skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually, the world changes and the company makes a few missteps, and then one day, bang!

That's not how bankruptcy works.

Kodak, Sears, K-Mart have proven that it (typically) takes years, maybe even decades, for a dying company to go bankrupt.

> The company is bankrupt and your share is worthless.

That's also not how bankruptcy works. Your factory equipment will be sold to the highest bidder, and your shareholders will be given the money that was left-over (after bondholders and suppliers are paid).

> Without dividends, the stock market is a zero-sum game.

Also a false assertion. The stock's price is most commonly tied to the equipment, land, and other resources a company holds.

If the equipment, land, and resources "suddenly" become worthless, then yes, the company is worthless. But in practice, land, equipment, and resources have real value. And that real value, is often above-and-beyond the cash value of those resources.

Tesla paid $5 Billion for the Gigafactory 1. I think it was a bad purchase, but the shareholders own the Gigafactory. I would never buy Tesla shares, because I think Tesla overpaid for their equipment, the land, and the workers at that site.

Tesla was ONLY able to buy the Gigafactory 1 because a pool of investors brought together $2+ Billion in 2014 (a secondary offering). The bond market handled the rest of the debts needed to build the factory.

As long as the Gigafactory 1 makes more than $5 billion over time, then Tesla will be a good buy for its shareholders and its managers.

(Unfortunately, Gigafactory 1 was a bad buy for Tesla and Panasonic. But that's another topic....). Most importantly, Tesla shareholders own a stake in that factory (and every other piece of Tesla). If it weren't for Wall Street organizing things, the Gigafactory 1 would never exist.

That's the power of the market: to conjure up $5 Billion out of nothing but the hopes-and-dreams of millions of investors, to hopefully make a factory that will hopefully make enough cars to be profitable.

And guess what? If Tesla goes bankrupt, those investors are happy that Tesla tried. So the market is very far away from a "Zero Sum" game. Go and ask any Tesla investor if you don't believe me. The vast majority are bought into this "changing the world" story, and are willing to lose money over it.
> The driver api is very close to the opencl api and is very low level.

They are only realistically comparable from OpenCL 2.0 onwards. But no NVIDIA card supports anything beyond 1.2, and with that decision they basically killed OpenCL.
When a narwhal mom and a beluga dad love each other much
Is that what you honestly think happened?
Read something other than marketing materials for PR purposes.

The CEO of Siemens at the time was Klaus Kleinfeld. The bribery scandals were so bad in 2007 that he was forced out, and forced to settle with Siemens, 2 millions euros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Bribery_invest...

Now, ostensibly, these were scandals about Siemens bribing other countries. Do you think people at Siemens, with such high moral integrity, managed to pocket some bribes themselves?

Perhaps in exchange for handing over valuable IP? What's a signature or two between friends.
I suppose a z-wave lock could pass muster, but that’s one area that I don’t really want to automate anyway. An unconnected electronic lock meets my needs and is no more vulnerable to hacking than a physical lock.
In Julia, the math part is mostly functional. Structs/Data are immutable by default (which cover most basic numeric types) and while arrays are mutable it's very common to write operations in the form of broadcasting (vectorized math) which will not mutate (and you have all higher order functions). In general most languages are this way to some extent (I don't know languages with mutable base numbers or math operators, outside of stuff like +=).

But mutability is also a great tool to have, for example for efficient dataframe handling and neural network weights.
Tangentially related tip:

Inside most modern car keyfobs there is an "emergency" physical key...or should be (recently saw one where the space was empty as the dealer had failed to include it) It's not marked or obvious from the outside of most I have seen and some prying in some innocuous looking seam will be needed. One of those things that seems obvious once you know it but may not have run across.
Now that is some George Carlin level word play. If you haven´t watch this routing, you owe it to yourself to watch it.

https://youtu.be/HEeDRUZIDq8
It really won't take that long to freshen up your your white board skills so that [pass that next round of whiteboard hazing]

Actually it does (and that's part of the whole point of the massive burnout crisis caused by these tests). By and large -- they've become so distorted (either by intentionally asking candidates to solve ridiculously hard problems; or by having these goals set, or simply having the tasks so carelessly so as to achieve the same effect) that they've basically lost any grounding in reality.

The only way to soften the blow (that is, to significantly reduce the chance of immediate rejection) is to cram -- that is, to in effect make it your part-time job (for a little while) specifically "practicing for" (that is, memorizing the expected outcomes of) these tests.

Which of course defeats the entire purpose of the "test". As one would think these companies would be smart enough to know.

Yes I know many people are ready to say, "But when Iinterview I just do this simple FizzBuzz-oid thing I came up with that anyone who claims to have a CS degree should be ale to solve." What I mean is -- the last time I had to go through this ritual -- about 50 percent of the time these tests (or simply the environment in which they were conducted) were seriously off-base in one form or another.

