skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I am generally in agreement with you, so you're not alone.

I do think it would've been better to have 0, specifically, not be falsy - unlike the other cases, 0 is not 'the absence of any actual data' but rather a special case of the data. I assume Python stuck with tradition on this one mostly because it is so tightly tied to C and UNIX-style scripting that changing it would've been confusing for most early users.
Wasn't that already the original assumption?

Help rich entity; rich entity will help the rest of the economy?
Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, sources say
This is a process Brazilians know well.

Chocolate bars used to have 200g. Some now have less than 100g. Toilet paper rolls used to have 50m; most now have 30m and some have only 10m.

This sort of thing started happening in the 1980s, because the government had frozen prices (that always works well). It became such a problem that now the law says that the packaging must clearly point out if the quantity inside has changed.
This is a cool service. I worked as a researcher for a trading firm and we had similar internal tools.

Some hopefully not too harsh feedback:

You're capturing data in London. I know nothing about crypto markets, but they probably aren't all colocated in London, and your users won't be either. You should try to collect data at each source, synchronize it well, and let users adjust timings to suit their needs.

Data integrity is critical. You have incidentReports in your API, but I didn't see what goes in there. Ideally, make this machine readable (begin/end timestamps for each incident interval) or call the user saying data is good/bad as they stream it.

To make this more useful as a product, consider building a normalization layer on top of what you have here. It's great that you provide the actual exchange messages for those who need them, but researchers often want to answer questions like "which market has the tightest average bid-ask spread over the past month?" without learning details of a dozen APIs and writing boilerplate code for each.

I'd suggest providing the user with a standardized object representing the limit order book for a market and ticker. Clients would subscribe to it and receive generic events like snapshot, order/price level added/deleted, trade, etc. As the data is being streamed, they could also access the current state of the book at each point in time through this object to get information like the best prices, size and number of orders at each price, spread, etc.
hey Zeach, I made another agar.io clone. This time with websockets http://g69io.herokuapp.com/
There is nothing that we could leave on Earth that could survive that long due to plate tectonics and anything on the moon would get covered over by moon dust. The only thing that could survive that long would be a probe such as voyager on a long elliptical orbit that had a period of perhaps sever hundred years.

If such a probe existed, what would you transmit?

fibonacci sequence?
PI ?
Prime numbers?
I feel blessed that I grew up during the late 80s and 90s. I got to see and play games in arcades, and I owned my first computer in 2001. So I played games mostly at friends houses.

Nobody else will go through what we did, though I suspect my generation might hit the beginnings of good VR tech (hoping so anyway).
Just be careful with NSAIDS, taking them regularly can cause stomach ulcers.
Many genres have completely disappeared and we could do with less boring shooters these days.
The linked article seems to provide statistics indicating that it's not working. So I believe #2.
To make money for the contribs, preferably no hijacking of revenues for a 3 sec song clip. It's all about money, find a way to pay ppl for content and you win. There's already dozens of YouTube competitors but they don't pay. For example weed related content is a ban/demonetization on youtube. Anything with a song in the background for a split second as you're walking and filming is a demonetization.
I think it’s simple. There are millions of people who go to work at companies whose job it is to figure out how to sell more of their stuff to you.

Not just marketing and sales. Coders working on analytics platforms used by marketing for example are part of the team. Reflect on what tasks got priority at your work today. And if you are not helping to increase consumption maybe you are helping your customers customers to do this instead.

Companies that can grow get all the rewards. Their shareholders get rich. People want to be rich because that’s the dream they are sold. It’s a cycle.
I believe you, but I don't think qwerty is inherently a problem. Typing extremely slowly for a while helps. I've developed pain in my wrists multiple times over the years, and have always switched workflows as a result. Went from a wireless apple 'magic keyboard' to a model m to a goldtouch (split, elevated pyramid keyboard) with a left handed mouse, and every time I've found relief from the pain (later on with the use of wrist braces for a few weeks to prevent unconscious wrist flexion). The common element has been a forced change in computing activity - the pain would not cease immediately, so a combination of pain, the changed input layout, and in some cases the wrist braces meant less of doing anything at all with the computer. There's the magic potion for RSI for me - less repetitive stress, enforced by a changed computing environment. Changing the size of the input devices, the layout (from right handed to left handed mouse, from a mouse to a trackball, to a touchpad, to a vertical mouse.. whatever) changes the type of stress too. I won't be surprised when I have to repeat the process of changing to anything else at all. I've already returned from the goldtouch to the model m, but I won't be unhappy when I have to switch back.
I would add Cuphead to that list
If you use Telegram a lot, you should check out Telefuel.com. We're building Telefuel for power users and teams, and recently rolled out a feature to filter for unread messages. Might be useful for you!
Yeah back in the 80s and 90s games on PC were made for a niche of folks who were rich enough to purchase a PC and who were typically highly educated, most of them not teenagers. the median gamer today is completely diffferent.
This is presented mainly in a negative context but from my experience almost all change happens this way. You slowly get used to it. I still remember when people were saying that a mobile phone was a luxury item normal people don't need or that they would never do online banking.
There is no license listed in the github repos for the VSCode and Atom plugins[0]. As such they are not currently open source.

