skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> catch a pattern by figuring how to avoid it

In my own research, the main focus is to take a (usually known) property and to rephrase it so that the new statement is self-dual. The analogy would be that you "understand a pattern only if you know how to phrase it in a self-dual context".

None of these different approaches necessarily try to presuppose or subsume each other, but they hint towards your outlook and interests. That is why independent discoveries are usually "clearly" independent, in the sense that the whole framework is usually different.

This happened for example with Lawvere and the eventual standard definition of a topos; so too with Grothendieck toposes and the eventual standard definition of a topos. Newton and Leibniz would be the more accessible example.
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Most users who are willing to pay to make ads go away are also people who are willing to make ads go away for free. They install uBlock Origin and get rid of most ads from most sites. Why pay $5 to this site and $12 to that site when you can just get an ad-free experience for free, with no ongoing commitments and no recurring transactions?
Stadia’s performance has improved since launch. The case for the service hasn’t
Tiny town’s long struggle to rid itself of toxic waste reaches the Supreme Court
> I think 99% of people would be stunned at the necessary price and would not pay it anyway

Please back this up with some actual numbers, because they're not as high as you're making people believe they'd be.

I am happily paying for YouTube Premium just because I don't get interrupted by ads. In India, their premium costs less than $2 per month. That price is very justifiable for me (And their ARPU is ~$9/yr btw, so they are making 2 times as much from me than they were before by showing me ads).

According to this site (https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...), Facebook had an ARPU of $25 (average, higher per user in US and EU, lower in APAC) per year in 2018. Which is $2 per month. If they promise no ads (and associated tracking), I will pay three times that amount each month.

I think a lot of us on HN would be willing to pay these prices to support the ad-supported services we use if the option was available (and the pricing was reasonable).
It's not a material amount vs overall outstanding market and a majority of the holdings are in higher quality, short-dated bonds that will likely be paid at maturity long before any credit stress is seen. Corporate treasurers are not in the risk taking business. They are squeezing out incremental yield from cash on hand.
Why is it sad? The whole point in professionalism is disaffective communication.
The problem is that you're not comparing like for like. All these services are in growth phase now, they're pricing their services to compete. The problem is that once they've all topped out and growth isn't happening anymore the way they'll continue revenue growth is by slowly increasing the cost per customer. So yeah, right now it's cheaper, but in 10 years time you're going to be exactly back where we were. Right now you're benefitting from a bunch of venture capital, but don't think that the position you're in right now is going to last.
>will either have been recovered by the victorious army or looted by the local population

This phrasing, with different terms for the army and the local population doing the exact same thing, reminds me of the famous Onion take on Hurricane Katrina:

>NEW ORLEANS—Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African­Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.
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Purdue pharma knew that their drug was more addictive that what was reported by the FDA, and chose to keep distributing it and pushing doctors to recommend it to people who didn't need it instead of re-doing the evaluation.
In Amazon's warehouses injury rates are twice the U.S. national average
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It would be also better if it will work in the future.
Instead of becoming useless when amazon shuts the servers.
> moxie assumes that the program will enter from the "top" of the tree each
time. [...] My suspicion is that Rust may be fast enough along with the
right memoization strategies to never worry about the time spent getting
from the root of the tree to nodes with changes.

I think there is reason to worry: consider a node with a lot of children, for example a list of many todos. Say you want to change the state of one single todo, for example marking it as done. With a top-down approach such as diffing you have to go through each child to see if it has changed. This is O(n). If you instead have components that know their position in the tree and can react to external changes, like react's Components or using hooks and useState, this can be updated in O(1).
Apostrophe Protection Society shuts down after 18 years,'ignorance and laziness'
I'm looking for something a bit more powerful than the Wiki bundled with GitLab (which uses Gollum). I started with MkDocs but moved it over to GitLab Wiki because I thought the instant feedback. I now have mixed feelings.

I've used Hugo in the past for a few sites, but the amount of boilerplate required, even though minimal, is a bit of a hurdle for an internal wiki.

