skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always barter/trade goods and services, but you are not required to accept these goods or services as payment. Legal tender means that the government says "this is money" and they guarantee its value and require that it must be accepted to pay off debts. As in, within the USA a restaurant must accept US dollars as payment for a meal, but they are not obligated to accept a barrel of oil (or a bond), not matter how valuable the barrel may be.

You could (again, totally theoretically) pay for dinner with a Titan at any restaurant in the UK, but restaurants in the USA are not required to accept Social Security bonds as payment, so even if you had a million dollar bond in your pocket you could end up in jail for failing to pay for your meal.

Just to clarify: no, you cannot spend a barrel of oil (or Social Security bond) in the same sense as you could spend a 100 million pound note.
I'm a progressive liberal, but I believe this is hogwash. Many countries have a government issued national card for citizens. It's not a huge deal. Activists have made it seem like it's a way to suppress voters but I think that's largely BS.

We could start a campaign now, or just after the next election in 2020, and get people to sign up for cards by 2028, and enforce that then. We have census every 10 years, it's something the country can easily coordinate.
And they definitely don't buy alcohol.
We agree things are value because of the properties they possess. I feel like you are dismissing that. It's not just that we "decide", based on nothing that something has value. Gold is used in electronics and jewelry. It's properties enable it to be used for such things, therefore there is value. Sure, crypto hard forks happen and more value is created. However, it's based on the rules that govern the coins. It's based on the fact that digital "objects" that are governed by these sets of rules. Those are properties. Bitcoin is most definitely hard money and the rules(properties) that govern the chain are deemed most likely to benefit the largest group of people, therefore it's the coin worth the most. Hard money to the max.
That street view simulation is.... epic. Some of the sweetest dev I've seen this year.
"Zen mind, Beginner's mind" is a good resource as there is a good amount of discussion in there, especially the part on how we are both one and two, not either of these things, but both of these things at the same time.
Thanks, that's really neat (and since I know Latin, the analysis made perfect sense to me).

I suppose that you could, for example, account for the different conjugations and declensions by saying that they are also features of noun and verb stems that have to agree with endings that want to bind with them, right? Like "vid-" and "-et" is not just "sees - S.3" but also something like "see [+2conj]" and "S.3 [+2conj]" allowing them to bind with each other, where "-at" might be "S.3 [+1conj]" so it could bind with "am-" being "love [+1conj]", while "-et" doesn't bind with "am-" (except when interpreted as a different lexical item that adds [+subjunctive] to a [+1conj] stem?).

My next question is whether there are tools to facilitate writing parsers with this framework because it makes me want to write a Latin parser and see how well it does (and maybe how many formal syntactic ambiguities exist in Latin texts that we might not even notice most of the time).
A doctor visit in France is 25€, the copay is usually 1€ (or 30% if you don’t have a complementary). My copay on my PCP in the US is $20. That’s not counting what happens if you do blood work, labs, if you go to an ER (where you don’t pay anything in France).

There’s more than an order of magnitude between those two numbers here. You can look at your OECD statistics, or look at the experience of people who’ve actually lived there.
I feel zig is now experiencing feature creep now too sadly. Async and await and coroutines are being added to it, because it's the new-ish hotness I guess? Stopped paying attention to the language after that. I was hoping for a more streamlined language.
Quite a lot: https://thedefensepost.com/2019/05/01/afghanistan-resolute-s...

The idea was that "possible US engagement saves more civilians than it kills", and I was reacting to that, as it is very doubtful.

I didn't say it would be ok to live under Taliban. But there are other weird islamic countries, where I wouldn't want to live either. Do you propose US making war there, too?
stealing your R&D and producing things using near-slave labor probably doesn't hurt competitive advantage too much either, but lets not pay attention to any of that..
Almost as interesting is the story of how the 'big board' displays we associate with NORAD and NASA were actually generated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor
My LG has a dedicated Google button. I wish I could remap it for other purposes, but I haven't found a way.
Ask HN: Paper on the Theory of a Codebase
A few months ago, I came across a post here where in the comments, a CS paper was referenced (I believe written by Norvig) roughly about how subsequent programmers in a project will never attain the level of intution about the codebase that the original developers because they hold the "theory of the codebase" in their head.

Does anyone know which post this was or have a link to the paper? I haven't been able to find it.
I use 128 bit spooky hash for keys in a system with ~1M keys in cache at any given time, give or take.

Rough numbers but maybe 75% of those keys existed last month and will still exist next month and probably next year, too, and 25% will exist for minutes to hours and likely never be seen again.

Collisions are uncommon, but a regular enough occurrence (dozen or two a year).
Ask HN: For those on call, how often are you called?
My current role as a IT Operations Engineer has recently forced me to join an on-call rotation, which when on primary support is paging me 5-7 times per week after hours (so literally daily.)

