skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in finance, and at a previous employer (not Robinhood), I partially rolled a datetime implementation. Mostly it was a wrapper around Boost Date Time [0]. It was a facade that smoothed out the interface and implemented some missing functionally, like a cross-platform strptime and loading of the Olson timezone database.

I spent a better part of a year working on it (along with other things). Modeled the interface after Python's datetime module (which I think is one of the simpler and easy to use date-time libraries across various languages I've used). More than $20B USD trades using that library.

The motivation was the firm used to use RogueWave's date-time facilities, but we moved away after they jacked up the licensing. Think we used to have a site-wide license, but they were moving to a per-core licensing, wanting something like $2K per core annually.

Needless to say, testing was extensive. Overflows were found in Boost in far distant dates, had to work around those. Tested against a ton of historical dates. Tested against Northern and Southern Hemisphere daylight saving time (a lot of people don't realize that Southern is inverted from Northern). Learned a lot about timezones and the history of timezones along the way.

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_72_0/doc/html/date_time.htm...
I'm a desktop user and it requires me to scroll as well.
Privacy from what? MAC addresses are not used on the internet, only on the local network
The unstated conclusion of your response seems to be that the absence of basic social service rights has no impact on rate of demographic change in developed countries; however, your comment appears to be focused on current measurements, and not rate of change. Keep in mind that the average American's economic position has been degrading for decades now, while the same cannot be said (to the same extent) for the citizens of the European countries you mentioned. Your source only has data through the year 2015, so I have supplemented it with projection data for the year 2020 from the CIA World Factbook [1] to more clearly illustrate the trend; the earlier date for each example I cite below is sourced from your link [2]. I've also included data for several other major countries (and the EU as a whole) that offer basic social safety rights to their citizens.

The USA fertility rate in 1990 was 1.98; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.84 (a delta of -.14).

The fertility rate in Denmark in 1990 was 1.65; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.78 (a delta of +.13).

The fertility rate in Portugal in 1990 was 1.52; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.41 (a delta of -.11).

The fertility rate in Germany in 1990 was 1.36; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.47 (a delta of +.11).

The fertility rate in Canada in 1990 was 1.66; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.57 (a delta of -.09).

The fertility rate in France in 1990 was 1.75; in 2020 it is projected to be 2.06 (a delta of +.31).

The fertility rate in Norway in 1990 was 1.85; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.84 (a delta of -.01).

The fertility rate for Europe in total in 1990 was 1.70; in 2020 it is projected to be 1.62 (a delta of -.08).

This is obviously not a thorough (or even statistical) analysis of the situation, but a cursory look at the data from the perspective of multi-decade trends does not lend credence to the notion that the availability of social safety nets has no impact on demographic rate of change in a developed country.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#the-global-decline...
It's a Windows-thing, since W7, IIRC. It's ok now, but it has been buggy for years, and yes, who eats xps-files, so better it is, but it's not more useful.
SXSW is quite far from a fan-run type of convention. There's big money involved with corporate sponsors - Budweiser, Amex and Kia being some. It basically takes over Austin for a couple of weeks. It's also a few distinct conferences - music, film and interactive. To give an idea of it's size and scope here are the stats from 2019:

https://explore.sxsw.com/hubfs/2019-SXSW-Event-Stats_9-10-19...
No language can prevent someone from exercising bad taste, but a language can prevent someone from exercising good taste.

Some languages attempt to discourage bad taste by limiting the power given to users. Common Lisp embraces the expression of good taste by giving users considerable power.
Absolutely. In recent decades CEO tenure has fallen by ~half, while CEO compensation is circa 10x bigger. I think that's behind a lot of current business and economic problems. Giving someone only a short time to extract a lot of money is an absolutely terrible setup for creating sustained value delivery.
Design encompasses everything that people interact with, so words are part of design. In fact there's a whole discipline called "User Experience Writing".
If the death rate was 10% across the board we would know how far it has spread. But this cold may have a 0.001% hospitalization or death rate for people in great health. There could already be 100,000 people infected in the states.

