skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whole Foods employees demand Amazon break all ties with ICE and Palantir
Great idea, I like how quickly basic questions like 'javascript combine array' gives me instant code snippets that tell me I was looking for the .concat opertor.

I wonder if there is a way to have a confidence in the answers and to redirect you to the good old fashioned Google if there doesn't appear to be relevant info. I also understand this is among the most challenging problems facing Computer Science today.
>The Fed would probably welcome inflation right now.

I feel like this while correct will look funny in the context of history. I believe inflation will explode in the next 5 years with near zero interest rates and the fed printing money for all the programs we hear about during the recent debates.
HDDais is trademarked. https://trademarks.justia.com/877/27/hddais-87727674.html

You can't sell on that listing legally, unless the goods were authorized by the brand owner.

Wholesale would be buying directly from the brand owner, in this case which would be "Shenzhen Lichen Trade Co.,Ltd.".

I don't know if they'd even sell you but if they did they'd definitely charge more than that.
I don't entirely disagree, but my main gripe is that the former definition is extremely useful so it is unfortunate to have it subsumed by the concept of "shy" (for which we already have a widely-understood word), since it then becomes difficult to communicate and reason about the former. Maybe the solution is that we need yet another word to use for the former meaning, although I wonder how long will it take until such a word would yet again become co-opted to mean "shy"...
A fixed ratio like rebalancing? That’s not really timing the market as you typically rebalance after a set period regardless of how the market has moved.
One of the newest Lisp dialects, Kernel, is pretty close to lambda calculus, though. Like in LC, there is no implicit evaluation of arguments. A fexpr receives the "source code" of its input expressions, similar to LC. Then it can explicitly evaluate those it cares about.

https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
"much more interesting" ?

I much prefer watching the performance, myself. If you can read music, the Gerubach videos aren't adding much over just looking at a score while hearing a recording.
DEF Con CTF 2019 Scoreboard
The great depression was after one of those wars. I think you can make a case that the global economic and social excesses of the 1920s led to a hard crash, the rise of aggressive ideological movements, and, eventually, the second world war. The first world war was something else entirely, the last gasp of the old "Concert of Europe" balance of power stuff. After the first world war, the world was a completely different place and different rules applied.
Less. Small businesses die like flies in a recession
I can only understand [3] based on what the author wrote. But it certainly seemed like it really was the case that generally limiting the number of items to 10 was fine. And, based on their subsequent observations, there was no practically realizable situation that would result in more than 10 items, let alone 100.

Lots of terms – really, every term – is fuzzy at some resolution and thus all understanding is inevitably fuzzy too.

Empirically, you seem to be almost entirely wrong about people not understanding the consequences of their choices. It's absolutely true that sometimes people are wrong about the consequences, but that's true even with financial debt – maybe the interest payments on some debt that should have reasonable end up being the straw that broke the financial back of the organization.

> Bad design choices cost you over and over again.

In the sense in which you seem to mean this, this is a ridiculous statement because every design that's not perfect, and none is, must then be a "bad design choice". That's just not true in any reasonable interpretation.

It's also unclear why invoking 'tech debt' precludes a clear analysis or articulation of the relevant situation. And regardless of whether anything is quantified, it's also inevitably 'fuzzy' too. Why would quantification itself be good?

Take the first example from the article – implementing a 'bad' version of the component to actually send emails. They did this, consciously, because they wanted to test the editor component first, before implementing the more robust email-sender version. And they did supposedly quantify a lot of that 'technical debt' – they estimated how much time they'd need to implement the initial throwaway code and how much time doing that would save in terms of them being able to more quickly test the editor. And they seemed to have a very clear idea about what exactly was wrong with the initial version and thus an approximate idea of the costs of not eventually replacing it with a better one later.

> Write a paper then and show me the money, so to speak. Quantify this. Because the only "great benefit" I've seen of the term "Tech Debt" is to the ego of the individual or team that invokes the fuzzy term.

The blog post for this very thread is a good example of the great benefits of thinking in terms of technical debt! You should write a version of the same blog post, using all of the same examples, and clearly indicate why using 'technical debt' is pernicious and furthermore how exactly you'd have dealt with all of the same issues and considerations mentioned.
> Nowadays it's a different kettle of fish. The tooling is insane. The dependency tree is insane.

That sounds like a self inflicted problem. Is there any problem that the javascript-driven approach to frontends actually solves that justifies the added complexity?
I wonder how the investors will model Matteo Salvini’s actions once he grabs full power in Italy. Afaik he had proposed a practically speaking parallel currency to the Euro a couple of months ago, which if it were to become true would practically kill the European currency. Italy is also too big to fail for the UE and they have one of the largest debs in the developed world (compared to GDP), not exactly the same as Japan’s but pretty consistent nonetheless.
It's not actually permanent. Your bank almost certainly has the right to change it daily, and once their asset acquisition goals are met, they probably will.
what is it about collective action that triggers contempt so quickly and automatically for those attempting to organize? many comments in this thread show contempt for the organizers in a way that is readily visible.
Euclid. He tried to prove theorems of basic plane geometry (hence "euclidean geometry). Since we all have an intuitive understanding of (at least the basics of) plane geometry you can look at the work and not have to also learn the domain.

