skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most Americans don't continue to work for status—they continue to work to eat.

I was speaking with regards to American society under UBI, not the current day.
Old info.

Teams doesn't ever come back after uninstallation, and you have to install it yourself to have it in the first place. It isn't bundled.

For about two years now, with any OS upgrade or patch, bundled apps are not installed if you've uninstalled them prior to that OS upgrade or patch.

It's important to keep your complaints up to date with new information, or at least admit that your information is old.
Sure! But "only the wealthiest could afford to travel long distances" is over the top. It's not some sample from before the bicycle. These people's parents, or grandparents, were mixed up all over the planet in WWII.

It would be interesting to know more details about this 0.03 percent. No idea whether you should put your money on small towns or on big cities (e.g. parents both adopted & didn't know).
Bonds or bond funds? Those are two different beast with two different behaviors when crises hit.
> compiling large documents basically instantly

Would be interested to see this. TeXLive has always been able to compile documents instantly even a decade ago, but only documents that were a few pages long.

When you got into dissertation-sized folders of documents with lots of TikZ images, it takes a little longer but still not that long. (my 160 page dissertation compiled in 10-15s back in the early 2010s on a Core 2 Duo with a non-SSD drive)

It was hard to get much faster than that for large documents because LaTeX has (had?) critical paths that defy parallelization.

If it is indeed possible to achieve instantaneous compilation for large documents, that would make live-compilation a reality (live compilation already is a reality but for small documents).
Where can you roam, and what country/region are you from?

I asked my Norwegian carrier about this, and they said yes, but linked the page where Apple says roaming is not supported...
We are also more productive as a society compared to the 50-60 years ago that retirees were born. Theoretically we should be able to make more with less people too.
That's true, but it's easy to blame the comment more than the upvotes, which are arguably the worse problem.
I'm a bit confused how they can do that, as hasn't their patent for the bricks etc. expired?

Were these designs the same as existing Lego ones?

And didn't Lego themselves copy Kiddicraft bricks.
Typical medium article. Scant and clickbaity (fell for it this time).

Is there a way to block all medium articles from my feed?
Actually tried buying checks from Wal-Mart. They rejected my order claiming my bank was in Italy and they didn't do international checks. I double checked the routing number and it was correct. Whoever Wal-Mart contracted with the do check printing, they don't have a very good system in place of at least not on that day.
A combination of ads and referral links. Ads are not Google Ads (or similar), but sold directly, no middle-man.

The business very starkly displays a core truth: if you really know how to do SEO, you will run your own websites instead of selling "SEO services".
StackOverflow used to be a community of people wanting to share technical knowledge.

Now I don't know what the F it is, but "pronouns" is about as far from technical knowledge you can get...
I know this may sound weird but only the first 15 minutes of the movie and a few other small scenes were CGI. Most of the movie used old school film effects and hand-drawn cell animation. But the CGI in Tron was mind blowingly advanced for the era including the first CGI facial animation.
Negative finance headlines is a great positive indicator that nothing will happen. Almost no one can successfully predict a recession or downturn, and the more people believe it, the less likely it will be.
This is actually extremely poignant, because it's a neat encapsulation of the entire political climate in the US. While the far left are busy arguing and cannibalizing themselves over pronouns, the Republicans are busy getting elected.

Imagine if these people spent a tenth of that energy on striving towards positions of actual political power. But no, they must really want four more years of Trump -- why else would they spend an iota of energy on this nonsense?
We’ve been stacking tinder for a very long time with our monetary policy, as well as shifting demographics. The trade war might be the spark, but a spark on a clean forest floor doesn’t do much.
Flappy Bird as a Mixed Integer Program (2019)
Partial learning, lack of foundation. 110% agree that is a problem that happens to me, even recently. First principles are so important.

Yeah the mysterious room elephant. Similar to the nuggets of gold underneath fear or anger, but not the same. I don't have a solution to that either. It seems we can only work so much and getting the preparation but also the supply to meet our need demands lined up so we can fulfill them consistently and keep work performance up, is a big life problem.

Using play as an indicator for unmet needs is interesting. I find myself alternating between work and play, but they are clearly defined as two separate tasks. And yes when I play it becomes much easier to prioritize getting my needs met than under the gun of work.

On the topic of positive emotion. Supposedly most of the positive emotion we get in life is in the pursuit of a goal. That may explain why we do best at the things we enjoy and the necessity of positive emotion for work. Maybe we have to balance the driving power of positive emotion with the crushing weight lifting negative emotion that comes from the challenge of working (and life in general). Too enjoyable and it's too easy, you're not working at your limit. Too negative and you're dying, you're likely to under perform but also not hit your target. Hmm interesting. I appreciate your post it put me in a mindset I had not explored in a while.
> Kind of like we look back today on 1987 and think what was that kerfuffle all about.