We may be close to the point of saying "fuck it. False alarm this is just a cold. Carry on". Hard to know for sure though until a couple weeks go by
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Seems like they installed variable frequency drives (their "algorithm) on their motors; nothing more.
There was something better, mid century regulated corporate business stewardship. But Walsh and his acolytes pillaged it like a barbarian horde falling on a dignified gallery.
Because you were phrasing it as a problem that ethical frameworks rather than laws solve.
Stock market melt-up is one I've heard.
It was abstracted out, but I don't know if it qualified as a GUI. I had subroutines for creating the various components and placing them anywhere on the screen. I don't remember how I handled the events. One of my biggest regrets is loosing all my work around that time.
Man I wish. I don't know of one. I love the Drudge Report no matter what liberal media says about it. It's got crazy but it's got everything else too.
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Other than the fact you are calling the wrong person an "op" I think this statement says a lot about you:

> the reality is that if advertising didn't work people wouldn't pay for it

People don't pay for advertising. Instead, corporate assholes who do advertising spend money on search for models which make enough to cover the costs of finding ways to get people to repeat the pattern of "re-seeing" or "re-hearing" a brand or message in mind. This is the non-corporate being that does this: the corporation or government.

The public's predisposed nature to keep your marketing crap out of their minds isn't a good excuse to do it, either. Even if it makes money and they allow it without knowing the cost.
To my knowledge, there's no such mechanism in any of the relevant protocols (i.e. ACME and OCSP).
The most harmful idea he introduced is stack ranking, the consequences of which we're still dealing with in the tech industry. In particular ranking people on a team level on the team and firing those on the bottom has taken a severe toll on many teams and companies/
There is a fairly interesting library developed by the Stanford Team behind https://www.snorkel.org/ that takes structured documents, including PDF formatted as tables, and builds a knowledge base: https://github.com/HazyResearch/fonduer

It looks promising for these kinds of daunting tasks
Nobody asked for applications to support "more combinations of OS, input methods and data storage and accessibility and whatever else", developers decided to shove all that because reasons.

If applications are worse because they are doing so much more then they should stop doing that "much more", focus on doing one thing and leave the rest to other applications.

> Think of how things like hamburger menus or swipe-to-refresh or pinch-to-zoom have become expected standards.

That isn't a great example for best practice IMO since the only expectation i have about hamburger menus is for them to die in a fire.
I like to take my notes hierarchically where possible. A lot of things you take notes on, especially in class are concepts that depend on each other.

The point being that when you read the notes back to yourself later you'll know that concept Y has a relationship with concept X. Or further Concept Z depends on Y depends on X

So the note structure is something like this

- X

-- Y

--- Z
Frankly, this service is basically reinventing the wheel of volontary carbon markets, and doing so much, much less efficiently, and with fewer co-benefits.

Well-certified projects can offset emissions at a price of about 10$/teqCO2. I personally recommend https://www.standfortrees.org.
Yeah, agreed, the parent phrasing definitely confused me. First 3 sentences make it seem like he is trying to head-on rebut the comment he is replying to, and then the last sentences of the 1st paragraph just reiterate and expand on what the grandparent comment said and agree with it. While what the parent said makes sense, reading it definitely threw me off a bit.
This isn't FUD:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-blast-from-a-financial-cri...
https://ourtownaustin.org/sign-the-recall-petition/ Austin city mayor and 5 council members are recalled since last Oct.
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When I see a log plot bending up, my default assumption is stunning growth for a considerable period.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...
The US federal reserve are the best in the world at what they do IMO.
You seem like you're missing the point. It's not about you. Contagion is a lottery you play on behalf of other people. You will probably not die of the covad virus even if you contract it, but you can kill other people if you get it and don't stay home.

If one of those 100,000 people had the thing then by now many many more of them have it and are now vectors.

Paraphrasing Lord Humungus, "Just stay home. Stay home for a few months and there will be and end to the horror. Just stay home." (The bad guys are the virus, the good guys and their gas is your health, and Mad Max is the guy cancelling your event. It's an imperfect metaphor.)

"Just Walk Away" Mad Max 2 - The Lord Humungus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfL4xKQeSfo
>That's a nice anecdote but what happens when you try to dislodge a ruler with 300 years worth of experience, connections, and wealth? What happens when people have so much time to amass power that at some point you realize you, the younger generation, no longer stand any chance?

Wealth doesn't keep people in power; only power does. And power extends from the barrel of a gun. The only reason people with money stay in power is because there's a bunch of people who want to keep him there, and the populace under them either accept this, or aren't willing to take whatever risks are necessary to change this. History is full of revolutions where some ruler with lots of connections and wealth was deposed, violently if necessary. Just look at what happened to rich people during the French Revolution.
What was the land used for before? It doesn't come for free.
Can we destroy bitcoin first??

