skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you surprised that insider trading is occurring or just that it is blatantly obvious in this specific instance? This kind of thing happens regularly by all sorts of players. That's part of the reason retail investors should just buy an index fund, they can't expect to win against professionals engaging in insider trading all the time. SEC enforcement of insider trading was 51 in all of 2018. 51, out of probably millions of instances.

https://www.cov.com/en/news-and-insights/insights/2018/11/se...
If the govt was going to nail Disney for anti-trust they wouldn't have let them buy Fox. Disney + was being talked about before the deal was approved.
The Wives Who Made Attila the Hun
or, do!

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/lib/libedit

also:

isn't the entire GNU project itself someone 'being a prick and writing their own unix because the terms of the AT&T one were not to their liking'?

(pay no attention to the Berkely UNIX behind the curtain)

also also:

isn't this hacker news?
‘Contact Us’ Page Guidelines
That link was from 2016. They do now!

https://goo.gl/maps/oVQLjLTgbYzCdDPNA
NASA to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, which may hold life
the $4B was in cash - the 65B is in Oracle stock. he can't divest the later without having an impact on it's value

it's telling that Ellison wouldn't take stock in his own company in the transaction but rather took cash at a valuation that was 10x revenue and Oracle's largest acquisition at the time
Most of the examples listed (hex floats especially) are very much features.
// reuse this

export const createAction<T>(type: string, payload: T) => {
return {
type,
payload
};
};

// some component

onClick={event => dispatch(createAction<SomeInterface>(TYPE_CONSTANT, event.target.value))}

Where’s the boilerplate?
Wayback Machine has it: http://web.archive.org/web/20020130181017/http://www.geociti...
The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’
The drive many have to acquire billions in assets doesn't go away after they acquire billions of dollars.
"a wrapped cucumber lasts more than three times as long as an unwrapped one"

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...
“Nowadays, making music is just like trading stocks, looking at the data all day,” he says.
I made a mistake in the earlier post. I was talking about partners, but I let it get redefined as "spouse" without correcting it. I won't make that mistake again.

It's a separate conversation of how important love is to individuals, but don't you think it'd be generally something a person wouldn't admit failure at in survey?

Regarding a journal of experiences and what they learned, yep, that is valuable. It can do a lot to humanize the person. If you are interested in this type of autobiographical style, Locked Up Abroad is a good docu-series. One good episode is Cullen Thomas in South Korea. He also wrote a book called Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons where he has an interesting story and a lot of self-reflection.
That's pretty vague.

Does "assuring adequate demand" mean encouraging people to spend?

(If so, it seems like there are two ways to do it: governments can give money to people who will spend it, or they can spend it themselves.)

re: "Obviously fiscal policy needs to be a major focus, especially given what low or negative interest rates mean for the sustainability of deficits." - does this mean: governments, it's okay to spend more money?

re: "But the level of demand is also influenced by structural policies: e.g. pay-as-you-go social security, higher retirement ages, improved social insurance, support for private infrastructure investment, redistribution from the high-saving rich to the liquidity-constrained poor." - is he saying there should be more or less of these things?
Improving Neural Machine Translation with Pre-Trained Representation
At a place I previously worked, I heard a rumor that the entire job of someone who was fairly high up was to email a simple report to someone higher up every day. As someone put it, the job of a crontab entry.

Since then, I started a job that was ostensibly non-technical, and it seems like people are overly impressed by anyone who can provide a dashboard style report, and it's as though you're assumed to be putting forth significant effort every time you make a new one.

If I was able to act in a more strategic manner, I would not let on that I had automated such things, and soon my entire job would be pushing a button three or four times a day.
Fraud is relative? If I only steal below a certain ratio, I'm good? If I only fuck you below a certain percentage, I should walk?
that was an entire startup category a decade ago that raised a bunch of VC - netvibes and pageflakes come to mind
Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
or esc-esc-v if in vi mode..
The usual point bears repeating: amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
When Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the Feds.
Larry Ellison is a particularly greedy bastard. You could make a James Bond movie with him as the villain and nobody would notice.

