skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think any modern CPU is enough for regular office use. You don't really need lots of cores for that. But if you can get them at a lower price point, lower power consumption maybe, and perhaps even better security then why not?
Having a single, uniform router (function/class/whatever) is only valid for trivial software. Any non-trivial system is better off with multiple independent URL routers with different semantics.
It’s one of the things that drove me from slashdot, years ago.
I think the "direct access" refers to that these companies will give access when required by law. But still, there is no plugin model where the government pulls the data whenever they want. Government asks, company supplies. There is little insight however on how much is supplied.
That's almost as good as the Darth Jar Jar theory: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar...
I think the author fail to distinct between how "entrepreneurism" and "venture backed business" differ.

A one man consultancy operation is as much entrepreneurism as serving billions of users world wide.

I think we have this misconception that success mean you need to have hockey stick growth on bunch of metrics, anD that you must make your investors 10x return on their investments.

Fundamentally the wrong approach. As an entrepreneur I don't strive to "make money", I strive to learn, adapt, and survive. Money and success depends solely on how well I can iterate those three things.
Teachers are still poorly paid, they aren't really changing any of the problems teachers face, and a great deal of opportunity and advancement is determined purely by seniority....

They may win some battles but I would argue they aren't winning the war, and their emphasis on seinority above all isn't very appealing.

I still see young teachers with new ideas held back by a union that caters to luddite established teachers who are effectively untouchable, don't want to change and enjoy most of the benefits.

American unions focus on seinority > all is the reason I would never want to be a part of them.
A curious case for mindful empathy
I think PHP endures because it does one thing and does it exceptionally well. There is no other tool that makes the creation of simple dynamic server side web sites as easy and accessible. Simple FTP/SCP deployment to the server is such a killer feature.

It is also one of the few choices available on cheap shared hosting sites.
I would look at the substance, not the rating, and see how it meshes with their own perception of them. Bear in mind a lot of companies are going to see Glassdoor reviews posted by angry ex employees most of all. How many people stop to post positive reviews of former employers there? And I suspect a lot of tech companies game the system a bit, have a lot of current employees placing reviews, etc.

But ideally if you've met some people there and have a feel for the company, you're going to have some impression or gut feeling if those reviews are right or not. Trust that feeling.
The problem, of course, is that for some people, the removal of those features makes the browser no longer meet their needs. Worse, which features are "critical" varies from person to person.

The flexible answer, of course, would be to have a relatively basic core browser and an extension system powerful enough to allow the features to be implemented that way. Like Firefox used to be. Unfortunately, Mozilla decided to neuter the extensions instead.
Bombadil was the name of a doll in Tolkien's home. That's why he was the "oldest", because the name predates the book itself. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
article seems to just focus on the idea of wealth or making money (more likely on fire). doesn't account for what success is defined as or what people want in their life other than money. eg. lots of people rather be their own boss than be a corporate drone.
We all have remnants of a children's story in our adult lives. Perhaps we lose something by editing it out.
IIRC with inflation it's now $80K. Maybe searching for that will yield better results?
The Strange Marketplace for Diabetes Test Strips
There's recent work by Stanford and MIT that shows ML sentencing algorithms are _less_ biased than humans.

I forgot the link and am on mobile, but one can probably find it online.

Keep in mind that just because an algorithm e.g. sentences a black person to prison, it doesn't mean the algorithm is biased.
Is that still true with recent kernels? Around postgres we'd huge problems with earlier kernels with enabled THP, but with recent kernels its gotten to be a pretty small penalty.
I think PHP had a couple of obvious advantages - it almost had a "first mover" advantage in that it happened to be installed alongside CGI-BIN on shared webhosts way back in the way - plus Drupal and WordPress being PHP projects.

But to me, one of the most significant advantages PHP has is that its documentation is terrific. PHP.net is simple, clear about parameters and return values (as clear as PHP lets it be anyways) and best of all has a terrific comments / examples section for each function.

Better documented is better.
NSO Group Freezes Deals with Saudi Arabia
Part of its staying power is also due to Wordpress. If you're looking for an off the shelf CMS you'll almost certainly be considering Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, et al.
I dream of a world in which, when someone says "studies have shown", the appropriate response is to politely change the subject so as not to embarrass the speaker.
I always assumed that Tom Bombadil was a kind of ur-hobbit; a jolly being largely immune to the hostile magic swirling around him and capable of opposing it at points but temperamentally disinclined to truly rule.
We know there was a conspiracy to murder and dismember a journalist. Your suggestion that it's outlandish to consider a conspiracy to blackmail an owner of a newspaper is intellectually dishonest. Frankly it's insulting.
If you actually want to understand why Tom Bombadil is in the story, read Christopher Tolkien series on the creation of the Lord of the Rings.

