skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why on Earth do people waste their time on this sort of thing? It has evolved from keyboard warriorhood to some sort of internet Tourette's.

Because the President of the United States has decided that shitposting on Twitter shall be his primary means of communicating with the people, and the courts have decided this means he's not allowed to block anyone from his feed, because the people have a right to hear their governments' words and to petition it with grievances.

What's happening on Twitter is the platform being used as intended by everyone but Trump - it's not supposed to be used for deep, nuanced, complex discussion. It's for posting links and blogging about your food - nonsense that can fit into a couple of sentences. But thanks to him elevating it to a higher status than it deserves, it's now become the nexus for American political communication and debate with this administration.
Oh cool. Same fellow who made pywal.
> add new factual knowledge

The thing about history is that there isn’t a whole lot of factual knowledge. Fields like archeology deals with facts, history is almost always an interpretation and as such there is often value in reevaluating what’s come before.

Sometimes it’s to deal with intentional manipulation, other times our society has simply shifted to a point where we view things differently, but we’re almost never capable of getting to a point where we know for a fact how things were. Especially not when we go that far back. I had a professor who had written numerous papers, and later a few commercial books, on the topic of the roman emperor cult. His source material was a few one-liners from a few gravestones. Not to take anything from him, this is just an example, because this is how a lot of our generally accepted “historical facts” come to be.
Exactly, especially for people who don't do web development the difference is hardly there. Actually I recently started to prefer Safari, despite its less smoother Tab UX but this was enough reason to make me switch to Firefox (Nightly). I'm also surprised that it seems to start faster than Safari.
A recap of the story and conversations with CEO Andrew Anagnost.

https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier/status/11246752191285575...

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nZat2hA3nLByr5YzKSjB...
So you're advocating genocide. Great.

Just so you know, there isn't too many people for the planet. The planet can handle a lot more. What it can't handle is this many people at the US's level of consumption. But not consumption of food of medicine, but of banal shit like driving huge trucks with 10 MPG everywhere instead of using public transport, or overnight shipping for new iphone every year.

The simple solution is to stop consuming like crazy, which can be easily achieved by adding the planet-destroying externalities to price of everything.

Instead of, you know, genocide.
They did rapidly expand the monetary supply and it did cause inflation. Assets are sky high (stocks and real estate). Properties are priced 10-20x cash flow. Stocks are similarly trading at absurd earnings ratios.

Does anyone remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble ?

Massively expanding credit to the point where money is free .... reduces the value of money. But denial is a helluva drug.
The physical printing costs of a book are a negligible amount of its cover price. Saying that because it's cheaper to make a copy of a digital good it needs new rules doesn't seem like a strong argument.

The author's problem are entirely self inflicted in this case, as it is his own DRM that is making him do extra work to allow transfers.
Britain is connected to other countries' grids via inter-connectors, so that provides a lot of backup in the system.
Moreover, "enough time with" anything you don't normally get enough time with can lead a person to change their mind. We're human -- we can re-arrange our priorities but not our time, so we make decisions and are allowed to change our mind. I have no doubts there's more at play here, but a C-level exec leaving for no particular reason after years of grinding seems perfectly reasonable to me.
And sometimes the surprises can be in the other direction.

Cache thrashing is a thing. And perf analysis tools have bookkeeping errors.
Not all hunting is the same, I would not use a bolt action single shot out duck hunting (I use a 10 gauge auto with 3 shot capacity) and I would not use an AR out hog hunting. But if my primary goal was vermin control like prairie dog hunting, Coyote hunting, etc. I would absolutely choose a AR (personally it would be an AK) with a high capacity mag. For hog hunting I use a Saga-12 with a 20 round drum with a mix of slug and buck shot, which is a hell of a lot of firepower far more than any of the school shooters has ever packed. A 3 inch 00 buck is 15 30 cal rounds in a single shot, that is 300 30 cal projectiles down range in 20 trigger pulls. This much firepower is absolutely necessary if you run into a pack of wild boar. All three of these are nuance species who populations have become out of control and need hunter eradication to keep them in check.

In fact the only hunting I can think of where a bolt action suffices is stand hunting large herbivores such as deer, elk or moose. Which is exactly what most people think of when they think hunting.

I certainly would not want to go into bear country with a single shot bolt action. Not that I would hunt bear, but I would certainly have a firearm for protection.

I am not going to link to it as it may be sensitive viewing to some people but if you are not bothered by it, take a look at the YouTube videos, where ranchers are doing hog eradication via helicopter, they almost all exclusively use either the Saiga-12 or the AR-12 to do such eradication. It will give you a good perspective on how rapid the pace of eradication is and why such high capacity firepower is needed.

