skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are nearing retirement, you should already have moved some of your portfolio into low volatility assets. Those are the ones you should then be prepared to draw on in the immediately coming years. Retirement shouldn't viewed as an event. You don't just cash your chips one day. It will be a phase of life where you have to continue to do a mixture of short term and long term planning.

The more volatile assets, if sensibly diversified, were not "wiped out" in 2008. The paper value dropped but then rebounded. As a GenX worry wort, I watched my own retirement account do this dance. I also watched my cash accounts slowly deteriorate against inflation. I am too risk averse to have gone all-in on the stock market even in my younger years, so had a portfolio mix more like someone 15-20 years older. If I'd been forced to live off my multi-year cache equivalent reserves, my 401K equivalent investments had mostly bounced back before I had to think about tapping any.

What was the worst in 2008 were those who had gone all-in on the housing market and turned out upside-down. And, those who still counted on a pension as a large part of their retirement plan and saw their pension providers going bankrupt. Those were really wiped out.
CIA alleges links between Huawei and government
> Skype Business should die in a fire

It has some great hidden features - seamless network switch (my wifi was giving problem. I switched to LAN. Skype displayed a message something like - 'detecting and switching network'. Call quality improved without disconnecting), make\promote an attendee a presenter. Their core tech is strong.
It's the same way here. Those hunter boots are really popular. I couldn't believe it when I found out how much people pay for a pair of those rubber boots.
I should add: yes, 'getting talent' is a good initiative, of course! And it should be facilitated by the government mostly in terms of 'smart immigration reform' - I don't think there needs to be a 'fund'. Private enterprise can definitely 'fund' that by hiring people.

I think if the H1 programme we re-thought so that it was not abused - and there were some kind of 'path to citizenship' in some cases that would be ideal. So long as it's managed properly.

I think the key here is 'intelligent policy' that works well with private enterprise, not a big spend.
Thanks for the article link; that was an excellent read.

I don't think my post was very clear. I agree that the run-time complexity of svelte is much better than a vdom framework, but it seems like you're just trading that for build-time complexity. Maybe that's the only way to achieve what I'm talking about though. At some point you have to translate from immediate mode to retained mode if you're rendering to the dom.

I also work in interactive visualizations. I think this is one of the areas (in addition to games especially) where vdoms quickly fall short. Once you start animating a lot of SVG elements, it doesn't matter much what framework is under the hood; it's going to crawl. Canvas/WebGL is the only real solution I'm aware of. Does svelte somehow provide a significant speedup in these situations? I obviously need to read up more on what your compiler is actually doing.
I've also been using FreeTaxUSA for the past couple years and have been pretty happy, but this year, for the first time, they went down for several hours on April 15[0] (I know, I know, my fault for procrastinating). I ended up filing via CreditKarma about 45 minutes before midnight, thankfully FreeTaxUSA came online long enough for me to pull up last year's return to get my AGI for the necessary IRS identity verification.

I'll probably try them again next year, but CreditKarma worked out pretty well (they've come a long way since the first version a couple years ago) and doesn't charge for state filing. The big downside is that you have to agree to let them use whatever data they pull in as part of your profile for better marketing etc.

[0] https://twitter.com/FreeTaxUSA/status/1117953907550855168
My inlaws got antsie when a delivery took 4 hours to show up. Home delivery is very fast in China.
I was waiting for someone to post this. We have tried hyperhtml, various VDOM implementations like Vue and React, but nothing compares for our complex app. We use FastDOM however we are starting to realize it may in fact be causing some issues with write conflicts with third party scripts requiring DOM mutations. That said requestAnimationFrame which FastDOM also uses, can be majorly helpful for any thrashing. Curious what Rich thinks of FastDOM library or while I'm at it his opinion on (not a UI)..https://meiosis.js.org/
I remember reading about Cloudflare setting some up?
His review claims that the book cites numerous already-debunked studies while ignoring large swaths of research that contradicts its thesis, which is hard to square with a scientific approach regardless of author's credentials. Which is to say, one can be a scientist and an ideologue at the same time.

Of course, so can Cahill. But is there similar evidence that he cherry-picks studies to arrive at predetermined conclusions (not a rhetorical question; genuinely curious)?
Feels like they're just throwing a bunch of hardware specs at investors to distract from any discussions about the current state of the software beyond "just need to improve it now".
Turmoil consumes White House team guiding feds’ tech strategy
Corporations aren’t people, thus are incapable of making any decisions. People run corporations and these people make decisions. And they make them, as most of us do, with their own interest in mind first.
Are any cars ever as safe as you want?
"Less code" implies less authored code, which may be a benefit of Svelte (is it? I haven't been able to use it much but it's on my radar) but doesn't necessarily map to its technical goals (less built code, less runtime processing).