And in more than a few cases I wish I could forget, ridiculously so.
I'd like to think I never went too far with it, and I certainly was never violent or anything, but I got pretty big into the anti-feminist, #GamerGate, and "fight the SJW snowflakes!" crap from the years of ~2013-2016; basically the TLDR for that ending was when Donald Trump was elected I realized I was wrong to hold a lot of these viewpoints, and now it is not a chapter of my life that I am proud of.

I don't think I'm an idiot, and I would like to think that I'm normally a pretty decent human, and yet I was still able to be persuaded by morons on Youtube like Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t, and I spread the stupid memes along with most of my friends; I can easily see the alternate universe where I didn't realize I was wrong, and went further down the rabbit hole watching idiots like Stefan Molyneux or something.

I think people like to pretend that they and everyone they care about are immune to propaganda.
By equating "milkshake throwing" with the violence of the alt-right (using guns to murder tens/hundreds of innocent civilians) you portray both sides as equal when one side has clearly done something that is much more morally reprehensible.

This form of "enlightened centrism" is insidious because while it claims to be "neutral" and "unbiased", in reality, it artificially gives a moral advantage to one side (in this case the alt-right). It also ignores that sometimes sacrifices are necessary for the greater good.

Do you disagree with either of the following two points?

1. Even if milkshake throwing is bad, it is objectively less bad than shooting innocent civilians.

2. The "political violence" committed by the left is much smaller compared to the political violence committed by the right.
With all due respect, discussions about legal matters should never be trivialized or considered "tedious".
Who cares about throughput? I think very low latency and jitter is much more important. After 100MBit/s the improvements aren't that impressive anymore, you're almost always bottlenecked by the server and not your home connection.

MBit/s is largely a useless measure for connection quality. I'll happily take a 10MBit/s connection with 1ms ping to Google over a 500Mbit/s connection with 400ms ping to Google.
This is why we need government fines that are always greater than the benefits received from the violations
Is that a Lisp thing?
A couple people throwing milkshakes at intolerant political extremists in Portland...

How about Antifa putting the journalist Andy Ngo in the hospital? Or the professor who hit a guy in the head with a bike lock?

a weak resistance movement that hasn't even killed a single person yet.

Congressman Steve Scalise couldn't be reached for comment.
> I mean, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to mess up that badly.

You underestimate the depths of depravity of these discussion boards. 8chan is (probably) already strongly monitored due to the proliferation of child porn throughout the site.

Its not that they've messed up recently. They've messed up repeatedly and consistently over the past years. Child porn, hate speech, the works. Its all there. FBI knows this, but they are only allowed to move in when the laws provide them the opportunity to move. They can't shut down the site, they can only monitor these anonymous posters (who are probably safe behind many layers of proxies) and maybe try to figure out the troll vs the serious ones.

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As I stated before: the laws have to change before the status quo changes. Its that simple. No one will support the FBI raiding private websites on free-speech grounds however, outside of specially select circumstances like child porn.

I mean, do you want to talk to white supremacists? Just go to Stormfront or Daily Stormer. Yeah, FBI probably actively monitors them too. There's an entire dark-net out there that the mainstream stays away from.

Or what, do you really expect the dark-net to just disappear because of one or two incidents? Daily Stormer was banned from Cloudflare a long time ago, they just found new hosts and carried on business as usual.

I'm glad Cloudflare is doing what they can to stop this filth. But Cloudflare is just a small part of the internet, and a real legal solution needs to be created if we really want to fight them. This is a bigger problem than Cloudflare can handle.
Yes they could but this will just destroy Swiss economy and likely create out of control inflation.

Doing this is always a risky policy. SNB has told many time that they will use unlimited means to keep the value of the Swiss francs however in 2015 they had to give up on the promise to keep a 1/1.2 EUR/CHF exchange rate.

What history told us is that even hedge fund (like Soros in 1992) can bring a central bank to its knees.
It is funny. This exactly the argument put forth with 2nd amendment. No one needs all them weapons of wohr.
> I Am Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research & Creator of the Wolfram Language, Mathematica & Wolfram|Alpha

> Looking forward to being here at 8:30 pm ET Monday to talk about my recent essay: "Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure".

https://everythingasked.com/interviews/i-am-stephen-wolfram-...
There are things that you can say which will make your entire village shun you. True. Always has been. Probably always will be. Our world is now a village. It is a new thing to deal with. So far not many have adjusted well. People who fail to appreciate why their fellow citizens find a website cheering on the murder of groups of outsiders to be shun-worthy, their understanding of humans is woefully incomplete.
You are arguing that we should shut the internet down.

To paraphrase GP: everything on the web is one click away.
How can organizations deal with the problem of too much trust, e.g. freeloaders (lazy workers who get little done) or even those who actually abuse trust (e.g. spend too much money on their own needs, or undermine coworkers, or take credit for their work, or lying about their skills during hiring process, or secretly work for competitors, or otherwise damage the company)?

