skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the flip side, having a big cash hoard is bad for your investors' returns.

This is absolutely true, but sort of misses the point. What happens in practice is that such stocks end up being disfavored and investors prefer to buy other securities with better dividends. Which has the effect of depressing the share price. Which has the effect of making it harder for the company to raise money via issuing debt or stock.

...which the company doesn't care about in the first place, because it's sitting on a truck load of cash and doesn't need to raise money.

Honestly, the jury is very much out on whether or not this kind of behavior is bad for companies in a micro sense. Really all it means in practice is that these companies haven't been able to find a way to invest this money productively, they're out of ideas to purse, or markets to expand into. And that's bad, but it's not bad because of cash.

In a macro sense, though, the argument is clearer: all that money sitting around doing nothing (well, nothing but sitting around in safe investments) does nothing for the GDP as a whole, and in particular it does nothing for the bulk of the population with little to no investment holdings.
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Wonderful article. I hate to be a pedant but you have a typo that detracts some attention because it is in the opening paragraph.

> I mean, does anybody really enjoys a stiff, snappy UI?

enjoys => enjoy
Or as an unnecessary end of statement character to clutter up your code with.
> My temptation is to take on increasingly archaic skills.

I am reminded of the protagonist in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius who at the end, when the whole world is changing into a new world with a new culture and languages, he retreats to spend his time translating a classic 17th century English text into Spanish, both of which are soon-to-be dead languages.
I don't know if this is the kind of answer you were looking for, but Elizabeth Warren was very successful in her efforts to get the CFPB off the ground, much to the displeasure of the financial sector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_.... It's true that under the Trump administration the bureau's behavior is being...modified...but it was quite a success when running as originally intended by Warren.

Furthermore, both Warren and Bernie Sanders seem to have genuine convictions w.r.t. climate change, health care, social inequality, etc. Whether or not their particular points of view are desirable is open for debate, but their multi-decade commitments to these issues are beyond question. They seem to have non-trivial support in the electorate as well - I encourage you to check them out, especially if you're feeling cynical or anxious about the future.
> If I stop using Facebook I just lose out from contact with various social circles, I can use Matrix (say?) but I don't know of a bridge that will free my Facebook messages?

My opinion is that this approach is wrong and less smart than it sounds. This approach suggests that it is possible to smoothly move from one close platform to another one, but it is not.

Network effect is everything in social network, but if you stay on facebook you're keeping its network effect in place, effectively vanishing the need to even explore another social network, federated or not.
Intro to Svelte, First Steps in Svelte, Migrating to Sapper(Svelte Status #1)
AT&T donated $500,000 to Locast.

this could get interesting.

https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/at-t-backs-free-broadcast-...

They also list it as an alternative to CBS/etc on their DirecTV Now app. Since we lost the local channels thanks to... well, who knows.
To stretch the analogy a little further, to take an observation of the market, you have to buy or sell which in turn affects the price. It's very much like the effect of measuring a quantum particle, the impact of a photon is enough to change to observation so you have an inherent uncertainty to everything. Because of this, I don't think you can ever distinguish between noise and meaningful trading with respect to a Nyquist limit in the market. If you tried to for instance, look at the price of all stocks over time and find the 2-D frequency function required to represent that, it is going to creep up based on your measurement rate. Another way to describe it might be that your observability and controllability vectors are not orthogonal.

This also skates around the issue of defining what a Nyquist rate of the market even means in real terms. But, if you want to use control theory to model the market, it's important to know that faster does not inherently mean more accurate. In the simple analogy, increasing trading frequency will improve measurement results, up to a point, after which it will actually likely result in decreasing accuracy.

I've also ignored the whole conflation of frequency and group delay in these analogies to keep things simpler as well.
There are many ways to generate an SSB signal. In particular the Weaver method is more common in SDR applications than the phase shift method he/she uses. There're lots of literature online so I don't know why he couldn't find any.
I've done the California "Fundamentals of Engineering" Civil Engineering exam long time ago and it was no joke. Its been a while but I think they let you bring reference books or gave you one. You really had to know your stuff because you had no time to look at the reference material.
Please don't insult your boots.
The problem with the web isn't its technology; that part is amazingly great now. The problem is with (a subset of) the people who make websites, and the business interests driving them.
Probably also less technically challenging / frustrating to set up in the first place, if they're getting used prepaid phones at $10 a piece.
Fear is the mind killer
Have you ever worked with an attorney?

You don't want Law to be run like software.
I'm not sure where you're working but where I work, being a developer is awesome.

Fresh, healthy, high quality, free food catered for 3 meals a day? Check.

Best healthcare possible provided at no cost? Check.

