skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greece could default, but it was not clear what would have happened to their central bank, and if a default would have pushed Greece out of the Eurozone.

Due to these uncertainties, and undoubtedly also to pressure from the rest of the EU, Greece decided instead to renegotiate their debt with the Trojka.
Pragmatically, I recognize that you are right. Businesses and business people do, in fact, operate this way, and anyone who finds this distasteful should not go into business.

My question is: Does it really need to be this way? Certainly humans will try to "game" the system like you're describing, but is it possible to design an economy, through regulations or otherwise, where this strategy of lying to customers won't succeed? Is business this way because we allow it to be, because the people in charge of business decisions want to maintain their ill-gained power?
Having AliExpress check the safety of all of their products would increase the price of all of them substantially. That would me bad for me.

To make matters worse, the kind of girl who buys lipstick on AliExpress doesn't buy cheap Z80 clones or radios there, so she wouldn't come back to that site again once they take the lipstick down; only informed buyers would suffer the consequences. How's that fair?
I was under the assumption that about half of all twitter was bots. So 25% seems pretty good.
It was a few years ago, and I don't recall where she was at the time (has since changed contracts, for obvious reasons).
Currently zero, because the necessary lasers are just now becoming available.

In theory, they've got a kJ laser to generate the magnetic field, a 30kJ laser hitting the fuel, and a GJ energy output, for Q over 30,000 minus whatever losses you have in the lasers and electricity harvesting.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1016/j.mre.2017.05.001
That's a good point, its security lies in simplicity.
A lot of sites do lazy-loading (but even then it's good practice to preconnect to third-party domains) and chrome even implemented native lazy-loading for images and iframes recently.
Productivity is not the same as hard work.

A guy with a pickax can work very hard and still be a lot less productive than a guy with an excavator.
As an advanced (neo)vim user, I respectfully disagree. Vim integration in VS Code is sluggish and buggy (see folds and macros, for example).
Wonder Dragons
The issue I always had with it is that you can’t see the really good answers (unless that’s changed). I wanted to push an “I give up” button so I could access answers that would help me learn.
Not too dissimilar to how Bill Gates "created" and sold DOS before it existed. Clearly misrepresentative and unethical, but not idiotic from a ruthless business perspective.
Why is it a shitty move exactly? Transparency is a good thing.
I for one, would be interested to read the primary source, when it comes out.

If no one else does, will try posting a link in reply to this comment when it does,
But an SDK is unnecessary for POSTing JSON back and forth.
Command economies don’t work. The USSR experienced growth initially because Russia was an economic backwater. That ran out of steam by the 1960s. The USSR never exceeded about 50% of US GDP, despite having a much larger population.

The USSR did some amazing things, for example in space. That just proves that a command economy can divert investment to specific ends. The USSR narrowly beat the US in several space milestones. We were close behind-such that we beat the USSR to the moon when their space program stumbled. But at the same time we developed advances in electronics, medicine, chemicals, etc., that weren’t even on the USSR’s radar. And we were doing all that while dedicating far less of our economy to investment (versus consumption).

Soviet industry was also breathtakingly inefficient. The USSR required five times as much energy to produce on unit of GNP than the US: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/3500/1/RR-91-07.pdf. The Soviet Union had massive oil and gas reserves. But using vastly more concrete, steel, and energy to produce less durable goods than the US wasn’t sustainable.
No, the asking for. Link was fine, as i stated in my op, i was going to find a source...

It was the “when israel gets called out” bullshit - and then looking at their post history.

Thats a shill account 100%
The most powerful machine in my home happens to be a second-hand server running FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. So I have a couple of Xeons that only have to manage 4 disks in RAIDZ1. There's plenty left over to also be my primary development machine. I have my development tools installed in a big jail and I access it via SSH from my Windows machine.

In general it works, but I run into various issues trying to get tools and libraries installed pretty much every time I start a new project. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it.
> And even now the science is clearly biased - what does the field do, for example, when there is consistent evidence that it's predictions are far too warm? They go digging for explanations like oceanic absorption, rather than adjust their models.

I was in academia and reading the literature as this kerfuffle went down (2012, IIRC). The models of temperature overshot, but the models of global heat flow did not, so the net effect of the misprediction was always going to be a delay rather than a change in the ultimate effect. To use the hydraulic analogy, we could see water flowing into the barrel at the same rate (satellites can measure total heat influx / outflux from Earth very accurately) but the barrel's rising water level slowed down in an unanticipated manner. They eventually tracked it down to oceanic mixing. In the hydraulic analogy, the barrel got wider below where we expected it to get wider. The water is still pouring in, though, and it doesn't change the fact that the water level in the barrel is rising.

Academia treated the matter with the utmost professionalism. The journal articles minced no words about the models that had failed and the implications, limited as they were.

