skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today where everyone has cellphones, a lot of the original expenses with lending to small scale borrowers have disappeared, and the cell phone itself becomes an ID.

yeah... not so much in places where you can get a prepaid SIM card with no ID from the corner store for pennies.

I agree with your other points, though - only lending to women and only forming groups consisting of women from the same village/community are absolute bedrock requirements for getting microcredit to work
This is an important thing to discuss. It's sad that it's flagged here. I'm not even sure what is contentious here.
Even if this result is real (I smell bad statistics), it's completely useless.

All cells in our bodies have the same genome. But a hepatozyte and a neuron are very different cells, aren't they? The difference is that cells specialize, and they do so by selectively methylating their genome (not the only mechanism, but an important one), thereby modifying the expression of genes. So a liver has a very different epigenome than the brain of the same person. Now here we're looking at a study of the saliva epigenome, apparently the most important tissue they could come up with.

Then they don't analyze the epigenome in any interesting way. Generally, the more a cell specializes, the fewer genes are active. Expressing this as "more mature" is rather dumb. "More geriatric" would be equally appropriate. Does it not matter at all, which genes are methylated?

So, let's summarize the study properly:

"If you don't touch your child enough, his saliva with age more slowly."
For Go on Darwin:

libSystem is now used when making syscalls on Darwin,
ensuring forward-compatibility with future versions of macOS and iOS.

From https://golang.org/doc/go1.12#darwin
But you don't want to run the special corp Google distro with hardening and spying / remote control as your personal computer. I wrote about their recommendation for regular users, which is to prefer win10 over win7.
A long time ago (Windows 98? 2000?), you can add the IE address bar to the taskbar, but it also had auto-complete for directories, so if you wanted to open C:\Projects\Foobar\main.c you could just type a few letters and open that file. It also let you drag and drop the icon (where IE would show you the favicon) to any open program. Sadly this behavior got changed later, so drag & drop no longer works...
I don't think there is any objective metric for whether Page and Brin where the last "truly happy" people, so I'm not sure what it means for that subjective statement to be just false. If Carr thinks they might have been because he believes the "idealism and confidence" that they had is not possible any more, then maybe they were, according to Carr's definition.
Splitting people into good and evil, or just binary thinking in general, is all around us. "Good" people have done bad things, "bad" people often have good intentions. And Good and Bad can be vastly different in different places in the world or different time periods.
If you want to understand implementation and performance, that page won't help you. Read the papers referenced on the BLIS web site, and/or run their benchmark code, which is now referenced somewhere in a README.
Well even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
So there's one couple you know and another person who had 8 weeks (?) of anxiety attacks who swear by it ?

Hope it was the other commenter who down voted me.
> ...namely the Islamic groups that want to kill Americans. Right now the warlords just kill other Africans, which the U.S. government considers a win...

The Islamic killers kill more Africans too. Boko Haram are killing far more Somalis than they are Americans or Europeans. It is cynical, but it's probably not (on balance) morally wrong to support the opposition, god knows BH and friends get plenty of foreign support from our favourite Islamic customer in the middle east and others, so it's not as though the Americans are the only ones corrupting the failed state there.
LEO just got a lot cheaper. Get ready for humans to fill this space with shit since it's economical.
But note that journalist who wrote that tweet is actually works for Russia Today -- russian state propaganda outlet. So don't take that seriously.
It is a lot of resources thrown at saving, not the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria, but the public toilet block graffiti wall.

Ask an antiquarian about the value of graffiti in the ruins of Pompeii and other archaeological sites sometime. The great historians of the day wrote about their contemporary culture, while the vandals and miscreants and lowlifes and commoners contributed to that culture. Having access to both sources gives us a much more complete picture.

You don't know what's worth saving at the time you save it.
I previously posted this, and it was flagged, after 7 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21722628 .
How to deal with money like a German
I'm not sure that will solve it in the way you're thinking it will. The global poor are not responsible for GHG's because they don't produce it, most of the GHG (per capita and through consumption) belong to the US particularly and some European countries (Russia in particular).
For example: World War two groups where many of the the members have passed away by now.
There could be first hand accounts of history that has already been lost to time.
North American Phalanx
> We don't lament that everyday conversation is ephemeral.

I imagine you're not a historian. Neither am I, but I cannot imagine that there is a historian out there who hasn't lamented the ephemerality of everyday conversation (and even of apparently more durable forms of communication).
The real cost is in politics and labor. Materials are extremely cheap comparatively.
The primary means is sanctions. War is a often a last resort.
https://i.redd.it/yv9k5nes87rz.jpg

Not sure why this one kills me so much...
It's painful to see so many examples of hallmarks of quality or even just signals of niche culture hollowed out and used as a facade on inferior products.