It was originally envisioned as a sequel to the Hobbit with a slightly more grown up audience. When JRR wrote it, he hadn't even settled on Sauron as the bad guy. He vaguely thought the bad guy would be Treebeard! He got Frodo and co. all the way to Rivendell before he connected his other story (the Silmarillion) to the LOR story.

Bombadil was left in, in my mind, because he had to explain how four hapless hobbits could throw the black riders off the trail and still escape from the forest. And he didn't really have any editorial constraints until the movies came along.

Sure, you can invent some just-so-story to explain him but the truth is that the tale evolved in the decades it took to write and so it has vestigial parts.
> RSS is still the crucial cornerstone of my online content consumption.

Mine too, 100%.
You mean like the pop-up ad for his book and newsletter?

"Three Words That Say "I'm Clueless"

""Deregulation caused it!"

"We've all heard that account of the financial crisis.

"It's dead wrong. Preposterously wrong.

"It's all the Left has.

"Don't let them get away with it.

"Solution: enter your email address below for your free copy of The Deregulation Bogeyman and to start receiving the legendary Tom Woods Letter."
The whole point of strikes is that they are disruptive.
What about the Workers? Gig Economy Brings Worker Benefit Programs to Forefront
It would be better to link to the original article: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I picked up his book and in 45 seconds figured out he was wrong...by looking at the index.

He has an entire collection of stats and measurements, but, no where in the index is the gold standard mentioned.

Changing from a silver and/or gold based monetary standard to a fully-fiat model as almost every government did at some point in the first half of the 20th century, should have resulted in various adjustments; adjustments that he should have mentioned and discussed.

(Heck, even changing from the Deutsch Mark to the Euro resulted in price changes for Germans.)

If he did discuss it but they made a lousy index, then, please give me page numbers in his book and I promise to re-examine...
That's brilliant. Love the visualization as well.
But when government workers strike, they don't disrupt the legislatures that set their pay, they disrupt the everyday citizens who might have even been sympathetic to their cause.
All in all, better to make an existing king a queen, or make an existing knight a lady (but with otherwise same plot and dialogue), if you feel it is necessary, than to take one of most carefully researched and written novels in history and just rewrite it. Or make a spin off story that focuses on the role of some overlooked women. Or better, a satire or a separate work that alludes to LotR as commentary.
While I agree with the general unfairness of this, on the other hand we currently have an ecosystem where SaaS products are used by most people to get their work done and generally manage their lives.

Shouldn't we have the right to know or be able to check how secure our data and identity is on these services?
I'm willing to join in the outrage at Wall Street (a|im)morality but this one doesn't particular bother me. Let me explain why.

So imagine an S&P 500 ETF went from a $10B valuation to $15B in 5 years. Lots of transactions took place as the index gets rebalanced. Companies leave the index. Others take their place. No tax is paid by the fund. You're tempted to be outraged. Let's say that the offset tax amounts to $1B for simplicity.

But consider: someone invested $10k in that fund and held for 5 years. They sell and owe taxes on $5k.

If the ETF had been paying taxes that $15B would be $14B and the seller would owe taxes on $4k instead of $5k.

In Australia, when you hold a company and it, say, pays dividends. It typically pays corporate taxes on that. As a stockholder you not only receive that dividend but you receive a credit for taxes paid (called "franking credits"). If the dividend is fully franked (meaning the full corporate tax rate was paid) then you might receive a $700 dividend and $300 (30% of the gross $1000 dividend) in franking credits. When you do your taxes, if your tax rate is higher than 30% you pay the difference. If it's less you'll get a refund.

This is to avoid double taxation, basically. In the US, you don't have this. Earn income through a company, it pays taxes, it pays a dividend and you pay taxes again. This was the whole reason for the (misguided) passthrough entity tax break with the Trump tax cuts. It would be a lot easier if US dividends were just taxed at source and they came with a tax credit that could be applied to, say, US tax liabilities.