Take a look at coyote and prairie dog eradication as well.
I moved into an economically depressed area and let me tell you: it was hit and miss taking taxis. It didn't matter if I called dispatch repeatedly or booked ahead of time even with the more expensive car service, I could never count on a taxi to show despite the fact I was very clear about this being a coveted airport ride. Nobody wanted to pick up a fare at 4 AM in the ghetto and I nearly missed my plane more than once.

I eventually punted and had my wife drive me to the closest hotel with a cab stand. But that meant she had to get up and drive me around at 4 AM just because the cab company was unreliable.

Now with Uber not only is the car there within minutes but the charge against my corporate card is automatically sent to my corporate expense system. So no from my perspective Uber is far better! And this is despite the uber app wanting to spy on users between and after use. But that's what location permissions are for. Or just uninstalling the app entirely when not in use.
nobody is loosing trust, where are you getting that from? There's just not enough cash at hand so the fed is injecting some. People see doomsday scenarios where there is none
No it won't, because most of the world-destroying is done by the West (especially the US) because of high-tech high-consumption with no regards to environmental externalities.

Even if you march everyone in Africa and India do death camp (and it's always Africa and India with people like this), the US is more than capable of destroying the people by itself.
By suggesting their concerns are irrational, are you saying you think it's more likely that registries of vehicle licenses are going to be used to perform vehicle confiscations than that registries of firearm licenses are going to be used to perform firearm confiscations?
Generations are supposed to be longer than 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
> The Fed is nobly ensuring banks' 2.25% APR ("target federal funds") rate against being viciously squeezed to 9%

Lender of last resort is one of the most essential roles of the Federal Reserve. Banks borrowing against Treasuries is almost entirely dictated by liquidity, not solvency.
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What we're starting to see is that enough major global markets have committed to banning combustion engines in cars in the next 10-20 years, that it will make economic sense for global auto manufacturers to focus their product development on alternative fuel vehicles.

Mercedes just announced that they will cease development of combustion engines to focus on EV's. VW Audi Group just said that this is their last generation of combustion engines. I suspect we'll see similar announcements from other manufacturers in not too long.

We may see some countries soften their goals, but I think if some of the big automotive players commit to having products available to meet those goals, there won't be much need to relax the goals. Only things that would cause a rollback is if anti-environmental politicians get into power or governments attempting to protect domestic car companies that are late making the shift.
> banks don't trust each other's collateral, but the Fed does, and that judgment is more correct?

The collateral is Treasuries. Nothing exotic.
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Is github profile email address visible?
How workers are using vacations to catch up on work
Facebook has a couple dozen contractors that employ thousands of people. These contractors fall out of the scope of Facebook’s Bug Bounty in most cases, and the contractors do not have a way to contact them about security vulnerabilities or a defined process.

It is an enormous legal arbitrage finance maneuver it seems. These contractors are awarded very large contracts in exchange for essentially assuming huge legal liability. They are gambling nothing bad will happen. It makes sense from a business perspective for both parties.

These contractors can be quickly identified via some searching online. From there if you have map their DNS infrastructure via common tools like https://dnsdumpster.com, you will very poorly (or at least quickly) set up AWS/Azure infrastructures running software behind on patching usually from 1-3 years, and having documented exploits that can be triggered remotely without previous auth.

The situation is very sad, and I would encourage the engineers at Facebook to at least ask their managers if they think this serves the company. The good news is of course it can be fixed quickly and dramatically. OS updates and a few L4 firewall rules for the host is often all that is needed.

EDIT: changed a plural
It's only loginwalled; if you're okay with them having your e-mail, you can read several articles a month.
May be stupid question: I have always wondered if we build enough windmills will it affect the global windpatterns?
What will happen to the place where all this wind energy goes if we extract it before there? Could it affect rainfall in directly unconnected places? The butterfly effect?
Do you know if anyone has ever responded to one of these letters with "If you want to access our data we need a signed order from a judge" and how that played out?
That seems like a good, easily digestible bit of news to send to the public "ah, got it, I understand paying taxes".

However, this doesn't happen every year, or even every quarter ... so ...
Also people do check your profile if they find your comments or submissions interesting, so don't forget to write a little bit about yourself - except you want to stay completely anonymous, which is OK too.
All but one of the top ten leader profiles are good examples for how you write an appealing profile.
I lived in Chicago for over 15 years and never had a problem getting a taxi. Plus it had the added bonus of up-front flat rates, a professional driver that knew what the hell they were doing, proper commercial driver insurance and not having to let some app harvest all my personal information and track me where ever I went.
Maybe, maybe not.

My design sense remains abysmal. Being able to use something like Bootstrap to get a sensible look and feel is a big boon.
I've always struggled with drawing organic 3D things, and this is probably part of why.

> A person who practices incorrectly

So how does one practice correctly?
> What would it take to make this stop?