Ideal is "trust but verify" which sounds good but (1) it's hard to verify (except in annoying and ineffective ways like "face time"), and (2) signaling you don't trust your employees can make people more likely to abuse your trust ("the company thinks we're spending money on ourselves anyways, might as well spend it, we're already guilty"). I think trust issues are one big factor in why nepotism (and other "hiring by connection") remains so popular.
This is a common issue. You don’t have to go low level; you can build anything, including web apps.
> Al-Hussainy expects investors to turn to even more aggressive positioning for rate cuts. He says the signal from the curve suggests money markets should be pricing in a higher probability of the Fed’s policy rate going to zero in the coming year.

Not just zero, but beyond.

The yield out to 30 years on German bonds recently fell below zero. Several other advanced industrial countries are in a similar negative-yielding boat. These are economies that are technically not even in recession.

The amount of negative yielding debt now exceeds $13 trillion:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/value-of-debt-with-negativ...

That's not a negative real rate (rate - inflation) which is not uncommon, it's an absolute (nominal) interest rate.

No country wants to be left with the currency that appreciates. All countries will pull out the stops to find a way to devalue.

The only thing industrialized countries fear more than an appreciating currency is deflation. The first whiff of that monster and the big guns come out and never stop firing.

At this point it's not unreasonable to expect the following possibilities (in order of first appearance):

0. zero short term rates to follow much quicker than consensus

1. shock-and-awe QE (first implemented, but in a way that will look quaint by comparison, in 2008-2009 crisis)

2. direct purchase of stocks by the Fed and the ECB (Bank of Japan has been doing this for a long time)

3. debt forgiveness for college loans (regardless of the party in power)

4. debt forgiveness for mortgages (discussed in 2008-2009 but never tried)

5. credit card debt forgiveness (because why not, every other debt is being forgiven)

Oddly enough, the later phases start to look like the systemic debt repudiation brought about through the "jubilee year":

> Ancient Near Eastern societies regularly declared noncommercial debts void, typically at the coronation of a new king or at the king’s order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
That's not a particularly good example. When you enter into commerce you step out of the personal space freedom of thought. And you do so in ways that may seem arbitrary. That arbitrariness is accepted as the price of entry. At least by most people with realistic expectations.
It takes 60 seconds to find, download, and install tor. For people that's even less inclined, there are many tor2web gateways.
These are YC style biotech startups which I don't think have played out yet. The traditional approach raises a few million to get to phase 1 and then usually gets bought if the data looks promising. Many of these have pharma partnerships and/or investment. Sometimes they IPO earlier to get some outside capital. What's good about that is that the public can get in on it sooner. The bio side is very much driven by academia and spin offs.
> Free speech isn't currently threatened here; providers are just exercising their freedom of association.

This is an empty argument. Literally it can be transposed as saying that not employing people of a certain race is just freedom of association.

I do not dispute your point, it is just that this specific claim is meaningless.
It also seems unlikely that even a multi-million dollar birth with complications would bankrupt the plan of a "big aerospace company", except for fairly small values of big.
Well, say you're cruising around the fringes of the web one day and you stumble on a forum where people are plotting to kill you. You, personally. What do you do?
This is me. I've used so many different programming languages over the years that for the first week of any new project, I am definitely an error message programmer. It goes something like this on day#1

Okay, I need to iterate through a collection. Which is it again?

foreach (int element in elements), no that's C#.

for (int element : elements) .. nope that's java

for (var element in elements) .. There we go.

Probably wouldn't exactly go like this, I know js isn't typed when I sit down to write it. (except for when it is!) ;)

Regardless, I call this my "tooling up" period. Each day i'm faster, and it takes about a week to get to 100%. but then I'm golden until the project is done and I inevitably have to switch techs again. I probably need to flex more than specialists in interviews because of this. Whenever pseudo code is on the menu I breath a sigh of relief.
>Several of these extremist sites even forbid and censor attempts at calm, level-headed rebuttals to such hatred

I'm gonna need something citations on being "forbid" or "censor' when posting on these sites. Plenty of people get rebuttaled and turn opinion in threads all the time.
Visualizing Data with Pairs Plots in Python
the names are a shortcut so you don't have to spell out the steps of the argument every time. that's just language, words are shortcuts for things and ideas.

sometimes the application of the fallacy may not be obvious, requiring the convincing you ask for, and sometimes it's so obvious, no further explanation is needed. maybe just ask for clarification when it's not clear to you?
The same rule applies to smart locks as applies to dumb locks: A lock does no more than keep an honest man, honest.

Any monkey can buy lock picks and pick a door lock. It's not hard. Generally if you buy a decent rake, it'll open most locks quickly. It's arguably much more work to hack the _smart_ side of a lock than it is to just pick the _dumb_ part.

