can. It works just fine for me
Interestingly enough the Portal games leverage similar level design given to the Source engine, not only for the obvious user controlled portals but also to stitch levels together seamlessly, including impossible architecture (the long bridge leading to the glados confrontation in the first Portal shows the room you're about to enter, but its actually too small and shaped differently to hold the room.
Ok, maybe television wasn't the best example of my point. Let me give a different example. Advertisements on the web are fundamentally more coercive than advertisements in the newspaper, so should we regress back to newspapers? You mentioned adblockers but obviously that's not feasible for television, so for the purposes of the hypothetical, assume that adblocking on the web isn't feasible either. Would you stop using the web if that was the case?
So if the government mandates it, then it's specifically the government censoring things.

If the company chooses to do so, then this is a non-issue. It's no different than YCombinator banning someone who decides to spam the comments. Or Youtube banning a channel because it's posting porn videos. This is literally the same concept as that, except it's GoFundMe with anti-vax.
Good point. How about getting DeepMind to automatically reduce my taxes?
Did you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273? It's just one data point but you might find it interesting.

There is a pattern where highly specialized technical posts don't get as many comments, relative to votes. Possibly reverse engineering and other security-related specialties fall into this. One can see the same thing in e.g. articles about type theory: people are interested, but don't necessarily feel qualified to add to the discussion. That's probably good if it prevents the dumb sorts of comment from getting posted, but maybe the threads would be more valuable if more users would ask questions. Then the users who know could explain, and more learning would take place.
I'm not going to respond to these arguments because you clearly are continuing to dehumanize homeless people, and thus are arguing in what I would consider bad faith.

I will challenge you to think a bit outside of your current paradigms and realize that there is more to this than the solutions you have defined. We can do more as a society than just enforcing bylaws and institutionalizing the people at the margins. I agree that those solutions don't work, but then throwing up your hands and blaming everyone else might not be the solution. Do you want to complain, or do you want an equitable and just society for everyone who lives in it? Do you want to be right, or do you want the homeless to be housed?
I'm in the same situation.

I've already resigned myself that I must tell him to always check those minority boxes and he may want to consider only using his mother's surname on his resume, instead of the traditional dual surname he legally has (Example: Lopez, instead of Smith Lopez).
The actual volumes on different exchanges are not anything close to that disparate, so while your hypothetical does raise a real way that such a claim could be misleading, it has nothing to do with the actual situation at hand.
Ford Explorer Owners Say Their SUVs Are Making Them Sick
And let's not forget the very real cases where someone may be more comfortable telling a bootcamp something about themselves than _the entire world_ on social media
Trump Names Thiel Deputy as U.S. CTO
> This amounts to saying that you don't need a debugger if you don't make mistakes.

Not making mistakes certainly saves time.

I often use a debugger to inspect variables and check my assumptions about the application state at that point.
Page 61 has the 10 exchanges that appear to have real volume of the 81 exchanges analyzed: Binance, Bitfinex, Kraken, Bitstamp, Coinbase, bitFlyer, Gemini, itBit, Bittrex, and Poloniex. They estimate that the total ADV for the market is $273M, less than the $6B reported by https://coinmarketcap.com.
> I couldn't even give them away; people still weren't interested, including several developers (!).

I'm a developer and I own a couple of Yubikeys that I picked up to play with the concept. I don't actually use them for real authentication, though.

Now, I know that I'm a weirdo, but the reason I don't use them for real is because they're less convenient for me than just using unique, strong passwords.
You will have the same experience from this one :(

At least judging from their page where all they claim is ethically correct, not effectiveness.
Companies aren’t people, they don’t act like people and don’t have a person’s motivation. It’s a dangerous thing to talk or think as if they were. Companies like Google are a collection of people serving their own interests and desire to stay in power first and foremost, sometimes (if not often) at cross purposes with other people in the company doing the same.

Incidentally the same is true of nations.
"In part, it's explicit sexism..."

And the same could be said for other fields. Step in to a construction site/auto dealership/mechanic shop/sports field and tell me how many women you see. Are all those fields dominated by sexist men as well?

And for men, how many are nurses/teachers/social workers/counselors/human resources vs women? Are all those fields dominated by sexist women?

Could it be that women enjoy jobs with more human interaction and men are more content to sit in front of a computer screen?
Well, when you have a company for which a large majority of its employees are from countries outside of the U.S., some of which are extremely nationalist and hold anti-American views, you will end up having some decisions made that are anti-American.

