skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the question is whether one can offer a demonstrably superior alternative

That isn't the only question. There is also a question "is there something here that we can model?". There is no requirement to provide a better model if the existing model is inaccurate enough.

I've never actually seen an economic model that uses maths beyond accounting balances or basic calculus/timeseries so I'm certainly not qualified to critique them - whatever they are.

But the Austrain critiques seem to be something like that if you blow a credit bubble then manipulating accounting identities isn't enough to avoid having to pay back the credit at some point and taking an economic fall where the credit gave you a boost. That is a falsifiable position. The Americans and others are running a big experiment that has so far provided potentially falsifying evidence. They can still be proven wrong even though they havn't published an equation, so their theories are obviously falsifiable.
> Equating C and C++ must seem compelling when one is exposed to C++ as it is written at Mozilla and at Google. Both places enforce coding standards that require programming under what amount to 1990s conventions, with a few modern tricks added. The consequence is that you get few of the benefits of modern C++, but all the costs.

That's just not true. Both organizations use "modern C++" everywhere. The new C++ proposals tend to come from large companies such as Google, after all.

People tend to assume that every new release of C++ will automatically solve all the problems with the previous releases until proven otherwise. This has always mystified me. Nobody has demonstrated that any new version of C++ has been able to stem the flood of memory safety problems.

It's interesting that few people can actually articulate why modern C++ supposedly solves the memory safety issues, other than just mentioning smart pointers. Smart pointers actually do very little--shared_ptr can bump reference counts sometimes and that's about it--and what little benefit comes from smart pointers is generally outweighed by all the new ways to get use-after-free in modern C++. Free happens invisibly in subtle places in modern C++, while in C free happens explicitly when you write "free()", which tends to be safer. In my opinion, modern C++ is significantly less safe than classic C++, which is in turn significantly less safe than C.
And I got completely lost here:

a = 1/(1+7)
... 2a+sqrt(a)

I have no idea what this means, or what relationship it has to the construct after it. Where does the result of ‘2a+sqrt(a)’ go? I thought ... was just a separator in the text, but now maybe it’s some sort of functional syntax?

This is exactly the problem I have with most of the articles I’ve read that extol the virtues of functional programming. They say something like ‘in a functional language all you do is X’, without explanation, where X frankly just looks like gibberish.

To be fair this isn’t an article about functional programming, or an introduction to it. Fair enough, but it’s still a bit exasperating.

EDIT Ok. I should have said this isn’t an introduction to functional programming.
Better idea: what if the whole US adopt either Central or Mountain time? There are two important points to consider:

1. Whole country gets the same time. No more confusion

2. Each state is at most 2 hours off of it's natural timezone, which should be pretty easy to live with.

Also, abolish Daylight Saving time changes and you're done: perfect system.
Why did you name this Prometheus, sounds like you know the startup will be punished for trying to help Humankind, Who is Zeus and how pissed off is he for this knowledge being shared. In the future do you foresee Prometheus bound to a rock, with an attendant vulture to eat out it's liver? The stolen gift of fire has been variously interpreted as representing a great number of crucial human capacities such as mechanical arts, science, language, imagination, consciousness itself... Prometheus became our benefactor by making a raid on the knowledge withheld from us by Zeus in his anger. Prometheus' defiance became our salvation in an episode that appears to rebut the proverb that ignorance is bliss, but it seems unwise to deprive Prometheus of the rest of his story in Hesiod's versions. In retaliation for Prometheus' insubordination, Zeus sends Pandora as she too was a gift not stolen but made in order to tempt Prometheus' gullible brother, Epimetheus. By falling victim to her charms (harms) Epimetheus brought into our midst the creation that's name means "giver of all" or "gift of all." What Pandora gave us, when she removed the lid of the box was grief, cares, and all evil. Her curiosity about the contents of the box matches Epimetheus' curiosity about a new companion. The dire effects of her "gifts" cancel out the benefits bestowed by Prometheus' defiance of the gods. Naming something Prometheus is undoubtedly going to be a jinx, quickly changing a startup into a enddown. Pandora only lets ills out of the box she does not force ills back into the box. You must create a new Name for this.
> To be fair this isn’t an article about functional programming

You can say that again!
> As an ex big iron commercial UNIX sysadmin, let me tell you; they can do it way better than most sysadmins.

