skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get convenience and speed with US banks that I get nowhere else -- i.e. the most online traditional bank in the UK is probably NatWest, which sucks because you have to get a physical card reader (like an actual machine that scans your debit card) in order to use the online banking most of the time.

I had a few UK accounts in the early 2010's, and it was awfully convenient for me that the physical card readers were interchangeable. I can bring around one card reader from any bank, and use it with the debit cards from every other bank.

In Singapore, every bank has their own physical 2FA keypad tokens, and they're not interchangeable. Some banks are slowly moving to mobile apps, but most business bank accounts here still rely on those physical tokens.
> I haven't heard this word since my SAT-prep classes. It means "chew". In case there are English-2nd language people here.

There's an interesting -- understandable but very wrong -- viewpoint that the right way to form sentences that a second-language speaker can understand is to talk in the way you might talk to a toddler.

Reality is pretty much the opposite. A toddler has perfect grasp of their language's grammar and is likely to know common words, less likely to know uncommon words. For best results, you'd communicate with a toddler using complex sentences and "easy" vocabulary.

A foreign learner has a much shakier grasp of the grammar and may have a pretty spotty vocabulary. But they're also likely to have a dictionary. And uncommon words are much easier to understand, given a dictionary, than common words are. The fact that they're uncommon means they don't have the wide variety of meanings and usages[1] that common words do. For best results, you'd communicate with a foreigner using simple sentences and "difficult" vocabulary.

[1] For reference, here are the ABC dictionary glosses for the very common Mandarin word 做:

1. make; produce

2. cook; prepare (food)

3. do; act; engage in

4. be; become

5. write; compose

6. celebrate

7. be used as

8. form/contract a relationship

9. pretend; feign

10. (slang) make love

11. play tricks to punish somebody
I'm wondering how a social worker could be on "active duty", let alone in a violent protest. I'm also wondering how a member of the emergency services on duty could be arrested.

Without details your claims do not make much sense, including your claims about precedents and likelihood of conviction.
The Intelligent Edge Revolution
This should be off by default and enabled manually for people who need it.
How to build a programming YouTube channel 5 years 1M subscribers later
The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
Nope, they did not.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/11/democr...

Even Warren agrees DNC was rigged against Sanders.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/04/politics/bernie-sanders-2...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2f...
>And if the student asks "well, what if we redefine it so it only works on OTHER algorithms to avoid this one weird edge case" the answer is basically "that's not covered."

Only if the teacher doesn't know what they're talking about. If they know what they're talking about, the answer is "Since every function can be implemented by infinitely many different algorithms, in order to blacklist our halting-solver from the list of things we can input into our halting-solver, we would need to blacklist ALL the algorithms that implement it, but in order to do that, we'd need an algorithm for determining whether or not a given algorithm is a halting-solver, and it can be shown that that itself is just as impossible as solving the halting problem."

>digits of Pi

You seem to be deeply mistakenly about something, but it's hard to point out exactly what you're mistaken about because all the terms are so poorly defined. If, for example, you meant, "What the halting computer would do when fed a program P that takes an input n and outputs the nth digit of Pi, if we asked whether or not P halts on a particular input n", then the answer would be "Yes". If you meant "What the halting computer would do when fed a program Q that takes no input and runs forever, listing all the digits of Pi, when asked whether or not Q halts on no input", then the answer would be "No". Either way, there's absolutely nothing deep or profound about the digits of Pi here.

>life, the universe, and everything

Please, don't make things even more complicated for the poor students.
Even without tests, you still get the automatic tracing about which version was deployed when, and built from which source commit(s).

I agree that much of the benefit doesn't apply, but even having the traceability makes some auditors happy.
This is a bad and frankly cruel reading of a lawsuit that addresses systemic failures of a corporate entity that had been previously alerted to a design and practice failure of their operation. Similar lawsuits regarding coffee at 179 deg F, rather than 190 deg F, have been thrown out. Almost as if there was an actual problem with what McDonalds' was doing, you know?

That corporate entity had decided it was cheaper to not fix it than to fix it, until a human being who they contributed to significantly harming brought the problem before a jury. And she was found partially responsible for her own injuries, a fact which you elide (while speaking so authoritatively that I must assume you know this to be true, otherwise you wouldn't, yes?), while the jury also found that McDonalds' had been reckless in their operation--that most of the money awarded was a punitive penalty assessed because that corporate entity was cavalier in their treatment of actual, real-not-fictive people.

While we're at it, the punitive award granted was $480,000, not "multi-million"--though the jury asked for it, as two days of McDonalds' coffee revenue, and was reduced by the judge.

