skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* bought an Alienware, work chair, and 4K monitor (for work purposes I swear)

* spent about 20k renovating a home office

* subscribed to Joox/Spotify and purchased all the games I once pirated

* donated 10% to charity

* gave a fat envelope full of cash to my wife (she was so shocked that she suspected me of having an affair)

* gave money to my mom

* bought bitcoin and other crypto

* got a will done because bitcoin isn't covered by inheritance laws (also for religious reasons)

* considered investing into a restaurant, but it was too much work

* invested most of the rest into startups which all failed

* paid for funeral fees for dead companies when partners passed the ball

* looked for a job after burning through it all
Faster compiler is nice, but you know what's faster? Not having to compile anything. I'm also looking forward to crates.io serving precompiled crates (https://www.ncameron.org/blog/cargo-in-2019/)
Why is backtesting foolish? As long as you haven't used the data you're using to backtest in any way, it seems like a reasonable way to test your strategy.
Google is trying to earn money, as much as they can. No need to imagine a conspiracy about censorship and control public opinion...
Look up arcam.
The comparison between Tesla and other luxury cars isn't that far of. It is even the one Tesla is using, or was using, to show success compared to high priced Mercedes, Audi, Porsche and BMW models.

One thing I find annoying is that Tesla and Musk seem to always move the goal post to point where it suits them best. For me stuff like self-driving taxis and sattelite internet are prime examples. It looks, at least to me, like running away from rwality faster than it can catch up.

One last point regarding luxury cars and safety. Tesla is proud of being the top performer at the NCAP crash test. And all of a sudden that comparison is unfair just because the numbers aren't positive for Tesla?
As much as I hate to say it, that ship has probably sailed. If you surf the web in 2019 you're likely using javascript and you need an updated web browser. The attack surface on those things are enormous.
I am happy that we have Snapchat and iMessage as competitors to the Facebook Apps. I very much dislike their business practices of sucking up all the data they can get their hands on e.g. during the acquisition of WhatsApp where they had to promise to European [1] regulators to not combine the user data with facebook‘s and then did it anyway.

Also sad that they were so successful in copying Snapchat’s story feature - it made Snapchat so unique. Now nobody is using Snapchat for it anymore and everybody is on IG instead.

All in all I know many people who really dislike FB and would leave it if they could, but the network effect keeps everybody locked in to WhatsApp at least in Europe/Germany.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215143/facebook-whatsapp...
I'm not aware of any private sector companies that have more than 2-3 formal "classification" markings, and they're usually more like "internal use only" and "confidential" rather than "secret". For particularly sensitive documents there would of course be additional restrictions, but I'd be surprised if there were companies using the marking "top secret" for that purpose...
> That's the problem with crystal balls.

TIL, you need a crystal ball to foresee the features and design decisions invented many decades ago and polished by the industry.

Who knew that living without parametric polymorphism in a static language would be painful. Of course this requires a handful of RFCs because nobody knows how to implement parametric polymorphism right as if ML didn't do it decades ago with soundness proofs and all needed extensions.

Who knew that `if err != nil` is error prone, verbose and noisy way of dealing with errors. Again, nobody knew how to do it right, there were no Common Lisp, Scheme, Haskell who already did this right. There are Monads, Exceptions, Effects, Conditions for error handling, lets throw all of this experience away and invent some obscure `try` keyword.

Reinventing the wheel is fun. Rooting your work in previous rigid and battle-tested (or even formally verified) experience is boring and complex.
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And the mobile-web version is even better imho : https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/
The Bengal Famine is a well-studied case where, AIUI, the current consensus is that imperial policies contributed significantly to the suffering and death toll:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
No, the problem is with general and sudden redefinitions of stuff like "illegal activity", which makes the license as written vague and unstable, even without changes to contract and copyright law that would interfere with the more basic level of offering, accepting and enforcing a license (irrespective of its content)
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Thankfully it's pretty easy to use something like uMatrix to block all requests to their domains. And I believe with a few extra lists toggled on the settings page, uBlock will also probably block requests to all or nearly all of their tracking/ad domains.
Strongly typed, schema'd data interchange leads to less human time in the long run.
Don't bluff then. Set up a line (perimeter), and anything that crosses it gets shot at. As usual. Border skirmishes are quite common, yet WW3 doesn't happen.
Snapchat is not any better. Given their financials I am sure they are selling my data to anyone who is willing to pay for it.
While true, and I realize the irony of saying this since I mentioned building up to Foucault, I don't think one is harmed so much by simply starting. There's a lot of people who try to pile on more and more prerequisites and I think it's less productive; for every person who tells you to read Hume before Kant there are ten who will tell you to read Berkely before Hume. Personally I simply entered what interested me; first Marx (which is an ongoing love) then Hegel and now Kant. Heraclitus can come later.
It's also one of the reasons why I've built https://tardis.dev (historical tick-level cryptocurrency market data replay API).
> Also sad that they were so successful in copying Snapchat’s story feature - it made Snapchat so unique. Now nobody is using Snapchat for it anymore and everybody is on IG instead.

