skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it really matters how big the actual market it, what matters is being known for having such solutions. Even if the majority of customers don't have the service, as long as they know it exists, they'll prefer Amazon vs competitors because they'll feel like they're supporting a company that cares.

Personally, I think it would be great if these reusable packages optionally came in a package that has a digital lock that can only be unlocked through the app (i.e. public key crypto over Bluetooth/NFC). This would make them look like the secure option as well as the green option. It can even operate at a loss and probably still be beneficial by driving more purchases their way.
Having many sources makes it even more difficult to manipulate.
Debt-financed consumption won't help the long term debt cycle, but increasing consumption seems like it could still be an element of economic growth.

For example investments have two sides the saver (who loans the money) and the borrower for the building, infrastructure, factory, etc. Normally the interest rate can be raised to encourage saving and discourage investment, or lowered to discourage saving and encourage investment.

But what if the interest rate is already low, and companies still don't want to invest? Then you are limited by the amount of credit-worthy investment opportunities and not the savings. You could lower real interest rates to be negative, but do you really want to pursue investments with a negative yield?

In that case, turning some of those excess savings into consumption would help things move along. There already was more than enough savings, so that wasn't limiting investment. And the increased demand will stimulate the need for more buildings, factories, etc, and provide more opportunities for companies to invest (borrow) again.

China has wanted to lower its saving rate somewhat - they've used the government to build out infrastructure and real estate at a tremendous rate, but it's unlikely that they will be able to find enough infrastructure investments (that are actually good investments, with positive returns) to keep going at the same pace forever.

Interest rates are pretty low right now, and companies are accumulating huge cash balances (rather than investing) so the idea for more consumption to increase investment opportunities doesn't seem too crazy. But if such a thing were to be attempted maybe it would be better to use tax policy or other means rather than increasing the debt indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_saving_glut
Ice-making submarine would pop out bergs to help fight climate change
Just wanted to say thank you for this!
Because saying it keeps his name in the news?

Using the same logic as the Shit-Poster-In-Chief?
That applies sheer stress to the road, but it doesn't really impact the compressive force or pressure applied, right?
Getting a decent frame buffer in those days was a significant challenge, though. It was like "Hey, the University of Qwghlm just got a 512x512x24 display, let's go apply to grad school there!"

About 20 years ago I was helping a guy design a vector unit for a new CPU. As I was writing the simulations, I began to appreciate Cray's 70s era designs, and the stuff that we manage to stuff into a few square millimeters of silicon these days. The future is here.
How Life Sciences Actually Work
This will forever be my White Whale, but I could have sworn that there was an old version of the Youtube Music app that had a radio/autoplay feature with a slider from 'very similar' to 'wildly different'. I totally overlooked it at the time but now I can't seem to find anything online about it. Such a shame because I love finding weird songs.
Haskell is great for this.

Common Lisp too for a very different perspective. Swap your powerful type system for a powerful macro system. Then decide what you prefer!

And finally idiomatic Javascript (i.e. don’t use classes!). People have wrote you don’t need static types if you have great tests, so I want to think about that idea. I always keep an open mind.
For the benefit of people whose fonts render "l" to look like "|", that's:

L U L L L N L L L L L L

(L - lowercase letter, U - uppercase letter, N - number)
This may not be a good idea. Desensitizing the public by exposing them to alerts for what are essentially non-harmful events could mean they don't react in the face of a large incident.
Common physics example, but it disregards how women actually walk and stand in heels. They walk on their forefoot, rather than balancing their weight on the heel.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-higher-the-heel-th...

Shows less than 30 N/cm^2 (40 PSI) for women in heels - and higher heels result in lower heel pressure. Forefoot pressure is higher, despite the larger surface area.
Until you realize a data center is a bunch of small nodes working together.
Yes, there is FreeCAD. It crashes constantly and is very difficult to use. ..it doesn't really count, in my mind; if it isn't usable, it may as well not exist at all.
I think it's getting downvoted because why does it have to be a _woman_ who's wearing the high heels?
Bank of the West is 100x better.
> what’s stopping me from controlling a dozen of those

They're signing their contributions.
Since the Trump tax cuts add another trillion dollars to the national debt, the government is actually borrowing money to pay for those cuts.

That also means it will be a future generation that eventually has to pay for those tax cuts.
Enemy of My Enemy
> start getting people who are really good at problem solving and algorithms and may or may not have a passion for programming.

Why is "passion" so important? And what even is passion? For professionals in every other field, competence, ability to deliver results, and getting along with people, are what matter. Many pros are passionate, in the sense of loving their work, but passion isn't a prerequisite for being a pro.
Which Is the Best Kitchen Sink Material?
Yes, our prop group made quite a bit with out-of-the-money AAPL 135 puts (AAPL will hit this strike price again).