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1234493080583143424?s=20

Bitcoin energy consumption hits a new all time high of nearly 9GW, comparable to Chile, a country with 18M people.
Carbon footprint is ~37 Mt CO2 annually, about that of New Zealand.
And yet it still does ~4 transactions per second...
I've been doing development and devops for years and have never heard of a CAA. Then again, I use http-01 and not dns validation, so that's probably why. Before LetsEncrypt I'd buy certs and it involved a lot of copying/pasting CSRs into web interfaces.
I said the same thing about UPS causing more trouble than preventing it. Then I moved to Africa and quickly learned that a local UPS can be VERY helpful.
What's missing so far is VAAPI support for WebRTC. Apparently, Firefox is using same libwebrtc as Chrome does, and it still doesn't support hardware acceleration.

This results in some ugly behavior of WebEx for instance, which blocks video in its WebRTC calls, since it assumes that "CPU is too weak" to handle it. Cisco never fixed this issue.
> the time it takes to lookup documentation on something you don't use just often enough

Well, if I don't use it often, I'm not going to be looking at the documentation often. However, when I do, we're talking about the time it takes to type `man foo<enter>/bar<enter>`, where bar can be `keyword` or `--option\b`. That doesn't even take 30 secs.
What people miss is that we both cut down trees and burned buried carbon. To reverse global warming we need to reverse both.
Cool. I was thinking about immunotherapy like IL proteins.. sometimes they are injected and sometimes infused, I don't know why.
I wonder if anyone has advice for someone like me who thinks writing a journal is probably a good idea, but I rarely write because I can hardly bear to read what I've written. I always want to edit it for clarity or just throw it out because I don't like it. I've been able to overcome my perfectionism in a few areas of life, but not this one. I like to read other people's words, but rarely my own.
Let’s Encrypt discovers CAA bug, must revoke customer certificates
Just to be clear people, don’t just go to the doctor if you think you might have coronavirus — call first and seek their professional recommendation. They may want to come to you to do a swab, rather than have people randomly walking in and possibly infecting others.
Converse: Can you imagine WhatsApp parallel universe serving with Node?
So, not a scaleable idea in the sense that not many companies can or would implement it anyway.
The Koch brothers hired private investigators to trail, intimidate, and attempt to get dirt on Jane Mayer when she was writing Dark Money -- a book about how they covertly funded ultra-right wingers and climate sceptics to protect their hundreds of billions of dollars of oil investments. Charles Koch literally shoulders a non-trivial amount of responsibility for a possible coming semi-apocalypse, and he makes plenty of movie villains look laughably tame in comparison.

But this is a good step.
Yes, I have. Face time is possible over video chat. Code collaboration is possible through pull requests / change lists / whatever.

Again, not sure what you're saying here.
Sway is a pretty popular project, and gaining momentum. I also use sway for all of my machines (including workstation and personal laptop) and am quite happy with it.
But then you would have to bring your own aliases everywhere. And common aliases just got upstreamed.
Their research probably found people LIKED it more, not that it performed better. Computers went mainstream and functionality became secondary to seeming high tech.
So did Jack Welch also influence the “grow big and exit all cost without a plan to be profitable” VC startup culture.
You are right that this is very expensive. Other firms in this space estimate that there should be a lower bound for direct air capture of $100-200 per ton of CO2 [0].

However, this is a very different product than BECCS - it direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 which would not occur without your purchase, in the only real permanent operating storage facility we currently have. It is very difficult to know what the marginal impact of changes in sugarcane production are, though we do know that there is potential for either indirect land use change, or mitigation of reduction due to shifts in demand/supply and knock-on effects.

[0] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30225-3
Using sed Range Patterns, grep and tr to Parse a Changelog File
I just set up something similar for myself with Huginn [0], took a bit to figure out how it works but I've been liking short daily summaries. This definitely would have been faster/prettier though.

[0] https://github.com/huginn/huginn
I wonder if there are any crips guidelines to lower cloud deployment costs.
> The thing that a lot of folks seem to be missing is as a healthy, young adult you’re probably going to be fine if you get it and take care of yourself. With a longer incubation period than H1N1 though, you’re more likely to spread it to others who may be immunocompromised or at risk if they get it. That’s the risk with a conference, you can end up infecting many folks who infect other folks leading to high death rates.

Yeah, this! It's worth repeating.
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Data shows [1] educated, empowered women with access to contraceptives have less children overall, and defer having children until later in life, full stop.