You've either been had, or you're trying to do the having. I shall not speculate on which.
I'm just kidding guys. I was just testing to see if you really cared about corporate governance. You passed the test! Now look at the top line and my super special non-GAAP sauce! Now with 100% less GAAP!
Why waste money on floating the servers when you can sink them?

Microsoft is already piloting it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44368813
The site was created in Webflow.

https://webflow.com/
I believe that shaman originally drank their own urine to have repeated trips and discovered the reduced toxicity. I suspect using reindeer came later as a way to outsource the toxicity reduction.

There are other ways to prepare Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria) to reduce toxicity. Baking at a low temperature with lemon juice simulates the digestive process enough to help.
Yep! We're still working on how in-browser debugging should work, but we'll get there.

This post is specifically "Debugging WebAssembly Outside of the Browser," but the title on HN was unfortunately truncated.
You're right; I mean asm.js. Point stands. You can compile arbitrary languages into JS without the "js" part leaking through.
HMA Pro VPN 5.0.228 Crack with License Key Free Download (2019)
Godel's theorems are a popular subject among technophiles, but the popular conception of their implications is seriously off base. Torkel Franzen's book[1] is a quick read and will guide you away from the most common errors.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Theorem-Torkel-Franz%C3%A...
> Nobel-approved models of risk that proved to be untrue

Makes you wonder how much more of this ends up remaining unquestioned until it’s too late.
Internet Architecture Board: Avoiding Unintended Harm to Internet Infrastructure
TST seems to break with my use of multi-account containers - which spawns tabs in different containers depending on the website
I don't believe civilians can be sent to a court martial in general (although I could certainly be wrong). The few times I was aware that a civilian got in trouble on post, the local police come pick up the civilian (if they need to be held) and it's tried in a civilian court.
Metaphysics and JavaScript
There are fewer publicly listed companies than ever before:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/business/shrinking-stock-...

>In 2015, for example, the top 200 companies by earnings accounted for all of the profits in the stock market, according to calculations by Kathleen Kahle, a professor of finance at the University of Arizona, and Professor Stulz. In aggregate, the remaining 3,281 publicly listed companies lost money.

I'd love to see 2016 to 2019 stats on that, but I think there are structural advantages (proliferation of databases, price transparency) that large corps are enjoying right now with which small companies just can't compete. Technology is obviating many people (and therefore businesses), and allowing the big to get bigger with no marginal cost.

Would you bet against the top ten holdings in VTI, which take 1/5th of all investments?

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/portfolio/vti

And also, we know the government will bail out all large entities, especially if many voters are invested in them (which they are due to 401k/pension funds being invested in the very same companies).

Who is going to outcompete the few big airlines, telecom providers, FAANG, hotel brands, car rental brands, banks, pharma companies, etc that have national and worldwide reach? I'm sure a few companies here and there might, but by and large, I bet the big players are here to stay (until the whole system breaks down, but then you have bigger problems).
You avoid low quality code because it has business impact. If it didn't, you'd write it as fast as possible shrug, run/distribute, and move to the next problem (what is exactly what is correct for run-once code).

If some MBA with PMP certs decides to actively ignore the business impact of your bad code, it means he is stupid and incompetent. But that does not mean that code quality is an end on its own.
There’s a clear narrative in favor of actively managed funds: they analyze the underlying stock and avoid stocks that are overvalued according to their fundamentals, and buy those that are undervalued.

The consequence would be near total avoidance of the S&P 500 as a good strategy for the long run. There would be exceptions for those stocks that are quite undervalued, or so overvalued that they are worth shorting (despite the tailwind of index funds).

Don’t worry, strategies like these have predicted 12 out of the last 5 asset bubbles.
History and Etymology for masticate
Late Latin masticatus, past participle of masticare, from Greek mastichan to gnash the teeth; akin to Greek masasthai to chew — more at MANDIBLE
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 91
I get that the fees can't be comparable, but without passive management, active management fees are unchecked, and they rose a lot over time.

I'm willing to agree that it should cost an order of magnitude more for an actively managed fee, but most are beyond that.

A lot of this seems like plain greed to me, combined with grift and graft. A lot of workplace plans try to funnel people into actively managed funds that often charge really high fees.
How do you do restore in those scenarios? You have a whole mess of snapshots of data that's in various stages of being wrong.

I'd rather just put up with the agony of RDS to get a point in time restore and treat my instances' data as volatile.
Context here: https://www.swyx.io/writing/svelte-metaphysics
If this is how I get rich I'll be happy and sad at the same time.
A corporation is a collection of people. A corporation doesn't have fingers nor mouth, and can't type nor speak. It is always a (series of) paid individual(s) who types and speaks "on behalf of" it.

