skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I'm asking you what is the purpose of THIS PR move. Every PR move has a reason behind it. You suggested I misunderstood the purpose of it. What, in your opinion, is the purpose of this PR move?
Not everyone who comes across this post will be spending more time reading about productivity than being productive.

The term I've heard for that is 'productivity porn'. (as in, getting the satisfaction from observing productivity, without actually putting in the effort yourself).
We're getting generators as well? Awesome.
Reading about all this kind of shows why Apple must have decided not to include SD slots in their iDevices.
Tips to boost your productivity as a web developer
> Windows WinAPI shite

Are you kidding me? What's next, EBCDIC and zOS?
We also lean towards creating plenty of institutions in society. We have regulatory oversight groups. We have law enforcement groups. We have trade organizations and Parent Teacher Associations and lobbying interests and and and.
Honestly, I disagree with the "low barrier to entry" point on the basis of all the other points that follow. Yes, "Hello World" is easy. But a non-trivial distributed system consisting of dozens or hundreds of these functions, where each function is defined and deployed on its own, with an automated deployment pipeline with rollback functionality... not to mention debugging functionality, etc, etc.

But sure, Hello World is easy.
Softbank's deals - Sprint, WeWork, and now this - make me question their financial intelligence.
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"Like I read a few years ago at some convention in NYC some organization couldn't get their booth up and running because they weren't allowed to plug in their own equipment because "that's union work" and they had to wait for a card-carrying union member to come plug in their TV or something ridiculous."

That sounds almost as bad as an open-plan office.
On the other hand, the times were the CPU was polling keyboard resistances and then directly controlling your CRT's electron beam accordingly are long over. Today's systems are complicated, and we try to hide that complexity behind abstractions. All of those with buffers. Input buffers, OS message buffers, tripple image buffers, and so on. All of it adding time.

Yes, we won't again have the responsiveness we had 30 years ago. Because the tradeoffs are just not worth it. At the same time, stories like the article are a necessary reminder of there being worth in performance.
This title would also make a good scifi movie subtitle.
Peering has traditionally been free.
so you are criticizing them for polluting by defending a policy that dump pollution on them. talk about being out of touch with reality.
It's all about American culture, because this just isn't the case for women from other parts of the world at all.

In America, being an extremely LOUD, boorish, extroverted person is esteemed, and that's who white American women want to date and marry (regardless of whether they want kids or not, as many of them these days don't). Men with dogs fit into this stereotype well, whereas men with cats don't, they're stereotyped as "nerds" and introverts, and white American women have no interest in dating them.

Again, note that this is entirely cultural (subcultural?), and not universal, even within America. Immigrant women are usually not like this at all (which is part of why I only date non-American women these days), and also black American women aren't real keen on pets either.
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Is it expensive to build a community by a startup?
there's reason to believe SoftBank is gonna go "boom", and in a big way:

- they have tons of illiquid assets (equity in startups and early stage companies - hard to shed - see later)

- SoftBank Vision Fund "borrows" from its huge illiquid assets (Uber + other SV stuff) in order to make the market by throwing around insane amounts of cash ($billions); in other words, they make their own markets in order to pump up their valuations but the underlying thing is fantasy-land VC goop (see any problems here?);

- the only way to shed many of these assets are with buyouts or IPOs and the most recent ones haven't been great (the 'big names' of which [UBER, LYFT] were treated like hot garbage even shorted by IPO underwriters in case of UBER) so it's not like this garbage can be punted to someone else

- SoftBank routinely sells assets to its Vision Fund and uses shady stuff like this in order to provide non-standard accounting; we have no idea what their financial health is due to a maze of non-standard reporting

- SoftBank owns over half (!!) of Japanese corporate bonds

- they have insane amounts of debt - "¥15.7tn ($143bn) of interest-bearing debt and ¥27tn of total liabilities, far greater than its ¥11.6tn market capitalisation"

as best i can tell this is approaching Ponzi territory. once more greater fools wake up to the fact that VC isn't all the rage, get the hell out of the way of anything that SoftBank touches.
How to Make a Discord Bot in Python
Strangely, all the HTML elements are there but the opacity of <body> stays at 0 without JavaScript.
What I like about cooking my own Indian is how economical it is when making large batches. Just a few meals of this stuff costs the same as a couple weeks worth of the same if I were to make a month's worth batch. Freezing it really has no effect.
"...that's like me and my co-workers voting on how much we'll be paid."

You mean like every C-level manager at every corporation in the world?
https://www2.b3ta.com/hecatorshecat/#
Absolutely. They are the counterweight to corporations. Otherwise there would be no natural counterpoise to the interests of companies. I do not believe in the invisible hand resulting in the best possible state of equlibrum.
A future is a one-shot generator, give or take.

