skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with rtpg on this one - and disagree with the Diego.

I also read/type Japanese (my writing out of lack of continuing to write on a daily basis has gone to the dogs). With four years in Japanese universities and 20 years living in Japan I had the opportunity to experience what it is to get reasonably proficient in a second language.

The synaptic connections you can make by understanding 'most' of a compound kanji (multiple characters joined together) along with parts of the kanji makeup for a specific kanji you do not know puts you in an incredible position to figure out what the word is likely to mean.

Regardless, once you Japanese gets to a point, you begin to realise it is less about the meaning of words and more about the context and usage of language. You find yourself understanding how to use some words you have not studied without having said to yourself 'so what is this word equivalent in English' - and at times there is not a word equivalent in English. That is when you realise you are thinking in Japanese not just translating.

Synaptic connections, context and knowing what the relevant responses to how you want to respond are the key to fluency in my opinion. This is also the case for writing emails etc.

This also explains why people who do homestays where they get to watch people interact with each other progress faster than someone who goes to live with their significant other half. If you are involved in half of the interactions you get less opportunity to mimic the common responses.

Sorry for digressing a little on this one. Once you get that 777 kanji mark you would be well on your way to being able to contextually understand much more for the kanji/sentences you do not fully comprehend - which in turn leads to more kanji being 'gut-felt' understood if not fully formally learnt.

An additional benefit once you get some proficiency is that you can hear a word you do not know - but you can guess the half of the kanji being used in the compound word (and confirm by asking) and that gives you some context of what the word means. Very much like using latin/greek roots in English to breakdown words.

Time to go back to my coding before the day gets away from me. I just needed to respond to this one because I thought Diego's opinion on language learning was too far off the mark from my experience with it.
that seems more like an exaggeration than a fraud if the product does work for the most part no?
Research for Practice: The DevOps Phenomenon
At TMI the core suffered a partial meltdown. Downriver is Chesapeake Bay.

Lucky doesn't begin to cover what happened at TMI.
Do you really think the engineering leaders are the ones who maintain the web servers?
I'm not sure there implementation of inverse in stock strategies, but assuming the basis is returns proportional to market rate x, that logic doesn't really follow for all cases I think. If the random strategy has gains of 1x and the non-random strategy has a loss of -0.5x, then wouldn't the inverse just be a gain of 0.5x?
Glad I’m not alone!!
The alternative tenants would also presumably rent the building rather than buy it outright. So it would still be opex.
Their title is architect, but they ... don't architect?

> They don't design the architecture -- they convince all of the participants in a project to collaborate on designing the architecture
It would be interesting to have an option in CLIs that will translate all short options into long options.

This way you can take somebody's

`cut -sf 2 -d \|`

and turn it into
`cut --only-delimited --fields 2 --delimiter '|'

Sadly this would require a convention along the lines of a --whatif --convert-to-long in every CLI ...
New York? What's wrong with new York? They're authoritarian in just the one thing most people want them to be authoritarian on, which is policing
In my naive and ignorant perspective, it _feels_ like it paves the way to spend more now without thought of how to pay it back.

A 10-year bond carries the likelihood that a way to pay it back will need to be considered in the near future, when many involved in selling the bonds are still around to figure out how to pay them back. Who here, with at least 50% confidence can say they'll be around in 50 years? 100 years?

The issuance of bonds on that scale appear to carry the assumption that it will be paid back _somehow_ at _some point_ with little regard as to how. Isn't the current social security crises partly the fault of not thinking at scale of a century?

Again, ignorance and nativity, please correct me where I'm not understanding.
Hello Everyone, I'm Yogesh Srihari Co-Founder of Yolorekt (https://yolorekt.com)
There are only a few things one can do with their Ether as of today. You can trade it, hodl it, or purchase porn with it. Recently online gaming has been one of the more obvious use cases with many developers and game designers pouring into the vertical with limited success. The problem is that there aren't many games that are enjoyable to play due to terrible user experience or just flat out bad game mechanics.

Traders are thrown into three minute battles where their knowledge of the market and prediction of where the price of ETH is headed on a short term bases is put to the test. Each game last three minutes and is broken down into three phases.

One of the biggest hurdles to overcome today with Ethereum based dApp’s is generating mass scale adoption due to their complex and lengthy on boarding process. Entering the Ethereum space for new users is hard. Most dApps make users go through a ~17 step on boarding process, which creates a steep entry curve and slows adoption.

When building yolorekt one of our main goals was to reinvent the onboarding process by simplifying it in order to generate mass scale adoption.