Alarms bells are ringing in this market... If your good at risk management and can initiate low cost perma-bearish positions, you will be rewarded heavily over the next year or so.

Alpha chasers that don't have risk management skills should just buy Bitcoin (dont sleep on this, the halvening is May 2020-ish). Dollar-Cost-Averaging will get you a decent entry price.

Warning: Bought more 120,130,140 AAPL puts in prep for next collapse, if your in my way, I will literally eat your lunch.

Good luck guys!
And of course bubble sort is the perfect solution for distributed sorting.
Same shit.
SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into Bert
Yea I’m also confused. You’re main thread should be able to run completely asynchronously from worker threads. With async, you are constantly hitting a memory barrier while the worker thread completes the promise and then the main thread draws the result. Ideally, the worker thread should be able to natively queue its task for non-blocking repaints.

Side note, this is why I’m a huge fan of Qt. They really did a fantastic job on building that framework for c++ to make it more safe
Would it be wrong to suggest that bigots and racists deserve to be alienated?
The real Satoshi would do something way cooler than some lame press release via a PR agency
Common tasks for the web are easy in curl—though it will take me a long time to forget environment variables that could be set to false, true, or two. Httpie makes web apis easier, with better support for api keys and for hashing some headers into others, holding state across several command invocations, that sort of thing.
>It's not absolutely great. All those pension funds that are going to support decidedly unwealthy retirees (teachers, police, other public servants) are going to be in dire straits.

>And it's not just wealthy people who worry about the national debt, I think that's a pretty big concern for anyone who gives half a shit about social safety nets.

None of this is a concern to a country that mints its own currency. National debt is simply a fully controlled savings account service run by the government.

The reason the wealthy "worry" about the national debt (except when it comes to military spending) is because they want to see public sector spending on people restricted (to keep wages down) and things (to keep inflation down).
They could in theory, but nobody wants to. I used to see probationary periods, but I haven't seen a company use that for salaried staff for a long time. HR and Legal have put an end to that kind of thing.

So Jim is right, in practice the only way HR is going to let you have a probationary period is to use contractors, and that limits your hiring pool significantly.
Build Your Own Point of Sale System on a Budget
Not sure if this will help, and depends what you mean new...but SugarMegs is an incredible music site for downloading bootlegs–unreleased concert recordings–that not many people seem to know about. It seems mainly rock, but has enormous amount of jazz, blues, and all kinds of stuff, up to 2019. e.g. I searched "Jimi Hendrix 1968" and it has about 50 complete concerts! Setlist pages too, often with stories and info about the recordings. Be prepared to lose a few days of your life. Search page:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/

If you find something on there you love, maybe sign up[0] to the private torrent site DIME which has all that and more at the highest possible quality, audio and video. (SugarMegs is audio only, and the quality is fine, but not lossless) Everything on SugarMegs is from there.

http://www.dimeadozen.org/index.php

p.s. If you find incomplete/incorrect info in set listings on SugarMegs, please send an improved html setlist page to them, they'll be grateful. I'm not affiliated, just think it's an incredibly cool site. I've found so many gems on there.

[0] Not so easy, not so hard. Then you have to keep a torrent download:upload ratio lower than 5:1 to download, so don't just download a huge file no-one else wants first up, or you will be stuck unable to get anything else. And membership is deleted after I think 2 months of inactivity.
Larry Wall is to Linguistics as Deepak Chopra is to Quantum Physics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

"While in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it. They would then use this new writing system to translate various texts into the language, among them the Bible. Due to health reasons these plans were cancelled, and they remained in the United States, where Larry instead joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after he finished graduate school."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_imperialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilizing_mission

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo
Author here - this essay is the result of a year (and 100+ interviews) of my figuring out how life sciences work. (there are also discussions of it on reddit [1] and on twitter [2])

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/cqxcey/how_... (16 comments)

[2] https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1162017187919478784 (28 responses)
Compared to XML, Markdown, and other human readable formats, this is...actually not too bad. I was expecting worse.
I don't think you're going to find much execution detail that is credible in that context. There is plenty of higher-level analysis of such things. You might start with Andrew Lo's papers and work your way out from there.
Try Hy (http://hylang.org) for a Clojure-ish Python.
Are we anywhere near running out of landfill space? Are modern landfills bad for the environment at all? It doesn’t seem like it.

