skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a rather small community on the northwestern coast of Norway, home to a lot of small-time fishermen working up in the Arctic.

Just about everyone my age and older still remember when a vessel was lost back in the eighties, initial reports were all hands lost - until suddenly, a week and a half later, the fisherman we'd all mourned for the past days came home, puzzled as to the sensation his appearance made - he and a couple others had been picked up off a liferaft, and Canadian authorities had misspelled his name when notifying their Norwegian counterparts there were survivors after all - so his family had not been notified.

Allegedly, his father's first words upon seeing him was 'F[---] me, did I just die, or is it you who've not died after all?'

Magne is one of the few people I know who've had the pleasure of reading his own obituary.
The thing is transferring money with guarantees is a solved problem. All you need is banks and laws and judges and police. We have those. Also transferring funds isn't enough to make a viable currency, it has to also act as a store of value.
Exactly those are the ones who could legitimately use it, without driving rents. That is the original idea for AirBnB anyhow.

Why not put a limit for 30 Days in the Regulation for when you are not home? It would be easy for AirBnB to limit and it would not be economical for commercial offerings.
> I have not the remotest idea how I would test a cancer drug for myself

As someone with only a high school level of chemistry training I would check the melting temperature.

Although seriously get it professionally tested. The delta between USA prices and India/China prices is so high a lab test will barely change the margins.
You've clearly never tried to use "a free country's financial services" in this context. Even as a US citizen it is prohibitively difficult to open even the simplest of checking accounts from overseas.

There is no global, trans-national solution for financial services better suited for solving these issues than crypto. Your position of privilege in a first world country blinds you to the disruption available to bringing financial services to the 2nd/3rd worlds, though you are right -- it is the slowest moving gold rush we've seen from tech.

You also drastically underestimate the utility the global economy associates with tax avoidance -- disregarding the moral and legal implications, because that's what rich people do.
Are any of the credit monitoring services actually useful?

After the Experian debacle my credit card company began offering complementary credit security reports. Recently I opened a new card and throughout the process kept an eye out for security alerts. Nothing. Not a blip about anyone pulling my credit history or a notification that a new account had been created using my SSN. Maybe because this is the free tier it isn't as thorough in checking as it could be. But doesn't that make it a worse option than not having credit monitoring?
Instead you have YAML you have to debug because all of a sudden you have decided to support Norway as a country and something about Norway's country code and the way YAML handles Boolean values bites you in the ass.
That particular cultural norm (or way of doing business, in deference to 'flarg' who is better acquainted with this than I am) has got in the way of producing quality work several times in the past, and ruined the productivity we were trying to get from outsourcing in the first place (it was not my decision, I just had to try and make it work).

"So you understand what you have to do?"
"Yes"
"And you have all the documentation and information you need?"
"Yes"
"OK great, let's get this thing going, get in touch if you need any help"

Two weeks later -

"How's progress on the project?"
"I have not been able to start the work because I could not understand..."
Are there any credit monitoring or "identity theft prevention" services that aren't outright scams?

Most of them spend huge amounts of money on scare-tactic ads, use shady free-trial-with-automatic-billing-that's-impossible-to-cancel sign-up models, and are cagey about what exactly they're monitoring and how their flagging works.

It's too easy to run these sorts of businesses as "do absolutely nothing, collect checks every month, suffer no consequences if things go wrong because the event is rare, profit is purely a function of sales team size" operations.

Kind of like the anti-virus market, actually... I guess this is a good match!
Adding that prepaid debit card to your PayPal account, then paying DO with PayPal works seamlessly.
A decade ago the EU promised more grassroots democracy. That was a time when people were convinced of it. Currently the EU is just a complete embarrasment. And that is also due positions like this. Not the Russian is the problem, you are with your position. Why would anybody want to form a union with you?
My municipality cannot even deliver water without making our kids mentally disabled from lead poisoning. Not sure I want them with a monopoly on telecoms too.
Not who you were asking but I use AdGuard and had no problems with the article. Works pretty well.
you site throws up error, ssl out of date I think
And yet it does seem like I'm the only one, in this thread at least.
Nushell 0.5.0 Released
"Just zuck my shit up"
This consolidation of printer companies has been going on for a long time now. When I started working in the field it seemed every large corporation had a printer division.
Trump's EU envoy admits Ukraine quid pro quo in updated testimony
Is not a cultural norm in India, it's just a way of doing business. Source, have worked in India many times.
The average American "small-government" ruling class mentality chronically starves public goods and the commons from widely available resources, and then points to the failure of said services and goods as a reason why government cannot work. Eliminate this vicious circle and you see massive benefits; Chattanooga's municipal ISP has been extremely successful and popular.