Before Yolorekt came along, options were complicated investment instruments exploited mostly by investment finance veterans (elitesbros) or those with financial engineering backgrounds (elitesbros). Our company’s mission is to open up this exclusive market to anyone and everyone in a fun and intuitive game. Inspired by blockchain’s egalitarian roots, we provide an onramp to the powerful world of derivatives through fantastic UX and user guides, where both novice and expert can participate side by side. This is only the beginning as we provide access to more assets and game durations. We’d love to hear from our users on where to take this amazing platform next!

Any feedback is appreciated. For questions, you could reach me yogesh@yolorekt.com

Follow us twitter @playyolorekt for more on launch updates, if the project interests you
If I believed patio11’s 2025 projection, I'd also think by 2030 every Fortune 500 would be looking to optimize their remote-working costs by identifying their steady baseline needs in each major metro, acquiring leases to meet that dedicated capacity, and only allowing individual reimbursements for workers they don't have dedicated space available for (possibly on a day-to-day basis.)

But, I’m not convinced that his 2025—6 years from now—vision is even approximately correct.
Everyone who says "we're saddling future generations with debt" are almost exclusively rich people that want to cut entitlement spending.

Which is why it's absolutely great that they're on the way to earning negative yields on their wealth. If they want a positive real yield from risk-free assets like Treasuries they should advocate for Medicare For All and increased infrastructure spending.
I think your estimate for N2 is a bit too optimistic: passing it in two years would be very difficult without living in Japan.

For context, it took me 3 years of university (outside Japan) to pass N2.
The people I am describing are more technical than project managers and are able to give informed advice on the architecture and the code, and often commit some of the code to the project in addition to the other project management duties.
That would be reasonable if the US was funding investments with debt. Instead it’s subsidies mostly tax breaks and consumption for little long term return.

Lowering the cost of debt is still a good idea, but let’s not pretend we are in a fiscally sound situation.
TunnelBear has been around a long time, and they wouldn’t be the first company to come out with a password manager. If they were, then you would blame 1Password for copying them.

I don’t use TunnelBear myself, but they do seem to be mostly green in the comparison page at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/

Certainly not the worst VPN provider.
I fail to see the comparison with Groupon. Most people who have used Groupon have mixed reviews about the product, it worked sometimes but most of the times it didn't.

WeWork on the other hand seems like they have a solid product?

Maybe they are not profitable, and maybe the business model makes no sense and will never be profitable. In that sense then maybe you are right?

But in the mean time, the product they are selling works for their customers and there is high demand at the current price point (which is already insane imo).
Additionally to CPLX's point, they can also move profits into low-tax countries by licensing their brand. The fix costs for that are too high for a Local Coffee Co. to copy.
See also https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
> I can bounce among a hot desk at a variety of locations around the city, do the same in cities across the EU/US ...

what about a consistent user experience? that might differentiate We from competitors: ease of use and familiarity of environment for the workers. I mean, I go into a Starbucks or a Target store and it looks familiar and I already know what I'm gonna get (another Starbucks).
Ask HN: Anyone hiring for entry level web development roles?
ASK HN: Anyone hiring for entry level web development roles?
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Thanks, I read the Reddit comments and I thought I was the only one seeing that.

I mean it's hardly a thought experiment since it's already the basic idea behind Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", which I'm currently reading. The communities on Annarres are really much alike what is discribed by OP
If it won't someone else will pay.

Countries fall and mutate but their borrowings get paid.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/world/russia-redeeming-cz...
this adds no particularly interesting facts or points of view on an issue that i think at this point basically everyone knows about - that the current US admin is climate hostile
> that seems more like an exaggeration than a fraud if the product does work for the most part no?

If you bought it to go to the moon, it doesn’t work as promised. If the lie was wilful, that’s honest-services fraud.

Less facetious of an example: you sell a company that makes lots of money but has a material liability on its books. The liability can’t kill the company. But you intentionally hid it from a buyer. The company still generates all those dollars. But your hiding this material fact from the purchaser is fraudulent.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. None of this is legal advice.
$12 per meal is "absurdly expensive"? I think it's comparable to eating out.
In the near term, I agree that genetically modified humans make a ton of sense. In fact, this is already happening.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331330/

Post-AGI, I'm not sure if life as we know it makes sense from a practical perspective. My post AGI assumptions:

- You can fully emulate a brain digitally

- The AGI will do this emulation with less power than our bodies naturally consume

- Any physical interaction with the world will be carried out better with 100% robotics or networked bodies genetically modified to the point we can no longer consider them independent or human.

