skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the same article:

"The idea of “great men” as engines of change grew popular in the 19th century. In 1840, the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle wrote that “the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here.” It wasn’t long, however, before critics questioned this one–dimensional view, arguing that historical change is driven by a complex mix of trends and not by any one person’s achievements. “"

and:

"Hero myths like the ones surrounding Musk and Jobs are damaging in other ways, too. If tech leaders are seen primarily as singular, lone achievers, it is easier for them to extract disproportionate wealth. It is also harder to get their companies to accept that they should return some of their profits to agencies like NASA and the National Science Foundation through higher taxes or simply less tax dodging."

For me the point is that innovators stand on the shoulders of giants (all the advancements made up until this point).

Another source talking about the same author (Mariana Mazzucato) and using her arguments (from her book: the Entrepreneurial State):

“Lone genius:

"An individual at the head of a private enterprise who has achieved fame through effective PR designed to create an arbitrary association of that person with successful commercial innovation, instilling in the public’s mind the absurd belief that the insight behind the innovation emerged from a social, economic and intellectual vacuum”

Source: https://qrius.com/the-myth-of-innovation-and-the-lone-genius
Liked the idea!
Landing page can be improved along with the font, good luck.
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Cognitive biases affect your sex life
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Have you been to East Hastings in Vancouver? It rivals anything I’ve seen in SF.
You're forgetting English. Learning a foreign language is really hard and many people learn English as school/by listening to music/by watching movies/TV series/etc. Few people want to go through the hassle of learning another foreign language.
Why? — serious question. A lot of the people I know and/or follow online have been saying that stock markets (and housing) is a bubble since at least 2015 if not earlier. Yet 4–5 years later we’ve seen massive gains. Also, the top companies are making a lot of money, so their valuations are high, but not crazy. On the other hand: startup valuations seem to be through the roof.

So when you say — “we need a real correction” and “not sustainable”. I’m curios — what exactly is not sustainable, and why a correction will make it more sustainable? Why do we “need” a correction?
I mean it's obviously possible. "Just" require prefunding without any growth assumptions. Of course, it would be tremendously expensive and workers would not appreciate the effect on wages.
Now the UK is free to do...what exactly that they could not before?
Only three of the Top international airports pass basic security checks
There's plenty of people who can understand specialized subject matter in great detail, well enough to edit a dissertation, but can't write very well in the first place. Ethical or not these people probably benefit greatly from outsourcing the initial draft of most of their writing.
Brexit solves them not being a sovereign nation. Sovereignty from foreign rule is over what wars are fought, no rational actor would give it away without an existential threat.
Interesting example. I certainly think the just use empty "" is fine and the coercion to NULL is not great.

I think Allowing "empty" values, and not allowing Null would be better.

If SQL had Option (Maybe) branch matching it would be an interesting replacement, and then coalesce would not be needed.

SELECT id, MATCH k WITH (
SOME(k) THEN k,
NONE THEN default,
END) AS something
FROM ...

I can see it's terse, and it is just a wrapper around data that would be stored like NULL but it kind of makes for interesting semantics.

Just spitballing for fun on what it might look like.
As long as you have short term growth targets (quarterly financial results) you cannot get big businesses to reckon with the environment.
The only possible way is for people to stop buying unwanted stuff just because it is cheap.
I knew a guy who was desperate to fill a cashier job. I recommended my friend who fit the bill - honest, able to stay in the same spot all day, polite, has managed teams. The guy was excited.

However, he got into an accident once, lost a leg, which was reattached and partially replaced with metal a few years ago. He walks with a limp, but can walk and stand fine. It shouldn't affect his job unless it involves heavy lifting or running.

What shocked me was just how fast the potential employer changed his tone when he found out.
Try doing VBA for a while.
It is often easy to make code cleaner even in a corporate setting: improve/update comments, reformat, add keywords that clarify the intent (const, private, ...), add explicit checks at the beginning of functions instead of letting them fail later in their body, remove duplicate code, split functions.

If you do it in a separate change/commit, it should be welcome.

I am not talking of refactoring: that is a completely different story, and requires extensive testing, long reviews...
Bank of England holds interest rates at 0.75%
List All Windows C# WPF Colors
Not being great at reading Haskell, I have some questions I was hoping people here could answer:

* Does this cope with different whitespace, such as tabs?

* Does this cope with different settings of locale?

* Does this include the option of the "longest line"?

* Does this perform the character counts?