Good reading list at the bottom of https://areweasyncyet.rs, starting with this post that uses generators as an example: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2018-01-25-async-i-self-re...
This is a half-baked talking point. If you're saying a single person can't send two billion dollars in cash in the current system, then, great, nobody cares. That's not a problem people have. If you're suggesting international remittences aren't a solved problem at a small scale, I suggest you do some research.

Further Bitcoin's wild volatility means that no, you can't send "a few billion dollars" within a "few minutes" for a "few dollars". To send dollars, you first need to pay an exchange a 1% fee to buy BTC, wait a few days for it to clear, pay a BTC transaction fee, wait a few hours for the confirmations, pay the destination exchange a 1% fee, then wait for that to clear. All in you're talking a few dollars, a few days, a few percent and huge volatility risk.

Or, you fire up Interactive Brokers and pay mid-market rates for an exchange with a fee of $20 per million, confirmed instantly. Or TransferWise. Or Western Union (believe it or not they're pretty competitive).
The lizard brain likes seeing conspicuous consumption (indication of wealth/status) and signs that you are possibly ok pissing away resources on a kid. Having a pet dog is the way we Americans prefer to signal that. The interface is biological. The implementation is cultural.
Interesting article. One thing that wasn't made clear - who is holding the new Chinese debt? Chinese consumers are the first borrowers, I assume, but then are local banks borrowing from the Chinese central bank? Is the central bank then borrowing from abroad, and why is this debt dollar-denominated? Why don't they just pay it off with cash instead of continuing to put that cash into US Treasuries?

PS, @joshuafkon, you have an unnecessary apostrophe in the "it's" in the last sentence!
It's really a shame that site was sold off; it was a great site before that happened. It hasn't been completely ruined yet, but it's definitely not as nice as it was.
1. societies before us have seen the consequences of nepotism and corruption.

2. it is critical to remove subconscious bias in the hiring process.

3. the only effective means to do so as a society is to handicap those who take advantage of subconscious biases.

marketing in itself is less than a zero-sum game; it's players are parasites on the working class. we should all do our part to reduce it's effects.
Cool stuff! Does this implement both the helper and unhelped mode?
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I liked the suggestion that the important difference between "for fun" and "for work" is reliability.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9EyzaH3jzH3PyQtM5/the-costs-...
> Look at that elpais article

To put things in context, the article talks about 350 forest fires starting in the same weekend or so, in a spanish area sligthly smaller than Connecticut. On Sunday night there was 139 fires active at the same time with South winds of up to 120Km/h and an active warning of prohibition of burning any vegetation.

Trying to do "pasture regeneration" in this conditions goes long, long way beyond negligence.
This. Whenever someone calls for "fairness" without a formula to calculate I immediately disregard.
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No, you have it backwards. China has been keeping their currency artificially strong to avoid capital flight and a crisis in consumer confidence. So for the last ten years, it has been closer to 6 RMB/usd than 7 RMB/usd. This couldn’t last, and the yuan’s natural market value was closer to 7, even above 7 and maybe even 8. If China does nothing, the RMB falls in value, not rises.
Are they talking about nuclear missiles? Doesn't "mutually assured destruction" still hold?
True, I didn't mean to imply officially-sanctioned engineers are better than developers in all things, or that one can't be both, or that glacially slow and careful programming is the right approach in all circumstances. I just have issues with developers in companies with "move fast and break things" cultures calling what they do "engineering".
In a circumstance where bosses are forced to tradeoff between these goals, how should they choose?
3. Invite the community to contribute.

Enable users to talk on behalf of your brand via a company blog, promo-projects, and social media.

Design companies are great in motivating the community to share design tips, articles, assets, designs, and even positive vibes. If you open the research and check visual, you'll see it :)

Some design companies focus on content, inviting opinion leaders to share their knowledge through interviews. Others run community-driven blogs, openly inviting contributors by prominently positioning “submit content” call to actions. Another tactic is to motivate the community to share more of their design work made with specific design tools. The more the community contributes to anything brand-related, the tighter the connection formed between brand and users.
Well if you want to pay someone on the international sanctions list in cash you're going to need to buy a plane ticket, and check your duffel back of money. If you want to wire it to them, you definitely can't (or if the wire goes through expect a knock on the door). So while in theory, yes, in practice, no.
In that list only the last point, delivering value to shareholders, is a purpose of a corporation.

A purpose is not the same as something in its interest or that a "nice" corporation might do.

For example, investing in its employees might be in the corporation's interest in order to fulfill its purpose. But a corporation is not created in order to invest in its employees...