I really don't think the AGI will have any inherent practical use of keeping humans around in any form. The real question is what will the AGI want to do? It will literally be a god with no limits we are capable of understanding. What will this god want to do?
A simple way to reason about EBITDA, is raw earnings before tax and accounting specialists come in and do financial engineering. Typically accountants will do some magic to earnings by using ITDA, so this gives a bit more of a uniform earnings picture across businesses.
Does this mean we will finally be able to easily and quickly, hack that pesky people forcing us all to listen to their Bluetooth speakers (invariably with bad music) on public transports?
These days, if I'm reading print, I use the kanji appendix of the dictionary I'm using (big red Kokugo Jiten, by Kodan-sha, 1993). The kanji are grouped by stroke count, then within stroke count by radical. Usually kanji lookup can be avoided.

Firstly, unusual words tend to have furigana, which makes it trivial. Next, if the unknown kanji isn't the first one in the word, it's possible to do a prefix-based dictionary lookup. In many cases, also, I've been able to guess a reading by common structure. E.g. both 赤(red) and 跡(traces, remains) have a "seki" reading due to a common element, and 根(root) and 痕 (traces, remains) have a "kon" reading, also due to a common element. You might be able to guess at 痕跡 (konseki) by thinking of 根赤.

How we can find 跡 in the Kokuko Jiten's appendix is by counting the strokes first: 13. Then in the 13 stroke section, of the appendix, we find the subsequence of 13-stroke kanji that have the 足 seven stroke radical. The radicals are sorted by stroke count also, so we can find this subsequence fairly quick.

I can recognize quite a number of words that have at least one kanji which doesn't occur in any other word that I know. I've never studied the kanji in isolation, but I can recognize it in that word.
I use two banks. Schwab for checking, as others have said, they’re excellent.

Discover for savings for that 2% interest.

I’ve tried other online only banks, ally for instance. But discover is the only one I’ve found with no fees to order more checks, no fees for maintenance in general, and a pretty great customer support to boot. My only complaint is the slow transaction log. For instance when I pay my credit card, it takes almodt 3 days to show up.

It’s why I moved my checkings to Schwab instead. Almost the same benefits with no fees, no hassle.
Your clearly-communicated point was that you didn't believe my amusing anecdote. Do you believe it now?
>I'm of the mindset that code written 20 years ago should run today.

So you would have cp/m, MS-DOS, PDP-11 RSX-11M, Coherent, Vax VMS, old broken compilers for dead languages, IBM 360 TOS (yes, tape operating system), IBM 360 DOS, Sigma 5 Real-Time-Batch monitor, autocoder, 1401 software, Palm OS?

But for the love of all that is Balloons and Seashells, why?

More to the point--did Chrome have FTP 20 years ago? No, it did not.

In my opinion, they should have never put it there in the first place.
> If our "Software engineering leaders" cannot handle simple tasks, what does it say about our profession?

It says that they have more important problems to be working on than managing their university's web-servers, which a CS undergrad could do.
I happened to read about Patton's Best and thought it was a really interesting solo game. I really liked the idea of following a small team through a number of days of a campaign, although this was something that was handled very simply in the original board game. But then I thought, couldn't this be done really well in a computer game? I had programmed a couple unfinished games in the past, and was looking for a project that I could bring to completion.

Also, I simply thought that this was something that ought to exist, so I went ahead and created it.

The first version was basically an attempt to translate the board game experience into a complter game, and since I'm neither an artist nor a programmer, the roguelike style suited me very well - no graphics, and an emphasis on the mechanics of the game. The sequel has had a number of false starts, but recently I thjink that I've been making good progress, and it will hopefully end up fixing many of the problems with the original game, and extend it into new territory.
Some places call this a "Principal Developer." Believe it is largely the same thing, i.e. software/system designer.
Inequality of assets had risen to extraordinary levels. The world is awash with cash looking for somewhere to park. If wealth taxes are politically inconceivable, fine; let the government sell negative real yield bonds instead. Nobody's even forced to buy them.

How many dollars should the government borrow for 99 cents to be repaid in a century?
Please don't make these dismissals, there are many companies that make tons of money off of GPL software. The GPL purposefully disallows anyone adding restrictions to the code that would cripple commercial use. It's fine if your company doesn't want to comply with its terms, you don't have to use that software. But just remember that the GPL is not meant to pander to companies that intend to take the code, lock it up in a proprietary product and never give anything back to the community.
If someone could explain me cuz i dont know if i realize what's going on.

Is this real ? I mean, its weird that i didnt found anything on the net which talk about that creepy situation...
Fidelity has a good banking service and credit card system. If your retirement / investment accounts are at Fidelity, it's really convenient.

They do have "branches" in larger cities, where you can deposit large checks, but they won't cash checks or give you money there.