I'm pretty sure wc does all these, and that stripping them out would make it faster. If this Haskell version doesn't do that, and yet still compares against a fully-featured version of wc, the comparison hardly seems fair.
Are you picking temperatures in the middle of the night? 46F is the nightly low in SF, versus being a record warm day in Toronto during the winter.
I have been using these big honking Noctua coolers for my last two build. They are truly completely silent when idle. You have to put your head directly next to the case to hear them at all when you're just browsing or doing light tasks. And they only give a reasonable amount of clean fan noise when running max. No squeaking or annoying peaking frequencies.
Coupled with high quality power supplies that are also virtually silent, this makes for dream PCs.
I hope we never stop trying to find a solution to what just _has_ to happen some day: everyone should have their own server.

If I make an app, I can safely assume that the user has a bank account, an e-mail address, etc. What would happen to the app economy if we could also assume that the user had a server? Imagine all the apps that would be made possible if the app makers didn't have to pay for and scale a back-end service!

Sandstorm.io, https://solidproject.org by Tim Berners-Lee, many people have tried, hopefully someone will succeed.
I made this joke as I found disparity between the message its reply humorous. If you disagree, feel free to ignore my comment. That aside, it is quite cool how Waymo cut costs by 90%: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...
(perhaps there are newer developments of which I am not aware). The old numbers indeed exceed the price of most teslas...
Can we have prosperity without growth? No.
Can we have sustainability with growth? No.
Then we can not have prosperity and sustainability.
Can we afford not having sustainability? No.
Then we can not afford prosperity.
20+ years of web experience, and the current tools are mostly trash.
Agreed. you can not. There are just too many pensioners: "Between now and 2050,the number of older persons will rise from about 600 million to almost two billion. In less than 50 years from now, for the first time in history, the world will contain more people over 60 than under 15"

https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/the-unprecedented-demo...
It doesn't though, we're still under obligations in international law and we're still under the ECHR.

> Leaving the EU does not affect our rights under the ECHR, as this comes from the Council of Europe, not the EU.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-human-rights-work...
> Employees should have gotten their fair share of that too.

You mean the employees should have asked for higher salaries and refused to work for his company if the company refused to pay? I don't think a single person has claimed that Bloomberg has paid them a single cent less than the salary specified in their contract.

That's the rub, isn't it? This is a protest against market forces, not against people. If I write a book and everybody in the world pays a dollar to read it (JK Rowling), how on earth could anyone say that I shouldn't have a billion dollars? Shouldn't they be ranting at the all the people who gave me the money of their own accord?

In Bloomberg's case, every employee made a conscious decision to work for the company to increase its value, and every employee was paid what they signed up for. What's unfair about it?
If I had just one wish about this legislation it would be that a standards body was created to limit the number of form factors that can be used for batteries. Being able to buy a car and know that you'll be able to change the battery in 10 years time with a compatible unit (possibly even with better capacity) would take much of the anxiety out of the electric car transition.
Is there a reason why they don't package a couple GB of DRAM in there?
Here is a revised link [1] to the full report. Table 1, on Page 10 shows a summary.

[1] https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=477717...
> The city is complaining that Amazon is making some of their citizens too rich.

The city would prefer that Amazon's presence has benefits for citizens as a whole - or at least didn't make their live worse - rather than enriching a few. Seems reasonable to me.
My wife introduced me to that. I believe it was when we were living in Belgium. Very tasty and not easy to come by in Sweden.
Data breaches – who needs to know? / Results from warning decision-makers
I wouldn't be so sure, it is only worth much because we believe so.
(Likewise platinum.)
They will bubble and crash.

As opposed to say steel and copper which are tied to industrial supply and demand.
That is very very naive, does not reflect the state of health care system as whole and not even related sometimes. Last I checked, Italy had lower ranking halthcare system than Canada and higher life expectancy. What about hospital wait times? What about wait times for treatments and procedures for non-life threatening illnesses? What about qualify of delivery? What about working hours lost due to all of the above? What about long term consequences of delayed treatments? That is 99% of health care.
Waymo may be planning to develop overpriced self driving cars to gather data automatically for cheap self driving cars while simultaneously experimenting.
How to virtually block a road: Take a walk with 99 phones
Libbsticka, two B.
I'm a renter that lives a few blocks from the HQ2 site. I am not thrilled to have them, nor are any of my neighbors.
Bit strange to find it's actually docked in Mostyn, the northEAST of Wales since '79. Guessing the author lost his bearings and doesn't know the area.
For me, the most memorable chapter in the excellent book Coders at Work was the Dan Ingalls one, in which he made the case for interactive development.
I didn't think of renting a room, interesting point. I could only find one at $400/mo in my town fwiw
The problem with this line of thinking is that you are designing for the average case, while current fuel infra is designed for (almost) any case. A third of people will be a sigma or more off from you estimate of 100km max, which may mean that for one in 6 this solution will not be sufficient. It would be a pity if you're talking half measures only designed to fit a narrow use case. It is both strictly worse, and I suspect will affect people who have little other options disproportionately. (People who need long range may live further, because they are poorer, emergency vehicles who need the range, travellers/irregular travel).
Knowledge-Telling vs. Knowledge-Building
Imagining zero growth (-2% or so with inflation) and long life spans, I think the numbers would look pretty bad for most people
I think it’s a bit more disingenuous to compare the magnitudes of 2^64 and 23 for the sake of argument, as if 2^64 isn’t practically asymptotic.
Maybe they could use some of the gratuitously high fees they charge for access to the paper to fund the ongoing storage requirements? Especially given that storage costs tend to drop faster than material to be stored accrues.
As discussed earlier in the article - the tech company's goal is to pay the minimum.