Do we? The 1987 crash was the second worst market crash in history follow the great depression. Or at least that's what I thought? In terms of adjusted dollars was it not worse than the dot com crash and the 2008 crash?
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> Lua is a great language but lacks performance

Come again?

I was under the impression that Lua, especially luajit, were incredibly fast languages
In 1926-1930 Wright and Guild conducted experiments on 15 independent observers. They compared the spectral color with a specific wavelength to a mixture of red (700 nm.), blue (435.8 nm.) and green (546.1 nm.). In 1931 the International Lighting Congress (CIE) adopted a characteristic of
the color properties of the average (standard) observer, based on this results.

Later, for comfort calculations, the International Lighting Congress introduced
the abstract system CIE XYZ, based on unreal colors. This coordinate
system is very comfort for the transition from one system to another. Also,
the wavelengths of visible light and the corresponding coordinates of the CIE XYZ
mixture were calculated, based on the results obtained for the RGB
system (Wright and Guild).

sRGB system of monitors have many non-spectral colors. The wave method is applied in this case (on "RGB" site page) to each of the three colors (red, green, blue) individually, not all colors are harmonious and you will have to make a choice manually. This method allows you to get more interesting combinations of colors, but requires a self-dependent choice.
This is all good and well.
But why XeTeX as a starting point instead of LuaTeX?

Most distributions started the transition from pdfTeX to LuaTeX as the main implementation. And the code from the new translation from the original Pascal to C is pretty nice.

And LuaTeX also has UTF8 support and modern font handling.
Wordpos is a set of fast part-of-speech (POS) utilities for Node.js and browser
> All that shows is that dollar cost averaging has been better than the strawman he set up.

What strawman? The "buying the dip" is a popular strategy that lots of people try to employ:

* https://www.thestreet.com/investing/earnings/when-to-buy-the...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/look-who-...

* https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/buying-the-dip-sto...

It explores two strategies that have are used by many people: yes there are others, but it simply does A/B testing to try to find the better of these two. It seems that DCA is better than buying the dip (BtD); that doesn't mean there's something better than DCA, but it says that DCA wins over BtD in this part of the bracket.

It looks at past data to build a model and makes future predictions: we can invest theoretical money and test the theory that DCA is better the BtD, and check back in a few years to see if the prediction is correct.
Sure. I came up with this method on my own but I'm sure someone else has already tried something similar and documented it.

Take a piece of paper (or google doc) and put a theme or idea in a single sentence or line of text at the top. Then write a chunk (I'd say 5-10 sentences, but it's arbitrary) below in whatever style naturally comes to you first. Re-read it and note any obvious characteristics about it that jump out at you (e.g. it reads like a research paper, it uses colloquial language, sentences pack a lot of information, my diction is terse, etc - whatever). Then you write a new white space-separated chunk below it where you play with a completely new style, or maybe go in the the opposite direction of something you noticed in the last chunk (be more blunt and terse when your last chunk was long and dense, or maybe introduce fun abstractions and colorful analogy when the last chunk reads like an arXiv paper).

Once you feel ready to consolidate it, re-read them and cherry-pick things from each chunk that feel right to you as the writer and synthesize the text into a final piece you are happy with. I'd say you should also timebox consolidation so you actually have something workable in a timely manner. Often times I find that this method creates a balanced style for me, because it is my best effort at emulating my favorite style to read - a style where I never feel like I have the writer "figured out".

Bear in mind that this is a completely arbitrary approach and is just how I like to do things. I came up with it from musicianship where you develop your own style by emulating one person, then another, then you have a bag of tricks to pull from when it comes time to decide who you want to be as a creator. Your style may change over time, and I think this method allows it to evolve based on what feels right to you vs. just following what has always worked or what others seem to be happy with.
these comments are a cesspool
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled
HN notify mentioned in another comment has an unsubscribe in the email.
Asked my barber last week...

You worried about brexit?

Barber said, nope hair still grows whether we're in Europe or not.

OK, you worried about a deep recession and mass unemployment?

Barber said, nope hair still grows and needs cutting especially if people are interviewing more.

Ok, ok, so what about Automation?

Barber said...would you trust a robot to get this close to your ears with a razor sharp blade?

Honesly, true story which might explain why 3 new hairdressers have opened up in my high street in the last year. Also as someone who works in software and has to deal with 'bugs' his last point made me really think!
I Built an 'Edible' Skincare Brand After My TV Presenting Career
An additional argument for the multiply-then-shift instead of using modulo, is that for most random number generators the high bits are more random than in the low bits.