EDIT: To the down-voters, I don't think you are understanding my post. I have worked with plenty of people who would love to see the downfall of the U.S. Many of the these people are foreign workers. Many of these people hold upper leadership positions in companies in Silicon Valley. Now, what do you think they would say given the chance to work with the U.S. military?

EDIT2: To the person that flagged my post - this is why we can't ever have a critical conversation about things that actually matter.
Funny you talk about quality insurance, but its employer provided insurance that's higher quality than the government or self paid ones. Because the employer gets a very good bulk deal and pays a high premium, much more than the average person can self-pay. That is why satisfaction is so high for employer provided insurance.
This is a socially unacceptable explanation in many areas with large tech industries.
It would be useful if you broke it down and had a total.

Do you use any Google APIs?
I was introduced to Linux in college and I thought, "Neat. Now please put me back into Visual Studio where the real coding happens." I was not hooked.

It wasn't until I used Linux professionally that I started to really respect (and enjoy) using the environment. And even then it wasn't until I saw another human using it efficiently. It's one thing to read about how useful it is, it's another thing to struggle with a problem and have someone show you how you could solve your exact problem.

Once I had that connection with another human/mentor, seeing my specific problem solved, that's what hooked me. I don't think I could have gotten there with toy/educational examples online/in books.
exactly! this is the kind of thing I'm looking for. Years ago I did an app for the blackberry playbook that played with this idea. You dont micromanage stuff, just insert the averages, and then play with estimates, future scenarios, and see how the charts change.

this is more or less what I'd like to have, but with a little bit more of micro-management to be able to track income and plan work accordingly
And the DOE & NRC aren't?
The Cyber/Physical Convergence Is Accelerating – So Are the Risks
"hi cutie"
lol... someone knows how to market well
Just checked out their tech - pretty interesting stuff. Leveraging other peoples machinery cuts out a huge amount of manpower needed to build a robot from the ground up.
Upvotes and comments are very different; even commenting beyond a certain limit counts negatively towards the article's front page position. If you want a lot of comments start an argument.
> I am just pointing out that there is no longer any real censorship any more that we are legally protected against

Businesses have been refusing to do business with people and people have been refusing to use businesses for a very long time, this isn't some new thing.

And we actually do have protections, enshrined in civil rights legislation. You can't be denied service because of your race, gender, religion, and a couple other categories depending on the service and the state. But your stance on vaccinations is not a protected category. If you want to expand the protected categories, that's a different conversation.

> Consider that the baker who didn't want to bake a cake with words on it that he objected to was sued (successfully).

Yeah, because sexual orientation is a protected class.

> Censorship has turned into a mob controlled tool of control.

You're describing a boycott. It's a form of protest. It's "mob controlled" in the same sense as all other forms of protest
You realize most American people don't have even $400 in savings, right?
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I think it's ironic that partnerships with the Pentagon get axed, but projects with an authoritarian state go forward. Seems like a double standard.
I worked as a contractor early in my career, on a team made up of contractors.

It's just temp work. It wasn't how I wanted to run my career, but I wouldn't knock anyone for doing it.
Is it fair to claim equal opportunity when you give more opportunities to other people?

You are ultimately selecting the factors which could affect the outcome of that opportunity.

How is that not discrimination? How do you pick and choose what you consider diverse?

When you select the factors you're ultimately not an equal opportunity employer anymore in my opinion.
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Would be great if ad networks would stop letting random companies embed whatever js they want.

There is no reason a banner ad should have this capability. Twitter's MoPub is showing their negligent greed.

That being said, draining video ads budgets is probably a pro-social 'Robin Hood' kind of theft.
Perverse incentives. Stock goes down if you have low growth or miss expectations, and China is such a huge unaccessible market that would be easy gains if the door was opened.
But the cellphone industry started in with the industry. Either from the early shoebox cellphone to the later model of Nokia and Sony Ericsson in the 90s. The main purchasing driver was for business use. It eventually got to the point of BlackBerry and iPhone which the consumer can buy.
Good point. The same goes for communists too.
There was a lawsuit in 2018. I'm not sure what the outcome was:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/women-only-tech-scholarships-m...
The WSJ is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world. Why are you begging people here to buy a subscription? If you can't make ends meeet, why not ask one of the riches men in the world to invest more in his company?

And for every journalist who died, millions of innocent people died from wars from lies pushed by these journalists. How much blood of the innocent are on the hands of the WSJ, NYT and Wapo just in the past 18 years?

If "Social Media" has been a gift to dictators, what do you think newspapers are? And what message are these journalists reporting? The message of the wealthy?

There is no denying that social media can be toxic and bad for society. But that goes for the WSJ, NYT and Wapo as well.