Open source seems like a major advantage with assistive technologies and something that the community should insist on in the products it uses.

However, insisting that only free (as in beer) software is acceptable seems to unnecessarily restrict the potential new software that is needed.

[0] https://github.com/serenadeai
> but rushing forward and getting shot is on a different level: it's simply a mistake, and players learn to avoid it.

Or you are good enough to rush and kill everyone before they kill you, which is quite satisfactory.
At 66, there’s another 15-25 years to live. Not trying to comment on the topic at hand, just saying that a lot can happen in 15 years; more than “not much”.
What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway?
I've been in the comments sections of HN hot-topics where one person basically derails the conversation on every top-level thread with their same argument, yet it's such tempting flame-bait that nobody can resist responding every time.

Sometimes you just need to contain your arguments to a single thread so others can enjoy the show.

HN has a rate limit but I think it should kick in more aggressively once you're making your, say, 5th post on the same submission.
I think this is the best article I have seen on this topic:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-things-to-know-...

Specifically the graph about halfway through the article that show the relationship between the number of guns and frequency of mass shootings, clearly the USA is a significant outlier.

It's pretty compelling IMHO.
Of course I'd say this as a lisper, but as long as the return values of everything is intuitive and well defined, I don't see an inherent problem with such form.

Indeed, if anything, if the intention is to communicate that the Boolean value is the result of some process that runs through a while loop, then explicitly saying that in the assignment seems to me to almost be the best way to do it :\

ymmv.

Now deeply nested while/assignment/ifs, that's a bad-pattern, but I'm not inherently convinced that's an expression/statement problem.
I would say these rich kids haven't heard of noblesse oblige.
> (Those abysmal boss fights being the exception; I gather they were done by a completely different team, and my god it showed.)

Those were indeed done by a different studio that was otherwise not integrated into the development at all. The Director's Cut somewhat works around these areas.
Ask HN: Where I can ask for help to rescue a software?
Upon stumbling across this website: http://m8software.com/, the "Why?" section said that the software will be no longer maintained due to author's cancer. The software in question is http://m8software.com/clipboards/spartan/clipboard-manager.htm. I'm not really if the author are willing to make the software open-source. Any ideas?

To contact the author, the only way I found is over the "contact admin" feature: http://m8software.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=contactadmin

Since I don't have both knowledge and manpower to maintain this, I wonder if anyone on HN can?
If so,then it stands to reason that they would be unlikely to move to renewable power.
> We really still haven't done much to make the bad guys act like they have any intelligence at all. It's just swarms of unintelligent bad guys which cannot be faced head-on. Essentially because earlier generations of gamers kited, now most PC builds require kiting

Most people don’t find actually smart AI fun to play against. It’s why modern online games have ranked matchmaking, because it’s the most fun to play against someone who is a little bit worse or better than you.

> But I think the real problem is this Rambo model of games. In reality, a single assailant against a large number of armed defenders should never be able to attack their way into a base. They should be pinned down by the occupying forces until the ammo runs out. You could sneak in, but you can't just show up with a rifle or machine gun and get anywhere. But aside from the possible solution of harvesting comedy gold from this trope, this reality based model would be really, really boring.

The Metal Gear Solid games (especially 1,2, and 3) are exactly this. It doesn’t take long to learn to be quiet; if you cause an alarm, teams of enemies with way better guns and armor than you show up and kill you.
Uh yeah, no kidding, that's why I qualified what I was saying with "possible...", and "which might not seem that useful, but..."
The Swedish phoneme notorious for having its own dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/
"pathfinding is actually a murderously complex programming challenge—one that, depending on the path, might be NP-complete."

The article is crap, the actual interview makes a lot more sense.
Fond memories :)
another reason is that they do not find good uses of capital so they give it back to shareholders to deploy elsewhere.

you could just be out of good ideas
I meant free as in freedom in this case, sorry for the confusion.
RTS is the posterboy of a dead genre, in the same way that Westerns don't exist in film.

StarCraft 2 is probably the most recent major RTS release, and it's not particularly active despite being an excellent game. The issue with the RTS genre is it's been superceded by two other genres. The people who want to play RTS games are playing MOBAs like Lol or Dota, or have moved to city building games which have had an explosion in popularity.