He owns an island in Hawaii where the locals work for him as de facto serfs.

He has donated to two charities in his life: one to Stanford in exchange for not admitting fault in an options backdating scandal, and one to set up a charitable foundation to research ways to extend his own life.

The mission statements and internal marching orders at Oracle and his various other companies is "make lots of money for Larry". Nothing else matters, they will screw the users, screw the customers, screw the product, screw the employees, screw the open source community, screw the legal system, as long as there's revenue for Larry, the bosses are happy bacause that's all that the company exists for.
I might be missing the point here, but larger binaries are not always slower.
Housing prices will likely adjust accordingly too though. Houses further from jobs will decrease in value because it costs so much in gas just to get to it.
I was reading the source code for a NES assembler written in pre-C99 C, and there was an odd C feature used in it that I haven't really seen anywhere else.

It was before C had built-in booleans and the author had defined their own, but true was:

void * true_ptr = &true_ptr;

true_ptr is a pointer to itself. So however many times you deference it:

printf("%p\n", true_ptr);
printf("%p\n", &true_ptr);
printf("%p\n", *((void**)true_ptr));
printf("%p\n", *((void**)*((void**)true_ptr)));

You get the same pointer:

0x5555fefe715b
0x5555fefe715b
0x5555fefe715b
0x5555fefe715b

I still think that it's neat that, even with ASLR, you have an address at compile time that you know won't collide with address space of malloc results, or the address space of your stack.

Also you can declare the pointer as const and the value it points to as const and, if your kernel faults on writing to readonly memory pages, you get a buggier version of a NULL pointer that only segfaults on write.

Also it takes a second to figure out why the position of the const matters even though the pointer's value is the value of the pointer, and why only one of these segfaults on write:

const void * const_pointer = &const_pointer;
void * const const_value = &const_value;
The great Australian cafe war: he thought he was the best customer ever
04Jun1989
> Not 1 year you can write the same kind of code (professionally), every month new libraries you have to use

Huh, that's weird, because I've been writing in Angular & React and using the same basic libraries for years now. And before that it was jQuery and Handlebars and a lot of the same basic libraries for years.

I've made two large shifts in JS development over a decade.

Not sure why you seem to need to switch every month?
The title is deceiving. I thought this was an article about building your own electrical transformer, or building your own version of the 1980s toy.
This is an impressive engineering effort and really just a cool project, but most importantly to Microsoft, it's an excellent sales funnel for Azure.
The fixed line break probably make reading difficult on a small, narrow, variable width screen such as mobile.
The reason I personally believe you have to have a physical presence is that changes to the physical body which do not touch the brain can and do have profound impacts on consciousness. If no body is necessary, then why can't consciousness sustain itself for prolonged periods in situations of total sensory deprivation?
Are you going to update your poetry engine now that we have this?
GemFire came from VMware. Spring purchased[1] GemStone (which owned gemfire) while they were a division of VMware. RabbitMQ also came from VMware by way of Spring[2].

[1] https://spring.io/blog/2010/05/06/springsource-to-acquire-ge...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100418132113/http://www.rabbit...
Thanks for pointing it out. I'm gonna try to edit the title. Nevertheless, I hope you got a chance to try the app.
because of the ability to quote TFA?

personally i enjoy it because of insightful comments
Speaking of Auth0 and JWT... there was this nice (guest) blog post a while ago where they do cover some of the JWT problems: https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-...
agree. it's pretty well referenced in most shell documentation (checked bash and pdksh).. but then, well, you have to be someone who reads shell documentation..

of course, if you're not someone who reads shell documentation, then, well, how would you find a better reference anyway..
>Never before has education been so cheap or widely available.