I think environmentalism is misguided when it works on the principle of “everything that sounds good for the environment is equally important, we don’t need to pay attention to whether it works”. Global warming is a real danger. Running out of landfill space is not. Stop pretending like you are helping the environment when you do symbolic but unimportant things like using paper straws or reusable grocery bags. Take all the money spent on ineffective things like paper recycling and disallowing plastic bags, and put it towards the technologies that can really help, like cheaper solar power, cheaper wind power, cheaper batteries, and carbon sequestration.
I wonder if these will come in TIPS versions. We had quite substantial inflation in 1919, 14-18%, followed by massive deflation in 1921 approaching -16%, and +9-15% in 1980/1981.

Looking at the past 25 years, you might get the idea it's not a good idea to buy TIPS bonds, but is hyperinflation inevitable or is it a solved problem?
You just leave the container(s) outside your door and they'll pick them up with the next delivery. Amazon could even have the carrier scan the containers on pick-up so the customer isn't liable for the carrier making a mistake.
Not really on topic but can we discourage the use of medium? It’s annoying to have to open these links in incognito and on top of that they do some other things that make reading more difficult.
Hilarious.

Just more political warfare bullshit.

I'm impressed the Kaspersky is going to these lengths to remove the means for the US government to baselessly criticize simply because they originate from a country that the US loathes.

Furthermore, the fact that the Russian government is seemingly okay with this simply adds to everything the Russian government is doing to nullify any of the attempts the US is making to accuse them with unproven lies.

One of these days, I hope that the US government loses it's grip on the planet, so that they have to play fair, instead of simply doing whatever they want because they're the de facto singular superpower in terms of military power and intelligence capabilities.
There's an old folksong:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/oscar-brand-humoresque-passen...
I have a bad feeling the libertarians will be right about Bitcoin.

Or at least if the US can't bully the world into using USD.
I'm curious to hear the opinions of people who think that the question is too hard (i.e. it's too complex of a question to ask in an interview situation).

Perhaps some people might feel that while they could write code to solve this problem (or similar problems) outside of an interview. However, under the pressure of an interview they would not be able to solve the problem (due to anxiety, stress etc.).

If that was relatively common, then such a question would not be a useful interview question. Or would at least not be giving an accurate estimate of a candidates programming ability. This seems unlikely to me, but I would be interested in hearing different view.
Both my hometown and where I currently live have municipal broadband.

https://osage.net/internet-services/

http://centraliowabroadband.org/
Sure, that's a reasonable argument, but that's different from the argument of "should we, as society, try to wean people off horses". If airlines want to discourage passengers who need horses for practical reasons / for the good of the airline, that's one thing, and we can discuss what the airline's needs are (and even whether there's a way that the airline would be happy to accommodate it, e.g. with some flights designed for pets or something, which I'm sure a lot of pet owners without medical needs would be delighted to pay for). If they want to discourage those passengers for the alleged good of the passengers, that's quite different.
Thanks. AMP is stupid bullshit that needs to die, or at least be entirely restricted to mobile users only.
I don't get your argument. If something doesn't work on the small scale it certainly won't work on a large scale. That's exactly my original point about managing global finance
It's true, but even in that case, you need to protect and advocate for yourself. Moreover, you're more useful to your employer when you are savvy.

The very best employers don't just treat their people well, they also educate them.
I started leetcoding again this year because I want to jump ship and holy crap! I used to solve problems on leetcode 5 years ago (last time I switched jobs) and it was pretty laid back. Nowadays, I'm seeing dynamic programming with 3D memoization arrays like it's something normal. It all started like a way to check if someone knows how to write code or knows data structures and basic algorithms but now it's competitive programming level.
I'm not even good at coding and this all looks like a mess to me. I wouldn't be surprised if all of this resulted in catastrophic loss.
Every third-part antivirus company is just as incompetent.

I dare suggest that even Microsoft isn't that much better.
> Lisp still doesn't seem like the right language for doing text manipulation, and nothing I've seen from the Emacs libraries is making me think any differently. It sure beats the hell out of Java though. Maybe someday someone will write Emacs using Ruby as the embedded interpreter.

And in time, this came true, except with Javascript. VSCode is an amazing hackable editor
Why not let the users pick their own threshold? People who are used to smaller quakes and not concerned can ignore these, and elect to receive alerts only for stronger quakes.
The trouble with this viewpoint is that there are an endless number of things we could be trying, and it's more or less a zero sum game.

The idea was terrible on paper, easily falsified by back of the napkin math. The same amount of money could have been spent on, eg, testing the commercial viability of smoothing out grid loads by making ice off peak for cooling.
I realize everybody's going to jump in and rant about algorithms in interviews, but I wish you'd all add something constructive as well.