I don't see what's sad about that, if the only thing that made SC unique is a feature that was so easily copied into EVERY FB app (messenger, instagram, even FB itself) then SC was anything but unique.

Ultimately execution is what matters, and snapchat had a terrible app (at least on android) forever.
That does sound like a fun experiment.

I will give a shout to these guys if anyone is interested in back testing -> https://www.coinapi.io/
https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/

The mobile web version. Works really well, even on a desktop!
I always thought that but although half the worlds population lives in cities they are responsible for 70% of the worlds emissions. I guess people in cities are richer so consume more.
Can you convert to eps from the SVG and then whack the eps into a PDF?
This visualization is also very useful when trying to understand Bayes' theorem.
> Dense urban living is the sustainable alternative, if anything.

How so? Concentrated populations means you have to produce (energy, food etc.) far away from where it's consumed. So you need to extract and produce on a big scale so that model becomes sustainable (if it ever is, which i doubt).

When the concentration is smaller, you can live in harmony with your local environment: produce your food, your energy, your clothes and houses with what's around you, which will always be better for the environment than shipping "eco-friendly" materials across three continents before reaching your supermarket aisle.

Production should be as close as possible to consumption. Concentrating populations means you can't locally produce electricity (because you need so much of it, it's dangerous to produce so you put it away from urban centers) or food (because you need so much of it, and the surrounding land is used for "urban development" and other sweet words for gentrification and privatization of space).

So i used to think some smarter industry regulations and government policy could fix the environment. Then i realized our entire civilization is based on fucking things up and exploiting other people, and those holding the reigns will not stop their bloody mess until they're made the planet uninhabitable. It speaks for itself that billionaires invest their fortunes in traveling to Mars.

We already produce enough food and have enough housing for everyone on this planet. On a global scale, a third of the food produced is thrown away. This reaches almost 50% in industrialized societies like Europe/US. Yet many people struggle to fill their fridge. Here in France (official stats by INSEE) 3 million houses are EMPTY (not secondary houses, UNUSED houses) yet 150 000 people sleep on the streets.

The same goes with the environmental crisis. It's not a crisis because we don't know what to do. It's a crisis because we know what to do to save the planet and it goes directly against our way of life as consumers, and against the interests of our ruling classes and industrial elites.
For my part, it's just that Elon is the paramount example of what happens when the ROI plummets, and there's an amazing amount of investor cash floating around.

You see it in history: the victorians built a ridiculously over-engineered, insanely extensive rail network. It didn't make any money, but at the time, there wasn't really anything else to invest in with a reasonable return rate. So everybody went in on the one thing that had the possibility of a massive pay-off. Recognize the unicorn-logic here?

Tesla kind of takes all the decades of Toyota kicking ass, and gets the lesson completely wrong - the 'machine that builds the machine' is exactly what GM was doing. Toyota was good at building cars because they were far less automated than their american competitors.

Then it works because electric cars are a great idea, batteries are massively subsidized by the phone industry, and incumbent car makers don't really have relevant expertise (since they're really good at building internal combustion engines, and a lot of the other stuff is a secondary concern). Also, because Tesla has an enormous amount of investor cash.

So why does all this bother me? It's because of where the cash comes from. Tech companies don't really pay taxes, and they don't have (relative to revenue) employees. If you imagine how many jobs Microsoft Office has replaced, you get the picture. All this is fine in itself (minus the tax thing), but when the money just gets poured into these obvious money spouts, into a company that's pretty obviously only workable because it sits at the bottom of one of those money spouts, lead by a guy who's clearly not as smart as he thinks he is - well, it feels a bit like a great example of the waste and unfairness of the system itself.
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I'm not sure any sensible person would.

If only because you'd be rolling a huge pair of dice with respect to health care, dental care, etc. Your children have decent odds of dying young. Women in childbirth. Infections. No modern dental care etc.

