skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I intentionally took a radical (but possible) example. A more related likely result is NIMBYs using the precedent to give all other ecosystems 'personhood' and strangling housing development in lawsuits. Now that I consider this, judges could use other creative readings of corporate law to actually weaken environmental law (can we use eminent domain on the river? Does it have a natural monopoly on water supply and we need to apply anti-trust?).

Ultimately this is an improper hack, suborning the law for political ends. There are some evils that can justify even a take-no-prisoners approach. But better protection of river ecosystems? Are there really no better ways to achieve that?
Multiple accounts are a must. If you’re smart about it, you also won’t set up any kind of electronic transfer between them. Otherwise if one is hijacked the crook could initiate an ACH from the other accounts.
I absolutely love developing in Common Lisp, and I agree with you.

Some suggestions:

- Get rid of upcasing; 21st-century languages should be case-sensitive and case-preserving. Allegro’s modern mode is the Right Thing™ here IMHO.

- Fix things like order-of-argument inconsistencies in the standard library.

- Consider adding type to streams to indicate whether they are input, output or both and character, byte or both.

- Base the package system off of Go’s.

- More fully specify pathnames.

- Specify a standard library roughly equivalent to Go’s. At this point I think it’s the gold standard (Python’s used to be, but no longer).
Everyone should record a video of themselves reading text aloud, while playing the audio back at a 5-20ms delay into their headphones. It's hilarious!

Same thing happens when you play an instrument.
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Because not everybody will be in a position to "just move" for various reasons, and you care about your co-workers? Or you simply have the sense to realise that you may be in an unfavourable position sometime in the future that may not be your fault?
Ask HN: Can I get solidarity stories on senior devs writing overly complex code?
I'm a front-end dev at a well known US company and I keep finding other devs using every possible trick they can to make their code "re-usable" and "robust" when in fact it's impossible to read, difficult to modify, totally uncommented, and many times longer than I would think necessary.

Other seniors tell me the comments aren't needed if I'm good at reading code. It takes me a lot of time to make changes to their code and it's very discouraging sometimes.
Translation: the markets are pricing in the expectation that the Fed will (need to) stimulate the economy by reducing interest rates from their already low (close to zero) levels
There will definitely be a recession, at some point in the future.
You don't have to be a "super smart engineer" for that situation to occur. It's completely normal for software features to shrink (or grow) by that much time in my experience.
So this is in the US, but I was looking at car loans just to see what the rates were compared to mine and there were reviews from people stating the bank repossessed their car a day after their first missed payment. Now this is only their side and I don't remember which banks and credit unions were receiving those reviews but I know there were multiple accounts of people with similiar experiences and some of those lenders were nationally known banks. So you mileage may vary with car loan lenders.
Ok? That's still surprising to me not knowing a single human being that's worked in a mine and constantly hearing about how poor mining towns are...

48k$ is a LOT of money to those outside of the Bay Area.
Forget your password a few times on a site that uses it (logMeIn and its products). You'll get an endless stream of challenges. I usually just give up and try again later
I wonder if you've come across Monarch?

https://www.datawatch.com/in-action/monarch-desktop/

It's a well-known commercial package that's been around for ages and when I saw it they seem to have some good ideas around UI for data prep (e.g. like seeing your dataframe at every stage, reordering operations and flipping back and forth) that could further inspire your GUI.
Exit interviews can lead to you being marked as "Do not rehire" depending on the degree of your candor.

It's obviously your call, but for the most part, I've just been as vanilla as possible when leaving, maybe remarking about the lack of compensation increase while working for a state budget determined salary position. That one, everyone groks and I didn't have it bite me in the butt when I came back to work for the local university a year later.
"The best example of the danger of focusing on a single measure came when I first started my own consulting practice in California. My second client was in the fast food business and had a chain of fried chicken restaurants that was growing in both the U.S. and internationally.
....
Roy went on: “The one metric that is really important to management is Chicken Efficiency. At the end of every day, I have to calculate my Chicken Efficiency score...this is the measure that all the managers talk about all the time.”