(Quick example: the countless hello world projects that result in >100KB bundles)
Amazon is definitely not winning in Taiwan.
I commend you for your honesty. Also, I don't think that he was totally wrong in calling it out, but the phrasing he used was very unnecessary. It would be better phrased as a question, like: "Don't you think it's racist to refer to them as "The Chinese"?" or something less dumb than accusing you of racism.

I understand HN is a tech place, but since race can play a factor in practically all subjects, it can be a healthy discussion if spoken about maturely.
Big problem with OOP: "let's create a new type!"

Functional programming is extremely unnatural. I am using "unnatural" in the same sense of how the Bible considers sodomy to be an extremely unnatural sex act. Yes, functional programming is the sodomy of programming. No state? Except for inherently-declarative paradigms like databases or spreadsheets, this is 100% inappropriate for any programming.

But yet there is a reason why so many intelligent people like functional languages like ML, F# or the theorem-prover Haskell. They have expressive type systems that don't degenerate into a big ball of mud, because they're based on the lambda cube. If someone took javascript and added product types, sum types, dependent types, polymorphic types... they would drop OOP.
Euthanasia and factory farming are apples and oranges. Cows can live up to 20 years, but are often killed at 18-24 months. They aren't killed with euthanasia, but panicked and terrified, with bolts to the skull and slit throats, right after seeing several other cows killed that way. Their lives before that are often miserable to keep costs down.

Is that the least cruel option?
That's fair, but I think if it works in 90% of cases that's a huge win. And it seems like it'd be pretty easy to close that gap (with multiple solution methods).
It would have been a lot cheaper if the military didn't order the Tonopah & Tidewater Railway to be dismantled for its precious steel. That would be like half the line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_and_Tidewater_Railro...
Most of what you’re paying for as a TurboTax customer is not the benefit of the software. You’re paying for the company to lobby the government to make filing your taxes more expensive.

Intuit has the perfect scam.
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> exhibition of professionalism from yourself to the OP to build a sound defense of your position

It's well understood that some words are offensive to some people. Just like I wouldn't advertise my utility as being exceptionally useful in a nigger-rigged or woman written code base, I don't see any advantage to using shitty over poorly written or complex. I recognize that I'm using terms that are a lot more inflammatory, I am trying to illustrate the point with an easily understood example. You might not care about shitty, someone else may not care about nigger-rigged, and someone else may care about both. Since the idea can be expressed without offending any of the group, why offend unnecessarily?

> where the audience by-and-large may not care.

Objectively the audience does care. Otherwise the initial comment would never have been made. We all can let it roll off our backs, but it does affect the author's image among his potential user base.
> Amazon has literally won everywhere else in the world.

Disagree. I live in northern europe and haven't used Amazon since moving here. Every single product is "doesn't ship to your location" etc., there are domestic and local competitors that are superior - to say nothing of the China based suppliers, and of course amazon has sub-par customer service even in the US - but there at least their infrastructure and product catalogue let them carry the day without breaking a sweat.

I'm sure that if you live in a market that is well served by Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de they offer a user experience that's at least broadly similar to that in the US, but e-commerce is an evolving beast. As far as I can tell amazon hasn't changed meaningfully in the last 5 or 6 years (and their website is famously, almost comically, static), only a matter of time before someone else starts beating them at their own game even in core markets.
> On one hand there are hyper-bulls who claim Tesla is a $4000 stock and the future of transportation. On the other, hyper-bears claim the equity should trade around $0-$10. There seems to be no middle ground.

Well, other than actual investors.
This is more like if a pizza joint that could seat 10 people at once moved into a new location that could seat 100 people but still kept the same wait and kitchen staff and is suddenly surprised that wait times have increased.
What’s the Big Deal with TypeScript?
I don't see this line of reasoning. To me "safer than humans" or "in the 90th percentile among drivers" is a fair go to market line.

Optimally safe should still be the goal. That is, no human could have provided alternative input to the computer that would have created a safer outcome.
-Oh, I'd go nuts if I did either of the above full-time; however it serves as a wonderful diversion and it is great to do something which produces tangible results.

It helps being an engineer, too - I've found (much to my surprise) that keeping detailed notes to ensure repeatable results is quite rare in both pastimes.

I thought everybody kept log books! :)
...is it?

I don't know the context here but it feels like they're trying to ML-splain Karpathy?
Actually, I wish creating legal documents was that simple. I mean, most of the time competitors require quite similar documents, but as legal documents (terms of service, privacy, etc.) are also protected by copyright, copying them is simply illegal AFAIK (IANAL).

On the other hand, I wonder what the job of lawyer should look like. Writing a similar document but carefully choosing different wording to avoid to be sued?

However, charging 5K for a copied document is just cheeky.
> Earth has been here before

The Earth may be effectively eternal (from a human standpoint), but human species is not. More likely, humans will be around, but modern human society would likely suffer an extinction event at some point with our trajectory.