Sometimes it really does feel like late stage capitalism (especially MBAs) is gradually ruining much of the fruit it made plentiful. This pursuit of pennies sucks the soul out of anything it touches. There's value in lasting quality, and as I've gotten older I've learned to appreciate goods that reflect a respect for the art of the trades that produced them, like solid tools, or over-engineered appliances from decades past, where a little extra material is the difference between just out of warranty failure and indefinite use.

But I suppose the real problem that the average person doesn't notice and/or care.
It's not the scale of the time, it's the number of generations.
Same reason vinyl outsells CDs? If you just want to consume the content, there are cheaper choices, but for something you want to save and make a statement with, hardbacks are superior.
That's great for a classroom setting, or in the lab, or wherever people are forming hypothesis. But in articles communicating research, accuracy matters. You can believe in the value of creative thinking and also want article that do a good job describing research.
Well, rereading what I wrote I was maybe not so clear on that.

If you are just waiting for the attraction to come back, chances are that it doesn't, even though it certainly could. It all depends on the reason that attraction disappears. Sometimes it's related to the things you do and sometimes it isn't. The key, I believe, is to always try to be a better spouse than you were a year ago, or even a month ago. But that of course presupposes that there exist mutual trust and respect between you. It won't work if only one part is trying to be a better self for the other.
>>> Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter.

Google Street Maps was an incredible tool in dense urban environments before it became overwhelmed with sponsored pins. 2016 was the beginning of the effort to monetize it, and now it's overloaded with sponsored pins/badges that it's nearly nearly useless for most visual search tasks due to the noise.

>>> It's funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you'd think Google was one of the worst companies out there.

Google's brand/reputation is suffering precisely because they positioned themselves as benevolent unstoppable underdog saviors (remember the whole "do no evil" thing?) who have since failed to live up to their mission.

Hypocrisy is lethal to branding narratives.

>>> It's a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.

Dissonance poisons culture, and privilege doesn't toil in the mines for the sake of toil.
You just put into words what I’ve been feeling for months now. If I want reviews or opinions about something, I always prefix reddit to the search query. But the mobile experience as you point I’m out is horrendous.. I pretty much only use it on my computer where I can block ads and don’t see amp.
> The microlender is called Huabei, which means “just spend.”
You have to ask what you really want. Haven't you ever lived in a place where the tax base has rotted away? How do you force people to buy a property that was seized for back taxes? The poorest areas end up with the highest tax rates, and no money.

I like the idea (and it's not new) of taxing the unimproved value of the land (because taxing it can't decrease the amount) and not taxing the improvements (because it's to everyone's benefit to improve property and you don't want to discourage that). If I was made dictator of San Francisco, that's what I'd try.
In Development: CLI AVR Assembly Debugger for Linux
If this person is treated as an employee (with no decision-making authority) rather than as a co-owner, they might have the legal status of an employee and be required to be paid at least minimum wage. There are definitely a lot of issues here for lawyers to work out.
True, it's a terrible problem all over europe.
Why would you need a Conda package to measure performance or BLIS or another implementation? Assuming an ELF system, either preload an alternative library, or make a trivial shim for libblas.so3, as the Fedora blis package does. See the somewhat old https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/blas-subversion.html for example.
This is a very well written article, what a fun read! "as bubbly as the water" haha
Also of interest, since text usually means minimalist: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816 )
Follow the money.

No one in power is going to allow anything politically to risk their bottom line.
I am the author of the slides/paper. The analysis was done with the best data available at the time, but I am interested in knowing what parameters you think are off / have changed substantially since then.

I can say that the mass and volume of the satellites has changed quite a lot, and therefore the number of rocket launches required is pretty off in the paper. But I have not seen much info to invalidate the rest of results.
Makes sense to me, but I would like to have specific data that would help me understand:
- How much money work needs to be invested for what incremental effect?
- What kinds of investments are most effective?
- How much does effectiveness depend on specific cultural factors, vs. being culture independent?

And many more similar questions.
I have run Cassandra in production. A replication factor 3 cluster over 3 AZs should be able to survive loss of a single AZ.

However, it has been my personal experience that Cassandra handles instances going down much better than it handles instances getting very slow but staying online. In that case Cassandra will work extra hard to just spin its wheels. If you know that is what is happening you can be better off manually bringing those nodes offline.
I always keep a manual safety step for unofficial automation for this exact reason.