That said, Dawn of War 3 was released last year, the Total War, and Anno series still exist, StarCraft is still receiving updates, albeit infrequently, and there's a handful of indie games that scratch that itch
New York didn't even had a (public) police force until the 1850's, with 300k inhabitants. And there was literal brawling between competing police forces for during the first years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_P...
It's been a few years since I read On Lisp. I kind of walked away with the impression that the main characters are macros and the star is anaphoric macros. There are nuggets in the buildup to their introduction and anaphoric macros are interesting. But my brain doesn't wrap very far around macros and my sense of understanding dissipated pretty quickly each time I stopped reading. For me, Graham's On Lisp was fun to read but less applicable than his ANSI Common Lisp. On Lisp was a rabbit hole for me. A fun rabbit hole. But still a rabbit hole.

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Changing gears back to your original question, Racket has pattern matching. [1] [2]

[1]: Racket Guide: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/match.html

[2]: Racket Reference: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html
I love the MS Natural Keyboards and agree about the durability. I had one of them so long the little nubs on the J and F keys actually wore away and I couldn't place my hands by touch any more. (I scored the two keys with an old soldering iron.)

I've tried the Sculpt keyboard, and just not as good for me. I do use the silver media and other keys along the top quite extensively, plus being a Vim user, the escape key seems to be a bit too dodgy.

As they've been harder to buy, when my last one finally died (which is when I found I don't like the Sculpt that much) I ended up trading fixing someone's printer configuration for their barely used Natural keyboard that had been sitting in a corner for ages as they didn't like it. Going to be very sad when I can't find one any more.
> Labor and trade are not zero sum. The decision of where the generated dollars go is zero sum.

Certainly, my point was that possessing a greater share of wealth is not the same as the completely unearned disparity in distribution of common resources in the author's hypothetical scenario. We live in a world of scarcity, so disparity when that scarcity is left up to market forces is to be expected and in fact could even be argued to be earned. This is completely different than this sort of village commune that the author envisions. Nevertheless, the author equates the two to justify her argument, which I believe is fallacious.

> Do you mean they can't 'earn' it in their eyes, or are you agreeing that a certain amount of wealth cannot actually be earned?

The former. This responsibility that the author posits her rich peers have is based on nothing other than her feeling that they didn't earn their position and aren't even using it properly, which will only go away after said peers do something that alleviates this feeling. What is that thing? Only the author knows. Maybe she doesn't even know, she just knows that she wants the rich people to fix it.

> they come nowhere near taking care of that burden on their own.

I don't believe it's fair that they even be under some sort of implied burden. Unless they are criminals, their family earned that wealth playing the same game as everyone else and have chosen to use it to ensure their offspring are comfortable. I see no problem in that.
I am unfortunately not in a position to watch a 100min lecture at the moment. The Wikipedia entry for trickle down economics mentions it originated as a joke:

The term "trickle-down" originated as a joke by humorist Will Rogers and today is often used to criticize economic policies which favor the wealthy or privileged while being framed as good for the average citizen.

However, it goes on to say:

David Stockman, who as Ronald Reagan's budget director championed Reagan's tax cuts at first, later became critical of them and told journalist William Greider that "supply-side economics" is the trickle-down idea:

With a quote by David Stockman:

”It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.”

— David Stockman, The Atlantic

I’m sure the video touches on this, but do you have a summary for why it’s a straw man mischaracterisation?
Or, when a better investment opportunity is on the horizon. If an economic recession serious enough to affect good companies is looming, and if some savvy people with capital know it coming by the data or instinct, they might hold off their investment until the time comes so that the can "invest" or acquire those good companies at a better term.
You can make a market of it. Make it possible to transfer the obligations of recycling to third parties with necessary oversight and assets necessary to do the job completely. The responsibility still stays with the manufacturer. etc. see the comment with a link
> But I think the real problem is this Rambo model of games. In reality, a single assailant against a large number of armed defenders should never be able to attack their way into a base. They should be pinned down by the occupying forces until the ammo runs out. You could sneak in, but you can't just show up with a rifle or machine gun and get anywhere. But aside from the possible solution of harvesting comedy gold from this trope, this reality based model would be really, really boring.

Deus Ex ducks this trope. It's technically possible to shoot your way through, but it is much easier and quicker to talk or sneak your way through.
I have absolutely zero respect for tech companies who wantonly and shamelessly break the laws and abuse their workers in the name of "disruption". They give the industry a bad name.

As such, I honestly cannot wait to see this company go out of business.

If we're lucky, they will take a large swathe of the "gig economy" with them when they finally die.
Definitely not. This is a pretty cheap rental.
Ergonomic keyboard and mouse.

A split keyboard is a huge win. When you sit with your hands in front of you, they don't naturally want to go in towards the center. They want to be offset a bit.