I like your idea of higher-temp corals. Are you aware of efforts to repopulate corals based on varieties that are temperature resistant?
they are not getting them at 5 but at 4. they should be able to handle all orders in the next two hours.

the problem is not making the pizzas in time but trying to get all pizzas started at once when there is not enough table space to even roll out that much dough, and then trying to squeeze all the pizzas into the oven at once, whereby several of them got messed up.
It’s all about the size of monthly payment. Total debt, be damned.
Quit your day job to deliver CBD products?
Love DevOps Tools? LogDNA (YC W15) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Are you mixing up code you write vs the code emitted?

The code you write in Svelte is reactive/declarative, emitted code is regular imperative JS.
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Only a small fraction of gladiatorial combat was to the death. Gladiators were expensive to acquire, train, and maintain so their masters didn't prefer them to be killed.
Depends on what you classify as "competition".

Theft, sabotage, ad hominem attacks, even murder, could all be considered "competition" if your ethics and morals are on a different plane.

So saying there is nothing wrong with competition as a blanket dismissal is a bit myopic.
I like it. You can only hide so much comlexity in 600 bytes. Something like fastdom could probably facilitate what I'm talking about. Basically don't bother diffing, but only actually touch the DOM once per frame. So I guess in that case you'd have tons of "phantom writes" to fastdom as the state is reactively updated.
There are some in Tunisia
I think there is definitely enough money to interest MS and Cisco, as we see with MS's move to compete with Slack.

MS, more than any company is very well positioned for this - they have the relationships and sales force.

Cisco has that, but in kind of another way.

Google has the tech, but they need 'Enterprise Oriented Product Management' - which they don't quite have, and a kind of Enterprise Sales, which they don't quite have.

Their Cloud offer has suffered due to this, granted, that's a much bigger nut to crack, with other kinds of overlapping issues.

I think if Bezos, or another CEO decided it should be a focus, it would be.

I don't think Salesforce is hot on this area yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if eventually they did, as Benioff seems to be keen to extend horizontally, and they are good at integrating stuff.

Good on Zoom though, I hope VC's take note and back quality efforts in classical markets.
“diverting attention from the main problem they are dealing with, which may in the longer term leave open enough room for the competition to wiggle through.”

Perhaps this is the intent rather than a side-effect.
> The thing I don't get about Tesla is why they keep heaping more on their plate...

Musk's ego plays a lot into this for better or worse.
Nice, because that wasn't the justification.

The change in traffic patterns http/2 imposes was.
He win the criminal suit.

>And the only reason you bring it up is because it is exceptional

So you need exceptional lawyer.

>The quality of your lawyer will help in the gray areas

An exceptional lawyer will make seemingly black and white situation to looks like grey.

> in general you will lose if you go to court with a case where you were in the wrong

Sure, the point of court is argue that meaning of "wrong"
Authoring less code is definitely an explicit goal: https://svelte.dev/blog/write-less-code
I live in Tanzania and a salary of 10-20k USD is a pretty lux life here. You could get a housekeeper, gardener, and a gated property and still have a lot left over. Moreover, no income tax! The problem is that imported goods have a 50% tax on them, so laptops and stuff are pretty expensive.

I moved from NYC to Tanzania to help run a school that my wife founded here and Tanzania is a long long way off from becoming an information economy. I teach a computer science class and am regularly shocked by the lack of basic information my students have about technology and the world.

I'm not sure what to do about it, and really try to get my students interested in the world and ask questions. But it's hard to ask reasonable questions when you have no books and no/limited access to information.

Moreover, there aren't any unlimited data bundles and almost no one has computers at one. When I first arrived in Tanzania and began teaching I thought the solution was simple: provide free access to information via a community library we built with always on computers and internet. Unfortunately, the library became the go-to place to watch youtube videos all day long. So I had to turn the internet off and just have it when I or another teacher is there.

The approach that has worked best is guided computer use. Something like "give me a list of questions you have about something and then go find the answers in a 2 hour period."

If I was going to hire a Tanzanian developer (and I hate to say this, but I probably wouldn't), I would judge him just on his raw intelligence, not his skills. Skill/knowledge-wise, even the smartest Tanzanians are at a huge information disadvantage. You gotta just find the smartest guys (and there's a lot of untapped talent just sitting around) and train them yourself.

tl;dr: when you have a group of people who are systematically information disadvantaged, you will always be disappointed by their knowledge/skills. Instead judge them on pure smarts, and realize you will have to make a big long-term investment in them.
Does this mean you feel that your work is not altruistic?