Current example: I have a script I run for my wife that de-duplicates some data against historical excel files and submits it via an API to Mailchimp, to tag members for a triggered email. I run this manually for her about once a week. It does not alter anything unless I supply the '--go' option. That lets me check the output to see that it makes sense (sometimes they add extra data columns or she forgot to do contact/tag setup on her end).

I absolutely never have the computer run stuff without me watching unless I control the entire process end to end, it's non-critical, or management has requested it officially so I can point to specs when it goes wrong. Usually when I have a semi-automated process that is proven to work, then that's the time to bring it up with management to try and make it more official (if they're not the sort to drown it in red tape).
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> it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things

I think that's a reaction against how it's also fashionable to worship whatever Google does. And just cargo culting google practices can be damaging, at least from a selfish perspective. I lose developer hours because our entire 13-person company's (with 2.5-ish developers but 7 years worth of code) is hosted in a monorepo. I've now worked at two out of two companies that have gotten stuck because they built with an Angular stack and management refuses to switch to a stack that I can reliably hire or train juniors out of a bootcamp for, etc.
It's fun to watch people up and downvote me for just relaying what Silicon Valley founders have actually been doing for decades. I totally agree that it's a surprise to most people how it works, but I don't think "they" are going to change. It just is.
I have this set. On mobile, this won’t work.
I think that it is interesting how from a fishing perspective a lure is also a trap in one sense.
> breathtakingly damaging behaviour

This seems typically hyperbolic. What are examples of Google's "breathtakingly damaging behavior"?
Encryptions – Scientists Crack Longest Encryption Key Ever
From the brief description it seems like Parquet is just a weaker version of what a decent LZ style compressor will do anyway
Are all compressors simply being run with their default arguments? There's a lot of scope for speed/filesize tradeoffs within a single compressor.

EDIT: You are missing `csv+zstd` ? It should obsolete `csv+gzip` at all speeds and compression levels.

There is a pareto-optimality frontier here - I ran my testing back in 2016 https://code.ivysaur.me/compression-performance-test/ but the numbers are now a little bit obsolete (e.g. zstd and brotli have both seen a lot of improvements).
Well, there is a video where Zhukov tells that he doesn't agree with principle of collective responsibility advocated by _some_ feminists. Calling him anti-feminist after that is kind of big jump, isn't it?
GraphQL makes a ton of sense when your queries use data from multiple different and possibly interdependent source APIs. It allows you to hide all manners of ugly hacks behind a single, neat, cacheable endpoint that can even act as a normalisation layer.
If Yahoo Groups has a GDPR obligation now (and it's not clear that they do) they don't erase obligation that by spinning up a different company and dumping all this personal data into that new company - that would be its own GDPR breach.
Saatva+Mattress+Savings+$150+Off
Memory might need to be cleaned up if the program was being run embedded in something else (it's not unheard of to embed JVMs inside e.g. C++ applications, and it's very common in scripting languages to do this).

Additionally, global destructors, while not guaranteed, can be very helpful if you let them run rather than just exiting and letting the system clean up file descriptors: for example, a clean disconnect from a database is often faster overall (on the database side, e.g. freeing up a connection slot) than a dirty "client hasn't phoned in for awhile/received unexpected FIN" disconnect via hard-exit.
The Concurnas Programming Language
This may be true, but one could argue: is making love last always the best option?
What is it about nuclear-related threads on HN that so many people assume bad faith and then begin name-calling?
sorry not a frontend dev, where can i get basic info about 'component architecture'
there are a few groups i was a member of like lifters https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Lifters/info which was an intensive technical development group in the field on propellerless, rocketless, jetless flight using only electronic high voltage.

also some of the politics groups were a great time capuslue for around the clinton/bush election era

a lo to f eartthquake researchers gathered on several earthquake groups as well including caltech seismologistics and advanced amatuers many of whom arent around anymore.

also some of the info in these groups can be used to defeat patent applications as they show evidence of public prior concepts and art.

yahoogroups consisted of somewhat more technically advanced users than modern website users like reddit etc because they were earlier and somewhat harder to use.

its a lot of good quality content.

also in the early days on these groups spam and massive controlled astroturfing account groups was pretty rare.

this is like losing 15 years of ancient Sumerian writings in a very interesting early time for the Internet.
The old method of changing the default shell still works. Although I don't think you replace/move explorer.exe anymore, but just change registry keys. When used in embedded systems or kiosks, this type of functionality is commonly needed, so it is unlikely to change.

When I talked about things changing, it was more regarding changes that:

- Improve security and stability by disallowing software from invading other address spaces to do patching.