Below the desk keyboard tray -- Look up an ergonomics diagram. You aren't supposed to have your hands going up to get to your desk. It's supposed to be a 90 degree angle.

Going mechanical. I run Kailh Silvers, which are incredibly light and have a 1.1 mm travel distance before the key registers. It's like typing on air. I barely have to move my fingers. This, of course, takes some getting used to.

Going ortholinear. Staggered keys are just a remnant of old typewriters. Your fingers were built to go straight back and forth. Making them go sideways forces _a lot_ of extra wrist movement. Again, this takes some time to learn.

Curved keyboard well. Your fingers aren't all the same length. Couldn't we make something that puts all of the fingers closer to their keys in the resting position? Yes. See below.

After a little time with mechanical keyboards, I ended up just going all out and building myself a Dactyl. That's a split ortholinear keyboard with a curved keywell, and is basically as ergonomic as it gets. If you want advise on how to build one, I can help point you in the right direction. It took probably 10 hours. Otherwise the closest thing is an Ergodox or Kinesis Advantage. It only took a Sunday to get mostly used to it, and my typing speed has actually gotten way faster. I detailed the learning curve here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/azkkpz...

The only disadvantage is that if you bring one of these into work, get ready to catch some flack :D

At this point I've got my own chair, standing desk converter, mouse and keyboard. I plan on coding for a long time, not just for the money but because I love it. So I look like a bit of a dumbass, but in 20 years I'll still be coding.
Maybe, but I’ve had similar thoughts.

For most middle class people like me, the compensation for getting older is that hey, at least you’re getting richer. I might be slower, uglier, and have much less free time than when I was twenty, but hey, at least I have nicer stuff and I can stay in fancy hotels.

If you have a Ferrari when you’re 20 then life is pretty much all downhill from there.
Ah, so that’s what it means to be connected to the cloud?

I think this is a suitable example for the “Clean Code” book, the chapter about refactoring.

And also: Do you think they’ve built a mock somewhere with 5000 phones as a test rig?
I'm curious, what other companies exist (or existed) with financials similar to Uber's?
There some that can, and some that can't. Some that can innrush our, somemthst can't in rush hour.

And about costs: At least here in Germany health insurance for isntance cover some costs for Taxis (when going to a doctor ... while they got stricter) Also in Germany Taxis have regulated prices in order to give some affordability. (Which is one of the critiques on Uber over here, as Uber can pick the routes they like and can raise prices on high demand, while making it cheap innorder to compete with regulated market during other times in hardly predictable ways, which isn't good for people who depend on working transport infrastructure)
> I would agree we tend to mention it early in conversation

Username checks out.

Contrary to the above I've always found UK doctors perfectly reasonable to deal with, but we're definitely having some big problems in this country arising from them being absurdly overpaid. Some AI competition can't come soon enough.
The two newer Deus Exen are worth a go if you like the first one. Infamously and accurately, you may as well skip 2 and go to 3 & 4.

Also both Dishonored games—best of the more recent descendants of the Thief/Deus Ex games. Improved with the right mindset—you start out more capable than the average person, and are very soon "hella OP", so, whatcha gonna do with all that power? Plus no save scumming and turning off all the modern flashy-arrow-waypoint HUD bullshit. Makes you really feel the weight of things better.

> max payne (1 and 2)

Max Payne 2 on the ultra-hard mode that you have to unlock, where you only get like 2-3 saves per level, is one of my favorite gaming experiences, and I'm not usually the sort to like hardcore "challenge" modes. It totally changes how you play. Highly recommended. Plus you get the real ending :-). Hated 3. Repeated "hold on while we take control for a cutscene then leave you standing in the open for no reason, with guys already shooting at you" got old fast, and the game just never stopped doing that, sometimes seeming only to take control in order to do that. Plus the story failed to make me give a damn about anything that was happening, which is a problem.

Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4) might be up your alley if you've enjoyed the open world "make the icons disappear from the map" games (Red Dead, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry from 3 on) at all. It actually has a plot you might care about, unlike almost all the others, and the world is much cooler than average.
Stone frigate
100% agree. Online gaming is degraded just like the arcade was, where it’s mostly just a dressed-up casino where the prizes are low value swag.
Or target the tax cuts at the poor who will spend it on goods and services.
If that were the case, why wouldn't the companies just hold onto the cash, wait for the recession, then use the cash reserves to buy back their stock on the cheap?
Pumped hydro is generally used for diurnal storage. The infrastructure of the dams and turbines is darned expensive; it makes practical sense if you're filling and draining the basin (or half of it) every day, but paying pretty much the same cost to get just a single lake volume per year ... not so much.
"Make or Break" by David MacLeod has helped me fix a handful of climbing related strains - https://www.davemacleod.com/shop/makeorbreak - might not be relevant for you anymore, but I would recommend it for anybody who climbs
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