Also, municipal broadband or publicly owned broadband would not, on its own, confer a monopoly. There are numerous examples of industries and market sectors where a public option coexists with market options. This is commonly seen as the most likely solution to the healthcare crisis in the United States today.
The article doesn't mention it, but the bunkers here in Switzerland are serious structures. From the WSJ: "A Swiss shelter must withstand an impact of a 12-megaton explosion at a distance of 700 meters (765 yards). ..." [1].

Also, a lot of town/cities have a fully redundant water distribution system. In Zurich, for instance, the water coming out of the 100s of fountains you see around town comes from either of these and they are swapped regularly [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304231204576405...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGyHJ-xmcuc
I think it is pretty clear by now that nobody can predict the market. Hence the nice returns on index funds.

Stocks are pretty low risk if your investment time is long (>10 years)
I don't have this information for the UK, but for France parent is right. Mortgage duration for a typical income and a typical house in the 70s was 10 years, compared to 25 years today.
If you remove "IP" and it still seems like a bad idea... i just dont understand what your problem is.
> but whatever company is making commercial airplanes, I want them backed by governments and large corporations, not VC money.

I’m not sure if the incentives or expected results really change all that much. Certainly there are plenty of large wealthy governments and large corporations that don’t have a great track record with safety in large engineering/manufacturing endeavors.
You can do better, without SIMD: https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBase64

The simple base64 scalar version is also faster the chromium implementation.
The nostalgia... spent many hours of my life looking at some of those install screens and inserting new floppy disks.
No, there are a lot of good Serbian developers for example but they all work in outsourcing since the FAANGs don't have offices there. So there are a lot of very talented Serbian devs who do contract work. But in India there is a robust export and domestic market for engineers and a HUGE services market so the services firms are mostly populated by crap talent. It is an India specific problem.
Due to volatility tax [1], there’s an upper limit on how much leverage you can assume. This amount is a function of forecasted returns and variance: r/var(r). The larger this ratio is, the more leverage you can take on. In general, just investing in the broad equity market with anything above 3-5x leverage over the long-term is probably unadvisable. So groups like hedge funds first reduce their volatility by going long and short, and then leveraging up afterwards. Even with market neutral funds (0 market exposure), the leverage applied rarely goes past 6x nowadays.

Banks are a little different and while the rules are complicated, big banks need to have around 3% of their total book at hand. Or in otherwords, they have around 33x leverage. Because of the leverage, banks need a very diversified uncorrelated portfolio in order to reduce volatility. No bank would stuff all of their money into equities, the risk of ruin is too high.

Also, there’s another perspective to look at your question: the efficient market hypothesis. In short, EMH states that in general, all investments have the same or trend toward the same risk/reward profile. That is, the ratio or slope of the returns vs volatility should be the same. With debt/credit, there are two primary options: you get paid back with interest or you don’t (let’s ignore bankruptcy). With equities you are assuming a lot more risk, the stock could go up or down or whatever. Since you are assuming more risk with equities than credit, it would violate EMH if you weren’t compensated for the extra risk.

This however, doesn’t explain why equities perform so much better than everything else. This is called the equity premium puzzle [2].

So maybe you’re right? No one really knows. Maybe the jig will eventually be up? Or maybe not, no one really knows.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_tax

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_premium_puzzle
Ex-Infosys guy here. It's just the mid-level managers are clueless. So their best shot is appeasing clients.
I was lucky to have a manager for a while who knew his stuff and he did push back on irrational demands pretty systematically.
TypeScript has incompatibilities with the private keyword and decorators. I don't think they have a strategy to deprecate.
XML is verbose as hell but:

- it's unambiguous

- with a proper XSD schema you can leverage validation already during parsing, which means you don't even have to boot your application at all - simply load your configuration in any XML parser and you'll automatically catch errors.
>What services business?

As margins fell in hardware businesses most of the manufacturers shifted to selling what used to be included in the product as separate service. This then gets extended out to related domains. It's quite common for a corporation to outsource their whole print room to a company like Xerox.

Unfortunately Xerox it's also common to shut down your print room and send more emails instead.
With Indian contractors, you can't use questions that require them to give a yes or no answer.

You need to phrase things differently: "What will be the first thing you'll be working on?" instead of "Do you understand?", for example.
The author wrote (somewhere) on this Twitter thread [1] that they have 150 developers, so that's 10 services for every employee.

[1] https://twitter.com/JackKleeman/status/1190354757308862468
Is that like .004% of indian IT workers? Fuck em we've been facing those numbers yearly for 15 years because of cheap outsourcing. Why is this even here?
1.500 services? What the... the run times for calls must be atrocious with all the network communication and latency that is happening.
"The worst form of capitalism is one which bestows all of the benefit to the private sector while forcing all of the risk on the public sector." -- Adam Smith.