I've been in various IT administration, development and DevOps positions for the last 20 years with differing "on call" responsibilities, and have never had anything as intrusive as this.

Getting to the point - my current manager says that getting paged every day of your primary support shift is "normal in the industry for operations". While this definitely doesn't match my personal experience - I'm curious: do any of you in technical support roles with "on call" responsibilities get paged this frequently? If not, what does a "normal" shift look like for you?

Thanks kindly for any feedback!
demographic

I don't think it's a good idea to go back to the bad old days before credit reporting where whether you could get a loan or not was based on your demographics (color of your skin) rather than on the objective criterion in a credit report.
i looked around a bit on that site and really enjoyed this:

http://toastytech.com/guis/abuse.html
Great write up and tool, can't wait to try it out in my projects. Enjoyed your last write up as well!
It's mildly relevant, but it's implying that somebody with 40 million dollars would never buy something that would lose money over time. Which is ridiculous.

A house doesn't have to be investment!
From the examples that I saw in this thread and on Wikipedia, it seems like this framework does try to account for this complexity by positing more specific rules that require those changes to happen in order for the Merge to be allowed. Since I just heard about this for the first time, I'm not sure I can justify the claim that it succeeds for every aspect of every language, but it looks like the people promoting this approach are aware of quite a bit of the possible complexity of language.

Can you suggest a more example of a linguistic phenomenon that you think this framework can't deal with?
Sure. The question. Is what is the benefit of sending the other 95% of people to college? Those people were certainly educated enough to operate the economy that underpinned and made those achievements possible.
“not all inversions of the 2-10 year have preceded a recession”

Since recessions are cyclical all inversions eventually lead to a recession. There haven’t been enough cycles to draw any sort of meaningful conclusions based on temporal proximity of the inversions to the recessions.
Germany and India are heading towards a recession. China's growth rate is slowing. If there is a global recession, I don't think U.S. can escape it. A lot of U.S. companies sell their products globally. Here is share of foreign revenue of some U.S. companies - Ford - 51%, Bank of America - 20%, Boeing - 41%, Amazon - 45%, McDonald's - 66%. Ford employs 85000 people in U.S. If Ford's global sales declines by 20%, they will close some U.S. plants and lay off employees. Even if just 20% of the companies in S&P 500 start laying off people, that will soon have a cascading effect. People who lost their jobs will stop spending. Even the people who have jobs will be afraid to spend on anything major - new houses, new cars, etc.
Fair enough :)

My comment wasn't only directed at you. I used the opportunity as an excuse to ramble a bit.
I would have liked more on his current ventures and the logistics behind them but it would not make for a Netflix Documentary I guess. Still entertaining.

For the logistics and the problems with toilets, "World's Toilet Crisis" by Vanguard is good, they don't shy away from the issue at hand, talking about open defecation and solutions.

Things like children who open defecate on water often do it at night, for the privacy, and can drown, although diarrhoea is the not talked about real killer but it gets less clicks https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/15/s...

You'd notice the toilets deployed and talked about in the doco aren't very good, The Gates foundation did do some good work not shown but I guess it's not for a Netflix doco, it's more about the flashy stuff.
Also, the C++ committee is very serious about not paying for what you don't use. You can rest assured that there's no unused, hidden C++ bloat that is chipping away at your frame budget.

This is not meant to be a strawman against the complexity cost argument, it's just a related feature of C++ that I thought might be worth explicitly pointing out in case anyone is misinterpreting.

Also, if anyone has a credible dispute against the claim I'd like to hear it.
The Twitter Secret
Yes I am in tech (if you are looking for a job we have openings, you might find it unbelievable but it's really hard to get developers to relocate to the Keys), I work for an anti-trafficking organization. You name it, guns, drugs, child-sex we track and try to interdict it (if you saw the recent news article where the Cost Guard jumped onto a sub built by the narcos, we where involved in that interdiction). That being said, my passion is in the abolition of child sex trafficking. Unfortunately there is not a lot of government and NGO funds focused on this effort so it becomes an also ran for us. Child sex trafficking and abduction is rampant in the Caribbean (not the Keys).

As a personal plug, I apply to THORN every time they post on the who's hiring thread, but never seem to make it to an interview. I would love to focus on child trafficking and exploitation solely.

Currently one of the projects I am working on is blockchain tech as this is becoming a huge market for pedophiles. They are encoding child porn images into, block chain smart contracts and are being paid via crpto for access to these smart contracts full of graphic child exploitation imagery. Anyways, another quick shameless plug for me if anyone from THORN reads this you should hire me! I know how these people operate and I know how to develop solutions to track and stop them.