People recommending the classics can come off as pretentious so I will add that I am serious: a modern book of Euclid's methods should be quite accessible.

As a followon bonus: Minsky's and Papert's 1967 book "Perceptrons" (the one that said you can't do XOR with a single-layer network, though you can with a multilayer one) that lead to 25 years of lack of interest in neural networks is entirely about using neural networks on Euclid. So you can go from one to the other!
Dirichlet Domains
Mandatory government access to all communications (including saved encrypted communications) is not compatible with systems where the government or control of the government changes.

The thing that I don't really see discussed in this is the question of who do you trust to have the keys?

Personally I can't imagine entrusting decryption keys to anyone appointed by or simply hired by the Trump Administration given its history of choosing people for sensitive positions. I guarantee that there are a ton of people who think that Hillary should be locked up that would feel exactly the same way about security keys under the control of any Democratic Administration. What's more, unless the policy becomes that all communication must go to the United States government to then be retransmitted onto a final destination then security keys would be vulnerable to disclosure by anyone from a former Administration who had access to them, and it only takes a limited number of compromised or dishonest individuals to compromise the entire system.

Don't discuss whether people are comfortable with the FBI or Department of Justice or William Barr having the authority to get to all of their Communications. Discuss whether they'd be fine with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Eric Holder or whoever ends up being the Democratic nominee having that access.

Edit: moved last paragraph to first.
AI Researchers Launch SuperGLUE: A Rigorous Benchmark for Language Understanding
That seems likely. But then, I would think LISP does realize the lambda calculus in some sense. It naturally lends itself to this sort of exercise and it's really successful.
Wow, well good on you that sounds really good. Have a link you can share?
A new version of ishkur's guide is coming soon, https://twitter.com/ishkur23

I've looked at every noise at once, but to be honest it seems terrible to me. Quantity over quality, some of the samples they chose, even for genres that aren't really obscure, are wildly off-base.
Interesting parallel with stories out there where authors think teachers get their writings “wrong”.

Unintended metaphor and application are things.

Smacks of a cognitive bias known as functional fixedness: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness

A screwdriver can also be a pry bar :-)

Imo this is why looser IP laws are important. Humanity needs to be able to rethink and find new application of its epistemological ideas to find new ideas of interest.

Too often we’re held to thinking about IP only the way the author intended. It’s almost pushing into thought policing.
To the article's credit, I was able to back its simplifications into a reasonable understanding of the underlying problem. I think the author does genuinely understand the underlying mathematics of at least the problem statement, because when they don't the attempt to simplify for a high-school-level audience usually renders the results total gibberish, as we've seen many times on HN.
This would be rare and it would only affect the pilot if the laser was tracking the plane as it flew overhead.
That's fantastic. I have Generation 64, but didn't know there was one about the Amiga. Thanks for mentioning it.
Then don't? Prove them wrong!
If it was biological in nature, then we wouldn't know. That's a thought that can keep me up at night. Imagine an entire civilization based on wood?
How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure
With big box cars, you can at least set up large concrete barricades to mitigate these on crowds.

With flying cars, you'd never be able to guarantee the safety of any outdoors event (and in either case, it doesn't have to be the result of terrorism, a drunk driver or a midair collision can still cause these problems)
I suggest you to watch this video if you want to understand how 3 basic functions can be used to create whole language https://youtu.be/3VQ382QG-y4
You'll always sound smart if you remember that "maths" is plural and one of them is "the calculus".
Robot First to 'MacGyver' Simple Tools by Assessing Objects' Form, Function
very cool, I like their design principles!
As Japan frets about dearth of AI talent, Daikin develops own program – Reuters
A better term for a successful company long past the startup stage but not having exited via liquidity event is "privately held".