Note also that "on behalf of" can only exist in response to some prior meeting (or deal) with certain members (board or employees) of the corporation who wish to push "its" policy.
Seems to me if someone is shorting We because they really expect a drop following this and just want in on the action to scalp what they can, are they really a sucker? Scalpers gonna scalp.
APIs for partial compositing in combination with hardware accelerated compositing was the thing that was missing. If you don't use hardware accelerated compositing, repainting only part of the window, and letting the system compositor know about those areas, is not a problem. It's only the GPU acceleration and the lack of convenient APIs that makes this a problem.

Before Firefox got hardware acceleration, so up until Firefox 3.6, we were using CPU-side painting and sending accurate dirty areas to the windowing system. With Firefox 4, we added hardware accelerated compositing, which made scrolling and transform / opacity animations a lot more performant. However, it also meant that we switched to using OpenGL for the compositor, and macOS does not expose any APIs for invalidating only parts of an OpenGL context. And at the time Firefox 4 shipped, "retina" displays were not a thing yet, so the impact of recompositing the entire window was not apparent. And there was the pervasive notion that "modern GPUs are fast, fill rate is not a problem". It was only as pixel count grew and grew that this started becoming problematic. And it took some amount of research and a lot of surgery to switch Firefox to an approach that gets OpenGL content to the screen while also allowing for partial updates of that OpenGL content.
Oh awesome, I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.
I think that line of reasoning might take us to a realm where plundering is always the smart option, offering certainty where the alternative is risky.

It is not completely legal though. Someone like a CEO has a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of the company. "Breach of Fiduciary Duty" is a real thing, and opens you up to liability for actual loses as well as punitive damages. So while I understand why the CEO would do this, it's probably a good idea to step back from that activity, especially on the verge of an IPO where the investor market might take a hard pass at a company whose CEO appeared ready to strip the enterprise for parts and abscond with the proceeds.
Main benefit has to be the zero capital gains you pay (on the new gain) if you are patient and hold for the full 10 years. Second benefit would be the cap gains deferral (negative interest loan).
Is investing in cryptocurrencies a good idea?
Graphene-based metal-induced energy transfer: sub-nanometre optical localization
Ouf, I wish C had better type checking. I'm working in PHP and this would've been caught in strict mode there - why wouldn't malloc raise an objection over being passed a signed value?
>Some doctors send appointment reminders via email, if you use gmail that would explain the youtube ad

Google stopped mining Gmail for ad targeting years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
After this, do you still want to use Chrome? Who knows what data they are sending when they control your desktop experience.
I think the big moment, if it comes, is when you can envision the difference between how people value the asset in question and how that asset is actually valued. In the case of the housing market, most people in 2003 pictured suburbification and the generation of baby boomer retirement communities as inevitable economic engines. But in the same era, Arrested Development the TV show was skewering over-production of prefab houses and they were closer to the truth.

If you could make an analogous case today that the majority of the companies that make up the S&P 500 are over-valued then you could presage the popping of the ETF bubble. In this case, however, the population size of the S&P 500 is much easier to monitor than the population of houses in the US Housing Market, which in 2003 were being built far from Wall Street in pockets of Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. In addition, companies can be subbed in and out of the index with ease in a way that houses cannot pop in and out of the market.

That is why I think the housing bubble pop in 06/07 is not analogous to the current era with ETFs
Does anyone know how this works for drivers that today drive for both Uber and Lyft at the same time? I see many cars with both stickers on the windshield, and it seems like a very powerful force preventing one or the other from gaining a monopoly status in the city. When a driver using both apps is waiting for a ride, whose time are they clocking under? Does that create legal incentives for drivers to drive for one company, and in doing so make it very hard to sustain minority competitor in the ride sharing space?
Imagine there was a cookie market made up of two types of cookies, tasty and meh. An active investor in cookies would spend time determining which cookies are likely tasty and which are meh. They would pay more for the tastier cookies so they can savor the flavor and less for the meh ones they can binge eat in the shower when no one is home.... A passive investor comes along and says, I don't want to do all this research, I'll just assume the market was able to price these accordingly and buy any cookie at the market price. At the beginning, it is great. They just sit back and buy baskets of cookies, some tasty, some meh... but they always pay the higher price for tasty and lower price for meh, so it is fair. Over time, more people start buying baskets of cookies rather than spending time/money figuring out what to pay for them. At some point, no one is left to figure out which cookies are tasty vs meh, so the price of all cookies converge to a single price. Cookie manufactures notice this and figure might as well just make meh cookies as no one can tell the difference until after they buy them... and then we are stuck in a world with meh cookies. With some critical mass of active cookie investors, prices could be set fairly for all cookies. Too many active investors, and there is a drain on the system as there is likely a lot of duplicated work among the investors ( each one has to have a research team, back office cookie trading systems, etc, etc ). Too little and prices become less accurate.
I don't know about that. If a general financial crisis is the concern, stocks outside the S&P 500 would not be spared.

