skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We as a species have very much decided that short term gains are well worth long term disaster.

Sounds like a minority of people with power and influence have decided the rules in which they're allowed to exercise that power for profit.
I don't get the pun. Could you explain?
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UK Labour Party vows to cut average working week to 32 hours
The FAQ clearly states it's closed source: http://keyhut.com/faq.htm#source

"Sorry, but I do not release the source code for any of my software. This is particularly true for the Cash Register program.

The Cash Register program. has many things that must be hidden like the passwords and PIN numbers. It also has things that users must not be able to change like sales and tax amounts and transaction numbers. These things could easily be changed by anyone who has the source code and anyone with the source code could write a program that would change the hidden things and then release it on the internet making my program useless".
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Do you mind mentioning which RAM module you purchased? On the wiki it looks like some are officially supported and others have been added by users. Maybe if the issue is related to the RAM, others have experienced similar problems. Also, I am looking at the bundle, but don't see any RAM included with it. Was this something that had been offering in the past but since took down?
> The real downside I've seen is that so much valuable information is in academic papers that aren't approachable.

They become more approachable the longer you spend reading papers, but overall I definitely agree with you. Lots of papers just assume too much of the reader, which means you've gotta read like six other papers to find out what's really going on in this one.
Then there's Nintendo, founded in 1889. They originally started making playing cards, eventually branching to toys and then video games.
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The issue is that usually the manufacturer builds in capabilities to update the firmware, and then reserves for themselves the ability to modify and update that firmware, while intentionally denying that ability to the users. This puts the manufacturer in a position of power over people who use the product.

But if the firmware isn't modifiable by anybody (including the manufacturer) because the capability to update it was never built in the first place, then no capabilities are being withheld from the users of that product.
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> Just a week before protesters were able to blockade a main road in the capital and cause a gridlock for several hours lasting until late-night.

Protesters cause gridlock in countries like England, Germany or Canada too. (Google for Uber-related taxi protests.)
Yet, when the secrets being revealed are important enough, whistleblowers are met with unmasking, armed raids, and prosecution. Perhaps things really have changed in the NSA since Snowden, but given the NSA's record I doubt it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intellige...
Out of curiosity, does this mean that they’re using (or have used) FreeBSD in their infrastructure or for some other purpose, or just a high level of Unix competence in that team? Any interesting details that you’re able to share?
Here is the code for groupcache:

https://github.com/golang/groupcache

There is no "distributed mode" as far as I can see. It is an in memory library for a K/V cache that you use in your code. That's it.
It's a bad pun, if it was meant as one. FP is all values and few words, compared to OO languages.
Not only are those numbers not always right (they can contain replies), but also that's not the question. If the questions are about keyword presence, it's easier but it depends a lot on stuff like, "do we count attachment content?"
I love it! I managed to get one client to do a "drop in" Netware replacement using some wire compatible netware replacement (I can't even remember the name) Their machines still kept the Netware login and everything. Good old days.
FP is fun, but there aren't many good languages for it. Haskell is too academic, Clojure is fun but hasn't taken off, Scala is too complicated (Java with FP shoehorned in, who thought this was a good idea?).

I like FP but 90% of the time you'd be better off with just Python because other developers will be able to work with it and there are libraries. Or Golang or Node or whatever.

Frustrating, but it is what it is.
Ok but fairly certain NYC and Boston attract multiples more VC dollars as well vs Seattle, and at least can think of far more startups out of those cities than Seattle. I don’t think it’s just a state specific thing.
Show HN: I made a React Hook to use Tensorflow.js easily
Sorry to hear that it doesn't work for you. It does work for me but it is very slow unfortunately.
which one do you use? boogie board? I'd love one of these that could image itself.
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Sounds like a faulty PSU. $70 USD is quite on the low end of the spectrum, especially for a chip with a TDP of 130W. Is it a working pull unit? Do you have the ability/option to try another unit?
It sounds like what you're saying is for OP to have been able to leverage serverless properly, he should have fired a devops engineer?
It is funny how we now feel lost without a phone when in a new city! Back in the 90s and 00s I remember studying a paper map before embarking on a new trip, it was always fun to try and memorize the main roads of a new place!
After Bretton-Woods, there is a lot of demand for US dollars as a reserve currency. And due to the petrodollar, US dollars are also needed to buy oil.

The US is in a unique situation that lets it print a lot more money than other countries. At the end of the day, we will end this debt by printing money. Anyone buying bonds has to factor in the possibility that the US dollar the coupons are paid in will be devalued. It's not a "risk-free asset". It just depends on when and how the US will start printing money, and where that money will go. We did quantitative easing for years, but the banks didn't increase lending very much.

A good economy is when we should have been raising taxes and paying down our debt. But instead, the Trump administration presides over the biggest debt, deficit and trade deficit in our country's history. So it seems to me that the next Bernie administration will absolutely need to do large infra projects a la FDR, Green New Deal etc. because the recession may be severe.
> Also, I am looking at the bundle, but don't see any RAM included with it. Was this something that had been offering in the past but since took down?

It's an add-on. Click "Add to cart" and then you'll have the option to add it on the next page.

> Do you mind mentioning which RAM module you purchased? On the wiki it looks like some are officially supported and others have been added by users. Maybe if the issue is related to the RAM, others have experienced similar problems.