Therefore, it's unlikely that additional sales of iPhones would impact on salaries.
The reason for the backlog is the US is trying to get a diverse set of immigrants to the US. Any one country can’t get more than 5% of permanent visas in a given year.

If it wasn’t for that, 80% of people getting green cards would be Indian and Chinese.
On the brights side devs can massively profit from cheaters for example EFT , over the past 5-6 months they banned several thousands of accounts for cheating pretty sure at least 50% of the banned cheaters bought new accounts until the next time their account will get banned. So it can be profitable cat and mouse game if the devs play smart.
The client could be perfectly capable of doing an oral defence, and to have done all the research that is described in the thesis, just not that great at putting it down in a formal way.
I thought it was a joke. The whole: blockchain isnt that inovative if you use a strict technical definition because lots of things are a chain of blocks before bitcoin was cool, meme.

And honestly fair enough. The inovative part of bitcoin is not the blockchain but all the economics & game theory going on to create trust in the system
We can have sustainability and prosperity.

It's a triangle: prosperity, sustainability, population. Choose 2 (and obviously if you don't choose sustainability the sh*t is going to hit the fan at some point anyway).

The key issue is the global population.

(Edit: We're discussing life on this planet. Colonising space obviously means that human population may continue to grow, but not on Earth and not using Earth' resources)
How much do we bend to the will of our tools?
Why does that "have" to happen? This is a genuine question, because as a user I'm fairly happy with SaaS services, especially when they're built on open protocols or have a good export (meaning I can switch easily).
Because the economic theory behind bubbles is solid and easy to understand:

1. resources are not infinite

2. human creativity is basically boundless, but it needs time

3. humans tend to think alike and to get excited about the same things at the same time

We find a better way to manage resources, everybody hopes it will cure cancer, provide world peace, etc. As a result investment skyrockets, the "new way" develops and helps everyone but inevitably it doesn't do everything people investing a lot of money were hoping it would do. So people pull their money back and get scared when they realize how much they risked. People spend less money and things enter a downward spiral.
Yes, I think they were modplug era files. I didn't understand how they worked at the time so was baffled needlessly.
start with readme. one commit per logical set of changes. just like later.
The Jerks of Academe
Webkit and blink is not the whole browser engine however but just a HTML/CSS layout engine.
That’s very odd. My interactions in Montreal with stores and restaurants always begin with a “bonjour-hi” and most places have an English menu. In my hundreds of interactions, I’ve only had to use my rusty French two or three times. The rest of Quebec is another story, though.
Monitoring the Erlang VM With AppSignal's Magic Dashboard
This is another "Peak Guardian" article.

Anyone who actively reads The Guardian for anything other than "NotTheOnion" moments like this is demonstrating a lack of critical thinking.

I honestly find it hilarious when Guardian readers take the high ground against Daily Mail readers. It's like saying "my persistent vegetative state is better than yours".
@varun_mathur
"deleted my tweet about the #IowaCaucuses app (which was starting to go viral..), and which was based off comments on @BriannaWu’s thread about the app. I believe nobody here knows anything about it and there is rampant misinformation currently"

"It is best to wait. I got fooled."
This is why UBI is impossible. It is about 10x harder financially than pension funds.
> I have spend at least 15 hours trying to self host things with docker

That only says you haven't spent enough time. Say, 15 hours would be just enough to understand postgres container and figure out the best working configuration for you. Apps on top of it? Good luck spending extra 30 hours.

The thing is docker has never claimed that you don't need to learn about the software you're gonna run. It simplifies only deployment (a.k.a. installing and executing binaries) by providing uniform environment, and by making configuration files more reproducible, but it never reduced the complexity of software configuration.

But that doesn't mean Docker isn't a viable option for simplified server-application deployment. All we need is a set of well maintained recipes. It's just that there are too many recipes out there, unreviewed, untested, unmaintained. If one central party takes the responsibility here, Docker (or any other container solution) can outshoot Sandstrom in no time in terms of both quality and quantity.
And how is that a problem? As long as productivity grows at same rate as workers/pensioners ratio, the portion of gdp that should go towards retired ppl remains constant.
What about the sealed liquid coolers, eg. Antec? I have one on top of an 8086K I won (thanks Intel).