Stocked kitchen with all kinds of snacks, high end coffee, kombucha etc with ability to make requests? Check.

Freedom to come in when I want and leave when I want? Check.

Work remotely when I want? Check.

Any equipment I want at any cost? Check.

Top of market pay for size of company? Check.

Beautiful office with natural sunlight, plants everywhere, and fresh air? Check.

Autonomy and creativity in my role? Check.

Top percentile talent as coworkers who are genuinely amazing collaborators, interesting people and great to work with? Check.

Like with all professions, there are depressing jobs and great jobs. If you're a dev working at a paper mill in the midwest with draconian dinosaurs as management, yeah it might not be the best gig. But if you work at a company that values software and understands the leverage of great developers, then I can't think of a job that's more cushy and fulfilling.
I think if you could, you would have one of those fancy gold medals.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589870.
Given what we are doing about the climate crisis (nothing), I would be very happy to plant "highly invasive trees" and have them spread around like crazy. Too many of those trees is a much better problem to have than a cooked planet.
Actually that is not what this conversation is about.
Yup. I moved into compilers and related things by starting to contribute to an open source compiler project in 1999 when I was 36 and got my first full-time compiler job when I was 43. Now I'm 56 and in the last couple of years started moving into designing new CPU instructions as well as the software to use them.
I agree.

E.g. the Communists insist they are benefiting the Tibetans.

Or consider the native Hawaiians vs. the telescope on their sacred volcano Mauna Kea.

Without establishing the greater context "progress" is a shiboleth.

Wendell Berry has an essay, "What are People For?", that's worth reading in this connexion.

The simplest way to encounter the issue is be asking yourself, as a two-year old would, "And then what..? And then what..? And then what..?"
Not just basically - it is a hit piece. It's a website run by and for advertisers, publishers, and media, aiming to monetize content as much as possible. They are supported by advertisers masquerading as ad blockers (uBlock trying to pretend to be uBlock Origin) and sites that literally just advertise.

Just another day of unsavory corporations and the assholes that run them trying to mislead the average consumer.
I feel the same way. If it contains the word uBlock, it's going to loose no matter what.

Maybe fork uBlock Origin, give it a new name, update the current uBlock Origin official pages to point to the new one, keeping links in older threads still relevant for a while.

I'd do my part and promote the new name as much as possible. I'm already spending a lot of time typing out the explanation about the current name whenever I get a chance.
First Bitcoin, Then Libra: Why Nation States Are Scared Stiff
California agriculture uses roughly 10¹³ gallons of "applied" water a year [0]. That would cost a bit more than $200 to run RO on.

[0] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Accessibility is not just about vision-impaired users. It is about making your website accessible -- to anyone.

JS websites without fallback reduce accessibility for:

* Users with slower devices

* Users with dated devices and browser software

* Devices with poor connectivity

* Users who have JS disabled through no choice of their own.

* Users who choose to disable JS.

* Browsers which do not support JS.

* Accessibility software.

* Not to mention bots, scrapers, etc., who also have valid use cases.

This is a non-comprehensive list I came up with in just a few minutes. I'm sure there are many more items that can be added to it.
I'm doing this as well, (Wanting to make a from scratch version of CoreOS). From what I have researched you can do a couple of things.

- Could start with something like buildroot / Yocto project. Both projects have lots of archs. Buildroot would prolly be easy to bootstrap your OS.

- Use something like Gentoo, Void, Alpine Linux. These distros have pretty good community support but you might be a little bit hard getting stuff started as you would have to set everything up using their tooling.

- Look at Cross Linux From Scratch as it will probably help you will with bootstrapping your OS for your specific Arch.
As someone who was in the boy scouts then the air cadets as a kid, this seems true. Is it the same for people who have not had an upbringing that involved outdoor activities?
Sbottom squark and wino sound like the goofy villains in a 90's cartoon. Endofunctor sounds like a disease, and is inherently much cooler as a result.
> On the first point, I think that renewal is a poor proxy for determining which works are are orphaned or no longer have commercial value, instead just showing which copyright holders have the most diligent book keeping. Large number of published works will loose copyright protection just due to oversight. A simple mistake shouldn't result in disproportionate consequences (loss of decades of revenue). At the same time other works that are no longer available on the market will be prevented from entering public domain by companies that just renew everything.

So in other words, renewing should cost a decent amount of money, so that not every work is worth renewing?

I don't really see the fact that people will let things enter the public domain sooner as a downside, even if it would (theoretically) have earned them more money. If they aren't organized enough to renew the copyright, why would they be organized enough to actually use the work?
I like the combo of regular forum (Xenforo, Discourse, etc) and chat (Discord, Slack, etc). Unlike mailing lists, modern forums are actually usable, fun to use, and appealing. And chat provides a place for more conversational community-building.