Not interested in troubleshooting in HN comments, but thank you. There are some leads in the IRC channel that I'll follow up on when I have the chance.
I've been playing around with Tensorflow.js, loved it and decided to create a library to save someone some pain (including future me). It's still fairly early, I want to add other models but would love some feedback with it so far:

- Please try it and let me know what you think of the current API.

- If you have other usecases please let me know, would love to add more examples. So far covered loading static images and realtime video feed right.
Low rates are a result of boomeres all over the world saving for retirement (+ CB manipulation). As soon as they start using that savings, instead of accumulating them both inflation and yields will tend to naturally raise again. More people to care for, less people to do the work -> inflation. Inflation expectation -> higher yields.

That $175T wealth figure is measured at the peak of everything bubble in the US. Real estate, stock market, bonds - everything is at the all time highs, after debt and low yields fueled decade. And yet still, according to the article government would have to confiscate 10% of all wealth in the America to pay the debt.

And that's just the official debt. What about unfounded liabilities, which are many, many times higher? https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2017/10/10/your-pen...

So basically optimists here say, that to pay the debt the government will need confiscate more than a half of all the total wealth in US, at its peak, without causing economic slowdown and without causing inflation (and thus yields) to spike. And that assuming the government doesn't accrue any new debt as it is running a balanced budget. And considering that fiscal spending is an important part of keeping this struggling economy going ... that balanced budget would have to come from the tax... like you would never seen before (basically double?). And again... all these taxation without crippling the economy.

And all that inflation and taxation, without people noticing and trying to counteract to preserve their wealth (tax avoidance, running into PM, crypto, foreign assets, whatever.)

Yeah... whatever keeps you sleep well at night. :D
> could they really not anticipate future antitrust action?

I we go by the pattern of behavior at Facebook, it really doesn't seem like the decision makers consider much in the way of anti-trust or much of anything.

The pattern is well established and their version of move fast and break things is almost entirely off the rails.
This is why I like Scala, the best of both world, FP + OOP
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You would think it would follow a Pareto distribution, so how is this 'Worse than you think"?

Now I do get the article itself is more about the level of computer literacy rather than the distribution, and that things like the mean skill might be way below where you think it is.

Part of my pet peeves about 'modern' systems is the indiscoverability. There was a glorious time in between the magic incantations command line and obscure multi key keyboard presses, and the wiz bang of of secret hand and finger gestures, where there was a universal compact meta system of menus and dialog boxes that while it could be extensive, allowed for browsing through all the command option in a discoverable way (and yes, I am over-glorifying).

We somewhere seem to have lost this. It is not about the command prompt vs menus vs gestures. It is about having a clear and universal road to discovery when you do not know what and how some command can be given.
>None of these sites actually make or sell anything besides maybe an ad-platform.

Why does that matter?
The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh talks about the different ways of viewing mathematics, including this Platonic idea of it existing "out there". Another poster noted a quote--which I also think is from that book--about many mathematicians being Platonists on the weekend. It's a beautifully written book. I've read it twice, and just thinking about it makes me want to read it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Experience
There's a danger of only seeing the portion of the culture that left their country with the intent to start a business.

I see a decent number of Japanese businessmen where I am. I know they're not at exactly representative of Japan. They're part of companies that thought investing in Silicon Valley would be a good idea and were willing to move here.
I don’t see what the big deal is. I wrote clojure professionally for many years, full-time. It’s just as easy to write spaghetti in that language as in something more traditional.
Fair. <facepalm>. A perfect example of a cognitive blind spot on my end.

Incidentally, lower-end restaurants tend to be "pay before you eat", just like fast food joints. I honestly prefer it that way; saves the cognitive burden and a lot of time (sometimes waiting for a waiter to come with the receipt can take as much time as it took to eat the food).
Yeah, the "extended single" albums, that had the one good hit song and 11 crappy tracks, will not be missed.
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The missing context: I think that some of the practices used by startups are not inherently better but just performed in front of a much more tolerant and loving audience. If we are talking about big nasty systems full of legacy code - what's the point in rolling out code 5 times a day and making things marginally better. The time would be much better spent proving business value to the decision makers and doing one major refactoring of a core module that is making users miserable. And that takes time.
Quite a lot of ETL ends up being some minor transforms + a query or two.

Not all of it is massive ML models doing a lot of computation, and I've had a lot of success using pandas and numpy in it (and gcp cloud functions).

Serverless has its niche and is a great little tool to smooth the impedance mismatch between data stores.
For some of my friends, I _know_ they are not overwhelmed with responsibility. But sometimes they just don't feel like it or are busy with other friends who I don't know. That's frustrating. I want to shake them. But sometimes I do it too and realize "Oh this is what my friends probably like when they don't respond."

For me I think the biggest barrier is housing proximity. All my friends live in different suburbs, which means on the weekend that's a 30m drive each way, and it's worse afterwork on the weekday. Sucks.
Some say debt to GDP does not matter, because we can print dollars. My question to them is: Would a 1000% matter? 100000%?

At some point people will start demanding the government provide everything because they’ve been told debt doesn’t matter and we can print money. It looks like we’re reaching that point because “Main Street” seeemingly realized in 2008 that there was no limit. That it’s a game of chicken with the Fed. Let’s give everyone $2000 / mo and free healthcare and education. Why have any limit on government spending? The Fed will monetize it after all!

Yang might not win this time around, but Yang #2 will be more popular and have bigger demands. Especially when another downtown and another bailout occurs. It’s getting very hard to convince Joe Sixpack that the printing press should only be used for the banks. Yang is the canary in the coal mine.
GraphQL makes caching a real bitch.
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