Another approach, if you really want to use modulo, is to execute the division as a multiplication by the reciprocal followed by a shift. This makes sense when the divisor is odd and used multiple times. See e.g. [0] about how compilers generate code to divide by a constant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_algorithm#Division_by...
Dumbarton Update: Facebook considers light rail due to Union Pacific challenges
OMG, I feel an ulcer developing just from reading that story. Thanks for posting!

Reminds me of that 2 million LOC monstrosity someone once commented on an ASK HN about the worst codebase they’ve ever seen.

Btw, there are some duplicate paragraphs in the article that are probably worth trimming out. Search for “Contract arrives, I sit down with COO and CFO and explain that we have been duped.“
There's a huge difference between calling someone you know and have interacted with for a significant amount of time or a random internet stranger the wrong thing though (not to mention the overhead of looking up & remembering the pronoun vs just writing around it for technical/factual answers)
> In a another town a motel refused Coast Guard workers a room because they weren't from the town.

Why would people who lived in the town want a hotel room in the same town? How did they ever get any customers?
I have a somewhat unusual name for Anglosphere. Some people have trouble pronouncing it. When that happens, I don't attack them in a fit of rage, I either correct them or most frequently just ignore it. Sometimes - e.g. Starbucks and so on - I use English version of the name that I never use otherwise but that sounds close enough so I know they are calling me. I don't try to organize boycott of Starbucks and demand the state to make a law that under penalty of firing on the spot they have to pronounce my name absolutely correctly and with the right accent. I don't demand from people who don't know me to instantly know my name and never be confused about how to pronounce it - in fact, some of my friends sometimes mispronounce it and I don't have trouble with it because I know their language background makes it harder for them to express the right combination of sounds that the correct pronunciation in my native language requires. I don't demand venues to make rules that require everybody to learn my name and how to pronounce it and fire anybody who speaks around it because they can't remember it or have hard time to pronounce it. I know none of it is meant as an insult to me and none of people who have hard time properly pronouncing my name do it because they hate me and my whole ethnic background.
I write in Portuguese with confidence. Then I started to get confidence writing in English. Then I got confident enough to start writing a newsletter with writing advice in English [0]

Then someone in HN commented in one of my posts "I don't trust any writing advice from someone who thinks "certificated" is a word" lol

That killed most of my confidence of writing in English and I gave up the idea of having a newsletter.

[0] https://writingfordevelopers.substack.com
Node.js, an Elixir Library for Calling Node.js Functions
"We should look at the whole project as a cautionary tale of the kind of leveraged destruction that some programmers of modest ability but extreme confidence can wreak on our industry."

Oh man, can I put that on a t-shirt?
This story is told really well in one of my favorite podcasts, the Acquired Podcast: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-maps. Highly recommended as are all of the other episodes.
The same thing that makes writing a grade-A essay harder than verbally explaining your idea to the professor. Both require slinging words with meaning, but the stakes are higher for the written paper: it needs to stand on its own and “defend itself”.
Food Follows Function
interestingly enough, the “v” in risc-v also means “v” as in vector [1]

> and so we named it RISC-V. As one of our goals in defining RISC-V was to support research in data-parallel architectures, the Roman numeral ‘V’ also conveniently served as an acronymic pun for “Vector.”

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...

———-

so maybe in a way “vee” isn’t so inappropriate after all ^_^
I honestly don’t understand why people use LastPass when everything about it screams poor quality. Is it the lack of taste or alternatives for non Apple platforms?
How do you pronounce "Mun"? Does it rhyme with "sun" or "soon"?
I don't think anyone thinks SE violated the law. The point is they are a useful organization that many people use. The policy is causing their target audience to question the usefulness and try to find alternatives. I am curious about the alternatives.

My problem with the policy is the cognative load that the policy puts on the moderators given that most people want to be judged for their ideas rather than their gender.
Would love to know the operating system that is 5 years ahead of MacOS! Clearly they must have revolutionary features.
In some of the code snippets, the following is used:

threshold = -bound % bound

I don't understand how that isn't always zero. What am I missing?
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I guess you missed the "Back when I still had windows" text in my comment, but I could quantify this.

I removed windows a year ago from my last machine and it still had this behaviour. If they now allow uninstalling all bundled apps easily without them coming back after updates then props to them. It's not what I hear from colleagues that still have windows though.
Meh, already done - the Softbank fund is pretty much owned by BoJ.
Storage is typically included in those low bids I mentioned. We already crossed the cheap enough mark in some areas for solar + battery.
Don't many debts already have a statute of limitations? IIRC, the statute of limitations on credit card debt can be as short as three years depending on the state. I know that's not exactly the same as debt forgiveness but after seven years, the debt even falls off one's credit report, making it essentially worthless to the debt owner. Obviously things like student loans aren't so easily dismissed but there does seem to be a disjointed system of debt forgiveness already for certain types of debt.
This one of the main gripes I have with living in Austria and Germany.