Has anyone been here? Suggestions?
Thanks for the clarification. Based on the Gatsby website itself and the docs it seemed that the websites generated with it also use React for the site itself. Apparently this is not the case. Still, the argument that one should better not bet on heavy frameworks for simple documentation is kinda valid, even if not applicable for the given use case.
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Assume "plain text" means something like traditional printed text. This has three features which don't seem to be implemented on computers in a sensible standardised way:

* Spaces. In traditional printed text there is space between words but there are no leading spaces, double spaces or trailing spaces, so the ASCII space character is not an adequate representation.

* Paragraphs. In traditional printed text you can start a new paragraph but you can't have an empty paragraph so '\n' is not an adequate representation. Then there's the problem that some systems use '\r' or "\r\n" instead of '\n'. Then there's the problem that Emacs's "long lines" mode and Git's --word-diff don't work properly. (Almost certainly patch tools and "git rebase" don't work either.)

* Emphasis. In traditional printed text words and phrases can be printed in italics for emphasis. There are several ways this can be indicated in a computer file, but do editors and diff tools handle them nicely? I think not. Also, it's not completely clear how this should work. For example, I don't think <em></em> should be allowed, but are <em>a</em><em>b</em> and <em>ab</em> the same thing, or different things? You wouldn't be able to tell them apart in traditional printed text, but in traditional printed text you can't tell whether a space, a full stop or a dash is printed in italics, or not, either, so it's clear, I think, that we need to somewhat extend the concept of emphasis from what's available in print, but how far do you extend it? (What about nested emphasis?)
What if I told you the fat man was rich?
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I'm looking for a job as a Front-End Webdeveloper in the aforementioned cities. I've been working as a webdeveloper since 2010, both in Canada and Germany. I'm a certified "Fachinformatiker Richtung Anwendungsentwicklung" (IT expert in application development) and I made my German Abitur at a school for Arts and Multimedia, which helped me understand the design-heavy front-end webdevelopment.

I'm currently living in Bremen, Germany, because I've been helping my parents renovate and now sell their old house for the past 2 years. We found a buyer and will be moving out by Mid-March 2020. I will help my parents move closer to my sister and then move away myself shortly after.

I'm looking for employment starting in June or July 2020.
Saying it's due to culture it's like saying no one is to blame and there's no way to change this in the short term.

No, it's not culture. The problem is the finantial and economical decisions taken by the government in the past 4 years. Hopefully these will be reverted by the next administration.
Or you could just say "bread and circuses" which is the common english idiom.
I think that still is more or less a polite way of saying that American banks found suckers in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt to sell to. Sometimes in multiple steps: First sell to Deutsche Bank, they sell to suckers in Düsseldorf.
A couple pros/cons for different SSGs (never mind the title) https://dev.to/cookieduster_n/top-5-static-site-generators-f...
I was able to recover my .in domain too. Here is the full complete story: https://susam.in/blog/sinkholed/
There are at least 7 variations of the heart symbol ️ differing only in color ️🧡, not including the heart (playing card) which also has multiple variations.

Edit: apparently HN limits the number of emoji per post, I originally included several.

https://emojipedia.org/white-heart/
If I'm mistaken about something, I would appreciate clarification. Is my mistake using box-drawing characters? Or is it thinking that they're disliked?
Interesting story, but why would the FBI protect Morley? What would be their motive?
Hmm... I have an idea... How about we create a subreddit and we try to crowdsource the finding of the killer using the public clues we've got?
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Why black maternal mortality rates are still disregarded in the US
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I wonder is this something that Futhark [0] could be used for?

[0] https://futhark-lang.org/

EDIT pleased to discover that the native `bpftrace` language is based on awk!
I'm not sure on what context you have all these meetings but maybe one radical thought it this: you're having these issues because maybe your updates with these folks are at a very abstract level. Coming from an academic background, the reason for such an interaction would be the inability to comprehend the complexities of the problem due to the level of abstraction it's being presented at. If you lower the level of abstraction, you might have fewer such cases. Though it's doesn't entirely answer your question, it might help you with your conundrum.
Question from me, why reinvent the bicycle and not just write proper kernel modules in C?
Do they though?

Everyone I know who doesn't like coffee drinks tea (or more rarely yerba mata).