Sure, some made it to old age without serious problems. (And people die young today in spite of modern medicine.) But I'll take the bet on today's medicine.
While it wouldn't be wise to attribute all those deaths to the British Empire, it's important to note that British agricultural practices led to widespread famines and crop-failures. Diversion of food crop land to grow Opium and Indigo led to famines[1]. And the risk of crop-failures was often beared by the cultivator[2].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation_in_India#History

2. http://barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/NEUDC/paper_364.pdf
Humans don't only live on a small area, so how do you get the generated electricity to where the humans live? And what if someone attacked this small area? Seems like a bad idea.
The mutable default is sometimes useful as a quick way to memoize a function
I think the OP is confusing a few things here. Public health insurance will always pay for whatever treatment you need. Age is only a factor in very few cases. What matters is that the doctor or hospital is also in Germany. The system allows you a huge amount of freedom in choosing who to get care from. But the system doesn't cover getting care from foreign facilities. Private health insurance policies have the same restriction.
Also Telegram (unless I missed the type of apps you're comparing ? I really only use messaging aspect of all of these)
Can we see the popularity graphs for the pro-Beijing party plummet in Taiwan?
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The book mentioned in the article, Capital in the 21st Century, shows this in really interesting detail. I can't remember the details myself, but the idea we have of inflation being normal is actually highly abnormal in the history of humanity. Can't recommend the book enough, really interesting to see how unique the last 100 years of high growth is compared to history due to the world wars and how we may be returning to "normal" levels of inequality.
Royalty-free soundtrack music is incredibly cheap. It would be faster, better, and cheaper to buy what you want.
The same feature is now also on YouTube, for some reason. I guess short video clips are just what the youth are into these days (Vine, TikTok, stories).

I wonder if they're regretting not taking the 30 billion Google was offering. Ephemeral image/video/message sharing has become a pretty oversaturated market since their popularization of it, and there isn't really that much more innovation that can be done in that area, I think. And it doesn't seem like they're trying other kinds of things beyond ephemeral communication. They may be in a Foursquare-like situation, except Foursquare actually did manage to pivot from a gimmick to more of a sustainable business (as far as I can tell).
I would rephrase this as

1. Support the new value in your schema

2. Support the new value in the client

3. Emit the new value from the server

Combining 1 and 2 is probably possible, but not a great idea. Imagine if you end up rolling back 2 and 3, but there are still potentially new values in flight. If 1 is still there, you're good. If 1 and 2 are combined, you rollback all 3, but the new value is still in flight and your client crashes.
Did I just see Google Cloud go back in time?
>so it's not yet clear to me you can just directly compare number of deaths between empires without taking into account the surrounding context.

This is true, but perhaps in a way you weren't anticipating; this point was made decades ago by Herbert Marcuse in response to people attempting to compare, for instance, Nazi death tolls with Soviet ones. This mode of argumentation reduces concrete matters of policy and motivation (quality) into mere numbers to be thrown about (quantity). But authoritarianism is not a quantitative matter - a nation with harsh laws under which only few are convicted is still an authoritarian nation.
The full title is "British Association of Dermatologists’ guidelines for theinvestigation and management of generalized pruritus inadults without an underlying dermatosis, 2018*" which is far too long for the HN Title box. Sorry for mangling it so much to make it fit.

I'm submitting this because itch is complex and it can cause huge distress. HN seems interested in well-being, and this is evidence based advice that aims to improve well-being.
The federal government has turned its full investigative powers toward examining the world’s biggest technology companies, building on a backlash against the industry that has been growing for over a year.

The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it would start an antitrust review into how internet giants had accumulated market power and whether they had acted to reduce competition.
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Isn't a chemomagnet magnet just a scaled down version of a mechanical switchable magnet?
I'm not sure how useful the BoE calculator is for that. It's probably more useful to just look at standard of living qualitatively.

Given that a Victorian era lower-class Londoner probably looks more like a lower-class Haitian than a Texan.

I'm less sure how to compare from Austen's era, especially outside of a major city. But things like getting any medical care at all or getting enough food to eat suggests ways that poor people of that era would be disadvantaged compared to most poor people of a developed county today.
Muslim here. Interesting to hear. I had to avoid a lot of investments, because they weren't so clean. Forex felt like gambling, and many options felt like riba/usury.

Real estate seemed a bit off. Lots of friends would take huge loans and rent it out for a little more than what they were paying in bank loans; also felt like usury. But it should be fine if you've paid it all in cash.

Probably the big thing I regretted was spending about a year and a lot of cash on a startup which partly donated to temples. Made me realize that wealth really comes from Allah.
What kind of cancer did/do you have and at what stage did you begin treatment?

This is truly astonishing, by the way.
For me it's mostly that I don't like overly-promotional liars. And the "saving the world" schtick wears thin. Hate would be a strong word though.
good point. it would still be silly for 'industry standard methods' to log passwords, in plain text - even for debugging purposes. But it could be result of some bug or error which dumped a load of information ,or perhaps even crashdumps of processes. they contain memory ,which could contain passwords if for instance, the login handling service crashed. It would be useful if companies were a little more clear about how these things happen, it'd be a good learning point for readers with similar setups in their environments. since the issue was resolved, it could be 'responsible disclosure'.
With straw and mud (usually clay-based earth) you can protect your wood structure from the environment's temperature/humidity.

http://www.thegreenestdollar.com/2009/05/cob-houses-building...
What do you mean they ignored Crimea/Donbass?