For example, the Elm community has both. The Discourse forum is technical and business-only yet there's a clean record of these discussions. The Slack chat is where I hang out, get to know people, and participate in more relaxed chit chat about Elm, webdev, and building applications.

Elm used to just have a mailing list but it was obsoleted and shut down with the creation of the Slack group and Discourse forum which were far more popular.
Thanks for support :)
> Am I wrong in thinking that all electricity is flowing back into earth?

Yes, sadly, you are wrong. But it's not a strange error.

Electricity always flows in a circle(circuit).

And, in fact, in medical devices, transformers are often used to completely isolate devices from the line that they are plugged into. Electrons on the device side of the transformer will NOT try to flow back into the line side or an earth. They only want to flow back to the device side of the transformer.

Now, the issue is that when you want to create really strict isolation like this, suddenly all manner of things that normally you don't pay attention to suddenly become relevant. Is the device side of that transformer really not connected to the line side anywhere? No goop on the board? No water vapor? No lines that are a little too close? Is the hospital bed not connected to anything?

Guitar players who use tube amps and vocalists who use condenser microphones wind up with this issue all the time. Both the amps and the mics are "isolated" with relatively high voltage signals floating around--300-400V for amps:48V for mics--and consequently strange paths cause lots of "buzz" in the signal.
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/pgSQL is not SQL.
Browser MIDI is kinda half-baked- you can use it to do most MIDI things, but it’s not visible to the rest of your MIDI network. So, for example, you can make a web page that functions as a MIDI synth, but your recording studio app won’t be able to select it as output.

Also, they expose MIDI messages as arrays of bytes rather than parsing them, which is a weird choice
Those violence is indeed not acceptable. However, proclaiming all pro-Chinese students behave / think the same way is also too subjective or even racist in some extreme cases.

If the Chinese students have a different opinion, they should do the same thing as the HK students. They can also start a petition / protest to against violence riot in their Country.

Free speech is not only available to HK students but to Chinese students in Australia too. The principal of free speech is not just speaking out loud without any responsibility, it's about mutual respect.
We use Survey Monkey.
This seems similar/identical.
How do you compare to that? Is there a reason to pick you over them?
They charge about $1/response.
Yes, those little solar fans are pretty ineffective. Cracking the windows helps but is not as good as rolling them all down. I don't know of any cases of a child dying in a car with windows rolled down but I suppose it is possible. It is mainly children being left in sealed cars which results in fatalities.

I was thinking more like venting which was designed to use the temperature difference to pull air through the car, like the designs used in desert vernacular architecture. Maybe something like a miniature Persian windcatcher, or a vent in the roof and floor which open when the car is parked to allow convection through the interior. But really anything to make the car less like a sealed hotbox.
Also on the Mac II, when the blank hiding the second floppy slot used to fall down. I remember a secretary calling in distress after having inserted 20 floppies or so inside the Mac to no effect: they were all piling up inside, behind the floppy 2 slot :)
Eclipse, I think.
A clear candidate for systemd
Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II
Show up 5 minutes before standup, or 5 minutes into it, then. Problem solved. ;)

On a more serious note, read email, get a drink, and plan your day. You’ll be talking about the plan in less than an hour, anyway.
My experience with academia was sheer poison. My advisor lied, accused me of cheating with no evidence, and patented the ideas his students generated. Appreciate the comment but... No.
The government absolutely has to be on the supply side of that exchange. If the state gives person C $X for diabetes meds, and then does not also produce enough diabetes meds for one person exactly like person C and place it on the market for $X, then the person or firm that does produce the meds that person C uses can capture all the $X checks from all the diabetics by supplying one unit less than is required for all of them and making them play a game of musical chairs where the highest bidders sit first, and the one left without a seat at the end dies.

It works for every need--housing, meds, transport, etc. If the government does not add to the market supply, the incumbent suppliers can capture all the benefit.

So if the people need more housing, the government can't just give people money and tell them to rent. They can't just build houses and assign people to them. They have to build houses that are competitive on the open market, and also give people enough money to buy or rent them.

Even if some rich landlord snaps up all the state-built houses to rent out, the potential of capturing the benefit by raising rents is still mitigated by the increase in housing supply.