In a privately held company, the investors can manage it as they see fit. They can take profits if they like, or sell their stakes, just not on public markets.
Oh sure, I work in publishing and that sort of thing goes on. In the old days of mass-market distribution, the guy on the truck would be the one putting books in the racks, and taking back the returns (or the ripped covers). Returns have been a thing for decades. A system of coop payments decides who gets good placement in the store. But in the end, the retailer is paying the vendor for goods sold.
What's your role?
I think you just proved the OP's point. It was nowhere near 20% of your business, so you could walk away.
A New Way to Fight Crop Diseases, with a Smartphone
While they will survive, there's a ton more people in the rest of tech, and if they don't have jobs and are desperate that's going to change the lives of Google employees.
Yes, if only the Democrats had not gone full Authoritarian Left and jumped off the Socialism cliff maybe there would be a viable 2nd party...
The Second Machine Age Hits the Tipping Point
What present-day wrongs exist as a result of slavery and what actions would you suggest to fix them?
Israel to set up computational biology lab at cost of USD 9.18 M
I find this to be a nice mix of the two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGMhDSSGFU
Google Maps for Tissues
Ask HN: What's the latest hot-topic about Speech Recognition?
Is it ? Or just have differing stance and opinion ?
There is probably a demographic of YouTube viewers who skew towards watching fresh content from their favorite content creators. YouTube would probably see reduced engagement from them due to a strike. I'm not sure what percent of total views they account for though.
Reader beware:

Ranked as "Extreme Right Bias" and has a "MIXED" record for fact checking articles. [1]

>A factual search reveals that LifeSiteNews has failed a few fact checks by IFCN fact checkers here and here.

>Target is donating $100,000 to “promote gay lifestyles to school children.” – MOSTLY FALSE

>Parents in California are not allowed to pull their children out of sexual education classes. – MOSTLY FALSE

>The proceeds of Girl Scout Cookies are used to support Planned Parenthood. – FALSE

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/life-site-news/
Waiting-Room Anxiety Eased with Apps That Give Updates
Ask HN: What web task have you automated?
Thanks, I'll see if I can try some in person
both fair points but I'd like to know if he mentioned why on earth did he pick lambda. lambda expressions/closures turned out to be a very peculiar and important path.
> The idea began with two friends reading together at a bar in San Francisco, annoyed by the assigned reading of a demanding book club.
Because everything was invented in San Francisco in the last 20 years.
This is a very biased source:

>The Campaign Life Coalition (sometimes shortened to Campaign Life) is a Canadian political lobbyist organization founded in 1978. Based in Toronto, the organization advocates for socially conservative values.[1] In addition to its initial goals of opposing abortion and euthanasia, Campaign Life Coalition advocates for what it describes as traditional family values, including opposition to same-sex marriage, sex education, homosexuality, fornication, and the use of contraceptive methods.[2][3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition
Show HN: SMHI Weather Alert for Hass
Improving Azure Virtual Machines Resiliency with Project Tardigrade
They are simple because they are close to intuition one has already. Mathematical intuition is not something one is born with, it takes time and effort to develop.
You can't learn piano this way past the most beginner level stuff. Sight reading actual sheet music is MUCH easier because of how close the notes appear on this visualization, you won't be able to tell what's what from far away. Also, pieces like this are much easier to just memorize before actually bringing them up to speed, and then you won't need to look at what the notes are anyway since you're just relying on muscle memory.
Maths is the common spelling and pronunciation in standard British English, though.
Naive: 9 + 7 bits (admittedly, a bit of stretch)

Non-naive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey_sequence

If I'm correct with Fn, to represent all fractions with denominator 113 or less it requires 12 bits, this leaves 4 bits for the whole number part.
$YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE almost certainly has a rational library for it. Give it a try and use it for some serious mathematical purpose; nothing will show you why we don't do that all the time like trying it.

I invite you to ignore any syntactic issues that may arise, like perhaps having to use x.Add(y) instead of x + y. If those were the fundamental problems, the solution would be trivial. That's not the fundamental problem with rational numbers being the pervasive default; the problem is that for your increased precision, you pay for algorithms that you are used to being O(1) in space and time, albeit with potentially imprecise results, suddenly taking on seemingly-random values for both, with disturbing amounts of things like "O((log2 denominator + log2 numerator)^2)" showing up and then stacking on top of each other (^4, ^6, ^8, etc.).
You were asking a totally reasonable question and I gave a needlessly curt & unhelpful response. Especially considering I heard "yield inversion" and its variations literally like an hour before I commented.

Sorry.
Lisp is a very simple thing that allows you to make very complicated stuff. You can write your own interpreter and then write a program to solve your problem with reasonable effort.

If that bothers you, it could be worse: we could be addicted to FORTH! :D
Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301 [video]
Ups hub expension at Memphis airport
I'm in the "worse than 2008" camp, mostly due to the reasons the OP gives. Another consideration is that our current expansion has been a very long one, and the longer an expansion goes on, the more fraudulent cruft accumulates, the cruft beings things like assets not marked to actual market value, money-losing businesses subsidized in various ways, and sometimes outright Madoff-like fraud. This cruft appears financially viable from the outside but collapses when stressed, and nobody really knows how much of it is out there.
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At some point, whatever Project Veritas was no longer seems to be what they are now, which is a place to get inside information about Google. Let that sink in for a minute. Multiple insiders at Google, willing to lose their jobs, are telling us something.
However, the collapse of unprofitable unicorns will propagate across tech. Reduced investments in start-ups and tech companies with risky ventures translates to increased labor supply, which means downward pressure on compensation across the industry (even at the healthy big-5 tech).