I'm pretty sure that is true. However, the parent said "they can do it better and cheap", and cheap it isn't.
I think the only thing you can guarantee is that there will be more churn in the future.
I would advise not looking in the mirror. I’m glad you found the experience valuable but this can send people into a spiral of imaginary illness.
Cost of health care, education and basic living.
Who’s looking for evidence? It’s a call to open your mind.
Literally the first thing addressed in the article
Cdr/code-server: Run vs. Code on a remote server
Hmm surprised he didn’t use a debugger, only printf statement
Sveltejs/svelte: Cybernetically enhanced web apps
If it breaks our dependency on fossil fuels then I'm all for it.
An AI Concierge app that provides me with interesting (to me) events happening in the near future within reasonable geographic proximity. Initially, I would enter my interests in a survey to establish preliminary refinement but the app would learn from my subsequent feedback (swipes?) about my evolving interests. Many times have I missed a highly interesting event that was happening nearby simply because I didn’t know about it
Everything we do is wrong, so I really don't know what we are supposed to do.
You did.

> if it ONLY wrote mortgages

> Don't allow reselling mortgages

If a bank only write mortgages and can't sell them what else do you expect them to sell? The office chairs?
As the person who runs usesthis.com, let me tell you it's a massive pain in the ass (I have a JSON file for every item I link to, and so many just... die.)
Apple's growth strategy is a textbook case of antitrust abuse
I'm reminded of my favorite quote by pioneering alpine climber Mark Twight —

"It doesn't have to be fun to be fun."
I’m generally pro Israel.

But quite happy to criticise them when and where warranted on specific issues/incidents.

In this case, it certainly sounds like a very serious and incongruent disconnect between the public affairs officer for Cyber and the actual kinetic response.

The Israelis have always been pretty quick to kill or capture not only leadership, but technical talent.

In this case, if I had to guess, there was a rare opportunity to hit apex and/or volume technical talent the IDF justified by the rocket attacks and/or it’s signalling that moving forward insurgent cyber will be considered a valid target for kinetic action.

It’s also worth mentioning that the people targeted may not be hackers, but social media camapigners/influencers.
Termux/termux-packages: Android terminal and Linux environment
Maternity leave is a thing. In EU, it's even protected by the legislation to offer a minimum of 14 weeks, and that employers must not dismiss a woman simply because she's pregnant.

IMO, it's especially wrong when the company that does this is a trillion dollar company.
> it was hard to find good [key job roles] who were able to work together and effectively run their shit

Having had to interact with sysadmins and others, first at at a university and then in business, "work together" is too frequently overlooked.

The crusty, angry and rude stereotype proved right. I've never met a bigger group of downright bastards. Those who were nice people usually couldn't get the servers/software to work reliably. So you were forced back to group 1.
The post you replied to is about hardware specs, not the size of the user base.
From 2004.
China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
Microsoft/NeuronBlocks: NLP DNN Toolkit – Building Your NLP DNN Models
Is this a thinly veiled attempt at creating a start-up, and your getting others to provide both the idea and the solution outline? Are you a VC perhaps?
A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech
Ask HN: Any introduction to programming course that can be done without internet
>Either something is or isn't .Net 5 compatible. The end.

You're in luck because that's the way it is. The .Net Standard is on the list of being .Net 5 compatible, because it's intended for shared libraries.

I want libraries written for .Net Framework, Core and .Net 5 to be cross-compatible. Targeting the .Net Standard is the only way to do that. That's easily worth putting others, who aren't even using it, through mental turmoil.

It won't be going away because the .Net Standard is an absolute must-have for the health of the ecosystem, and the most important underpinning to the entire Framework->Core->.Net 5 effort. As the grandparent comment said, it won't be as important going forward (.Net 5, 6, 7 etc) but won't be going away until the .Net Framework does. It's likely the .Net Standard will outlive you.
I stopped playing not long after they raised the star cap to 13. I had nearly a full 13 star team, and had spent $11000 on the game, half of which was after I was laid off from my job. At one point I was the strongest player on my server (S6), already a competitive server (See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l3y6zOJtUM). There were people who had spent 3-5x as much as me and were still weaker because of suboptimal gameplay, but they could always spend more to catch up. This is not a brag, but rather an illustration of how rivalry between players at the top can be one of the strongest ways to motivate them to fork over more money. The amount of peer pressure from my clan leader to keep buying was insane. Eventually I told him I couldn't do it anymore.

It was fun for awhile but I am still shocked that I still spent thousands of dollars that I really needed at a later time. I fault myself more than the game's system for those decisions. Sometimes one can forget the value of money until once again experiencing the effects of not having it.

A lot of young professionals are making more money than they really need, and with the perception that they won't need it in the future. Therefore, there's a lot of people out there taking it for granted, and therefore not making it a second thought to spend on these pay to win mobile games. If you were to take away these mobile games, then this class of people would find some other equally stupid way to waste their money. In western society, there will never be a shortage of those possibilities.
Freelancers' income down by 29% due to Brexit (Were you affected too?)
>But you're probably a troll, because a real Linux user would actually make a useful complaint.

