skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What operation takes O((log2 denominator + log2 numerator)^2) for fixed-length fractions? Basic arithmetic operations are constant time. Rounding is too mathematically well-understood and should have efficient implementation.

All the rest you say applies to floating point alike, plus with fractions is much easier to test whether the result is accurate or not.
You know, a lot of the amazing parts of the internet that people reminisce about are still there. The things that _have_ disappeared are often not technically complex or expensive to reproduce. Defeatism is boring, start building things and telling your friends about them.
> Ebay? The flea market of the internet?

You disregard ebay but ebay actually has economic alignment with its sellers. The buyer experience isn't as good as Amazon's, but the seller experience is better in that you can control your destiny more.

But this apparently makes it a flea market?

There's going to be a tradeoff between curation and producer freedom. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Even if that's true, is a trade war (which seems to be hurting some of our exports anyway…) the way to fix the trade balance?
"preening narcissists" isn't exactly a respectful, discussion-engendering term.
Here's how I look at it, slavery is not inherently racist, other cultures have captured slaves as POWs and have enslaved those of the same race and ethnic group.

However, Western slavery required racism to justify it (they are less intelligent, they are genetically engineered for labor, they feel less pain, etc.) that racism has led to various laws that hold back people to this day and have been used to justify terrible policies, such as poll taxes, redlining, contract leasing, school segregation, medical discrimination, etc.

Fundamentally the two biggest policies I'd like to see enacted to benefit ALL Americans is full enfranchisement and desegregation of schools. It's my belief, possibly naive, that these are root cause issues and would fix a lot of the artificial inequality we see today.
It's elegant. It's (relatively) easy to write a basic parser. LISP code is readily expressible in the same basic data structures provided in the language so you get meta programming almost for free and thus extending LISP is (relatively) easy too. Whereas C feels like an abstract machine language, LISP feels like an abstract 'mathematical computation' language. It's, like all languages, a different way of thinking about computation in the same way that human languages also seem to be (at least marginally) different ways of representing or expressing thought.

And once you've come to appreciate it, jokes like "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" will be funny to you.

In terms of 'getting shit done', it's not so 'good', not that one can't get shit done with LISP, but that it's not necessary nor, given all likely real world constraints, particularly that much of, if at all, an advantage relative to other (families of) languages.

It's also historically important so there's a benefit in knowing about it and being familiar with it too. And knowing the history helps understand why people still love it, even as a lot of what was once unique or special about it can be found much more widely.
That essay sent me down the functional language paradigm. I never did a lot of lisp but have done a lot of Haskell since.

I don’t get to do near as much these days, but the lessons I’ve learned have made me a better developer for sure.

Type safety and pure functions make debugging and refactoring an entirely different beast
On the other hand, is it possible it's a self-fulfilling prophecy?
I am not a programmer by profession, so I can chose my own poison. Scheme is just too much fun! I never liked python,ruby,c# etc. What scheme gave me was a smallish set of well-chosen primitives that compose well. Simple syntax together with macros so that I can abstract away any boilerplate that any eventual language designer forgot to foresee in a way superior to any other language. Lisp macros really are superior. I know enough haskell to know that "we don't need macros because we have typeclasses/an expressive typesystem/template haskell" is only a half true.

Guile scheme is my scheme of choice. Not the fastest scheme (that would be chez), but it is a bliss to write things in.

I have this idea that if you are a "programming language searcher" that can never really be satisfied with what they have you either end up in the ml camp or in the lisp camp. I myself would love a lisp/ml lovechild, which is why I am following hackett closely!
SQLite as a Data Exchange Format
I’m certainly neither arguing for not looking at the past, nor for doing nothing. I’m suggesting that the universalist language of the founding, and then subsequently the brilliant rhetoric of Lincoln trying to knit together a country wrecked by Civil War, is not helpful. Elevating actual monstrosities to a religious plane leads to lots of handwringing about “atonement” and “repentance”, a lot of which ends up easy to dismiss by those less sold on the metaphor. Instead, sober discussion about the realities of race today, and even more importantly how those play out along class—an underdeveloped subject among most Americans—would be welcome.
The Last of the Ayn Rand Acolytes
There is a lot of success in translating speech into a foreign language speech in near real time. The next step would be to convert heavily accented speech (example: English) into normal pronunciation speech (example: English). This is called "auto-correct for accents". This would make webcast conferences (example: Google IO) more comprehensible.
Package Delivery Cybercriminals at Your Doorstep
Here's some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839742
Cocoon+by+Sealy+Coupon+Chill+25%+Off
I don't see how this would work. Creators are from all across the world and many of them have to deal with wildly different issues due to a differing legal system. Furthermore, being a youtuber isn't something that's clearly defined either, because there are many that create content for a bit and then never create content again.
Opting into transcription is not the same thing as Facebook recording your conversation and storing it for later training data, human verification of the transcription, etc. Nor does it give Facebook the right to record audio when people are in two-party consent states without permission from all parties.
> First, they chose to find a new home for Tumblr instead of shutting it down. Second, they considered not just how much cash they would get on day one, but also — and especially — what would happen to the team afterward, and how the product and the team would be invested in going forward. Third, they thought about the sort of steward of the community the new owner would be. They didn’t have to do any of that, and I commend them for making all three points a priority.