Probably, vote with your time and focus. Use better distributions and port software to those distributions.
The target range is now 1.75-2.00 and the Fed also lowered the IOER (interest on excess reserves) 30bp to 1.80%, theoretically to keep the fed funds rate from moving out of the top of the range as happened earlier in the week (fed funds != repo)

Personally, I think they need to return to the days when excess reserves were paid no interest at all. Unfortunately that would remove order 40B in free money money center banks have been booking the past few years.
CHP Arrests Driver Impersonating Chinese Paramilitary Police
The biggest thing that Uber added was the ride-summoning app. I gather that these are beginning to come into existence for taxi companies, but especially at the time, it was a huge boon to download one app and be able to summon a ride wherever you went.

Instead, you often had to place an actual voice phone call -- or multiple calls, since different companies had different dispatchers. You would get no feedback on when your taxi might arrive -- or even if it was. I've answered plenty of panicked phone calls from friends whose prearranged taxis didn't arrive and were desperate to get to an airport before their flight.

If the taxi companies had acted professionally about it, Uber might not have been able to take off. As it was, using Uber was simply a better experience than taking a taxi -- except perhaps right in the middle of the most taxi-heavy cities, where you could stick out an arm. It wasn't so much about price as about just knowing that the ride was coming, and not really caring who precisely provided it. The taxi companies were not competing on anything I cared about.

The actual car-sharing aspect of their service is of dubious merit, and I prefer Lyft to Uber anywhere I can. But I'll take either to having to actually phone a dispatcher, or having to download Waave in New York and myTaxi in London and god only knows what in Cinncinnati.
Lots of women dress like this. What's wrong with depicting it in a logo?
How to Reform the Economics PhD
Intel optimizes these libraries down to the stepping level of the CPUs. So not surprising if they are not optimized at all for AMD
I'm a bit confused by your comment because the article doesn't seem to be presenting any kind of revisionist history.
Yes. (Substituting "restrictions" for "confiscations", of course).
Chrome uses more memory than Firefox. Just try opening 50 tabs in each - chrome will eat your RAM.
It's not guaranteed, if you'd ever been sailing you'd know it's definitely not guaranteed!
At first I thought Uber will be a great business charging 20% of rides if they can ramp up to many millions of riders.

Now they squeeze drivers harder and harder for bigger and bigger percentages. Yet they are losing money faster and faster.

The problem is they’ve hired armies of very talented people, each one-upping the next on initiatives to screw drivers a little worse, or create some lame promotion, and pretty soon you have a ruthless company that is also drowning in expenses and headcount.
Isn't he a director of former?
It doesn’t have to be old or legacy just because it’s build on java. Java plays a huge part of modern enterprise in large parts of the world and its remained rather relevant.

To get back to what you’re asking, however, it depends on your local job market. In my area 95% of all back-end development is done in Java, C# or PHP and there are almost no web-development jobs that doesn’t require you to know one of those languages.

In other areas it might be Ruby or Django, so the best way to answer your question is frankly to look at the job listings for the jobs you’d like to take.
Yeah, I feel like joy and happiness are side effects of a meaningful life, not the cause.
This tactic is also being used in Australia. These men are Chinese secret police here on tourist visas, harassing the families of prominent Hong Kong demonstrators.

EDIT: that was incendiary and almost certainly incorrect. As others have pointed out, the Chinese police are much smarter about this kind of thing. It’s much more likely to be dumb teenagers.
Have you ever used Uber? Did you ever use Taxis back when they existed? It's astonishing to me how much better Uber is than Taxis, there's no question that they're adding a ton of value compared to what they're replace, at least for me as a consumer. But I hardly think I'm alone in this. On the other-hand will they be able to profit from this value? That's at best tbd, and likely already a conclusive no, they've built a valuable commodity, that people aren't even used to paying commodity prices for because it's been VC subsidized for so long. So I can't agree with the adding no value comment, but I don't think the valuation is correct.
Seems like the author didn't feel the irony while writing this post.
And if you make it all the way to the bottom of the article, there's this gem:

> Service Employees International ... was named as a member [of the fake grass roots org] without permission...Marathon [PR firm for the fake grass roots org] emailed to the Journal a membership agreement that the agency said had been signed by Gilda Valdez, the chief of staff for the union local, dated July 23, 2018. But Ms. Valdez said that the signature on the documents provided by Marathon was not hers.

And the article shows Ms. Valdez' real signature and the one on the document for comparison, and one is clearly a clumsy copy of the other. IANAL, but isn't this fraud?
Because some people are too poor and/or too bad of decisionmakers to get loans. If someone's eating just one potato a day, you loan them money and you know they're not going to invest it in a business, they are going to buy a second potato to quell the hunger pangs and now they're back where they started but now they owe you a potato + 15% every month.