The ATM card automatically refunds you for fees using any one else's bank, which is really nice. This means any ATM is your ATM. The Fidelity credit cards are okay, but they do charge an international transaction fee for currency exchange, which I think is 1% (better than most, but not 0). The website is nice, functional, and the same website for investments/401k/savings/credit cards, and they offer a fair amount of security (2FA) for it. Their phone support is pretty good.

I've only been banking at places that don't have physical branches for the last 15 or so years, and that has only made me happier. Then again, I don't need to interact with a teller on a regular basis.

The interest rates are not good at Fidelity though. So for long term savings, I bank with Ally, and use the websites to transfer money between them. Ally I'd also consider top notch.
Yep, and no tip, drink overcharging, etc.
But the cost of that convenience is in giving random devices full access to both your LAN and the Internet.

You could VLAN them into a separate audio-devices network and whitelist their Internet access but the effort in doing that would seem to outweigh any advantages of network audio devices.

Sometimes a dumb, network-unaware Bluetooth audio sink just works...
The American Left's abandoning of a carbon tax this campaign cycle and in the "Green New Deal" has been pretty disheartening.
Anyone who bothered doing the math knew this was a horrible idea from the very start.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
Unicorn startup idea: Build a FTP search engine!
Perhaps users can pay their bills by leaving a bag of cash in the park with "Virgin Media" written on it, as it would be illegal for anyone else to take it.
A pretty generic puff piece, but I'm at least glad they omitted "X slams Y" in favor of the slightly less stale "X tore into Y".
Hm.

| sed 's/ //g'

and

.trim()

only do the same thing if there are no interior spaces, like filenames for attachments might have.
When your reputation is on the brink you attempt to borrow more. It matters little what the rate turns out to be, as long as it is lower than it will be once the reputation is soiled.
I skimmed at the S-1 filing .. they list 400k members for 2018, and revenues of $1.8B, so Average Revenue Per Member is $4500 USD.

Now the gross margins look terrible, but the sell is probably this: how hard is it to monetize 500k users (Q1 2019 numbers) who land up and work out of your managed premises everyday?
Yes, I agree with you.

For context, the original title was:

> “This is “how I tricked my co-workers” into using Racket.”

But has now been changed to:

> Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL

Which is the original sub-title of the article. The real title is actually:

> Making OpenAPI / Swagger Bearable With Your Own DSL
If a company is controlling costs by forcing people to work-from-home instead of paying for office space, it's not going to reimburse the people who it is forcing to work from home for a collab space plus a profit margin for the operator of the collab space.

As for individuals on their own, sure, if you are permanently working from home, a collab space is great if you don't have a dedicated office—but if WFH is a permanent arrangement, why wouldn't you rent space that includes a dedicated office instead of renting the two things separately with a commute between them plus probably paying a premium for shared office space since it will probably be in a more central, and expensive, location.

I mean, assuming We’s business plan isn't to continue to rent space at a loss forever, but to eventually make a profit.
thanks for your reply, i'm truly interested in this as i have money stuck in a low interest checking account that i want to move to Simple. i'm in the US.

if i have $50K in a checking account they're obligated to write me a check (?) for $50K if i tell them i want to close my account?

if that's correct, does the amount matter? when do AML/KYC laws kick in? will these online focused banks accept new accounts funded with checks over $10K?
Jesus Christ that post shows everything that's wrong with Software Architect as a role and the guy is completely oblivious to it
Racket is a Scheme variant and Dr Scheme, now Dr Racket, is a kind of interactive development environment similar to the above ones.

However when I talk about Lisp I seldom think of Scheme, due to their differences, in spite of the common parentheses.
> A 10-year bond carries the likelihood that a way to pay it back will need to be considered in the near future

Consider someone with multiple mortgages. Their taking out a 20y mortgage has little bearing on when that debt will be extinguished. Maybe cash is flowing and it’s gone in two. Maybe it’s repeatedly refinanced for fifty years.

There is no evidence that Congress or the electorate even consider the term structure of federal debt when considering spending. Deficits are a fiscal, not Treasury, matter.
Dotemu have also re-released it:

http://www.dotemu.com/game/little-big-adventure/
Hi, it's the language barrier. All reports about this creepy situation are in Chinese, so you found nothing when you searched in English.
I grew up with ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, started programming in secondary school and while in high school watched as the Internet took over the world.

I was one of those hackers ;-)
I've recently taken time to start reading The mythical man-month book by Fred Brooks.

As far as I remember (first read through this week and big parts of the book is stuffed with quotable material) he says that

- that the architect should be able to provide an example implementation

- but that it is also important that the architect steps back and stays away from the actual implementation

I've more or less already decided to re-read that book.

Highly recommend and available in searchable selectable PDF form from archive.org