The EU did what it is best at, money stuff. Sanctions against Moscow and cheap debt/aid to Kiev.

What else should/could it do?
While I have a facebook account I'm not a big user, it's mostly for a few contacts that are only on messenger. I don't look at my "stream" a lot, and when I do it's mostly useless content like meme, self-centered post and whatnot that I personnaly have zero interest in, with maybe 1% of actually interesting thing in between like birth annoncement from acquaintances etc ...

I don't plan to delete my account because I want to keep the ability to be in touch with those few friends, and I haven't reached the point where I want to delete the messenger app, but the main FB/messenger duo just doesn't fill any major need for me.

But two things that struck me recently:

1. When opening my stream just to gloss over, there is A TON of ads. Like, the first 4/5 posts are real, then it's one post one ad one post one ad. And the targeting is abysmal. The only ones that are kind of on target are the amazon retargeting, except in typical amazon retargeting fashion it advertises to me stuff that I have already bought (on amazon no less). At least google has the decency to show me stuff I may be interested in, if vaguely.

2. I'm not sure when this was added to android, or if this is a specific samsung thing, but I had a weird warning that I had never seen before: my phone warned me that messenger, while not being open, was trying to access the "microphone" permission. Kudos to android for blocking it and warning me, so I could disable that permission for good. I can't think of a single reason for that app to do it that isn't super evil.

I'm also 99,9% certain it's not even legal where I live (France), I can't record my customers without asking or warning them on each instance of a conversation and with a clear non hidden message, so I doubt they can do that no matter what's in their TOS.
I think you mean “English-language Wikipedia”. Try switching to one of the other languages and then putting the article through Google Translate. They’re not the same article semantically! Each language has its own set of editors putting its own spin on things. It’s only to be expected that each language’s editorial policy will be dominated by the cultural hegemony of that language’s speakers, if one exists.

(For example, even without government interference, you would expect “Taiwan” to have different first-sentence descriptions in the Chinese–Simplified, Chinese–Traditional, and English Wikipedias.)
My guess is probably not, because photosynthesis is not very efficient. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency

But if the trees are already grown then I think we should use them, and not just leave them to rot.
Looking forward to it.

If I would enjoy compiling everything from scratch I would be using Gentoo.
Honestly, it’s pretty easy to create a rough approximation of many popular hedge fund strategies. Like on Quantopian, it’s pretty easy to whip up a simple factor strategy in a couple hours. The returns aren’t bad, either.

The part that is hard are trading costs and slippage. But assuming that retail investor’s capital is relatively small and no trading costs (Alpaca provides this), an individual can do pretty well.

The parts that are hard for hedge funds is slippage, illiquidity of assets, trading costs, and client demands. As an individual you really don’t have to worry about those things and consequentially things become much easier.

The only downside is that it’s harder to get as much cheap leverage as the big guys. Also some (HFT) strategies are off limits to individuals, but that’s fine, because HFT really isn’t a good way to make money in the first place.
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I'm one of the lucky ones: background from farming, well paid job as an engineer now. Can work hard, climb etc as well as program and help run big distributed networks as part of an ops team. Big family. Married for over a decade to a woman who love me and who is easy to love back. More than three kids together. In-laws are nice.

I do have my struggles, yes, but I don't write about them on the Internet but I'll tell as much: I'm happy to be a man.

But I do feel sorry for the boys (and girls) who grow up in more limited environments. And for boys with fewer good male role models and society telling them it's their fault for being born with a different chromosome.
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Thanks for the link! Disheartening indeed. Found the fork at the end of that thread, and I'll give it a try.
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I think people would be tempted to try more and crazier things to earn more money because the risk of failure is lessened in that scenario.
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I liked your writing style. Crisp and to the point. No BS marketing jargon.
Visual C++ may be great, but in practice, if you use it with MSBuild, you can't even build modules in parallel without manually tuning how many cores to allocate.
The video made a lot of intuitive sense mathematically due to the animations, just like 3Blue1Brown does.

I wonder what other sources regarding this topic would be good to learn. I'm very interested in knowing more about it.
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The problem is that we see how hard it is to see such a liberation/democratization campaign through. (Iraq, Afghanistan)

And in the end what is democracy? Will of the people. Great, what if the people are trigger happy xenophobics? (Just look at how nationalist populism is on the rise in democratic countries.)