Housing prices near tech hubs will also pop. Here in Seattle, housing prices are propped up by tech-couple mortgages with high stock-based compensation - which will suffer even at companies with healthy fundamentals. SFO housing is further inflated by IPO speculation.
Piggy backing off of this followup, bond prices move inversely with yields. Ceteris paribus, a -0.5% yielding bond commands a higher price than a -0.1% yielding bond. Bonds are quoted in yields but traded on a dollar price (typically as a percentage of par) hence the capital gain I implied above being realized with the higher price should yields/rates fall further.
It seems like one of the key characteristics in a crash is a domino effect. Whereby companies' financials that previously looked solid are suddenly cast as untenable in a new economic light. Usually because of an underappreciated correlation with a substantially removed market.

E.g. most recently, banks and leveraged junk mortgages

As you noted though, the biggest tech companies today aren't really externally dependent. They generate substantial cash flow, have relatively modest debt loads (better than heavier industry!), and don't have easy substitutes.

The strongest case I could make for a tech crash: retail activity substantially slows and/or freezes (Apple & Amazon), advertising follows suit as advertising budgets plummet (Google & Facebook)

But it's hard to see that happening with any rapidity in the US with unemployment where it is.

(I can't see a strategic corporate debt crisis as long as the Fed keeps rates low?)
I share your thoughts on this. :)
If anyone has done a comparison of the size of profitless companies in the (tech) market, today and before the dot-com crash, that would be incredibly valuable.

My gut feeling is that they constituted a larger portion of the market back then, but I've never seen a direct comparison.
Slavery is America's original sin

Although providing a great line for The West Wing, I would say America's treatment of the indigenous people is America's original sin.
Google Document Dump
Krugman has looked like an arrogant idiot at times. There's a video of him talking about cryptocurrencies. I've no problem with people thinking crypto is silly, but he was spouting opinions while clearly not having any idea what a cryptocurrency was.
Bunch of interesting stuff being done to turn plastic into diesel: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sustane-technolog...
Trade is one area where the president can act independently and assertively regardless of any 'deep state' (if such a thing even exists). So this trade war was initiated by Trump and his inner circle of advisors. The trade war is not the only thing impacting the yield curve inversion, but it is a real factor.
> Come on this guy is the president of the US people need to stop calling him ignorant and dumb just because they don't like aspects of his persona (racist/greedy/cunning/divisive).

I don't consider him ignorant and dumb because I don't like aspects of his persona. I consider him ignorant and dumb because every time he opens his mouth or types something on twitter - what comes out is generally ignorant and dumb, assuming it is composed of actual words.

Misspellings are one thing - if that were the extent of things, I could probably just chuckle, even if I vehemently disagreed otherwise. It's more than that. It's often a stumbling incoherency to the messages, almost as if he's speaking in some form of "stream of consciousness" - just saying whatever is coming to his mind - and it is composed of very simplistic words and phrasing, at best.

Worse - he's been shown to literally lie within a single sentence or paragraph (most of the time, it takes him hours or days to go from one "truth" to something 180 degrees opposite). He either doesn't know he does it (bad enough), or he has two independent personalities warring inside his mind (worse), or he knows and just doesn't give a f--k (worst, imho) - for all we know, it could be the trifecta.

None of this points to him being a leader of or for anyone or anything, let alone somebody who should have his person anywhere near our nuclear arsenal.

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Something else that is interesting - and I know its completely anecdotal and probably not really true.

But - it has often been noted that being POTUS tends (or seems to) age a person. They go in looking spry and hale, and exit - well, chastened, and visibly older. Even after only a single term.

Should Trump make it through his term (possible) - and/or should he get another term (I atheist pray not - but who really knows?) - note how he looks afterwards. Right now, he doesn't really look any different than when he started. Maybe that's bias on my part, but I really don't think being POTUS has changed him in the "usual manner" that we have seen of past POTUS's.

This itself should be a concern, if there is any truth to the concept. It either means he's not actually doing the incredibly hard and difficult work of being POTUS, or the usual stress of being POTUS - all the concerns for the welfare of the citizens and the country, and more - do not and have not meant anything to him; ie - he doesn't care, and that hasn't translated to stress that would affect bodily changes. Or - he's a sociopath who revels in the issues, and wants more. Any of these possibilities should be worrisome to the electorate.
Egg Boiling Machine (Automatic Egg Peeling)
If this signal is watched more often now, it might be that it's predictive power is decreased. A metric you act on ceases to be a good metric.
> it would be a trade war the US would lose

well, not just the US.
China also loses, the whole world economy basically goes down too.
I mean, anti air artillery. Lots of fiery death explosions and collateral damage. But we'll live in a world where the Gulf War air raids are the norm.