What I got from this interview was just a reminder that it makes sense not to get caught up in enthusiasm for a certain asset. And investors (including me) are certainly enthusiastic about the S&P 500 index fund.
The Lazy Person’s Guide to the Info Command
"Nardoo, a type of fern, is packed with an enzyme called thiaminase, which is toxic to the human body. Thiaminase breaks down the body's supply of Vitamin B1, which prevents the body using the nutrients in food.

Burke, Wills and King were full, but starving."

It's interesting how resistant people often are to accepting that the contents of what you eat significantly matters rather than just the caloric content, when discussing diets and weight management.

Yet in the context of people starving to death while eating food chock full of calories, nobody seems to be up in arms shouting "Heresy! Calories in, calories out!"
Yeah, I notice this every time there's a story about Facebook or Google, there's always a group of posts that are exclaiming how great their life is since they deleted their account.

It's super creepy
A good use case for WASM outside the browser is application plugins, or tools where it's better to distribute "WASM binaries" because client-side compilation from C, C++ or Rust might take too long or is too much hassle for the user.

It probably won't replace solutions that already work well, but it might be an option for the things that currently don't work.
Because a significant portion of those changes will conflict, and one will have to go back to each commit that made the changes to figure out the intention of the change.

Easier to back port each set of changes while knowing what the point of the changes are.
Someone is always signing off on routine tests.

Same deal as those 50 point inspections your mechanic does: some things are easier to inspect than others, some people do a more thorough job than others, etc.
It was radically democratic for its time.
Questions Every College Should Be Asking
Privacy Possum? You mean Privacy Badger?
Will Another Minnesota startup ever become a Fortune 500?
Ask HN: "I See Dead Comments."
Sorry for appealing to your Sixth Sense on this one...

What exactly are [dead] comments on HN? I see that I have a setting to turn them on/off, but I don't understand what they are in the first place. Thanks!
You only need to blacklist the possibility that the program under review has access to the output of the Halting Detection program for itself.

The Digits of Pi example is to illustrate that the Halting Program needs to understand the high level math necessary to prove that Pi is infinite. And then you lead them on to discovering that it needs to be able to solve every problem in mathematics, even ones that have not yet been discovered, and then you realize that it has to be omnipotent and infinite.

The purpose is to pull students away from the kind of empirical solutions that immediately pop into your head when presented with the halting problem. "Well, if we look at the loops and what the exit conditions are and start iterating over all possible inputs..." which is not at all what the Halting Problem is about, despite what it looks like on the surface.
A simpler option is to buy options on the index. You can butterfly the index with calls and puts around your minimum return / maximum loss tolerance.
Your points are fair, and I'm not saying China isn't directly responsible for the environmental costs of both their internal and export manufacturing. But it's not fair to shift all of the blame, as some naïve or disingenuous people do, because most of the export manufacturing is either managed by and done for western companies (China being "the factory of the world"), or simply driven by the demand on western markets. In other words, their environmental impact is in large part caused by our consumerism. And if China decided to no longer serve as the world's 3D printer, you're correct that some other nation would probably take up that role - and those same naïve/disingenuous people would then decry that nation for all its environmental problems.

In other words: it's bad that China is offering, but it's also bad for the west to take them up on that offer.

> Also the factory orders were coming from multinational corporations, they have no real allegiance with the West, they disrupt Western political, taxation and legal systems just like anywhere else.

That's IMO just giving up. Corporations are not yet independent governments, they should still be taken to account in the countries they originate from and those they operate in.

> China has not only enabled western consumerism, it disrupted the natural economic forces that would prevent such a thing from arising in the first place.

Not sure what they disrupted. It looks to me they played by the books, simply arbitraging labor costs like everyone else does in a global economy. Still, it's a feedback loop - China is enabling western consumerism, but growing consumerism is driving further growth in environmentally unsound manufacturing, most of which happens in China. If China did not enable it, probably some other nation would. It's a feedback loop, and both sides of it are to blame.
That, too. Good point.

BTW, thanks for all your time on PerlMonks and here. I didn't even notice who I was replying to the first time.
The American Revolution ended slavery in 5 states. North American slavery was a British institution.
Thanks so much. a lot of effort went into design, messaging, construction and optimization. Most of it was done by our team internally. We hired an illustrator to help with bold colors and images and then our lead designer took the lead and built it on Webflow. We hired a Product Marketer focused on developer products to help us with messaging. Aside from that, a lot of work and attention to detail from all of us.