This is a PR exercise, as already commented by someone else.
2017, yet still relevant seeing the stagnating state of security in Afghanistan.
If I believed everything I read on a dating profile, I'd be convinced that every woman is "fluent in sarcasm", "obssessed with travel" and is "looking for the Jim Halpert to her Pam Beasly".

In reality, most people don't truly know what they're looking for and definitely cannot afford to travel more than 1x a year, if that. Hell, I "travel" that much and it'll never be a bullet point on my profile because it's not something I really value.

People put in the most formulaic BS on their profiles in the hope of appearing "normal" to a potential match. The UX of most dating sites encourages this kind of self-pigeonholing as well.

In rare cases, people will actually write "I really don't know what to write here, it's hard to summarize myself this way". But I find that to be a truer reflection of a person rather than the boilerplate text people tend to post.
That hasn’t really been true since before the Asian financial crisis.
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People get bit by certificate expiration all the time.

The only way to make sure you don't get bitten by things like certificate expiration is to exercise update path often, and the more often the better.
I have often found that doing things efficiently isn't really harder than doing them slow. So why not aim for software that's reasonably performant from the start? Sure you can micro-optimize to get every last nanosecond, but that's not what I'm talking about.
file.pizza has mostly solved this for me. Not ideal UX, but it gets the job done.
When I was in Portland a few weeks ago, my kids and I went on the submarine tour at OMSI. Fascinating look at something you normally only see in movies. I would highly recommend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Blueback_(SS-581)
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> Why would Yuan escape China and why is it a bad thing for its currency?

If yuan could leave China, people could buy 7.2 of them for a dollar, then turn around and sell only six of them to the Chinese gov't and get their dollar back.

As you can see, this creates an unsustainable situation. Thus, the Chinese gov't must prevent capital flight if they want to prop up their currency value. Otherwise, arbitrage will eventually bankrupt them.
Nice, what does it mean to be updatable?
Which the author explains near the end of the article.
https://starry.com/internet

These guys are doing that around the Boston area. They aren't in my area yet but I have friends who have signed up and had good experiences.
no mention of how devaluing the currency affects or is affected by the interest rate. china is lowering interest rates...

china's interest rate is still higher than than the us feds.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/investing/china-interest-rate...
As far as I know the purpose of a corporation is to conduct lawful business. I don’t believe the law says anything about shareholder returns.
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Not necessarily. They're an implementation detail of the compiler, and aren't fully baked yet to boot.

But there's plenty of reason to want generators, including the fact that they let you build streams. And the fact that async/await relies heavily on them has pushed the implementation much closer to being ready. I hope we get them at some point!
Most of this is obviously desirable, but the explicit message is "we commit to doing good", with the implicit message being "we can be trusted to do good". The mechanisms which guarantee these promises are wholly unaddressed.

For example, there's no mention of competition or its belief that healthy, fair competition brings about these things. In fact, it's distinctly anti-competitive in the fact that the leadership of all of these companies are behind closed doors coordinating a message like this.

Instead of going to a fancy conference and chumming it up with each other, then patting yourselves on the back about what great people you are, lead by example and hold the others to task. Make the living conditions of your employees better and then attack your competitor for not keeping up. Quit using the latest cultural cause as a marketing stunt and focus on making a better world for your customers and employees. The fact that you wrapped your corporate logo in a pride flag for a month doesn't do a thing to help your employee whose sanity is tested every day by their crappy manager, whether they're gay or not.

And figure out how to still make all this profitable in the long run.
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If you are looking for a brand-new phone in the solidly mid-range for around $250, you can look at pocophone or OnePlus for smaller but still well-known companies making excellent phones. These phones compete in pretty much every way with the more expensive offerings by google or samsung, and have no vendor bloatware.

OnePlus's latest models have become a bit pricier, going on $450, but you can still buy the oneplus 6 straight from them for a good price.
NASA, SpaceX Coordinate Crucial Astronaut Recovery Exercise
Should 51% of losses come out of employees pockets?
That's a different argument and doesn't rely upon hyperbole.

Yes, I've felt pressure in the business environment to do questionable things because my competitors were doing them.
Doesn't sound like it.

From the article:
> “As these facilities could be rendered useless by precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict, the PLA missile threat challenges America’s ability to freely operate its forces from forward locations throughout the region,”

Nuclear weapons probably don't fall under precision strikes.
Subject to ratio requirements. Go have a look at peeringdb - there is a field for "Ratio Requirement" and it is common for that field to be "Yes"
> "Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers" omits the responsibility to choose suppliers ethically, as well.