Over the past 50 years PG&E has made a game out of mis-managing the transmission infrastructure, selling it to the state, then buying it back at a discount.

California needs to own the entire utility and not just keep giving it un-warranted subsidies and gifts.

All PG&E executives should be imprisoned for the hundreds of people they have murdered in the past decade between their fires and the San Bruno explosion.

It is never in the best interest of the people to give critical public infrastructure to rent seeking flam-flam artists.
well, not so easy. it used to be the case. but now you can't keep ammunition for no reason.
The peril of democracy is the tyranny of the uneducated masses.
My tiny open source C++ game framework now runs on Vulkan and works on mobile
I guess asking specific questions that don't have a yes/no answer would have helped here.
Love the fake link to github... Which model was this? Was it trained on software type discussion?
#getreal
> Writing software doesn’t get you in trouble

https://www.wired.com/story/wannacry-malwaretech-arrest/
>Again, that they have other tools doesn't mean that they want to give up this one.

It means that disinformation is relatively less important to billionaires compared to others.

Not sure what the linked article has to do with it.

Edit: The reason why I'm even debating this not very important difference is that I feel that structural issues with our political and economic system are too often obscured and trivialised by blaming it all on powerful evil individuals.

For instance, billionaires want the companies they own shares in to make as much money as possible. CEOs who measure their success in increasing share prices are therefore incentivised to occasionally break the law.

Does that mean billionaires wanted or even told the CEO to break the law? Not necessarily. Does it mean CEOs wouldn't break the law if the shares were owned by a pension fund and not by billionaires? No.

So there are more complex structural issues that shouldn't get buried in too much finger pointing at rich individuals. Of course that doesn't mean there are no evil billionaires or that some of them wouldn't like to own a personal troll army. Who knows.
I just read a Reuters article on the legal action that was recently found in Fuji's favour, it said that Xerox relies on Fuji for copiers. The new Xerox management is anti-Fuji merger, so buying HP makes sense as an alternative source of copiers to Fuji.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-xerox-fujifilm/fujifilm-w...
or https://outline.com/C4gf4U
> just happens to interop with

It does not interop with JavaScript.

> and in some scenarios transpile down to JavaScript

It always transpiles to JavaScript and always runs as JavaScript. There is no such thing as a TypeScript runtime engine.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript. Therefore the OP's point is still valid. Any "mistakes" JavaScript might have made about having null AND undefined are also issues for TypeScript.
Step 1: ban political ads

Step 2: ban accounts critical of current govt

Step 3: political status quo maintained forever

Step 4: ???

Step 5: profit!

Sounds like a good strategy.
Same here, I just hate PayPal documentation, and the way they managed to keep it shitty over the years.
Braintree (A division of PayPal) has nice documentation though.
You don't know exactly how much they have to do with it, they could just be a symptom and a scapegoat.

AirBnB has about 10 Billion in gross bookings (fees are about a quarter) worldwide now, so when they started out it was less.
Real estate values have risen in the trillions since the financial crisis and the low interest policy.

The money from AirBnB goes mostly to renters, the ones who didn't benefit from those value increases. Also some of the money went to higher prices in the Hotel industry, who faces more competition now.

So I think it's much more complicated with AirBnB.
All of them will eventually, just a matter of time.

I think this link was posted here sometime ago:

https://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbital_decay/
So what do they then do with the uranium?
Storage is still a problem, right?
On the other hand Apple wasn't in the phone business at all a decade ago, it was dominated by Nokia. Windows CE was on a lot of devices.

The opportunity came because the whole industry was moribund, they couldn't see the wood for the trees. Most of us hated our phones.
Microlending ventures clearly demonstrate the existence of under served markets.

Also, I think instead of "solved problem" you mean "solved for white people in rich countries"
Is there a good, feature-rich scene editor built around Ogre? How can someone build environments, place objects, create animations, check lighting, set physics, make game UI and cut scenes for something built upon Ogre?

The first result, which pops up, is the Glue Editor [1]. But this looks so basic, that I have a hard time coming up with a reason to try Orge. Compare this to Unity or Unreal where you can do everything above and even more. Maybe I'm missing something?

[1] http://wiki.ogre3d.org/Glue+Editor
The other person being honest would have helped much more.
This gives me nervous twitches and flashbacks to my time dealing with Cognizant for IT services and development while contracting for a large energy company.

The level of incompetence was at a level where you kind of look around and wonder if you are on some kind of hidden camera tv-show.

Never again will I work with a client that has outsourced anything that touches my work to Cognizant, Infosys or Cap Gemini.
My best stays have all been shared with the host. It's a way to experience another culture. I've also rented my own flat on Airbnb.