Not the kind that counts to most employers (college degrees). That form of education has never been more expensive.
The hardest part of refactoring is selling people on the upsides of creating something that does the same thing the previous thing did...
> Android? Good luck getting an app in the app store without Google accidentally killing your company.

Kinda painting with a broad brush about the world's most popular operating system with an 85% mobile marketshare.

>Search? Nope... Elasticsearch now dominates that space.

Again, being really selective here ignoring the virtual monopoly on consumer search.
103 comments and not one mention of line coding!

This distance metric is exceptionally useful when picking the states to map to in line codes with error correction/detection.
Wow, didn't know that. And gotta agree, at least they've got some great films on that list.
Oh man, it kinda hurts to see someone remapping `C-o` like this… That’s one of my favorite readline bindings!

EDIT: From the bash man page:

> operate-and-get-next (C-o)

> Accept the current line for execution and fetch the next line relative to the current line from the history for editing. Any argument is ignored.
unless you’re a member of congress
It was a joke. He does this kind of jokes on a daily basis during his morning interview with journalists.
I feel sorry for you. You don't truly understand how you have the freedom for instance..To speak your mind here on HN.

Very few governments will just give away freedom and power. It needs to be take back by force.

If the HK citizens had access to weapons this entire time, the Chinese government would think twice before invading. Unfortunately, it's too late for that.

This is why the second amendment is so important in the US.
In your particular example, I like the cube rule (e.g. to answer 'is a hotdog a sandwich?')

EDIT: http://cuberule.com/
When the number on the card itself is compromised, regardless of whether your transaction was credit or debit, future transactions by the thief will put your money at risk (possibly for months) rather than the bank's money.

Debit cards should be reserved for ATM use only. Not a perfect solution but unless you are going to swear off of ATMs as well, the best one can do in the US.
Trump says Tim Cook is concerned about losing edge to Samsung
As long as your not a young pretty woman.
American Factory, the Netflix Documentary about US/China Working Culture
It just breaks my heart to see Uncle Bob seduced by a Java-family language right when C++ is getting increasingly fun. He suffered through the bad old days when C++ was only fast and powerful, and is now missing out on the good new days.

I guess he's happy. At least he isn't touting Haskell. Bon Voyage, Bob!

But somebody needs to break it to him that Lisp is not a functional language. Or, if it is, so is C++.
You don't even need to include ICBMs.

In the Vietnam war, the US dropped about 3.5x the number of TNT tonnage equivalent bombs than was used in WW2.

Likewise both Iraq wars exceeded WW2 tonnage, even if you include the 2 nukes dropped on Japan.

Part of this is due to advancements in conventional explosives (lighter explosives with more power than TNT) and larger conventional weapons and increased capacity of bombers. Not sure how many MOABs were used in the 2nd Iraq war, but it was more than one, and theyre about a 20k ton TNT equivalent (more powerful than the little boy nuke).

I dont have any handy citations, but the data is easily googled or on wikipedia.
Napier's Bones
OAuth is a pretty popular option for delegation... and JWT isn't really necessary there...
> Images are copyright and not for use without explicit permission from the owner

As a former CL what are your thoughts on this text I just copied off the OP-linked page?
I definitely support the author's message: have a point, use pictures, prepare. My style is derived from Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (Flash, but legendary: https://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html) and Edward Tufte (with whom I was fortunate enough to work for one summer).
Art of War if I remember correctly from reading it years back is significantly about logistics. Like some of it is simple shit - don't march a billion li and then fight, instead let the enemy march, stretch their supplies and be exhausted, then dust them.
There's reason to believe that a shared catalog would be more profitable for the non-Netflix streaming services, not less. It's not like it's hard to track who watched whose IP and distribute the revenue appropriately. The current system benefits Netflix who try to convince people to watch Netflix originals and dump everything else. It's not just a competition for subscribers, it's a competition for screen time too. There's a lot of good content on the other streaming services but it's too fragmented to pay for.
U.S. Internet Pricing Is All over the Place. Help Us Investigate It
Haha, I don't agree but that is really funny :)
Isn't it only inside trading if it's a breach of contract? If you're part of either the company being acquired or doing the acquiring then it's breach of contract and therefore insider trading. If I find a random piece of paper on the floor about the future acquisition and trade based on that info, I don't think it's considered insider trading. The person who dropped that paper would likely get into some trouble though.