Liberal media didn't report it at all. Bias? Sure, a little.

Conservative media sang the temperature models' failure from the rooftops, ignored the success of the heat models, and jumped to the conclusions that global warming as a theory was in doubt and that scientists had biased the results. The conservative media's bias was the worst of the three, by my reckoning.
Turning Data at REST into Data in Motion with Kafka Streams
I don't know why, but AFAIK there are no countries investing heavily in fission to make that happen.
> So if it is hard for a human, then it seems obvious that a tesla would also fail to recognize a 35.

You need to be a special type of stupid to think that a road with a speed limit of 35 MPH is 85 because of a road sign. The 'drive into the lake because the GPS nav tells me to' level of stupid.
That only uses neovim for ex mode. Full integration of neovim requires digging into less widely used extensions such as https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim

I found vscode macros particularly painful. Slow & where vim optimizes things. Typing abc^H^Hsdf will seamlessly play out as asdf, but with vscodevim I have to watch the macro repeat my mistake each time
Ask HN: Please Fork My Project
Hello HN,

I am the (only) developer behind magnetico[0], the (first?) fully-decentralised BitTorrent search engine suite that you can host yourself. It is intended to replace public trackers, so to speak.

It was featured on Hacker News and TorrentFreak:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018877

https://torrentfreak.com/magnetico-a-personal-torrent-search-engine-that-cant-be-shut-down-170409/

I believe that the project serves an actual need, that is, decentralising the only central component of the BitTorrent stack: trackers. I have been developing the project for the past 3 years and I know that it still has lots of room for improvement, but the development came to a halt as I burnt out. I no longer have the will to work on this project, simple as that.

It consists of ~4.2k lines of Go, and ~500 lines of very basic JS.

I would be grateful if anyone here is interested in forking magnetico. I am happy to answer your questions and help with onboarding too.

Bora

[0] https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/
I went pretty much all-in for Elixir/Erlang, but I do have to admit Clojure has always been a close second, and I envy the amount of interop it has.

There's various initiatives in the Elixir ecosystem, and tools such as LiveView make my life a ton easier, but man do I wish I could use Elixir as flexibly as Clojure!
That essay was confusing because it says "encrypted email" without defining it, and the arguments are too strong; they could be used to argue that you shouldn't use email at all.
When the score of "yes" is 0.51 and of "no" 0.49, do I really get an answer?
Can you no longer just not activate windows 10 and live with a lack of desktop backgrounds?
How to Search for Startups
I think 63% marginal tax rates for high earners are stupid too, and their proponents similarly mistaken. So I haven’t changed my opinion based on the context and am not responsible for such advocates.
For the curious, do you have a link to the paper?
Putting aside the fact that this was found on an old Tesla with autopilot 1.0, this is not even a technically hard problem to solve. The current version of autopilot uses a database and gps to determine the speed limit. In the future if Tesla wants to return to a vision based speed limit system they can sanity check the vision readings against their database and throw out results like 85mph.
It's just setting the tone of the discussion. Emotionally charged writing can be fun to read but can also be tiresome especially at length.
Show HN: Nightly v0.1 – Feather-light task scheduler, monitor and storage
Our science teacher in the 7th grade made a model coliseum out of foam-core and would release crickets into it for her lizards to eat during homeroom
Linpack only runs on Intel CPUs, so it's not useful for Threadripper.
Failures and limits of empiricist approaches
Sure, but the person would have been in the same boat no matter what specific logo was hanging over the door.
Uber lays off 80 employees
For those that are unaware, it’s literally the same system underneath. Vscode talks to language servers to do all the work and they’ve architected the system in such a way that others can talk to them too. Coc.vim provides the plumbing to do that from vim. It’s a great project. Took me a while to get things configured properly but it’s been great for doing all my typescript work.
> they provide a time/complexity trade-off

I think that’s too specific of a claim for such a broad category as DSLs.

I think in specific cases there is a time-complexity tradeoff you can exploit, those are the (IMO extremely rare) cases where a DSL is worth considering. But in a lot of cases it’s just added complexity. Functions are pretty powerful.

And they are also easier to reason about. Often the DSL adds “time” because you’re like “why the heck isn’t this working” and it’s because of some weird state you can’t inspect that’s deep inside your parse tree. “Guess I better start reading the source code of my DSL runtime. Oh look, someone hacked a corner care into the parser.”

My rule of thumb would be something like:

1) if you have time to make your DSL superbly executed, and
2) you are very certain it can make an entire class of problems go away, and
3) you don’t expect weird corner cases to ever show up in a future project that break the model
...then it’s worth considering.