"Couch surfing" is a weird way to put it, and so too is "random stranger". They're not random, you chose them, and you're generally in a bedroom.

Maybe this is a cultural thing? Middle class families having lodgers is super normal in the UK, I figured it was the same everywhere.

If I wanted a hotel, I'd book a hotel.
It's a slightly awkward way of saying they didn't use custom hardware.
"You can test it yourself" : If you die, just make sure to leave a bad review on Alibaba. Do your bit to prevent survivor bias.
Especially when that 20% might supplant the 40% business.
> many military structures above ground and below have been declassified and sold off for reuse as homes, data centers, even cheese factories

Or have they? 8-)
You can define your own type guards:

function isString(x: any): x is string {
return typeof x === "string";
}

function isNumber(x: any): x is number {
return typeof x === "number";
}

function dispatch(x: string | number): SomeType {
if (isString(x)) {
doThingWithString(x);
} else if (isNumber(x)) {
doThingWithNumber(x);
}
process.exit(1);
}

TypeScript seeks to manage JavaScript's horrors, but importantly, it does not seek to hide them behind leaky abstractions. This is not an embarassment, but TypeScript's strength and weakness.

There is a long list of other languages that compile down to JavaScript or WASM, if you want a language built from clean foundations. But if you want to add gradual typing as a means of slowly reigning in your existing JavaScript behemoth? There is only one TypeScript.
> What I don't know is what allows a company to successfully 're-invent' itself or to recover its core values and return to a previously powerful position.

An excellent article about Fujifilm, and why it survived but Kodak died.

Kodak is dead. Today's Kodak is basically just a brand. The film division is a different entity.

https://petapixel.com/2018/10/19/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm...
Things have changed with newer companies especially those which are building and selling their own products. Though work life balance is still poor but at least people are not saying yes to everything just to appease.
If you're starting from scratch and trying to pick a toolchain to build your next game with, there aren't many reasons to go with Ogre. Unity/Unreal will get you off the ground much faster, and the tooling is much better for sustained work.

On the other hand, if you're trying to build a C++ based game engine, Ogre isn't a bad place to start. However, you probably don't need your own game engine.

For context, I used Ogre for various things starting from ~2007 and stopped around 2015. By then Unity was the obvious choice if you were a 1-2 person shop and wanted to spend less time wrangling code and more time making stuff.
I think the market is pretty into ROS2 actually, its just the PhDs and grad students that will be on ROS1 for a longer time because they don't have the resources to make any switch.
Amazon and a lot of other companies are big on ROS2.
What Does Twitter's Ban on Political Ads Mean for Platform Governance?
Texas has a quasi private electric grid. It seems like it would be a good model for data too.
> I used to love staying in Airbnb’s but can’t stand the cheapness of it all as of late due to them turning into pure investments and no longer real homes.

That's nice that you prefer one type of rental over the other. Why not allow both, so that others who prefer not having a homeowner intruding on their privacy don't need to deal with that?
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I think this is one of the only wysiwyg editors for markdown with latex support. Have been using it for the past half year and it works like a charm!
Will check it out. Thanks for sharing.
Pico-service architecture as the trend for 2020.

And in the evening, your wife will say, oh, dear, you are damn good architecture with many.. many services but my ex could deploy me with one several times a day much better.
SQLAlchemy is more than just an ORM. It also has sql expression language, for writing queries using python without using any ORM features.
This isn't an honesty thing. Many cultures (both in terms of social culture and work culture) have a strong aversion to saying no. Some languages barely have a word for it.

Even when those aren't issues yes/no questions rarely have the precision that you want, often you can phrase a question to seem like it only has a binary answer, but the real answer is way more complicated. Basic project management principles come into play here. As other posters have commented, asking what someone will be working on first, setting up tracking tasks etc.
Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality.

Nice UI though.
Why would I want to stay in a room of somebody's apartment?
std::optional does not support references (std::optional<MyVeryLargeType&>) however unlike boost, so this precludes usage with non-copyable types.
That's false. I'll give you a very easy example of how it's benefited me (and many, many Germans):

I sell SaaS software on a subscription basis to customers all over the world. They pay for our service in USD, which is then converted to EUR when I get paid from the company.

If the Euro was stronger, which it would be if it were only the currency for Germany, I'd get less Euro when that conversion happened, and I'd have less local currency for things like rent, groceries, etc. The Euro being artificially depressed against USD absolutely benefits anyone who either personally or via their company exports products, including stuff like SaaS. Since exports are the backbone of the German economy, it has a very concrete benefit to most Germans. Greece's economic problems literally mean I get more cash.