- Prevent modification of the operating system itself, by more thoroughly enforcing signature checking, file integrity, and with periodic large system updates that are effectively like full Windows version upgrades.

These improvements may make Windows more secure and stable for users, but combined with modern PCs that come with Secure Boot enabled by default (and unfortunately, some that came with Secure Boot forcibly enabled during the Windows 8 era,) it makes modifications and customizations more challenging.

There's no clean mechanism for which a piece of software like WindowBlinds can exist, and indeed, sometimes running Stardock software in modern Windows can be troublesome. A while back I hit a bug in WindowFX that effectively bricked your Windows install if you were running with Hyper-V enabled. It was fixed by Stardock but nonetheless, with a living OS like Windows 10, breaks like this can happen more often, without warning, and there's still not good alternatives for lots of customization stuff.

It's interesting because there are actually still lots of ways in which Windows lets software extend the operating system - probably more than any other operating system, but most of them are very old and not very reliable/stable.
Is it? A lure is what gets you to the trap, as I understand it (not a native speaker so I might be bringing that over from my native language)
The downside with switching over to Jekyll is that gwern.net is increasingly dependent on Haskell integration with Pandoc, which would be difficult if you were compiling with another language: you'd have to refactor all of the additional rewrite passes (for interwiki scripts, image dimension specification, affiliate links, link annotations, inflation adjustment...) to make it at all possible, and you'd be using a lot of Haskell anyway. So it goes - the Law of Equivalent Exchange.
Is the tweet correct or not? Is your point here that

- Zhukov is not actually a Tea Party Trump supporter and the tweet is made up, or

- Zhukov is all these things but it would not in fact be relevant to New Yorker readers, or

- Zhukov is all these things, but the facts should be ignored because they are coming from an unapproved source?
I don't think you understand the situation that exists. Climate change is a problem that exists today and so is caused by current consumption levels. The global poor doesn't today produce the overwhelming amount of GHGs, the first world does through its consumption. So, if you want to depopulate anywhere to solve the current crisis, the only place you can depopulate is here.

That said, not all middle class lifestyles need be so carbon intensive. US in particular has the highest GHG per capita because of sprawl and lifestyle choices. As China and India develop (although that might take a while) we have to help encourage them to not copy the US' example but say certain western european countries which use much less GHG per capita that we in the US do.
People remember a WWW before ad-words and SEO changed everything.
This is not the reason why haskell is "Safe"

Haskell is safe because of type checking. A function in python f(x) = x / 3 will crash if you make x = "a string" because "a string" / 3 doesn't make any sense. Python won't let you know about this until the program actually calls f(x).

In haskell f(x: int) -> int = x + 3 is type checked meaning that this program will never compile unless you make x = <some integer>. Haskell does not need to compile the program to know about this.

At a very high level what this means is this , languages like python and closure are so expressive they allow you to write programs that will crash during runtime. Languages like haskell are restrictive. They are so restrictive that they will only allow you to write programs that compile and make sense.

You will note even when using clojure or untyped lisp languages in the usual way (via functional programming with pure functions) you will still run into many runtime type errors just like python.
Death is the curator: an interview with Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Right, but for anyone who has to keep a close eye on their balance (so excluding most HNers), the credit card UX makes it as easy as possible to be irresponsible and as difficult as possible to be responsible. That's why responsible poor people are sometimes willing to pay entire percentage points of their total spend (!) in order to use debit cards so that the balance check gets done at the point of sale.
Compiler Basics: An x86 Upgrade
That's exactly what they're doing, and then they get CAPTCHAs and accounts banned.
US also has "programs" and generally spends more on preventative medicine. Further, actual medical evidence suggests medicine doesn't have good treatments for obesity (getting people to lose much weight and keep it off), save the surgical inventions (which aren't used often enough to explain much). It's also clear that obesity rates are rising throughout the developed world despite rising spending.

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Thanks. I think it's a nice point in design space. Sort of a Art Deco Modernist minimalism, perhaps? But with rich features and excellent performance.
Right, because we're living in such a pro-SV, pro-tech climate right now.
1000 members of a group each downloading 20 messages every 4 hours (a dribble that wouldn't be noticed) can pull down ... 20k messages in 4 hours.
> Twitter wants to delete older Twitter accounts because they're required to by law under the GDPR.

So, by analogy, if Twitter did allow people to download an archive of any public Twitter account's history... what would the GDPR require them to do? Wrap those archives in some sort of auto-expiring DRM?
What's the solution here?

Not to sanitize your hands when existing around and touching immunocompromised individuals?

Or is there a solution?