As a professional coder though, I don’t see a lot of situations like that. In particular the “build this module superbly” is generally not an option on the table. Nor is “you can model the domain of future needs thoroughly” But I work at startups, I bet at a BigCo if you are a very senior person DSLs are on the table more often.
You may be right, but he still dodges the comparison. His moral busybodies are "omnipotent", while his robber barons are not. I understand why this should be the case - were it otherwise, the thought of living under robber barons would not come off nearly so well - but I see no reason why it should pass without comment.
A group of people working together is a partnership. And those people have all the usual rights and liabilities that people have generally.

Larry and Sergei could have founded Google as an unlimited liability partnership, but they preferred to incorporate. So Google has to follow the rules that come with incorporation.

Incorporation was a free choice. There was an alternative. Nobody's rights are being infringed.
If you were right OCaml wouldn't be the only language with a popular syntax veneer.
Well, tell me if you find a carrier offering renters insurance with ALE of I guess the $200k+ limit you're looking for. I'm sure it exists, but not in a mass market, D2C product line, where the underlying personal property coverage is much less than that.

Also, since unlike homeowners' the carrier has no way in expediting the rebuilding of the building, I'd be surprised if they are willing to pay for your rent indefinitely until the original building is rebuilt. Perhaps you could win if you took them to court, but it will not be a routine process.
sighs No, but if you think I’m full of shit, I don’t really want to waste my time discussing how I developed this particular misunderstanding about the world for your amusement.
You don't need residential context. You just need US context. I have never seen an 85 MPH speed limit sign in the US, ever. Up to 65 is common, with 70 or 75 sometimes on well maintained roads between urban areas. I can't recall seeing an 80, but I feel like maybe once or twice.
Not to be a downer, but if you say your technology is working a billion times better than expected, one of two things is probably true: you are trying to stir up media hype, or you don't really understand the underlying technology to begin with.
Okay, he could have not capitulated and let the electorate face the music of their decision.

It was a referendum among the Greek people about what their government should do.

You can't hold a referendum about what other people should give them.

The UK got a Brexit referendum and they got out. Nobody would have cared if they held "EU gives as market access but we do not allow Europeans coming over and work referendum" which is what the UK essentially wants.
So, does this mean threadripper is unusable and we shouldn't buy them?
If the US and EU had not stepped in, what would MS done differently to stop the rise of the current big tech companies?
Yeah so a big name PEO definitely doesn't do this, I have the same situation right now. Both companies were rolled into one W2 for me. FTE, engineer in both cases.

Edit: I also get this is likely legal but didn't sit well with me. I also learned when I move employers but the PEO stays the same my insurance through the PEO doesn't refresh which got me into a small jam.
I have. And to my analogy, some architects can also design buildings that are structurally sound ;)
The Motto that comes to mind is DONT BE EVIL
The article makes the point that for heating, consumers are choosing to stay with fossil fuel-driven heating rather than install electrical heating, because the tax-driven pricing for electricity makes electricity so expensive that where there is a choice to not use it, people do.

It doesn't address any of the non-heating areas that you're talking about, and doesn't make any claims around any of the electricity supply market that doesn't affect heating.

So it doesn't matter if the first 90% of the electricity people consume is green, because they're not choosing to use electricity for this. Thus the renewable power is not replacing the fossil fuel power in this market.
I don't want government surveillance of its citizenry to become more efficient.
The screen is not automotive grade [1].

If the adhesive that holds the screen together is not automotive grade then the whole unit is not automotive grade.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
They haven't lost any actually, if you're referring to EU enforcement then that stuff in unilateral, a court isn't involved so technically they couldn't lose.

As for background if state AGs have ulterior motives then so does the EU many folds.
> 2) IMF decisions brought an increase in suicide rate and children mortality rate. Are the lenders allowed to bring death to the borrowers? Is this illegal for the mafia but allowed for IMF/ECB/EC?

How does one make this claim? What would the alternative have looked like? It's not like the IMF just decided to tank a healthy economy.
That's fantastic haha.
Well, are they facts or falsehoods?
Thank you for your comments. It's great to have someone knowledgeable about these topics give some ELI5 answers.

> Fossil kills 4.2M people/year

Where does this number come from?
"the ultra rich (very fast particles) manage to create value among themselves without having to cascade their wealth down to the crowd (cold particles), and then upload that value to hyperspace (the electric field from the electrodes), without ever interacting with the mass of the crowd (the mass of the target)"

Are you saying this kind of fusion is anti social justice? We should ban this immediately!
Absolutely. Within the scientific community, there are excellent people, who if you tell them what you are doing and why it is important, will respond by telling you all the other ways your work is important.