Looking at Roy’s chart it looked like he was achieving 99-100% Chicken Efficiency every day that month that must be good. However, I still didn’t know what the measure entailed. Roy explained: “Chicken Efficiency is basically a scrap measure. You take how much chicken you cook and divided it the number of pieces of chicken sold. If you sell all the chicken you get 100% chicken efficiency, which is the goal – no waste or scrap.“

When I asked Roy how he achieved near perfect Chicken Efficiency every day he answered: “I’m gonna let you in on a secret, but don’t put my name in the report saying you heard this from me. My secret is I stop cooking chicken around 7:30 and only cook to order after that. That way none of the chicken sits under the lights for too long, everyone gets hot and fresh chicken, and I don’t throw any of it away – 100% chicken efficiency.“

I asked, don’t you get people coming in here all evening until the restaurant closes? Roy replied: “Oh yeah we get tons of kids coming in here after baseball or soccer practices or games, families, and lots of people. I tell them I’m going to make their chicken to order and it will take 15-20 minutes.”

I asked, do most of them wait? Roy answered: “Heck no, they file right out the door and head off someplace else, but management doesn’t measure that. They do want to make sure I don’t throw any chicken away every day, however. My buddie Leon taught me this trick – he got promoted to run three restaurants by not cooking any chicken“. I went on to visit other restaurants and every one of them talked about the importance of Chicken Efficiency.

Source: https://corporater.com/en/the-chicken-kpi-be-careful-of-what...
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Let me rephrase as per[0], anyone have a source where I can read this?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
> CLOS is often lauded as one of the best object systems. To see it as one of the complaints feels odd.

CLOS is awesome, better than the rest. But there are some weird seems between types and classes. And in places CLOS doesn’t go far enough — e.g. it’d be nice to specialise methods based on element types.
Well according to the people quoted in the article it's a textbook scenario of fed either acts aggressively or recession. That's the take away.

Now the quoted folks might be wrong, or they might be right but sometimes the textbook scenario doesn't play out...
So this guy (let's call him George) goes into his dentist's office, because of pain in his mouth. The dentist takes a look and quickly sees that the plate he installed just six months before is severely corroded, so he asks George about his diet. It turns out George loves eggs Benedict, and eats them for breakfast every morning.

The dentist realizes what's happening now - the lemon juice in George's breakfast is corroding the dental work. The dentist recommends replacing the dental plate with a chrome model, because everyone knows there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.
And why shouldn't more people try to do what Humans of New York does? If that's what he's trying to do, I'm for it. Originality is overrated, and even so, I'd expect someone attempting this to find their own way of doing things.
I'm worried about a self fulfilling prophecy. Keep in mind the yield curve represents how the market prices US treasury bonds at differing maturities. When the LT bond yields drop, it's because everyone is buying them. That could happen for a multitude of exogenous reasons. Then though, everyone sees that the yield curve is flattening, panics because it's a recession predictor, and buys LT bonds, thus lowering LT yields further and creating a cycle.
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> human right of mental comfort

Hahahahahah hahhaha ahhah hah. Lol.

I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. This cultural tendency toward naming everything you prefer as a right is just... It's hilarious to the extent it's not just sad. I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt that it was just hyperbole. In which case, bravo.
A Cloud Native Programming Manifesto
> Given all my friends that worked for them, almost all have quit within 5 years.

You lost me here. I don't know many people who have stayed in a tech company over 5 years. Also, if you're just a SWE at the same place for 5 years (as opposed to moving up the ranks), many people I know would view that as a black mark.
It took me a while to figure out that Pandas is a Python Data Analysis Library [0].

[0] https://pandas.pydata.org/
Again, this is that "laws work like computer code" thinking.

Euros vary in USD value, and take a process to convert to/from USD just like Bitcoin does. Governments are not going to ban banks from treating BTC transactions as cash advances.
The Republicans/Trump started the trade wars and have every reason to say things are fine. And businesses want their customers and employees to think everything is fine.

It's created this weird economy where everyone is stretched thin for the last year.

Ive seen it at 2 companies and hear it from my friends.

But you talk to anyone with right leaning political objectives and it's "nonsense" or "minor correction". They are too disconnected to see it coming.
While I agree that it has a strong HONY feel and that monetizing the project via Instagram or corporate sponsorship cheapens it, I wouldn't call it virtue signaling by any means. He's dedicating 10 or 15 years of his life to the project. I think he would give up pretty quickly if it was all a tool to just say "I'm more woke than you". While he obviously comes from a privileged background, at least he's not just becoming a corporate clone like so many of us, myself included. Props to him for that
Giving things names is one step in convincing people. This is the principle behind recognition.