Do I need to panic?
Second.

https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools...
The way I think of it is that in order for debt to exist, interest on the debt must be paid. But to pay interest, you must create more value than the debt you incurred, otherwise you'd not have enough to pay the interest!

But the other side of debt is somebody's deposit. So if you summed the debt, it must be equal to all deposit. So from where would the interest come from? It must come from new production. But interest paid become a new deposit (for somebody), and from that new deposit, new debt is created...and hence, require infinite growth to continue to service interest payment.
Experimental project to get Java debugging via jdt.ls and coc.nvim
Who would you rather have in that space?
So, which country would you want to depopulate first?
ECS back and forth, part 7: shared data
why can humans not expand interplanetarily? Then, inter-stellarly, then finally, inter-galactically?
Trackers have a mini-resurgence via the modular scene with NerdSeq [1] [2]

[1] https://xor-electronics.com/nerdseq/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mShpux61dw0
Hey I enjoyed using this. I think the simplicity is strong.

Features that might be valuable (might):
- Add image functionality (I suppose you could do this with emojis)
- Export in further different / editable formats
- Additional formatting? (bolding, bullet points)
- Multiple paths for option routing? e.g. Alternative routes that we could take?

Keep up the great work
No, they're implying that there's been a failure by pro-leavers to acknowledge that many of these roles have been in the recent past been performed by immigrants from Europe.

Now with the UK's departure, employers may struggle to fill vacancies (and indeed it appears they have been - see link below), so the poster was sarcastically suggesting that they can't wait to see pro-leavers performing these tasks because it seems like in many cases UK nationals aren't willing to perform these types of roles.

The nature of the role is irrelevant and the poster wasn't suggesting that pro-leavers should be subject to degradation!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/11/tonnes-of-c...
If the failure of Sandstorm has shown one thing, it's that people will not maintain forks of software if the layer you're integrating with is too complex.

I'd much prefer if Sandstorm just shipped with an IdP and contributed OIDC implementations to downstream projects.
Perhaps a better way to phrase the question would be:

Can we have economic growth, improving prosperity and quality-of-life, while reducing our environmental impact?
Nope, you're at the mercy of caches to keep the beast fed.
Levistico in Spain, rare to find
State of Product Development in 2020
Corporate MITM devices, like those from Forcepoint. Or domain managed client side content filtering / endpoint protection. Basically overzealous IT security stuff. Most won't be fooled by simple stuff like just running sshd on port 443.

Edit: Though these MITM vendors will soon have fun with DNS over https and encrypted SNI. Guess they will have to resort to being browser plugins?
The larger and more complex cache hierarchies will go quite far in compensating for the increased per-core performance.
Investing in LabelBox
What Is Business Process Automation? What Are the Benefits?
Would the author mind commenting on how the diagrams were generated? They were very clear and useful.
Shameless plug but I’ve built a bunch of water cooled computers and even the more reliable ones like the Swiftech build below with John Guest push fits (rated for 25 years use) do eventually leak.

https://www.leonroy.com/oldsite/img/IMG_1802%20(Large).JPG

Regarding distilled water, it is indeed not very conductive at all but it is also quite reactive and if it touches electrical traces and PCBs starts to leach ions from the surrounding until it starts to conduct at which point the machine will short circuit (speaking from first hand experience alas).
Researchers Find 'Anonymized' Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought
That's a bit like saying that Britain wasn't sovereign during the time of the British empire. Britain, France and Germany ruled the EU, the UK designed many aspects of it.
Unfortunately some people seem to be figuring this out... The rent has been blasting off over the past 3 years from 'low' to 'regular north american metropolis' :(
We can, we just need to not burn out our resources and single planetary home before then.
> Instead of always getting data in 4KiB pages, often times modern processors support “superpages” all the way up to the gigabytes.

Page size is irrelevant for purposes of getting data from RAM to CPU / cache. This is done by cacheline size, which is usually 64 B. Higher page size helps with better TLB efficiency and also for disk to RAM copy (if that is strictly page-based).
A bond is an asset, just as shares are, as they are securities you can buy in exchange for future cash flows (contractual in the case of the bond, discretionary for the share). Both are only a liability for the issuer.
That's actually the question most people have been asking for the past decades. The answer is: The world has tried and failed and there's some serious questions about the plausibility of that endeavour.

The question whether growth==good or maybe just.. it's more complicated than that and we may be able to get more quality of life without growth is far more interesting.
> There's an easy way to game the system

Please stop subverting our laws, you’re making it worse for people who don’t break the law.