These people are practicing the skill you are note: identifying value in things that others have not identified.
Nicotine is a nootropic with a number of documented cognitive benefits. E-cigs appear to be largely harmless so far, excepting black market pods, so I've been happy to see that we've potentially turned a very harmful vice into one that is as dangerous or less than alcohol.
I'm a current CS student. I've heard that Linear Algebra is a worthwhile class for students studying Computer Science. Yet, my program doesn't have it as a requirement. Can anyone explain in broad terms if this course is something I should consider taking anyways?
Ask HN: Digital Voyeur or PGP Wannabe?
Asking for a friend. Google has engaged in malicious targeting, and strong encryption enables unchecked criminal stalking at scale. Howieeeeee! CE.YA
So the fusion here is where two protons form an alpha particle? They show a proton hitting B11 and generating two alpha particles and another proton.

1 proton + (5 protons, 6 neutrons) -> 3 * (2 protons, 2 neutrons)

https://www.hb11.energy/our-technology
A dumb approach to getting around macOS’s security UI and making a better UX
I would have certainly taken this guy more seriously if I hadn't got a "won't you subscribe to my newsletter" popup in the middle of the article...
States and Organizations/Corporations are NOT at the same level.

States create and enforce the laws, they can do whatever they want. Their only limit is the people willingness expressed via elections.

Corporations can never be above a State if they play in a game where the State decides the rules.
That's true, but until now it's basically been "he said / she said". Having a recording that shows the outright callousness of certain elements of those meetings, is another thing. At the very least, it would set the historical record straight.
Assuming that you don't care about the Greek people (and obviously you don't) and assuming that the narrative of "we the European people" is false (that obviously it's), what about the public debt?

Because all the actions that took place "to fix" Greece was in order to fix the problem of the public debt. So, I suppose that now, after all the "hard medicine" the problem is solved. Well, it's not and it's not predicted to be in the future.

So, what was all this about?

None of the predictions made at the time by all those hardliners in Germany and company have become a reality. Of course, the guilt is going to be again on the Greeks. Then they will complain when the people turn anti-European and rationalistic.
Ask HN: Google policy on employee windows machines
Does Google still essentially outlaw Windows machines for employees at work? (except of course for developers working on Windows-Chrome, etc).

What do most employees use? Is there a big contingent of Linux-as-main-machine users?
I meant that her total compensation was more with her current job that paid less and did not use her qualifications.

The equation was worse job + food stamps > better job without food stamps. The better job in the long run might have lead to better still. But she couldn't afford it in the short run.
There is no actual expectation of ever getting useful power generation from magnetic confinement fusion (ITER, Tokamak): it has always been, instead, a jobs program for high-neutron flux physicists, to maintain a population to draw on for weapons work.

p-boron fusion is interesting as a possibly practical energy source. The hurdles are a matter of engineering and finance, not fundamental design flaws. But it's useless as a jobs program for weapon experts, so must rely on commercial investment.
Mattermost is high-quality, privacy-respecting software that is easy to self host.
C/C++ Auto-Dependency Generation for GNU make with GCC
I'm struggling to find a source, but I was taught in school that some large majority of the total beer consumption is by a core group of beer drinkers that average > 3/4 gallon (around eight cans of beer) per day
Polytonic Greek: a guide for type designers
> People have been doing this exact thing for two decades at least but obviously with less computing power.

Here's an analogy which shows how the cynicism here isn't actually useful wisdom:

Lee Sedol lost at go.

Kasparov lost at chess two decades before.

The Kasparov loss was 'exactly the same thing albeit with less computing power'
I do not work there, but the people I know there are required to use a hardened Linux machine for Production access.
He was hardly alone in thinking and supporting that line. Jeroen Dijsselbloem in particular behaved quite disgracefully at the time.
Not to mention that it was normal to do repos in the US before the post crisis money market moved to the floor system (IOER), and currently is normal for most money markets around the world.

The grandparent has a point but he's barking at the wrong tree. It's all about the artificially low interest rates, world wide. Money supply is a prisoner of rates. Let's see how this setup unwinds...
It took so long for the CSS to load I thought, "Wow, what a beautiful minimalist site!" and then came...everything else.

I agree with part of one of 'sneak's points, though, if not the way it's presented and some of the way it's worded. Discord isn't a good choice for Free Software.
Great question and thanks for asking! Actually how far the scores are apart from each other does not matter in this model. Perhaps a better way to frame that question is: what is my confidence level that this prediction is correct? In this formulation, there would be an upper and lower bound for the scores based on a chosen confidence level
The population is not the one who adopts the economic policies. The government is.
This is a weird thing to say, but I don't understand what the point of these articles are...

like, everyone in the world is completely addicted to oil and gas, we don't have any meaningful way to counteract the system with our current governments. Like, of course they lied to us, they don't have any reason not too
Using the JVM on aws lambda isn't such a good fit due to startup time.
I expect that you lose efficiencies with respect to security. I.e., it's not easy to secure one large nuclear reactor (fission or fusion), but it's a lot easier than securing dozens of small reactors.