Would you mind elaborating on that? Some days I feel like I’d rather work for a non-profit than where I am.
I've had overdone Beyond meat that just has the texture of rubber before, so can confirm it has a narrower window. I imagine that's why the Impossible Burger is only available in restaurants: it's easier to control the experience.
The Medium article is a secondary source here for both the Nature article and the book, and its refutation by Cahill. If you're looking at the article directly, you should probably be looking at the refutation, as well - they link to it from the article.

https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of...
while it is a great tragedy that the coral reefs are dying, it should be noted that the Earth has been here before and come back from it

Nobody's worried the reefs will never come back. They are worried they won't be back anytime soon and we'll have to make do for the next hundred thousand years.
Assessment of Data Sharing and Privacy of Apps for Depression and Smoking
Haskell has a few libraries that do this[1]. Not trying to one-up the article or anything, just thought you might be interested to see that there are other places where this is available, and that it's not even something that needs full language support in some cases, just a library. Also similar - you can pretty transparently model nondeterminism[2] and probability[3] on a "promise"-like interface with just a library. Of course, whether or not there's good documentation is another story.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19598906/is-there-a-valu...
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20638893/how-can-non-det...
[3] http://wiki.haskell.org/Probabilistic_Functional_Programming
I keep saying this he knows what he doing. You can tell he knows what's happening. Which is rare for a CEO to know this level of detail.
Only if by Nobody you mean every person in the oil & gas industry. I find it funny that people get so worked up about different units in different industries. I get that common units would be great for a variety of reasons, but look around - the world can’t even unite on standard units for such tangible things as distance/length. People who work with MM as million are familiar with the vernacular, and it seems unreasonable for them to upend a model that works so a lay audience doesn’t have to pause and think.
How would power wall lead to them going under? They would just be selling excess batteries, which seems to be one of their advantages over competitors. Autonomy, I'm ambivalent on it, they can charge customers for it right now and many will pay.

If anything, the solar city/roof shingles side-show has seemed the worst to me personally, alongside the falcon-wing doors and the self-infliction of twitter harm by the CEO.
Breitbart is probably not the most authoritative source on Google's internal politics.
It's a language that's aimed more at research, producing papers for conferences, and financing the EPFL and its PhD students than at users in the real world.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, by the way, I love studying all the advanced concepts that Scala has pioneered over the years.

But it's also the reason why it's largely in decline and why Kotlin has taken the industrial world by storm: because it is a pragmatic language.
Short video clips from all cameras are sent back to Tesla when associated with a disengagement event, queued for upload when the vehicle is on wifi.
That's a good start. But you're still vulnerable if you do everything in one OS. And no matter how you physically compartmentalize, you're still vulnerable if you're posting all of that as the same persona. Even if it's not you're real name. Because it can all be correlated easily.

And even using multiple personas, you must take care to avoid linking them. No common social media, forums or mail lists. No cross-linking, or mentioning each other. No telling anyone about links between them. And as much as possible, no shared interests, especially specific ones.

Instead of using one OS with multiple browsers, it's better to compartmentalize in multiple VMs. Each VM should reach the Internet through a different nested chain of VPNs. And for more anonymity, you can use Whonix for Tor. Also, it goes without saying that the machine should be full-disk encrypted, and that you should avoid Windows.

When it really matters, you should use multiple physical machines, on separate LANs. And of course, be careful not to share USB drives among them.
Try pdb++ (pdbpp) instead — it's like a much improved ipdb. It monkeypatches itself into pdb rather than defining a new package, so it works from any context that drops into the debugger. Its “sticky mode” alone is worth the switch.
something I don't understand, is this chip brand new? is it essential to the autonomous drive?
Some big time source laundering going on in here, https://electrek.co/2019/04/19/tesla-falls-autonomous-drivin...

Your "third party research" is obviously bullshit, they go as far as including Apple in their ranking.

This right here is just typical worthless marketing press release spam from a management consultancy firm.
Try filing your taxes using different numbers than on your W2/1099 and see what happens.

I guarantee you'll get a discrepancy letter.
If you just measure based on Tesla's last two quarters, their P/E is just 28. That's high for a car company but pretty low for tech. Self-driving is not necessary to maintain that valuation, only continued growth of the electric car market in general.
what a funny question.

"you say you can put bananas in your smoothie. just a thought, but perhaps, might I ask, do you have the capability to put strawberries as well, or are we not there yet?"
They have a fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars driving real-world miles all over the developed world.
Things I Enjoy in Rust: Error Handling
Show HN: Treets, Carbon Offsetting Clothing
A weekend project I've launched to make a positive impact on the environment. Treets donates the majority of profits made directly back to conservation groups like OneTreePlanted.

Many companies are adopting a "one product for one tree" incentive. Treets flip that model to donate the majority of profit back to the environment.

Each and every shirt sold donates $5 to plant 5 trees.
It's the same line as when people complain about the direction of politics and get a "well then move to a different country" response.

At least in politics you can vote. As a worker, you have very little control in direction of a large employer.