There have been tons of studies and reports noting how bad news is for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

Frankly, social media became toxic when it got overrun by journalists and the news industry. Politics and news is why social media is so toxic.
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I think you're looking at the documentary the wrong way. It's not about proving one way or the other, it explores the people behind the movement. Showing their relationships and their interests tells us they are otherwise average people who were unable to find a community of their own until they latched on to conspiracy theories. There are plenty of other resources available if someone is interested in learning the science.

I liken this documentary to another similar one called Jesus Camp. To either side of the issue, it will only reinforce your perceptions of your side. That's only because it's less about the issue itself and more about the culture and people surrounding it than anything else.
Hah, yes, I've done the same thing. It always bugged me how close together the two keys are on a US English qwerty keyboard.
Carbon Engineering is going to do this.... fuel from air. Raised Series C this month. I think they had a segment on VICE a while back.
The data I posted is US specific. If you have data for outside the US, post it!
I forgot she added this for me. She doesn't know I posted this here and thinks I'm her only visitor still. She'll be embarrassed, but I told her if she's not embarrassed with her first version, she's shipping too late.
What military advantage does Google give the U.S. government?
This misrepresentating my company's approach. We don't hire underqualified applicants if they're diverse. Rather we deliberately make it harder for white and Asian men to get to the on-site.
Illnesses killing non-vaccinated people is a health hazard to the innocent. People who can't get vaccines (too young, too sick, immunocompromised) rely on herd immunity to protect them. People who can get vaccines but don't endanger those who can't get vaccines. They also put a unneeded strain on the medical system.

We also have the power to eliminate some illnesses completely so that vaccines are no longer needed in the future generations. We've done this with smallpox and we are close with polio.

As far as "safe/unsafe," that's disingenuous, there's no such thing - no medical intervention is completely without risk, but we know that the benefits of vaccines on the marketplace today unequivocally outweigh the (very minor) risks for the vast majority of healthy people.
Here's one example that comes to mind.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

As you can see, a number of invariants tie the different record fields together. Maintaining such invariants takes real work. You need to document them carefully so you don't trip over them later; you need to write tests to verify the invariants; and you must exercise continuing caution not to break the invariants as the code evolves.

It's also covered here under "make illegal states unrepresentable".

https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml-revisited/

The author is advocating OCaml, which allows you to encode such invariants in the type system.

But 99% of state machines are not written in OCaml -- more often it's C or C++. For example, the entire Linux kernel :-/ So basically I'm saying rather than poking and prodding at the code with the debugger and flipping variables, you can think of your whole program as a state machine, and the state machine has invariants like the ones listed:

last_ping_time and last_ping_id are intended to be used as part of a keep-alive protocol. Note that either both of those fields should be present, or neither of them should. Also, they should be present only when state is Connected.

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For another example, the "lossless syntax tree" data structure I use for my shell has a number of invariants:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/11.html

I use the same data structure for generating errors and translating between two languages. So it really has to have some higher-level properties rather than just setting and getting variables.

In C# they have something called "Red-Green Trees" that are similar:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Lossless-Syntax-Tree-Pa...

In summary, your debugger is not going to show you which nodes are red and green in this sense! It has no idea about such things. IMO it's better to think at a higher level when you can.

(Note that red-green trees are just a name for an application-specific concept they made up. I t has nothing to do with red-black trees, which are a generic data structure. Even so, your debugger also has no idea about the invariants in a red-black tree implementation either!)

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Maybe a simpler way to put it:

- the assert() statement in C and Python checks invariants at runtime. There's something of an art to doing this; I think it's covered in books like "Code Complete". You can grep a codebase for assert() and see what invariants the author wants to maintain.

- I'm not sure if they still teach "loop invariants" anymore, but it basically means "something that's true at every iteration of the loop", regardless of whether it's the first iteration, last one, in the middle, etc. If you have off-by-one errors and you stick in a -1 to fix it, that's a sign that you could think more rigorously about the loop.)

Invariant means "a thing that's always true, regardless of the values of the variables." It's a higher-level property than what the debugger shows you.
Yes, you can actually. These sort of arguments remind me of the transgender bathroom fears: What's stopping a man from pretending to be transgender in order to enter the woman's bathroom?

Well, the answer is that people that are transgender will have a history of being transgender or acting in such a way that confirms they consider themselves that gender. So any lawsuit as a result of this would look into your past, see that you lied about being transgender and make it an open and shut case. If that case became public then you could say goodbye to your job prospects.
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I disagree. The struct and array (not Numpy) modules are pretty great at cutting up binary data. You provide a format string and it just works.