As nice as it sounds, the realist in me finds a hard time to believe that this is exactly what has happened on Verizon's side.

I have never seen a publicly traded company do these things. Heck, you can be sued by shareholders if you actually do these things.

My interpretation (feel free to correct me, I am just a normal guy on the internet) is that Tumblr was difficult to value, hence PE firms didn't have a clear idea of how much to offer, and Automattic came in with a quick decent offer, and the final price (which I think was not disclosed) was so small for Verizon that they decided to go the easy route, perhaps leaving a few $$ on the table.
Most Americans have less than a year's wages invested into capital, and won't be receiving a lick of pension upon retirement.

If you look at the developing world, the situation is even bleaker.

So, as far as ownership structures of capital go, for 95% of the population, it is a rounding error.

Also, damages that required liability doesn't just magically disappear, if you fail to pass it on to a company's owners.

The harm that caused the liability has already been done, the shareholders have already been paid from the profits of it - but the victims aren't getting compensation for it. In any just world, these profits would be clawed back.
My point is that it’s precisely the wrong frame. And indeed, you make my point for me: we can do better than “hope”.
I'm a software engineer that mostly works on the front end of things, but from school and various jobs I have experience in:
C, C++, Python, C#, Java.

Mostly object oriented (distributed systems and game dev), and some embedded development.
Yeah, I mean as a software engineer as long as job availability doesn't reduce too much, I don't mind compensation reducing if housing prices go down with it...
How's that different than being repeatedly bailed out with VC money?
My mistake then in inferring that.

I don't recall making such an edit, usually I would note a change in semantic meaning, I believe the primary error was inferring a contradiction.

Thank you for clarifying.
Trump has created 515 businesses and only 11 of them failed. That's a 98.64% success rate. He has a better track record than Elon Musk by an order of magnitude.
"The Exception That Proves The Rule":

Yes, you can interpret it so it makes sense.

No, that sensible interpretation isn't the one that caught on.

It has a nasty symbiotic relationship with the "But you're one of the good ones" phenomenon, which is what you're more directly referring to.
Why? Does every compiler writer know all the theoretical underpinnings and generalizations of their work? Or do that make something that solves a problem without investigating the entire universe around it?
I need one of those!
It's a great excuse to claim a label of 'programming genius' without having to explain why you haven't written anything useful or groundbreaking.
I've never seen a business in jail. They're filled with people.
"The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. "

If you're looking for a broader view on slavery, a project dedicated to American slavery isn't going to offer you that perspective.
I personally am not a big lisper, but know others who are. It's not as cool among young people, but there's a certain segment of those, mostly over 50, who will swear by lisp and build some pretty cool things in it.

1. It's got a minimal core and is easy to implement. This means it runs in many places.

2. Very, very easy to extend due to its treating code as data. You can assemble your own language on top of the base you're given with macros. This is why it's often recommended for building your first compiler. By the time you've written a lisp program, you're basically writing in a different dialect.

I think some people also use it for a challenge, or to make themselves think. It's very different from your normal C programming, or OO, or even other functional languages (even though it influenced many of them). There's a certain family of languages such as lisp, scheme, ocaml, ml, etc. which seem to appeal to those with a more academic bent and so some interesting stuff can be written in them.
He used it as a tool, the companies became bankrupt, he got rich.

I imagine he will get rich even if U.S. goes through a bankrupcy.
>I read that as: Can something come along and snuff us out after we've observed the light wave component of the event, such as a shock wave of some sort?

That is the only way it can happen.
It's true. All home internet (and business internet!) connections are oversold. If you're going to max it out 24/7 you need a dedicated fiber line.
You might want to consider the idea that people who disagree with you politically might in fact not be dumb, but just have views that differ from yours.

Just a thought.
I suppose I just don't see the difference between the two. I guess I could see how one could say slavery existed because of the racist systems and policies, but I just don't think the article needs to make that distinction since they are so intertwined.
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Because the resuls of collective action isn't always fair for society. Many countries have an HDD/CD/DVD tax, because of (basically) collective action by artists. I don't see this as being fair. Why do I have to pay more when buying a HDD so that artists I'm never ever going to listen to can get more money?