But I agree with your point - substance over labels!
I'm genuinely curious what field you work in and what problems you work on that IMO level algebra and combinatorics skills are frequently useful (IMO = the olympiad, not my opinion).

In the fields I have experience with, the usually approach when faced when something gnarly involves a lot of "to first order," or "assume X is much greater than Y," or simulation.

I'm somewhat doubtful that your advice is widely applicable if the necessary skills aren't taught in college courses.
The conspiracy theory of "google is doing what they promised to do"? Half the point of recaptcha was classifying images.
No, this is a common misconception.
These things can always be childish when working with a bad interviewer. I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details. Interviewing is an insane process. This is why building networks is more valuable so you're basically being interviewed by people you've already worked with.
I think I sort of get it now.

Moderating spam is easier. Apparently it's hard to tell between "we should kill these people" and "these people are being killed" due to a language barrier sometimes, and it's hard to automate.

But wow. You all think "let's kill these people" somehow has more value than "buy my shit/here is a malware link", nice. downboat away
Thanks for the great comment.
Where I can read more about the impact of each item on variability?
I assume everyone who ever took a manual lens apart has at least one lens with a cine-style aperture ring... that is, without detents.
Probably neither explicitly as a human judgment, but both constructively - some A/B experiments noticed favorable numbers went up by doing the crappy thing, and so it has been decided.

I'm waiting for the day when it pops up "find the humans" and there's someone clearly wearing CV-camouflage. For anyone that doesn't get it: you let that human hide, because it could be you in twenty years.
I'm working my way towards doing that. I've got more than a decade of experience with Scheme and would like to be able to code Scheme in the Julia environment. I also recently started learning Clojure (and implementing Clojure in Scheme, although I'm not sure yet I'll finish that), maybe covering both languages will be feasible. I recently implemented a Scheme interpreter in C++ to access Qt (needs more work, and I'm thinking of moving to generating C++ from annotated Scheme code first), and I implemented some Scheme AST & some optimizer stages (see the corescheme* files at [1]). I wrote pretty much all of the infrastructure for coding these things on top of R5RS myself, so I've got a library I can pull from to build the basic environment (to at least bootstrap it easily).

I recently got unemployed and am looking to get back into contracting (Scheme, Clojure, Haskell), so that I can work part time to have enough time to work on this.

I'm somewhat hoping to modify the Julia compiler/runtime to add first-class continuation support (I have implemented it in the interpreter I wrote in C++, so I do have some experience with that). I'd also like optional TCO, that shouldn't be hard (LLVM supports it, should be just a case of the compiler annotating it correspondingly).

If someone would like to join the effort, please tell me.

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/chj-schemelib
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See https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/65/Pgopencl.pdf

Also from 4 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151632
> The cost of tariffs is always split between suppliers and consumers, roughly in proportion to the elasticity of demand.

The trick is there. It's possible to have China paying for all the tariffs or the other way around. It's probably going to be more complex though: Different products, currency fluctuations and possible rise of other markets.
Let’s assume you believe a recession is coming. What’s your investment strategy to protect yourself?

Two recessions ago (2001-2002) i invested in REITs through the stock market. It worked really well and I doubled, but it turned out I just got lucky with exit timing because they were pump and dump schemes and I got out coincidentally just before the “dump”. I even got a payment from the class action lawsuit against them a few years later.

So, what’s an actual sound strategy if you think a recession is coming?
They wouldn't willingly but they can be forced, the agencies aren't natural phenomena they exist because they're legally allowed to, it just takes a greater political will that isn't isolated to one political party, because from the TLA's POV these programs help them do their jobs and politically it's easier to be seen 'doing something' about threats than it is to say 'some threats are only counterable by fundamentally sacrificing freedoms that shouldn't be sacrificed.' This is partially because the sacrificed freedoms are less tangible and real than the threats, it's hard to quantify the trade-off of living in a surveillance state to most people vs the idea that people could just come in one day and blow up/shoot up a store/concert/festival you happen to be in.
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Feel free to look for contradictory numbers yourself, if you have reason to believe that Chapter 11 outcomes have somehow radically changed in the past years.