It's not really a matter of if the info is public or not, otherwise every hedge fund would be out of business.
It's always annoyed me that buying a Starbucks coffee through their app (to skip the line) requires pre-loading a virtual card from your credit card, minimum $10 even if it's for just a $2.50 coffee.

Unlike most other apps (e.g. McDonald's) that simply run each transaction through Apple Pay.

Just by virtue of using the app, I'll always have some leftover money Starbucks will one day keep. (I'm not aware of any way to revert a balance back to cash.)
Up to an isomorphism.
A complete guide to outsourcing software development in 2019
See also, linenoise[0], a small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit written by antirez who also wrote something called Redis.

0: https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
India also investing smartly in the nuclear technology, while less smart governments ditching it.
Software Development Outsourcing
Even with all those losses, the electric vehicle road trip is still better for the climate than driving a gasoline-powered car. Burning that much coal would release about 310 kilograms of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, compared with 350 kilograms by the 40 gallons of gasoline. Even though coal tends to emit more pollutants than oil for the amount of energy it generates, the efficiency of the electric vehicle, which recharges its battery with every brake, more than makes up the difference.

But.. the article doesn't say "CNG is better" It just says the worst-case costs in the US, for coal sourced power to charge the batteries.
And a cookie notification.
Reddit doesn't require an email either - they just use a dark pattern on the registration popup to somewhat hide the fact. I doubt any bot makers fall for it, so I don't think they did it to prevent bots anyway.
And that mortality has more consequences than most people could ever imagine, but less have spent time considering. It's just one of the very biological factors that define large chunks of what humanity fundamentally is. All I can think is that my choice to minor in Philosophy alongside majoring in Computer Science didn't turn out to be as weird and useless of a choice as people at the time seemed to think it was.
I mean, it's not too difficult to add them. You can parse, shove your result into a data view, Uint32Array, or whatever, then turn that into a Float64Array.
> Besides this whole scheme could be filed under insider trading in some form.

Huh, how ironic would that be, as the company's primary compliance policies urge it's employees against insider trading and other such practices and warns them multiple times not only when they're inducted into it but several times throughout their employment.
Logistics comes down to a set of psychologies which, unless you really have past (ideally successful) experience with them, can be downright boring. For example, dealing with cargo from dozens of ships being dumped on the shore of a given island (Falklands conflict). Whose is this pile, where is it going, how will it get there, when will it arrive, and oh by the way, it is needed yesterday, so the method must be fastest. Repeated hundreds of times.

It's an important area of focus, but it requires, just like tactics, certain gifts which many neither possess nor appreciate.

Also the US emerged from the 20th century as a logistics superstar, so there is a certain bias. This can negatively impact areas like innovation; logistics is not generally a friend to novelty.
Those scientists must not get out to the lake much.
Stop using your debit card period. Use a credit card and pay it off monthly. Problem solved.
I thought I was the only one who remembered that!

And there was some experimental "find an empty spot" tool that was just an unstyled form in a /cgi-bin directory, and once you went to the empty spot it found, it was already taken...

I got frustrated and gave up, but we soon switched ISPs and the new one gave you 5 MB of hosted space under algonet.se/~username
DoorDash breaks silence on driver tips, says it’ll start paying them next month
We wrote a generalization of the Levenshtein distance algorithm for regular expressions in Hyperscan (https://github.com/intel/hyperscan), which allows you to do Levenstein distance matching over regular expressions. It is not necessarily a cheap thing to do, given that incautious use of edit distances and permissive regular expressions can result in automata that match almost anything.