I understand that collective action is often beneficial, but these bad examples are enough to make me annoyed at it.
As you may have noticed from the article, the point of yield curves inverting is that it is a pretty reliable recession-coming indicator: "The curve inversion to this point is flagging a 55-to-60 percent chance of a U.S. recession over the next 12 months"

Also, if your timeframe is long-term, information in print is relevant, since a stock frequently trades in a region for months or years. In fact, there is a whole school of investing, value investing, that looks for companies the market is undervaluing. Generally they do this by looking at information in print but seeing it with more wisdom than the short-termers. (Problem is, wisdom is difficult to get.) But for short-term trading, I think Bloomberg would invite you to subscribe to the terminal. "Before it's here it's on the terminal" I think they say.
If you think you don’t have any rights in America, you need to get out more. I live in Africa and if you want to see the real meaning of corruption and governments that can do anything they want, move over here.
From the Bottom Up: Designing a Decentralized Power System
> What they should do is collectively take their content somewhere else.

The problem is the economics won't be any better anywhere else. Youtube is the way it is because of all the many stakeholders (viewers responding to clickbait, politicians, copyright holders, bad actors etc). Any other platform would eventually have the same problems and either cave into them, or be sued into oblivion.

As for the ad-related issues Youtube isn't profitable, and it's clear people aren't yet willing to pay for it.

The reason for "Repackage scenes from movies, previews, upload documentaries, sports clips" is because that's what people want to view quite simply. Those videos have millions of views.

Youtube certainly could do a lot better, but you have to at least understand the factors that pour into why it's struggling. Managing communities is hard. Managing a platform where 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute is very hard.
What is also both gross and sad is your contemptuous description of YouTube videos as being “Repackage scenes from movies, previews, upload documentaries, sport clips”

Setting aside derivative works, which it sounds like you are attacking the value of, there is shit tons of purely original content on YouTube that carries a lot of negotiating power.
I see both of those things a lot. The problem is if you aren't already familiar with those idea, the statements mean literally nothing. They basically don't make sense.
There are articles all over the internet stating matter-of-factly that the US-China trade war has had a hand in the German recession. Why is that the case? At first blush it seems like newly un-fulfilled demand in the US and newly available supply/capacity in China would be a boon for other countries. What am I missing?
is it reasonable readers might notice “preening narcissists”?
Lisp is like the Latin of programming languages. Powerful, archaic, well-thought, elegant, venerable.
> Seems like they are pretty much levered to the hilt. What happens when the current bubble bursts (or even just deflates) and their occupancy rate declines?

Convert the We Work spaces into homeless shelters = profit from Government contracts.
Current pricing and registration are the current barriers to entry, especially training. It's not straightforward easy to fly a helicopter or small airplane. Not crazy difficult. But harder than a ground vehicle. Making it too easy and affordable and making them crazy plentiful in the air so they can't be tracked easily, that's the danger.
I think my comment has been vouched for.
For agriculture, the tractors themselves are producing negligible CO2. Most all farm emissions come from fertilizer and right now we produce nearly all of our commercial fertilizer from fossil fuels. In order to synthesize fertilizer from the air and other renewable sources we are looking at a near 100 fold increase in power requirements. IE, our current total world energy production would have to go almost 100% towards fertilizer production to produce what we currently use. And we aren't anywhere near producing that much renewable energy yet either. We are basically fertilizing our fields with fossil fuels, and that fossil fuel fertilizer accounts for around 60% of the world's total crop yield.
This will possibly be unpopular, but I want to share my experience anyway.

On more than one occasion I have jokingly mentioned food products like "cheetos" or "doritos" only to have ads for these products (that I was not being advertised before) show up in my feed a few hours later.

Each time this happens, I'll check my privacy settings and realize that I let a social media app, like instagram for example, have access to my microphone in order to capture a video (or similar)

It seems like more than a coincidence, but of course I have no way to know for sure. So it usually is brused off as paranoia.

Still I can't help but feel like I'm being monitored more closely than I think.
Ostalgie [0] is a very real thing, particularly for older generations who actually lived and worked in the GDR, without ever conflicting with the government. Because not everything East was bad, and not everything in the West was perfect either. There was actually quite a bit of economic symbiosis [1] going on between both sides back then.

That's why for many, the GDR also meant stability and progress. I can still remember my grandmother living in a house with wood ovens for heating, no running warm water, and a literal drop toilet on the second floor where you had to manually rinse with a big water pitcher.

She then got moved to an apartment inside a newly built Plattenbau [2], offering quite some comforts that were previously reserved to only very few households.