I was like this a couple years ago. I was a self taught, "college is a scam", "practical experience" type guy. I now, however do see immense value in the ability to be able to work through these algorithm questions,especially if you ever want to do something besides web / app development.
What do you recommend? I’ve built the site from scratch and spent almost 20k on content creation.
Clojure Features: Or why you should stop worrying about features
> It’s annoying to have to open these links in incognito

Note that the thing that looks like a paywall isn't - while Medium does have paywalled articles, they're rare (and as far as I can tell this one isn't) and at the discretion of the author, not of Medium, anyway. Medium aggressively wants you to sign up if you've read more than n articles in a month, but you can just click the X and read n+1 articles.
Because he was on suicide watch, until conveniently taken off of it a few hours before he died.

His cell's camera also "mysteriously" stopped working.

Somehow, he hung himself, which should have been impossible at the facility he was in.

The odds make it extremely probably that he was "suicided", that is, murdered, and then have his death announced by a corrupt coroner as "suicide".

As it is, it seems like he was probably murdered by strangulation.
(A) In Japanese the meanings don't match that closely. The word didn't originally mean cute, but rather pathetic or pitiable, and evolved over time. More info: http://gogen-allguide.com/ka/kawaii.html

(B) By arbitrary here I mean that there is no linguistic connection. "Arbitrarily chosen because they are similar" => "chosen for no reason other than their similarity".
WordPressで100件の「いいね」を頂きました（祈）†
> I worked for Cray Research from 1984-1996, and I can tell you that the story of him tunneling under his house is largely a fabrication made up by John Rollwagen to enhance Seymour's reputation as a quirky, visionary genius (which he was, but not because he was digging tunnels under his house). What actually transpired involved Seymour having some excavation work done on his basement by contractors. As far as I know, none of them were elves. Rollwagen also took an incident where Seymour burned a sailboat at his lake house and turned it into a mythic tale of Cray building a new sailboat every year, then burning it so he could design and build a new one the following year.

https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html
>Consider something as simple as parsing an integer in a text-based format; there may be whitespace to skip, an optional sign character, and then a loop to accumulate digits and convert them (itself a subtraction, multiply, and add), and there's still the questions of all the invalid cases and what they should do.

^[ *][-?][0-9][0-9]*[ *]$

You're welcome. Anything that passes that regex is a valid number. Now using that as a basis of a lexer means that you can store any int in whatever precision you feel like.

It's unfortunate that the majority of programmers these days are so computer illiterate that they can't write a parser for matching parens and call you an elitist for pointing out this is something anyone with a year of programming should be able to do in their sleep.
> It seems like your work machine has something impeding performance.

I thought it might be that, but it so happens we had to get a Windows 10 machine for home use for a particular purpose, and Edge on it is also slow (though perhaps not quite as slow as my work machine). Both are Dell laptops, so it's possible that Dell puts some extra OEM stuff in that hurts performance.
I can see this. Marketer can make a video, get investment, and try to deliver.

Engineers herded along by management.
Software security architect here. Senior management strongly discourages writing code on my team. But this is because we work at-scale with hundreds of products comprised of thousands of microservices.

I don’t attend product teams’ standups , but our engagements run on the order of weeks to months.

We don’t micromanage development or design choices made by product teams. Yes, we review code and make (strong) suggestions, but we leave service teams free to make choices as long as the risk is low and commensurate with the threat model. It’s our job to guide major decisions and, occasionally, advise on the “least-bad” short-term solution, pointing out where, when, and why a re-architecture will be required in the future. Generally speaking, teams want our feedback on design proposals and concepts. It’s a healthy relationship.

Occasionally we have to force teams to reimplement, or block release, but that’s a very rare occurrence.

Unlike many comments on this thread, service teams leave us with pretty positive feedback. It’s very rare that teams leave negative feedback on our design engagements.
Then you'd love FORTH. Why limit yourself to hyphens and question marks? The only character you can't use in a FORTH identifier is space.

FORTH ?KNOW IF HONK ELSE FORTH LEARN THEN

: C(-; LICK SMILE NOSE WINK ;

\ FORTH PAPER TAPE PUNCHER:

: PT# ( L --- L/2 )
DUP 1 AND IF
ASCII @
ELSE BL THEN
HOLD
2/
;

: PT. ( N --- )
<# PT# PT# PT#
ASCII . HOLD
PT# PT# PT# PT#
#> TYPE
;

: CUT
." -----------" CR
;

: PTAPE
CUT
BEGIN
KEY ?DUP WHILE
DUP ." |" PT. ." |" SPACE EMIT CR
REPEAT
CUT
;
You're usually free to refuse the blood test, but the DMV is also free to revoke your license arbitarily.
Bubble sort works amazingly well on the small scale.

It shits itself on the large scale.

Just like how trying to run an economy like you do a household results in the great depression.
Thoughts on Racket2