I thought it was clear enough that my complaint is that there's no button in any of the settings screens to disable middle-click paste. I've searched through the settings menus of both Ubuntu and Fedora. I've searched before for solutions, and I remember the solutions mostly looked like "here's a patch for GTK v2, you'll have to compile it yourself, replace your distro's packages for GTK, cut yourself off from updates, it won't work for programs that don't use GTK v2 specifically or your distro's packaged version of it, and you're never going to know if the random issues that happen later are because you compiled the wrong version of GTK or missed some distro-specific patches". I've done that sort of thing before, and it's pain. I don't have the mental bandwidth for that any more. I think it's more than fair for me to criticize a piece of software for not having a toggle exposed for a strange UI feature that's so easy to accidentally misuse.

It's been a while since I've looked harder than checking the settings menu for a solution to this, so I decided to search again, and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/4507/how-do-i-disable-middle.... All but one of the solutions are terrible. There's people suggesting compiling and replacing distro packages, there's people suggesting globally rebinding middle-click (some in ways that don't even persist), and there's even a suggestion for having a script run 24/7 which clears the clipboard out twice a second. There is a decent solution involving a gsettings command. The setting persists, which is great, though it only works with programs using GTK.
"why extract from the air when you can just put a device on the smokestack of an existing coal or natural gas plant? "

The process uses clean electricity to reverse the CO2. I suspect here we have a timing issue. When the sun shines, the gas plant will be idle, and that's when the spare electricity is available is used to reverse the process.

And the physical position - the gas plant is likely to be where the sun shines less.

As ever we have a storage buffer problem.
Well, the assumption there is that this holds for everyone who does not get (their kids) vaccinated, and I'm not prepared to immediately accept that. We don't need 100% coverage, so as long as there are enough people for whom this nudge would be enough, we'd be good.

To be clear, I'm not saying that it would work; just that I don't know that it wouldn't, and it'd be great if it would.
I don't understand the argument you're making here. You guess this is a PR stunt to draw attention to… something other than forced arbitration? Given that all attention is focused on their explicitly stated demands around forced arbitration and sexual harassment, if this is a PR campaign in disguise for some other issue it's a huge failure.

Really, I don't see any possible gains for them here other than what they're explicitly asking for. What do you think this is really about?
Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail
You skipped that day at school when they tell you that Earth is round? :)

Also: how would you feel about starting your shift at work at 4:00 AM? because in UTC that's already 9:00 AM :) (assuming you're on east coast. On west coast your working hours would be 1:00 AM - 9:00 AM)
We are going to need computers to tell us what time it is and to remind us when a specific time arrives.
In the world of enterprise consulting, a great one.

Because again, that person has more than one hat to wear, instead of being stuck in coding silo.
Very interesting read. It made me wonder if I'd have been happy to be coached to use the press and win or take the easier route when I was at school.

I must get round to watching Lawrence of Arabia…
Are you working only with editors running inside web browsers or also native ones? What I would like to have is something that bridges two native editors, let's say emacs and VS Code, and let's a team share the editor (whatever each developer's preferred editor is) and not only the screen on Slack or similar. That would be great for remote pair programming. I guess there would be a protocol for selecting the buffer/tab and opening files (with local approval to prevent remote file reads/writes).
All the acronyms are over the top. Have they heard of my Project SCIMITAR? (Symbolically Capturing Information by Making Inane Trite Acronyms to Rememberstuff)

Joking aside, if they can get this into a compact form that can be adequately supplied and cooled, it'll be a quantum leap in weaponry. You're talking about going from hurling chunks of matter that in turn impart kinetic and thermal energy, to being able to project energy directly.
Another type of Cyber Crime: Ambuja cement buyers using fake website
It’s cool, keep working on it!
Since the article didn't link to the paper:

- "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks"

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
It's pathetic watching people from the safety of their own homes commenting on how Israel should be waging war. Israelis are being killed and if Hamas had their way they would go over the border and massacre all Israelis in sight.

No other democracy is currently fighting a war against a neighbor that's shooting missiles at them and located only a few km from 80% of their population.

Israel's use of kid gloves against the Palestinians just emboldens them and encourages more cycles of violence.
Life is fractal, but markets are square
It is available on https://Dokibook.com/p435
It is made in South Korea
Python for Loop
> Not great statistical support. I still rely on Seaborn for quick visualization that needs to fit a linear regression.

Why does a plotting library need support for statistical analysis? I always think of manipulating data and visualizing it as orthogonal disciplines.
Is it possible to take the stuff from the air and store it in wood? If it was you could sell "CO2 storage furniture". This would make your business model green green.

I cannot find the reference but I remember that a chemists organisation was years ago suggesting one should buy furniture/wood products. (This certainly sounds adventurous and I might not remember this correctly.) Certain types of wood come from controlled wood growing/farming, and those trees grow quite fast. So the bottom line was that they suggested to consider Wood a natural CO2 sink.
It is worse.