Back to the subject, I work with 10 other developers, other than a few guys that work remote we represent the development community for 150 miles around us. It is very remote and there really is no tech industry here, but I am OK with that. The trade-off is that I get to go spearfishing with my children, we get to snorkel and scuba the second largest barrier reef (Which is dyeing if I have not mentioned that), boats are like bikes around here and I have been in a fight with a 14 ft Tiger shark over who was going to get to eat my hog fish. It really is a paradise (except for the occasional Hurricane that is, that and the fact that we have no waves to surf). Work where you live, not live where you work is a mantra I live by.
> it's not easy to find people with this many hours of practice, hence why they reuse the participants [...]. Since these subjects are very interesting, it makes sense to study them again with different techniques or reproducing previous results.

That's fine as far as it goes. It helps us confirm that a phenomenon can actually occur and perhaps tells us something about its general shape. But when studying a population of known outliers, it's not credible to assume how the results will or won't apply to a broader population. This isn't an abstract epistemological concern; scientific journals are absolutely packed with exciting preliminary findings that vanished into insignificance when somebody did a larger or more rigorous study (but nevertheless might be cherry-picked for a pop-science/self-help book based on the "revolutionary" findings).
Gerrymandering doesn’t have anything to do with the presidential elections. Gerrymandering refers to state legislations drawing districts to have an advantage in state and house elections. Electoral college votes are strictly determined by the census.
Companies like Equifax are already selling your credit data and handling it irresponsibly. I'd rather have my credit data be held by the government than the idiots at Equifax.
Some things are okay to allocate at some point in time. So you can disable malloc later when you no longer want it to provide memory.
there will be way more slackers in a job-secure environment, where workers have 0 motivation to do anything.
So your main objection is that the quote betrays its speaker as uppity?
Republicans also conveniently oppose national ID cards and programs to provide hassle-free state IDs.
Suffering is necessary; I don't subscribe to the belief that it's somehow due as the wages of original sin, but to suffer and die is the fate of every human being. Not tens of millions, but all of the billions that have ever existed; not one has ever escaped it.

And money is an abstraction. You could eliminate trillions and trillions just by hacking the systems that keep track of who has how much.

What I'm trying to say is not that the consequences of climate change aren't grave, but that without mentioning specific numbers and their relationship to other numbers that describe reality, and researching and choosing those in good faith, you are saying nothing.
Dvorak is a hack and a troll. I’m surprised he was tolerated for so long.
The Caribbean is beautiful for scuba diving, especially the Bahamas, except when there is a Hurricane. Why not code or be a technician there. There are risks in every community and generally the members of society tend to eventually know who you are, if your there long enough. Anyways, that's my two cents or 1 XLM lol.
Except it doesn't, because it's too expensive to operate and not only are new nuclear plants not being built (for economic reasons), but existing ones are being shut down (for economic reasons; see the article).
I just received this email from Amazon on Thursday afternoon, this may be related:

"We are notifying you that we incorrectly issued an early invoice for your September AWS usage on September 18th. As your card was charged successfully for this invoice, we are currently processing a refund for the unexpected charge. The refund generally takes 3-5 business days to be received by your bank and some banks may require additional processing time. Your full monthly usage will be invoiced through our normal billing process on or around the 3rd of October. We will send another notification when your correct September invoice is available. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this error.

There is no action required from you, but if you have any questions, please contact the AWS Customer Service Team by visiting: https://aws.amazon.com/support, and opening a case by selecting 'Create Case'. You can then select ‘Account and Billing Support’ , followed by ’Billing’ for the Service, and ‘Charge Inquiry’ for the Category."
No, I mean sure, if you think a conservative administration settling with conservative groups is a valid admission of guilt, go for it! But for many of us, it just seems like Trump trying to define truth unilaterally to pander to his base. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

Spoiler: both liberal and conservative groups were subject to extra scrutiny via keyword triggers, but only conservative groups got a settlement for whatever reason only Trump knows. Trump was smart enough not to let it go to court (lest any facts get argued for real).
>I'm a progressive liberal, but I believe this is hogwash. Many countries have a government issued national card for citizens. It's not a huge deal. Activists have made it seem like it's a way to suppress voters but I think that's largely BS.

Have you tried educating yourself on the matter? For "some" reason, there are large swaths of land where people have to travel 25+ miles and pay with their already taxed income just for the displeasure of standing in line at the DMV/etc.

Tell me how much of a priority this is to someone who might not be able to drive their own car, or take time out of their job for.

I don't understand why someone would front their statement with "I'm a progressive liberal" while remaining intentionally obtuse, unless they're arguing in bad faith to begin with.
A paranoid individual might claim that this ink could be tampered with or replaced with washable ink.