So, you can view heartbeat trades as simply a way of avoiding double taxation. It's at least debatable. After all, if you invest in a company you only pay taxes when you sell on the gain (dividends notwithstanding) so this is really just treating ETFs the same way.
The downside of accessibility -- now, everyone has a voice, even if they shouldn't. I never thought I'd be saying this but I am beginning to miss the curation created by high costs of entry.
No. As a matter of fact, you do not have the general right to "check" how secure a SAAS provider is.
Do I need to download Chrome to make wealth? /s
Chris - any recommendations on a good simple IR to study?
Such a person doesn’t like seeing coworkers they feel superior to being able to afford things similar to themselves. But that itself proves a point about what sorts of decisions impact a country’s wealth the greatest on the margin. If you give individuals on the lower end of the spectrum more money they will spend it. There’s no worry that they’re going to put it into investments or expenditures which don’t turn into income for somebody else. So the GDP actually raises by much more of an amount, and thus national wealth in the long term aggregate, than if those income increases were sent to the wealthy.
Node's 'Request' Is Finished
I could be wrong, but I think the ubiquity of those frameworks/CMSes is rather due to the language's success rather than vice versa. Web hosts made the near universal decision to support PHP as a dynamic language at some point, and the frameworks that were built in PHP then thrived on that. Wordpress wasn't that popular back when I started out with PHP, but PHP was already universally supported by web hosts (hence my learning it). The switch from, uh, I don't know what came before (Perl? Or just a jumble of different languages called by CGI?), to PHP as universal dynamic hosting language, is before my time though.
One very important motivation what I do not see clearly delineated in this post is for Event-driven applications.
Swoole[1] is an example of a PHP framework which enable some very interesting uses such as Websocket services.

In those long lived processes, a JIT really shines!

[1] https://www.swoole.co.uk/
I was at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View yesterday and got to play Spacewar!, the game that inspired Computer Space (amongst other things), on their restored PDP-1. Stephen Russell and Peter Samson were on hand to chat about it.

Sounds like something they do at the museum regularly, worth a visit
What do you make of the starkly-contrasting Finnish approach? https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865563989/What-we-can-le...
Your reference to “laying bricks” makes me think of Amy Hoy. Are you a graduate of her 30x500 course? This seems like a successful application of her method.

Basically, the idea is, build and audience before you try to build a product. Amy likes to target businesses as customers, though.

Great story, and good luck!
Yes they do -- These strikes have been incredibly effective. If ordinary citizens are not sympathetic to the teachers but sympathetic to the legislators, they have a distorted view of the situation, probably from right-wing, anti-union media.
Then you must really hate the FCC for ruining the internet every day.
Senate re-introduces bill to help advanced nuclear technology
I assume you are looking to pirate it or in an undisclosed non-USA geography, because it's easy to find on many paid streaming systems and on dvd
Most people don’t want to use drugs that are scary. That’s why I said it takes a particular kind of personality.
Old Stackoverflow Page
I'm a little biased towards the movies because they were what I experienced first, but I respect the criticisms of them.

That said, I personally feel their treatment of Aragorn was the best liberty they took. He felt fairly one-dimensional in the books; his whole character was about his destiny to be king and he reminded everyone he met. In the movie he doesn't want power; he struggles between his fear of it and his desire to help the world. This struggle over the kingship mirrors the struggle over the ring (which both he and Gandalf face, among others) and makes him much more compelling as a character. I also liked the Arwen subplot; she really wasn't a character at all in the books. I thought their relationship was powerful and expanded upon his being pulled between the realms of elves and men (of which his Numenorean heritage was a microcosm).
This is a poor semantics. The function should always be called. In the non-existent-key case, it should be invoked on the default value that is supplied. Thus the example of the histogram tabulation would use 0 as the initial value.

The name is ill-chosen; this mutator doesn't "merge" at all; it "updates" the map entry through a function, with a default value.

"merge" might be a somewhat good name for an operation that combines two maps, with a function that resolves key clashes; though since that is a kind of set union, that provides better terminology.
Bumped into this old Stackoverflow page with animation & all.
Stress free production sounds like GTD.
Overview of differential equations – Chapter 1
If one influential person does something bad, it's called "fraud", if a small number of influential people do something bad together, it's called "unfair". If most influential people do something bad together, it's called "reality".
I would argue that tech people overvalue security, since they think about what could happen if you're violated, and then they discuss the expected value of making the secure decision.
I use a Ryzen 5 1400.

The only thing "slow" abut is is running Windows. Every stupid update slows things down.
Modern Women in the Land of Genghis Khan
Why have browser makers not simply begun to include cached versions of popular sites, by their hash? Like a “resource store” similar to an “app store”. They have the mechanism: SRIs. It’s not like we NEED to store cookies on CDNs or whatever.
>Overall, entrepreneurship is overrated. 5 successes for every 100 failures

This is so ridiculously untrue. There are so many businesses you can run that are almost impossible to fail. There are so many failures that are actually just "OK" in that they break even or lose a little money or whatever but don't actually cause you any problem to wind down.

You have to have a certain personality type to do well as an employee and you need to fit a certain mold that employers demand. As an entrepreneur you just have to give your customers and clients what they want and nothing else really matters. You do not even really need many employees to make a very good living doing a whole lot of different things.

If anything, being an employee is overrated particularly when people have career instability in midlife. Unexpected expenses like divorce and medical crisis often hit employees and people in general very hard because it both makes them less employable and disrupts their retirement plans. As soon as an oldster has a major gap in their resume, their ability to continue to ride on the employee gravy train diminishes by a massive degree.