> Chocolate is quite bitter if you don't add a bunch of sugar to it

But it does at least have a very desirable flavour when some sugar is added (it really doesn't need "a bunch" :)

Opium is like the essence of bitterness - in flavour terms, it had no redeemable qualities whatsoever.
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I never said that they couldn't do it. But I said that these tradeoffs were governed by the corporate charter, which itself needed shareholder approval to change.

Thus shareholders can agree to bring in other stakeholders. They can agree that a certain business should maximize its taxes. They can agree to turn the company into a non-profit. But they have to be the ones to agree to do it, and it needs to be spelled out in the various bylaws that define who the stakeholders are that the Board members must faithfully represent.

It is not up to management. It is not up to employees. Only the shareholders decide this. The broader claims come from the assumption that shareholders generally support their own economic interests exclusively. My own observation of the world is that this is the case. Even if a shareholder cares about the poor, they would rather have the maximum return from their assets and then donate some money to the poor themselves, rather than asking their investments to donate to the poor and lower their return.

So the technicalities are that yes, shareholders can give up these claims if they want to. Admitting this is not, IMO, backing off from my broader claim, but recognizing that shareholder supremacy also empowers shareholders to direct a corporation to include other factors than profits.
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Well, if your decimals are fixed-point decimals, which is the case in finance, decimal calculations are very cheap integer calculations (with simple additional scaling in multiplication/division).

I just use Zarith (bignum library) in OCaml for decimal calculation, and pretty content with performance.

I don't think much domains needs decimal floating point that much, honestly, at least in finance and scientific calculations.

But I could be wrong, and would be interested in cases where decimal floating-point calculations are preferable over these done in decimal fixed-point or IEEE floating-point ones.
Hah, I loved reading the Dune books as a kid, but had forgotten the name "melange", only remembering it as "spice"!
I have a hard time understanding what you would use it for. I could understand a use-case, but I fail to understand why it would be that much useful.

I have a sense it allows much better performance for horizontal scaling, but I'm not sure...
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You could also include word boundaries if you cared enough.

ag '\bTODO\b'
Yeah absolutely not. You can certainly drink and work, just as it's possible to drive drunk without killing someone.

These isolated cases without incident don't really matter in the context of society-wide taboo, however.

Coffee and cocaine are worlds apart. Most people don't have jobs that would work with a coke addiction. Freud was exceptional and I think he did most of his influential work not under the influence anyway.
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Half of all homeless people may have had traumatic brain injury
> If a company is forced to implement a "compliance and ethics monitoring program" by the federal government, it has some serious culture problems.

And where were the state regulators in all of this?

Someone on HN once mentioned that CPUC [1] allowed deferred maintenance on a lot of stuff because it helped to keep rates down. This prevented customers screaming at politicians. True/plausible?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Public_Utilities_Co...
Smartphone apps for mental health–a systematic review and meta-analysis [pdf]
On just merit it seems to have been a rather close thing (though South Africa was the better site), which I think was known in advance. So the entire process was pretty highly politicised; you can find much more information here: https://www.skatelescope.org/site-documentation/ though there is quite a bit of reading between the lines.

Of note to the sort of sociological questions we are discussing here, I note not only is the Site selection report ~200 pages, but also fairly interesting is a 16 page "Report on Validation of the SKA Site Selection Process". This comes with a lot of other documents as appendices, but also lays allows one to make out the timeline a bit more.

The final site report is from February 2012, while an "evaluation plan" was set in November 2011, and a "Revised Plan for SKA Site Selection" approved in May 2011. The Siting Group was created in 2010, to help with the "final" site selection. All this paints a picture of a somewhat fluid process.
I concur with this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CPLX)

In my opinion, Insurance has lots of paper-work and is a time-sink because the insurance brokers/companies needs to do lots of due diligence to determine the counter-party and the risk at hand. You are selling something that could potentially be worth $100k for $300/year, you better be right that the litigation is not happening, at least not that often.