You don't give a handgun to a toddler or a case of whiskey to an alcoholic, for someone who can't ever repay your loan, then it's not ethical to loan to them.
India Seeks to Adopt China-Style Facial Recognition in Policing
Yea, the title refers to the author that is prolific by installs (FreeAddon), rather than the author that is prolific by extensions (Chrome HD Themes).

Chrome HD Themes has over 6k published extensions!
Minor method of resistance: whenever you get a resume that lists work with the FBI, put it directly into the circular file.
you lumped me with the left wing climate change, socialist group but I'm much more skewed toward the right-wing views like Charles Lindbergh, Ted Kaczynski, Pentti Linkola (anti-technological progress, connection to the soil, to your local community, to the seasons, etc.)

Its not just climate change i care about, it species extinction. I work remote on my own land in the mountains and definitely notice less birds singing.

> except that from a mental health standpoint, that's a highly personal view

suicide rates and drug addiction in our modern society say otherwise
Threadripper 2 was 12nm, Threadripper 14. The new TR3 will be 7nm
Hoping to clear up some FUD here:

1) This is the financial equivalent of taking a sledgehammer to squash a bug. Financial markets operate largely on confidence, and especially the rule that the Fed is the lender of last resort at their specified Fed Funds Rate (now 25 basis points lower as of Wednesday).

2) This isn’t $165b. It could be the same $75b used every day.

3) No, this isn’t a sign of a healthy market, but bond prices especially in Europe have gone bananas the past few months and we could be in the biggest bond bubble of our generation. This was evident in negative yields as also a very quick yield curve inversion in the U.S. for 2y10s.

4) I personally believe some banks were over levered as bond prices began to unwind this week and got caught with their pants down.

5) I think the Fed is using this sledgehammer approach to allow some banks to unwind and de-lever their bond positions safely and orderly over the next 2 weeks.

6) I said #5 about 11 years ago, but I believe “this time it’s different.”
Both it seems:

"The most prevalent tracker, Google's doubleclick.net, showed up in 975 of the top 1,000 Roku channels, with Google analytics trackers showing up in 360, the researchers found." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-n...
I work in WeWork (not for them, my company uses them) and I think that they provide tremendous value. I don't see how they are middleman at all. Having worked at many startups and small companies over the years I know that finding a good space to work is difficult. WeWork is making it very easy and provide a lot of services on top of that which make it worthwhile. Are they unique? No, but that doesn't mean they don't provide value.
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>Fields like archeology deals with facts

Yes, that's what I was referring to - archeology and things like deciphering ancient languages, which can can help to read discovered documents.

There aren't many archeological sites to be discovered (or so it seems) so historians work with existing artefacts over and over.
Then why are banks not trusting that as collateral?
I guess not shaming breastfeeding for one, and getting doctors to offer new advice for infant/child nutrition
Economic Justice
> then the present discounted value of that future money is worth less to the creditor than had it been paid on time.

That’s only true if the future repayment was interest and fee free. When repayment is at a high interest rate this is just more profits.
I find it sad at how fast the government is acting to ban the e-cigs and vapor juices after what, 8 alleged deaths? I understand wanting to curb it before it becomes a major problem...

Meanwhile some doctors are given incentive to act as literal drug pushers for certain opioid companies despite knowing all too well that many people may become addicted and eventually overdose.

Opioids - It's up to the individual to be responsible and not get addicted and use more than prescribed.

Nicotine - It's up to the government to be responsible for our youth and we need to ensure they don't fall victim to becoming addicted. Regulate everything and destroy all vape pens!
I've always wondered if it would affect bird migrations.
> I gather that these are beginning to come into existence for taxi companies

There is a lot of value in having only one or two major players in this space. I often travel and use Lyft or Uber to get around. If you have to Google 3 companies every time your plane lands in a new city and create a new account and add your credit card, that is a tremendous hassle.
Considering how often they sue their customers, increase prices after lockin is established, triple their support fees, etc etc. one might consider Oracle less than worthless. Sometimes it's a liability.
Uber has little traction in Europe for example. It seems to be a huge deal in the US though

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/05/10/ubers-rocky...
Parent said OpenBLAS and Blis, not MKL, are optimized for AMD.
> Banks borrowing against Treasuries is almost entirely dictated by liquidity, not solvency.

Can you unpack/explain this claim further?
I agree with this. I would just add that you can get great linting / syntax checking with ShellCheck [1] [2]

[1] - https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

[2] - https://www.shellcheck.net/

ShellCheck is in many of the distro package repositories already.
That depends on your country. Here you can choose your provider, for example, or put your own grid-connected solar panels up.
The PRUs share a section of main memory with the CPU, which is pretty unique.