What hasn't changed is the fact that Chapter 11 doesn't discharge debt. The prospect of having the creditors repaid at least in part is a prerequisite to Chapter 11.
Bellingcat most certainly watches 8chan:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-p...
Does it? Expo simplifies 90% of dev work, and you only need to eject in very rare occasions.
"Local SWAT engaged in a firefight with an armed extremist group today..."

You seem to be building a lot of assumptions into "the government is tyrannical but don't worry everyone will definitely support me when I start shooting at cops because that's how that works.
True. It's still handy for ordering room service and reporting a maintenance problem, but I never use it for outside calls. Probably because in the past hotels used telephones as a profit center and charged exhorbitant rates for outside calls. No idea if they still do that, but I behave as if they do.
My Constitutional Law professor was big on not just exploring the legal analysis of cases but on making sure we understood the social/historical context at the time decisions were made. He used to tell us fear is the biggest threat to freedom because nothing erodes the constitution as quickly as a public panic. At the time I honestly thought he was being a little dramatic but seeing all of the things we allow the government to do in the name of "fighting terrorism" I realize he had a pretty good point.
Learning from Adversaries
tldr: Author claims reCAPTCHAs will get incrementally harder and force users to do strange things like turn on their webcams or open other devices to confirm their identity. Eventually people will pay Google to bypass the system.

All plausible...
Really like the idea and have been bouncing a similar idea in my head for a while.

I think there's great value in making sure the product is a bit more intuitive to unlock some interesting markets, beyond data science.
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Hmm I don't know. It's been 10 years since I've been hearing that self driving cars are right around the horizon. And we now know we're nowhere close to it.

If this recaptcha helps google, or for that matter, any company, accelerate their self driving capability, I'd fully support it.
The Economist

Yield curves help predict economic growth across the rich world.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/07/27/yield-cu...
I’ve started to accumulate mental models on my personal site. I hate how buzzy the language has gotten, but I do see the value in this accumulation.

One thing that’s missing: how these models connect, and ways of picking the models you need for a given thought experiment. This is a service or app I would gladly pay for, particularly if it provided the ability to add my own models, relate them in a smart way, etc.
This is a good post about something that doesn't get talked about a lot. NDAs and confidentiality agreements should be able to cover the concerns of loss of intellectual property.
I don't know anything about investing, but I keep thinking that if I had extra cash I'd short Google :D

Seriously though, anyone with experience have opinions on this?
The newfound obsession with the yield curve could have interesting effects on the economy.

1. The Fed now pays attention to it, so its indicator value could be dramatically weakened, or erased. (Previous Feds continued to raise rates after an inversion before previous recessions, while this Fed has done the opposite lowered them.)

or...

2. Inversions become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Despite low inflation, low unemployment, and healthy profit growth, markets decline due to the assumption that the yield curve inversion is a perfect forward indicator of recession.
Some famously banned subreddits:

/r/incels

/r/fatpeoplehate

/r/jailbait

/r/pizzagate

/r/beatingwomen

/r/watchpeopledie

/r/thefappening

/r/ni----s

How many of those would you consider right wing?
Author here. Yeah, it was supposed to be "here are my frustrations", not like "Flutter is bad, let's burn it".. but of course, the thing grew up beyond control. 38k view so far.
It's interesting to consider how much we all now simply assume that there will be no financial stimulus. 50 years ago, in similar circumstances, we could simply assume that a spending bill could be passed to offset any risk of recession. Nowadays we assume there is no hope of that. President Kennedy, and President Nixon, and President Carter and President Reagan, all of them pushed for more military spending at certain key moments, not always because they saw the need for more military spending, but because it was an easy way to get some extra stimulus to offset the risk of recession. But there is no way, nowadays, to put together a coalition that will vote for any kind of stimulus, even if that stimulus were given some non-obvious name such as "Modernize the Navy".
I'm guessing you didn't get to do this interactively? If I interviewed someone and they seemed knew something I didn't and could prove it by actually running the query/code I would be impressed. At the very least the interviewer should have checked your claim after the interview if they were skeptical.

I think it's a real mistake when you don't let candidates write actual code and run it during interviews.
> new languages in the town don’t have sponsors. (Like Julia, Nim, Ruby, e.g.)

I thought Julia was coming from MIT research (financed with various research money) and moved now to Julia Computing, Inc.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/why-...

The employees of Julia Computing, Inc. need to be paid somehow... ;-) Looks like they have a good start:

https://juliacomputing.com/about-us