The caveat here is that smart locks are often "picked" en masse - once you break one in a lab, you can immediately and silently do the same to the rest globally. This is similar to software hacking.

The guidance here should be to only purchase smart locks from vendors that you can trust to patch zero-days quickly. How you qualify a vendor as such is a mystery - I don't know that there's been enough zero days on smart locks to verify.
There are rules that would prevent that (they can only do things within their means, 1 month time limit).

What could work is an investment in such technologies, public announcements and then disappearing, maybe falling off a yacht or such a thing.
I 100% think cloudflare, google, facebook, or whomever should shut down 8chan.

I 100% don't think the US government should.

I don't know why everyone is conflating these two very different scenarios.
> Not true

What's not true? You just agreed with my statement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The hard part about rocket science is fluid Dynamics, and it's only hard to land.

But my God do the engineering equations for fluid Dynamics are nuts when you have an open, changing, turbulent system.
In the show this was limited to things that were both possible and that the target might realistically be able to do.
I went to an interview where there were no spare computers, so I was asked to write out a blackjack game in Java with pencil and paper. That was a lot worse than any of the whiteboard ones I've had.
> Similarly fiscal conservatism has an actual definition...

A vague one, making it easy to play the Scotsman game with.
> but you have a valuable point here

Thank you. I appreciate the acknowledgement.

> That being said, this was not a case of a provocateur. The author went on a murder spree.

People don't just randomly go on murder sprees. I mentioned "cultivate" as somebody can be groomed or espouse a certain form of ethics & ideology that creates this behavior. This can be done with psychological manipulation, propaganda, etc. These manipulated (e.g. "brain-washed") individuals are far more effective at creating panic & division than recruited agent provocateurs, as it apparently places the blame at whatever group of people hold any philosophical position (reasonable or unreasonable) similar to the murderer.

While the manifesto mentioned politics, there have been people from different political persuasions that have committed acts of carnage including Dayton, OH or knife/truck attacks in the UK.

There's something(s) underlying this & it's more complicated, profound, philosophical, psychological, & (dare I say) spiritual than being "far-right" or "far-left" or "jihadist" or any hasty label that oversimplifies what is occurring.
That's true but 2nd order effect. The global illumination folks 20 years ago were still ahead of todays AAA titles in terms of "depths" in the above context. And the big bang-for-buck on the modern visuals is more modeling and model complexity, art budget. Sure there are a bunch of engineers working around hardware limitations etc, and there are some clever things being developed, but that's not where the the big shift lies, imo.
Human Alarm Clocks
This claim to logic or scientific reasoning in the face of not tolerating intolerance seems flawed and, to me, does not serve as a meaningful replacement for the subject of morality:

Imagine you have a child, who is not yours, screaming in your ear at the nearby supermarket. You do not tolerate it. You are intolerant of it.

At face value, with the paradox of tolerance in the form of "society must be intolerant of intolerance," you would need to hold to the position that society should not be tolerant of your intolerance to children screaming in your ear.

You'd need to accept that it's acceptable for children to scream in your ear.
they are on a forum, I would say that is a base enough.
Not really. For maximum compatibility with the regular git log --graph, I just transform the output from git itself :)

Maybe I will try to do something like that to speed it up in the future. Who knows? :)
Scrolling through it quickly makes me feel like like I loaded a webpage that hasn't loaded images properly and show a little X icon instead.
Sadly we are all manipulable. Tho being aware of that fact makes you a lot more resilient to manipulation and more likely to end up with a life you would have chosen. So kudos.
I'm a big fan of electronic locks, but I refuse to have a smart lock. I know enough about IOT and security to know that a lock with a wifi chip might as well not be there at all.

I just program a few extra codes into the lock ahead of time, and if I need to let someone in in an emergency, I just give them one of my burner codes and delete it when I get home.

I don't really need a log of every entry because the camera pointed at my door already gives me one of those. :)
Sounds like someone needs to start an Ada on LLVM project! Maybe US DoD, automakers, medical device manufacturers, etc. would even provide support/funding.
> Just to clarify because my link 0 "guns per capita" was a bit misleading. It's actually per 1,000 people, not 1. Link to more original source [0].

Ahhh, registered guns per 1000 people. That makes a bit more sense, but is still probably not all that useful, as the vast majority of guns in the US are unregistered. AFAICT this is just counting NFA-registered weapons, such as fully automatic guns, destructive devices, short-barreled rifles, suppressors, etc.

> In any case, having half the mass shootings as another state is still a number greater than zero, which remains the ultimate goal.

Ah, but it does provide a hint that the number of guns might not be the primary determining factor.

> Texas might have, historically, a better gun culture?

My guess would also involve "Texas's gun culture hasn't been killed off by state laws", as in California.