These guys do not do that, and it is not clear how they do for the counter-party risk and insurance fraud. Instead, for now, they'll just accept their friends who have a common risk-profile and are easier to serve/predict their liability. After they raise a few rounds, they might get to the actual problem and try to solve it.
Differentialequations.jl v6.9.0: Multi-GPU Implicit Ode Solves, SciPy/R Bindings
Also that is such a contrieved way of saying “no person has ever been harmed in over 26,000 test flights”. There must be something the “due to undue risk” clarification hides.
I wouldn't have expected a Google related project to deathmarch like this. Energy density was always going to be the problem. The Lithium ion chemistries are just not there yet. These guys know what they are doing: https://skai.co/ Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMP5237dGA
Noticed that as well. They're using OpenStreetMap, so it may be a rendered bug (?).
That post inspired me to submit some Unicode characters as well! I found 11 Hakka & Taiwanese characters when trying to scrape & parse the Bible as plain-text, and wrote a blog post about my experience of the submission process.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968110
Well, if you have seen the video, probably you wouldn't ask this. Kernel modules can do everything that can BPF do, but BPF could be easier to write, more isolated and less error prone.
Yup. Once worked on a big project with one of the largest US exchanges. We were migrating large OTC (over the counter) CDS (credit default swaps) contracts to standardized centralized contracts. We were testing with large contracts, millions of contracts worth trillions of dollars. I was off by a single penny and failed the test. Took a while to find, but it was due to a truncate to zero instead of a proper round. I was using a floating point type instead of a proper decimal. Dont think the language I was using had a proper decimal type at the time, though it does now, 11 years later.
Wouldn't work. Spending money on anything puts people on the disposable income demographic which is the exact audience the advertisers want to reach.

It's impossible to reach a workable compromise with the advertising industry. They don't care about our convenience and would place ads under our eyelids if they could get away with it. The truth is we're way past the point of peaceful negotiation with the advertising industry. Better to unconditionally block everything and hope they go bankrupt.

Besides, making users pay money to avoid ads is just insulting. Blockers exist because of the sheer amount of abuse they perpetrate in order to serve their useless noise. People should not have to pay extortion money in order to avoid the abuse. The abuse should simply not happen in the first place.
I don’t know about Morley but the background of the uncle of the brothers is worth reading about:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boston-bombings-and-the-ci...

“Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets.”
Haven't used it till now (except maybe via nft?).

What I'm not sure is: who is preventing BPF to be used as rootkits? Since they are run inside the kernel and cannot be inspected (?) can they be used to hide malicious activity?
The Weighted Tsetlin Machine: Compressed Representations with Weighted Clauses
Wikipedia didnt use unicode originally, en, da, sv, nl language wikipedia all used windows-1252. This all changed somewhere around 2004 i think, but there is still legacy code to deal with edits from before the switchover point.

I imagine the answer is, it kind of sucked but people made due the best they could with the limited allowed characters. Its not like IPA notation is a critical feature
If I am that interested in the problem/solution I am also interested in discussing it. Answering the question straight and assuming good faith is a good way to open up that discussion. Even if they don't understand, there is still the chance that explaining it gives me a new perspective.

If I don't value interacting with that person, then I've already lost before I start. Communicate for its own sake. Enjoy the journey or don't bother with the destination. Expectations of being understood or being judged favorably just confuse the issue.

I understand why this becomes an issue, but I don't think it is productive to concern ourselves with such peccadillos. If these things become important, we might be starting from the wrong place.
I think we found the next popular crime podcast. :)
Coming from a relatively cheap country... It does work the other direction. That's why dev salaries across the world are much more similar than in other sectors.
SOcial MediA... Hmm
I might have, but nevertheless I was reacting to

Chart from the article shows debt growing by 3.5% since turn of the century.

You appear to be misreading the chart, it is 4.5T to 9.95T

How did you conclude that it grew 3.5% when it's now doubled ?
Yes. Generally and for the purposes of this discussion, individuals and corporations can both buy investments in the public markets with similar risk/return profiles. Hence the spending ratio works out similar.

The 4% spending ratio theoretically varies with market performance but evens out over time. 7-8% typical returns for a total market index/etf, minus a couple % to account for inflation.
I would say that was a symptom rather than a cause - once people stopped caring about the quality of mortgages (because they would be sold off and packaged up and sold on) it was pretty much inevitable that this would happen.
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