I believe that the first widely available approximate regex matcher was Tre (https://laurikari.net/tre/). However, while everybody wants to talk about approximate matching like they have something to say, most algorithmists act like they forgot about Tre.
If we define abstraction as hiding the unnecessary in order to reveal the essentials, and we take it to an extreme such that we reduce everything to a point and only talk about relationships of the point, then yes I completely agree. CT is the math of abstraction, from which I think composition arises (since you cannot look inside an object).
Probably meant tens of gigabits
Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters’ Wishes, Court Rules
AFAIR, you need to disclose that once you reach a certain threshold.
Freeing the database: from centralization to mutable shared state at the edge
> Readline can be injected right into the program, at least in Unixes: there's an util called `with-readline` for that.

Damn! I knew this 6 months ago. I ended up writing a Python wrapper to add readline capabilities for a tool @work.
Why Season 3 Watch Online Without Netflix for Free
I have this, I’ve used this, I forgot it exists. It’s on my iOS devices but I’ve never considered opening it in my work browser. I do have Slack pinned.
Naked shorting is already illegal.
I haven't had a chance to play more than an hour or so, but Foxhole is an interesting 3/4 perspective MMO war game where logistics plays a seemingly massive role. We're talking major player run supply chains including resource harvesting, transportation, refining, manufacturing, and ultimately getting it all to the front line.

From what I've gathered of the community thus far, there's a sort of expectation that you do your time in "logi" and those who do are held in high regard.
Thanks for sharing this story. Sure, it is unpaid labour somehow. But it's also a chance to get more into responsibility and technology.
FWIW I immediately thought of the ML architecture, not the toy or electrical device. HN is very ML-heavy these days, and in that context 'transformers' has a familiar and obvious meaning.
That's catchy, but obviously professional soldiers, combat pilots, and naval sailors do in fact "talk tactics".

Logistics is a vital component of modern military doctrine but it's still just a component.
MWD – My Worst Day
It doesn't matter what you or I remember. When we talking about optimizing _binaries_ for size, we're talking about saving kilobytes maybe a megabyte or two.

That has no effect on how long it takes to download it, but help with:

- Less dependencies to follow

- Maybe even benefit from instruction cache

- Shorter compile times

- People don't laugh at you when you have half gigabyte of binaries to start an rds instance and create a user in it. (wtf hashicorp?)

- Smaller attack surface

- Som now started to target WASM as secondary target and then suddenly it's not web, but also web
「フラー１３」キャラのデザインはほぼ終わりました。作業続行中（祈）†
In your link article they target WASM as one of their target, size matters there.
Ok so there are 8 trillion messges ent per N

Im building a formula for that cost... gimme a sec
my screen-name here contains my address from those days
I may have missed something, but why specifically when paying for petrol? Surely the advice here should be to stop using debit entirely?

(Alternatively, choose to use cash now - or you won't have the choice in the future.)
Dyson Tree
In simple English

Context: Dell has large stakes in both Pivotal and VMware

VMware buys Pivotal. Pivotal's regular shareholders get paid in cash per share ($15). Dell, which owns a separate class of shares, gets paid in VMware shares rather than cash. This is likely because Dell already has a large cash balance and they don't need any more cash.
When I think of business agility and ability to keep up with a fast moving industry, I think Dell/VMWare.
That sounds interesting but does it mean hours of doing a mundane grindy task like mining in EVE?
I drive a 2013 FRS (older US version of the 86) and I'll experience weird dropouts all day like once every couple of months. Otherwise it works flawlessly. Very strange. You might try using it now and again and see if the problem "just goes away". Very frustrating though. I did not opt for the touchscreen however. I think my head unit is made by Pioneer.
I linked to 34:00 min in, which is where the part on Oracle and Ellison starts and is only a few minutes long (and very funny). Bryan talks about his experiences being at Sun after it was acquired by Oracle and the sad demise of OpenSolaris.
So Google wave was Slack before Slack??
Yes, this is a key issue to keep in mind.