Great point! But, if this document is a starting point in Ernest, then as long as this is followed then it's a good start. The next iteration should, then, include a strong commitment to objective fairness in the supplier selection process. Whether or not that actually happens will depend on the commitment to remove corruption in the process.
4. Empower the community to build plugins & extensions

this is something specific for the design & development industry, but can be applied to many startups as well.

Plugins enrich the tool capabilities, providing huge value by giving end users the opportunity to build the features they need. At the same time, this forms a loyal community of plugin makers, who can even build their own small businesses on top of it. The main question is how to motivate the creative community to make plugins.
StrictYAML: Type-safe parser for a restricted subset of YAML
Exactly. My profile clearly states that I have cats, and at least on OKC, I do have the audacity in the "questions" (in a couple asking if you have/want a dog or like dogs) to say that I don't like dogs much, and like them about as much as I like goats and horses (which is to say, they're fun to see on a farm once in a while, but that's it). I rarely get any interest from white American women, but I get tons of interest from Asian women.

I agree that this is an American thing, but moreover, I think it's a relatively recent thing too. I don't remember this dog craze existing back in the 90s.
I don't quite follow. What exactly is the overhead that other languages have for futures that is eliminated here?
It holds and China only has 300 nukes, which isn't even close to the US and Russian numbers, which both have more experience handling them. Bait-y headline.
Exactly. Nobody knows what the threshold for opening a can of nuclear whopass is. Who's willing to bet a billion lives on it being in a particular spot?

The US and China have far too much common economic interest to go to war short of China doing something so absurdly aggressive that you can't not go to war (e.g. invading Japan) I don't see that happening.
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Whoa whoa whoa there chief. Don't move the goalposts. The article's author stated "High Skilled" not "highly-technically-skilled". He feels he's part of a highly skilled trade which was his reason for opposing unions.

Journalism isn't the same thing as "writing listicles for Buzzfeed", and even that isn't always as easy as it might seem to be to laymen.
That should of-course be "multi post tweets", must have fat fingered that one.
This to me is the biggest issue with Tesla- they aren't a startup that just did its first big product release and is struggling to keep up with demand, they are a 16 year old company that is still failing to keep up with demand and can not support its customer base.

They aren't building on a scale never seen before, this is relatively small scale for the traditional manufacturers. Yet you hear stories about how 3's in particular seem to be in some cases thrown out the door out of sheer will.

Tesla is just kind of fascinating this way- pushing the envelope in so many places, but just floundering to get the basics right in so many others. I really hope they succeed, and may even buy a model 3 when I am next in the market for a new car, but I feel they are still selling to "early adopters" when they really should have been out of these growing pains years ago. I would never recommend one to my less tech enthused family members.
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Yes agreed and the best part about this is that it quickly transitioned to being recognized as a silly term and used tongue in cheek
Your statement is wrong because there is no reason to believe or any evidence to support the following statement:

> The point of this statement is to signal to the public, that the elite are ready to give them what they want and understand that the inequality is unsustainable. They are prepared to make concessions now and it's up to the public to take them.

Corporations suddenly wanting to tackle inequality and make 'concessions to the public'? That's not a reason for this PR move, that's corporate fairytale.

> I gave a reason for the PR move. I'm curious why you think my reason is wrong?

You did not give any reason other than exactly what the architect of this PR move would expect a very gullible person to interpret this as.
IRS begins tax clampdown on unreported cryptocurrency profits
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Ask HN: When Is It Better to Keep the Algorithm to Yourself?
Suppose you're competing in a machine learning/coding contest and through your own research come up with a technique that is say, 4% better than the best thing anyone has tried (just pulling numbers out of the air here).

At what point is it better to not claim the prize on said contest and just keep the method secret? At what point should you publish it? Does it ever make sense to just use it in your own capacity analyzing data for companies as a 3rd party?

I mean I'm sure it's all dependent on the money involved but one has to wonder where the breaking point is. What can you make as an independent 3rd party willing to do analysis with proprietary software you aren't releasing?

In such a case, how could you ever provide confidence enough that the methods work? Also, how would you bill if essentially the time spent is mainly runtime? I'd love to hear any speculation, stories, industry standard behavior or history around this sort of thing.
I really like C++FQA that covers a lot of inconsistencies and shortcomings in C++ design https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
Seems like they just mean cruise missiles. But yea, fixed targets are definitely vulnerable to cruise missiles.
A decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. military’s budget has seen America lose its primacy in the Western Pacific, giving the edge to an increasingly sophisticated China, a Sydney-based think tank warned.

So you're saying there's a 'Gap' in missile technology between the US and China? A 'Missile Gap', perhaps?
Perhaps we should have a good old-fashioned arms-race to sort it all out?