In places that are not touristic or in smaller cities that are not a big metro areas, speaking German (Hochdeutsch) is not enough. Failure to speak the local dialect of that region will get you ridiculed or even discriminated against. Not just in the service industry, but in job hunting as well.

Also, don't be named Kevin.
>You can do that by building up vast stores of wealth and funneling it to people over time, or you can do it by directly taxing current production, but either way the effect is to direct resources from people who produce to those who don't.

The "vast stores of wealth" approach is "hoard financial assets, and then sell them to current workers" - that is, savings. Note that this includes financial assets such as mortgages and student loans, and "selling them to current workers" includes them paying down the principal.

I don't view it as a Ponzi scheme, per se, but there's a very big problem with defined-benefit schemes: if our future society is not productive enough to support the promised benefits, the only choices are to renege or to increase the transfer from future workers. Defined-contribution schemes have the political advantage of automatically reducing benefits when the economy does poorly.
How To Win Friends and Influence People (1937, from memory) is a great book to read. It's recently been updated to get rid of the most antiquated situations and some more modern ones have been added.

The book is not focused solely on sales, but many of the applications discussed in the book are sales-related. I think the book holds up very well after 80 years.
Enpass works pretty well on Linux, but you may run into some issues depending on your distro that has to be worked around.
See this (97 page) review "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning": https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05433

You might also find Bret Victor's "What can a technologist do about climate change?" article interesting - it talks about software other than ML/AI: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
Exactly. When people sputter breathlessly that basic minimum income is unsustainable because the people who receive it will just sit at home watching TV and taking drugs I just laugh and tell them we already do that. We just call it social security.

We don't need a new system. We just need to slowly expand the one we have a little further each year. Lowering the retirement age is a great place to start.
>"The most recent part of Manhattan to be designed was still over two centuries ago in 1811."

That's not correct. Battery Park City was developed in the mid 1970's.[1] And that development is particularly significant here as it includes a car-free green space in the form of Hudson River Park which begins there. Hudson River Park itself also being significant in that it won out over the proposed Westway Project which would have placed an interstate highway there instead.[2] The extension of Hudson River Park all the way up to the 72nd St Boat Basin is also a very recent and significant development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park_City

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Highway#Westway
The article does spend a fair amount of time talking about why this happened, the euphemisms and mindset used by the corporate culture to avoid inspecting what they were really doing.

I don't think the cynicism is warranted. In fact, it takes a fair amount of introspection then courage to put your name on an article saying you spent so much time doing something you now find morally repugnant. The easy path is to either (a) not ever recognize you were taking advantage of poor people or (b) sweep it under the rug and go on with your life.
> ... because you'd obviously be levered when playing any kind of non-momentum strategy ...

I think to underestimate the number of people who try to be clever with their (401k) retirement savings and who day trade as a hobby:

* https://www.thestreet.com/investing/earnings/when-to-buy-the...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-03/look-who-...

* https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/buying-the-dip-sto...
That would be true if the number of topics in the world were constant, but new topics materialize all the time, and the popularity varies on old topics. Articles get old/outdated and are fertile ground for new articles with updated information, etc.
Does it not feel awkward in that one or two hours of silence though?
Simple keywords for definitions can make grepping for stuff much easier. Given that shell allows other forms, it isn't that helpful in practice. I still use it because my eyes find start-of-definition faster with common patterns that are not just special-chars. YMMV.

Edit: I usually don't care for portability, and just use bash. Shell is so ugly already, I refuse to write my personal stuff in portability hell mode. Rather level up my Civilization skills instead.
I've been keeping an eye on these folks: Prolog-implemented graph DB with a bunch of interesting (mathy!) features.

https://terminusdb.com/

https://terminusdb.com/docs/

https://github.com/terminusdb/terminus-server
No, without additional evidence it’s a terrible argument that could apply to almost anything. Data and experience is better than an “a priori reason” every time.

Tfa addresses reasons cell phone use may not be as explanatory as we think. If you want to argue against that, great, but bring some evidence. Anything else is just hot air.
Does that work with something like credit cards, where your old debt is paid off but you constantly have more new debt?
Tesla ends Model 3 shipments to China as Shanghai Gigafactory production begins
Agreed! A-pillars have gotten extremely thick over the last 10 or so years to accommodate airbags and the increased rake angle of the windshield brings the pillar much closer to the eye. In my vehicles (2008 & 2018), the left pillar blocks the destination of a left turn (intersections or twisty mountain roads) and the right pillar at intersections block traffic and pedestrians from the right. I bob and weave to try and compensate, but it's definitely more work.