No doubt you can live well on a good salary and investments, but it is not the best option for everyone nor is it the only option. It is the best option for a certain kind of personality but not for everyone. I know people who dream of starting businesses but are employees but all their side projects suck and don't go anywhere in part because they are just not suited for independent business.
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I can only speak about San Francisco Pretrial Services, but they use the PSA Tool by the Arnold Foundation https://www.psapretrial.org/about/factors

On paper, a ML approach to calculating risk of recidivism can make sense if you consider it as a silicon-based approximation of the criminal brain in making totally rational self-serving responses.

One caveat: even if you have a perfect ML system... never forget the 'human factor' when using these tools. A single fat-finger by a clerk in San Francisco lead to the release of a defendant who went on to commit murder in 2017. https://abc7news.com/details-of-mistaken-release-of-sf-twin-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19535577
Also see: Boeing
I have similar sentiments; I wonder if there's any future for paid, curated content given society's invention and use of pejorative terms (paywalls!) for publishers who restrict their content to paid subscribers. It's not like we were just paying for the ink and paper back in 1993.
If this is truly for assembly line diagnostics they should add a hardware self destruct to the interlink with those circuits, after VISA serves the intended purpose fry it. Is that a reasonable and technically feasible option?
I dont think i have ever met anyone who thought that was the thing the films fucked up. I can totally understand that the scenes are self contained, and length was an issue.

I was far more aggravated by replacing Glorfindel with Arwen, as a first example.
I was looking at this the other day[0] I actually think Brief[1] might even be better than the RSS support that was in Firefox. I haven't tried it yet but I intend to.

I use Thunderbird as well, and that has RSS support but to me that seems counter to my workflow. Typically I'll be on some site and want to subscribe, and then view in my browser. Doesn't really make sense to be in an email client.

On my phone I use Flym[2]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/4757633...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

[2] https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
MIR is probably a good example as it solves the problem I'm suggesting they'll encounter https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html.

Ideal is also a classic https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/c2-ir95-....
No way, Bombadil is great. He’a immune to the powers of the one ring [1]. He’d rather sing about badgers than conquer the world. He’s a reminder of weird and awesome and maybe a little scary powers in the universe that we may never understand.

Bombadil’s scene is one of my favorites alongside the one where Frodo almost gives the ring to Galadriel but she resists [2]. Another meditation on power.

[1] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103559/did-the-rin...
[2] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86701/when-frodo-o...
You should definitely host this document somewhere.
Seniors should be careful about asset transfers — Medicaid has a five year lookback period and can claw back assets from family members.
I am good friends with someone who is now retired from owning Subway franchises. Over the years he tried rewarding good employees with more money. Every time he did this the employee simply calculated how many hours they needed to work to make the same take home they had before and asked to have their hours cut. So for the business this resulted in higher costs and a worse customer experience because the best employee was doing the work less often. Obviously, there's no moral problem with the employee deciding to work less, in fact it's just wonderful for them. But it's easy to see why employers see it as a net negative in many cases.
Certification is just a moat to protect jobs and stave off regulation.
I find it interesting how the author mentions $200/month for a side project. Makes you think, everyone's side project budget is pretty different.
I know these functional concepts are far from new.

I use "modern" in this context because other contemporary languages like Python/Ruby/Scala/Rust etc all have versions of those and FP-style collection usage using these names has become popular in the last 10 years.
An essay is allowed to have an intriguing title. The problem is on aggregators like HN for ripping titles our of context and not providing any context but domain name.
Why would you assume that? I think he's just looking for a physical copy. Given what sibling comment says, I assume it was published on DVD at some point.
Often the price isn't published because it's very low (like $0 low). Most of the staff gets to keep their jobs, and founders get to claim a "successful exit".
> So yes, while the tetrominos being a Tetris Company trademark precludes their unlicensed use in video games

Tetrominoes are not a Tetris Company trademark. They have, however, trademarked the word "tetrimino."
I would go with a company that has a reputation. If you go find some randoms in an IRC channel they might take advantage of anything they find. A little crowdsourced service that offers rewards for finding vulnerabilities in your system might be a success but good luck managing that and dealing with the people you got tricked into hacking.

One thing to consider is the password manager generated security questions. Half the customer service agents out there will accept "it is just a bunch of random characters i typed". Security questions should go the "correct horse battery staple" route.
Thanks. Your speculations sound reasonable.

I have no idea what kind of error checking procedure the CPU industry uses, but it is hard to believe that Intel et al. do not use highly integrated proof tools that cover multiple design layers. I know that these are very complex systems, that you can't cover certain cases with proof tools, and cost might be a factor at play - but I believe that there is interest in private and public markets to get hands on a stack that starts with a higher security threshold compared with what we have now.