It changes the meaning of time that we all use to communicate.
> There are more open jobs today than unemployed people

It also depends on your income source. People with low job quality end up with low living quality regardless how much they earn.

If it is coming from a busy job that for whatever reason feels pointless and or stressful, not having enough breaks, and long commute, etc..

That adds to all news about corruption, wars, conflicts, surveillance.. and people end up adopting pets more than willing to have children because they are seeking to have a free private time.
I haven't seen Alacritty mentioned yet as an existing alternative for built-in terminals. It's modern, configurable and really fast (thanks to GPU acceleration and possibly Rust). I've enjoyed using it with W10 native OpenSSH.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
I could imagine a system where any date or time information coming into your eyes or ears would automatically be translated to your preferred time offset. All you would need to do is decide which system of time you wanted and the computer would ensure you always perceived this. As you speak about time, someone else hears their preferred time system in your voice. Emails and other text-based methods are simple, analog and digital clocks could be updated on the fly with computer vision techniques and machine learning.
The graphic in the link is merely truncated from the rest of the .Net ecosystem. It's not redundant as it might appear in the image, libraries targeting the .Net Standard will run on Framework/Core/.Net 5+.
Is there a URL that talks more about how CICS pulled that off?
From employees stand point they should learn to diversify their skills beyond programming languages, enterprises that just want typing coders outsource their projects.

The only ones onsite have more to offer than programming language knowlege, like domain business, architecture design, foreign languages.

Employees that want to stay employable should focus on being T-shaped ones.
The co2 could be stored underground? I guess that could deal with the timing issue at least?
We probably should encourage pregnancy, with TFR below replacement in most of North America and Europe.

But on the other hand, if someone broke their leg in an off-work skiing accident, how many employers would accommodate and put someone on light duty, or even just hold their job until the person recovered?
Good idea, we could even give it a name like "tree" and we could scale it up to something like a "forest"
I like the design. On paper, it's even more efficient than Windows registered I/O.

However, one thing, in 8.3

> This is done through a kernel thread, speciﬁc to that io_uring.

Does it means it will be 100k native kernel threads for an app that has 100k open sockets? Won't this ruin scalability?
The people who manage TV scheduling, especially from satellites are royally screwed, I wonder if there are enough spare transponders to double up where required
Plenty of customers still run stuff on premises without any desire to put their precious data on someone's else computer.

Docker and k8s are the NoSQL of 2019.
nature nurture but for neural networks?
Have you considered linking to a Wayback Machine archive page instead?
It's very lightweight virtualization though, not a traditional VM.
Thank you. :D I was thinking that one could additionally enrich the wood. Being a porous material this shouldn't be too difficult, although probably one should watch out that inflammability doesn't increase.
> My fictive grand kids will be able to play those games long after the worms have gnawed my bones.

I would love that you be right. And by far, I strongly prefer physical media.

However, physical media is no guarantee either.

- Sometimes, the pain is on purpose: some apps require an online activation, and the corresponding service, 30 years later, is not available anymore.

- Sometimes, it's a lack of foresight from the developers (i.e overzealous Windows version checks, refusing newer versions).

- Sometimes, it's plain dumb stupidity (the installer is a 16-bit windows executable).

If you're not convinced, I suggest you try installing, say, Wipeout XL (for Windows 95) on a recent laptop (spoiler: at this point it's easier to play the PSX version on an emulator).
Things you’re probably not using in Python 3 – but should
> Is it possible to take the stuff from the air and store it in wood?

Yes it is, it's called "forestry".
Now You Can Update Chrome to Android Without Going to the Google Play Store
I wonder if there was a recent case where companies lost a significant amount of savings or liquidity due to some banking closing down or something similar beyond the limits of FDIC
> I'm not sure even they even care about windows clients beyond legacy contracts

Why wouldn't they? Windows does billions of dollars of sales a year.
This looks like etherpad
https://etherpad.org/

Not plain text only but probably can be configured for that.

No syntax highlighting.
Laser weapons might have their uses, just hope that the it isn't a cloudy day, or say, the enemy uses something like a mirror for that specific frequency, or even better, something that emits a dust cloud that eats the energy. Missiles, of course, can fly through dust clouds.
There's no limit to the multiple.

The 'fractional reserve banking' model is just wrong. (That there are no real reserve requirements in places like Canada or the UK, should really tell people this).

In reality it works like this. Loans create deposits. So you lend $10 million and end up with $10 million of loans and $10 million of deposits. The regulator then says you have insufficient capital, so you issue equity or bonds to the tune of $1 million and convince 10% of your depositors to swap their deposits (that you created) for that equity/bond by setting an appropriate interest rate on it.

Rinse and repeat until you run out of people to lend to at a price they are prepared to pay.

Neither deposits, nor equity have a quantity control function. It's all about the price, not the quantity.

In other words the amount of money in the system floats at the current price of money.