After the wall fell, she moved out to another flat, but by now is back to living in one of those Plattenbau apartments. Guess how negative her opinions on the GDR time are?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie

[1] https://www.dw.com/de/ddr-als-billiglohnland-f%C3%BCr-den-we...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau
In re: cybernetic psychology, Bateson said of the NLP† people "they have succeeded at what I attempted." (I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist of his statement.) I believe he was talking specifically about the material that became the content of "Structure of Magic" vols. I & II.

†Neurolinguistic Programming not Natural Language Processing.
And HN was (or still is?) written in Lisp
It was mesmerizing to watch his fingers dance across the keyboard. Much better than following the notes on a score.
Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public [video]
Not sure why you're being downvoted, because you are correct. The president's repeated bankruptcies and inability to get a bank loan forced him to get funding from Russian oligarchs through Deutsche bank's private equity arm: https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-give-documents-possibly-l...

There's a good Planet Money podcast on it as well: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/725893104/episode-914-trump-a...

It is also why the Trump family has preemptively sued Deutsche bank in an attempt to seal records and obstruct any investigation.
Immutability vs. Data Encapsulation
This has been known for hundreds of years- "Gorgias" even asserts that an ignorant person who speaks well will always beat an uncharismatic expert in popularity.
Old days people ascribe many businesses imploding because of union intransigence, some of which was true. These days those in the know of the fleecing of the taxpayer by government employee unions at state, county, and city, levels. The very same groups betting on a Federal Bailout to their bloated and grandiose pension plans.

Using Illinois as an example [1] but understand that Chicago is in bad shape with the inability to pay their required money by 2021 and many other towns and even states have similar issues.

the real one percent... earned all on the backs of mom and pa and betting they can keep up the 100k per year gravy trains

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...
Prices went up from a lack of wind and capacity.

If you think solar is the solution stop and think.

Solar occurs during peak demand. You will need more solar then demand. That is a lot of solar.

Also when it gets really hot the wind often stops. Same goes for really cold. Wind farms often have to shutdown in cold conditions because of ice.
This seems like it's moving FBA to "traditional" Amazon retail, with a migration plan that makes sense for people who already know FBA.
Pleather has been around forever, as an inferior product that does not last nearly as long. Let's call it vegan for a win.

also: https://www.vocativ.com/281599/vegan-leather-isnt-as-ethical...
Someone else is probably out there complaining a cab driver wouldn't give them a ride to the Statue of Liberty.
I don't think anyone's claiming that's something to aspire to either.
I went to a government website the other day. 5 pages of forms I filled out several times. Each time on the final page, "system error, cannot proceed."

I called the agency, they said, "You should print out the PDF, fill that out and bring it to our office."

Can you believe that?? There aren't enough programmers to make the .gov stuff work right because FAANG is buying them all. So, I'm not sure you are right on that.
The only way you (the person) will ever gain freedom from them (any large group organized well enough to consider your person worth exploiting for profit), is to keep making a new world for yourself, creatively, artistically, formatively and personally - i.e. become the non-consumer and build your own things.

Corporations are people too. Groups of people, ganged together and agreeing to do big and enormous things to other big, enormous groups of people, is how we get into the corporate nightmare.

The spirit of the individual is what needs to persist in all of this. If you want privacy, you have to be willing to gain it and maintain it yourself.

We are not consumers, we are people - but we can be consumed as well as any other resource. To stay ahead of that, produce!
One of the things he campaigned on in 2016 was bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US for low-skilled workers. I can see that being a third thing this could possibly help.
The Web’s Grain
https://websgrain.com/

A blog about tech products I started to write everyday.

Meagher.co
https://github.com/tmm/tmm.github.io/tree/e1a673aab9fdcaa488...

My personal website blog with 41 medium-sized posts about design, data, code, philosophy, etc.

Edit: Both of these are currently lapsed.
Dates for WW1: 7/28/1914-11/11/1918

Dates for WW2: 9/1/1939-9/2/1945

Dates for Great Depression: 10/29/1929 to 1939
> What they should do is collectively take their content somewhere else.

You can post digital content on multiple platforms at the same time.
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Still is, as far as I know. Technically ARC, which is a descendant and in the same family.
Ask HN: Is YouTube Profitable?
There are are no public numbers out there stating whether YouTube is profitable or not? Folks with industry experience can you somehow calculate it bottom up and estimate it?
ah yes i'll just go ahead and choose between my two options

1. pay out the ass for the service i need

2. not have internet in 2019

oh boy oh golly i sure do have some reasonable choices here don't i
Was it Tesla that started this trend? Re-branding pleather as "vegan leather" is brilliant marketing.
Patterns to watch out for in software teams [pdf]
I wonder why the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) hasn't weighed in on this whole sector at all. The exploitation of entertainers is not exactly a new issue, and it has been tackled by existing unions before.