Can the same argument not be made for requiring voter IDs? youeseh I'm replying to says it's "few numbers" adding up. Another thread from sverige in this tree links vox and nyt saying that requiring ID has small numbers effect of turnout. So saying that their concern of voter fraud is a small numbers thing kind of lacks heft as an argument.

If these are both the case, then why not go with the requirement (and possibly make the requirement "easier" by issuing IDs at the same time/place) so there's no possibility of contesting the election results with regard to this particular issue?
I think the reason is that what I said isn't compatible with the most catastrophized interpretation of climate change. Climate change is one of the few topics alongside topics like guns and abortion where nuance is generally not welcome. Look at the other responses. Does "he's rich so he's probably just burning millions of dollars" feel like the most reasonable explanation of his behavior? I don't think that fits what I know of Obama's temperament. Apparently, some people disagree.
Perfect! Neither do I. Now, let's sit down and try to program the laws ourselves :)
Maybe? But it's like saying that it's harder to fix a bad country than to leave for another country, so its accuracy is possibly less important than its rationality.
A tremendous amount of progress has been made in battery technology since the 1890s. We're the vast majority of the way there in terms of total progress and development that needs to be made on the technology.

And you can get EVs today that have the same range as petroleum-powered vehicles, which is much, more longer than the average trip. EVs have well over 20X the range they did a century ago, so no, they don't have "exactly the same problem today".
not sure of the image size, but 'nanobsd' is still supported as I understand it, similar projects exist elswhere

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?nanobsd%288%29

see also:

https://openwrt.org/
https://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/

etc.
Yep and I have also learned to not trust everyone that says the sky is falling and attribute every malty to some big bogey man. Let me remind you of the CRU corruption and various other scandals that have taken place in the quest for Cap and Trade. Real pollution is a far greater danger than AGW, I am not against the research into AGW and am not claiming that it does not exist what I am saying that has been proven with absolute certainly is that their are individuals using it as a scare tactic for financial gain, while there are far more immediate issues that we need to be concerned with, the ocean being the front and center issue, the poisoning of it is going to get us far before AGW does. As well I certainly contest that it has a hill of beans to do with Hurricanes or their severity. As the (as recorded by severity) worst seasons seen where almost 100 years ago.
Not to mention that social security and medicare funding comes directly out of every paycheck I get. It's dishonest to claim those payments are people leeching off the rich when a huge % of the beneficiaries literally paid for them.
In Fiji we don't have a national ID but we can normally use one of either a voter ID card, drivers license, or tax ID card.
> it was too difficult to embed a JVM-based language into other runtimes and languages

In addition to the JVM, Scala has had JS [1] and native (via LLVM) [2] targets for years.

(And that's not even mentioning any second-order compilations; e.g. Scala -> JVM bytecode -> native)

There's a number of reasons to not choose Scala, but portability is far from one of them.

[1] https://www.scala-js.org

[2] http://www.scala-native.org
dragonfly is a full system. 'light' by modern (read: ubuntu, windows 10) standards (e.g. GUI, other things are addons), but a base install will run you about 800MBish
My only infrastructure/data analytics experience outside of standard RDMS is with AWS so anytime I mention an AWS service feel free to substitute a non AWS/open source alternative...

For aggregation and reporting my usual go to would be Redshift - a custom AWS version of Postgres that uses columnar storage instead of rows and/or something like Kinesis (aka similar to Kafka) for streaming data and real-time aggregation while the data is being captured.
> No, I mean sure, if you think a conservative administration settling with conservative groups is a valid admission of guilt,

For the actions committed under the previous liberal administration.
Your home address, age and marital status are absolutely used by lenders in a data-driven analysis of whether you are a creditworthy borrower. I don't think that's a necessarily malevolent analysis, but it's also not true that we live in a society where your demographics are irrelevant to your ability to access credit.
James Comey who will be soon going to prison.
There's probably 500+ successful GC based games on the Steam store another 100000 to a million hobby games doing just fine with GC.

I started game programming on the Atari 800, Apple 2, TRS-80. Wrote NES games with 2k of ram. I wrote games in C throughout the 90s including games on 3DO and PS1 and at the arcade.

I was a GC hater forever and I'm not saying you can ignore it but the fact that Unity runs in C# with GC and that so many quality and popular shipping games exist using it is really proof that GC is not the demon that people make it out to be

Some games made with GC include Cuphead, Kerbal Space Program, Just Shapes & Beats, Subnautica, Ghost of a Tale, Beat Saber, Hollow Knight, Cities: Skylines, Broforce, Ori and the Blind Forest
Pointers that can't be null are usually implemented by struct embedding. That's typical for Linux kernel code, for example.
Probably better that society pays them to sit on the couch at home than that we force them to pollute workplaces that would otherwise get more and higher quality work done.