Helicopter-dropped piles of cash go hand in hand with ensuring a supply exists to spend that cash on.
All of these companies on 80,000 Hours' job board are hiring to save the planet! https://80000hours.org/job-board/
Why are there three wires in new receptacles? From my understanding, new code has you have to have a 3+ground but why is that safer? Did they just add an extra wire so you can have a hot, lead, and neutral to ground all the receptacle? (Plus the green/bare to bond the receptacle to switch/outlet)

Also, for home owners, what’s the best resource to learn common sense basics of electrical work (besides reading the city/states codes). Are there classes for such cases?
And then you try implementing any of them and realise that even the simplest examples often break in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, have hidden and not-so-hidden restrictions, may or may not be hardware accelerated, may or may not break layout, cause reflow and/or repaint, can't be stopped once started...
Study: Electric scooters increase carbon emissions in most cases
this problem goes back to the very beginning of open source browsers. The first source release of Mozilla couldn’t be compiled at all!
"Exposure to grass was, surprisingly, associated with higher odds of psychological distress."

Anyone who has had to maintain a lawn will likely find this unsurprising.
The 1st thing you do on apple II diskettes (5.25") was using a scissors to allow the other side to be writable as well.
No exceptions (alternatively you just break the plastic switch that tells if there is copy-write protection, on the floppy driver, itself)

I have taken the floppy out of the sleeves to dry them out as the entirety of my collection fell in the aquarium.
I think the entrepreneurial route is the most realistic route in the long term. The idea is to use your experience and knowledge to build a software product that a niche market needs, and sell it.

If you live outside the main city centers like Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles etc. its not hard to make a full-time income online.

A key thing to understand is that, as an employee working for someone else, your revenue will always be capped to the rate associated to the job market of that profession. There might be a 10% difference between jobs, but that's it.

While if working as an entrepreneur, your revenue cap is the one of the market you are on, whatever that is.
Are there any plans to support languages beyond English?
Could I send someone a link to my iOS app and have them record themselves using it for like 10 min? And get a little feedback from them? How much would that cost?
Doesn't that contradict noego's ultimate point?
Thanks for your explanation. When I read [1]:

> A cryptosystem that supports arbitrary computation on ciphertexts is known as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Such a scheme enables the construction of programs for any desirable functionality, which can be run on encrypted inputs to produce an encryption of the result

I thought that meant the program itself could be fully encrypted, but after a second look it seems that it is just the inputs that are encrypted. Still, other areas of the wiki talk about support for boolean gates and even arbitrary gates. I don't know what to think, but it is motivating me to revisit coding theory :-)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully...
This section is plain wrong:

"The ONLY purpose for the EGC (or green wire) is to clear a ground-fault (clearing a ground-fault means tripping a breaker or blowing a fuse) in the 'oh shit moments'. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the ground or the Earth and will work exactly as it is intended to regardless of whether it is connected to the Earth or not."

If the EGC is floating, no current will flow in a ground fault and the breaker never trips.
So you want to slice and concatenate strings without you yourself and any other collaborators knowing what the string is? what about hashing each word? you could slice and concat on whitespace boundaries if that's the case.

i'm not sure how this helps e2e encrypted collaborative editing though. why not just use asymmetric encryption? what am i missing?
I am at a startup just now and they are complaining about frontend devs as
- they don't hang around
- they don't want to touch the old frontend written in Dojo, just the React stuff.

I'll do whatever (I am officially a 80% backend dev who can do enough frontend when needed). The Dojo way of writing things actually seems a lot nicer than React, but it ain't cool.
Indeed - the smell of a new flappy diskette - yay more storage.
This is absolutely amazing!
Sounds like your team might be doing standups wrong. Firstly they should be 3-8 mins tops. Secondly, I consistently find that when someone mentions what they're working on, more days than not, someone shares something useful (hey, we did something similar last year . . .) and when someone is blocked, someone agrees to get them going again. It's also just nice to have a sense what the whole team is working on.

[EDIT] I also misread length of standup. And agreed, it's tough to have an interruption 30-45 mins is as you lose that time. Wonder if you'd be better with middle or day standups or something so at least it was between worthwhile chunks of time?
I have a similar expression. My daily price might be higher, but they will cost you more.
And then it was yarn. And then npm again.
reuse the energy, create mini nuclear power plant/reactor that can be sent into space to mine bitcoin.
I'm afraid to look at the state of my Amiga 3.5s, not to mention the older 5.25s. Sadly, they are probably lost to time.
This guy right here, this guy knows whats up. gl john.
A maintainer came forward and volunteered. That doesn't take focus away from other people who will be uninvolved.

Although I could see a security argument. Wasn't there a qemu bug that involved exploiting a virtual floppy drive?
I do.

I doubt all data all of the time.

Why don't you?

EDIT: We can actually get into it, about the data and adjustments, but ultimately everything (on both sides) is so contaminated and ugly that I don't really understand how anyone can become a zealot. From what I can tell, maybe, this year is 0.14degC LESS warm than average. You don't see that on the new, but it isn't any less credible than the sources you do. EVERYONE IS LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL OF THE TIME.