I also argue it is a net positive, regardless of the underlying mechanism(s), that the fertility rate is declining across the world considering the unsustainable consumption rate per capita of the first world.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#empowerment-of-wom...
> This is about being able to play web videos without causing you to lose CPU performance and battery life. This has not really been supported on Linux or X11

This is simply not true. I've regularly used hardware accelerated video on linux+X11 for over a decade. There are multiple ways for video playback to be accelerated, including hardware-specific video acceleration libraries like VDPAU and VAAPI, and hardware-agnostic acceleration using OpenGL (GLX). All of these options accelerate generic video playback steps like colorspace conversion, scaling. Most of these methods also provide direct hardware decoding of specific video codecs (h.264, mpeg1/2, vc1, wmv3).

Also, just like Wayland, hardware accelerated compositing (2D, not 3D!) of windows has been possible with X11 for more than a decade. Even my ancient window manager (Enlightenment DR16!) can manage X11's compositing.

Wayland was never required for any of these features.
1/3 reduction is 1/3 reduction. It's worth doing, even if how they did it is no great breakthrough.
Worth pointing out that due to their efficiency, what this has to be about is not making the motors more efficient, but reducing the power output, e.g. by making the driven mechanical load more efficient.

Edit: Skimming the article makes it sound like they switched from U/f control to vector control.
This was my professor's routine. His final notes almost look fit to publish as-is. They were immaculate. He would go over his notes from the day and rewrite them immaculately.
Yes, but the linked product/subscription also include deep injection, not just the capture.
This is addressed on the website. I think at scale afforestation becomes a very risky prospect financially and requires a much larger amount of land putting biodiversity at risk and infringing on agriculture as apposed to the proposed CO2 remove technology. The cited paper for this on their website is unfortunately paywalled but I would be really interested in finding out more about this.
Only thing interesting about this virus is 1) It fully stopped all the PR coverage of the Hong Kong protests, and 2) We learned how poorly we are prepared for a pandemic
The Koch brothers are the left wing version of the boogeyman. See George Soros for the other side of fearmongering.
The New Uncanny Valley
This needs a total revamp of pretty much every thought and policy in modern capitalism because so many of them have their roots in the stock price above everything ideology.

But I believe we need to do it if we want a brighter future.
It is worth noting that when Jack Welch arrived at GE he was dealing with a bloated company heading towards bankruptcy because it had way too much overhead. Firing the bottom 10% each year was harsh medicine, but it was what GE needed at the time.

The fault is not in the medicine supplied. It is that his imitators supplied the same medicine to other companies in other circumstances.

What is the fallout? Jack Welch was a big part of the breaking of the social contract that used to be part of American business. It took decades, but now American workers have accepted that a job is not "until death do us part" and have also given up on their side of the same contract. And the result is a very different relationship between corporate America and their workers.
FWIW GE has split its stock twice in that interval: there was a 2:1 split in December 1997 and a 3:1 split in mid 2000. Meaning despite stock price being back to its 1997 level, total valuation has increased 6x (and an investor who had one GE share in early 1997 now has 6 of them).
November is still more than six months away. Given how quickly COVID-19 spreads I think our economy will likely be feeling the pain long before the election.
The GPL restricts vendor rights to protect end user rights.
Yes, exactly. This is a book review. But also propaganda. Almost a hit piece.
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> "The pressure to cancel SXSW over coronavirus concerns intensified this week with Twitter and Facebook issuing corporate travel bans including the gathering"

Can anyone from Twitter or Facebook comment about what travel ban their employer has implemented? I work for a smaller tech company which has cancelled all international travel, and implemented a 14 day quarantine (i.e. mandatory work from home) for any employees returning from abroad. But we don't have any restrictions on traveling domestically.
They don’t really enter into the calculus for running or not running these events but there are a huge number of local people who provide food/drink, security, audio, janitorial, registration, etc. for these events who lose a week of work when events are canceled—probably with no compensation.
Sort of. I have a bad habit of forgetting Smalltalk in these kinds of conversations, but that is possibly because Smalltalk images exist in their own happy little worlds. I love working in Smalltalk environments, it is always a mind blowing experience, the system is completely homogeneous, accessible, introspectable, modifiable, etc. -- until you hit the hard boundary between the image and the host system, be it hardware or software. That boundary leaves quite a gap that smalltalks tend to be unable to fill by themselves (mostly due to a relative lack of resources). I can imagine a smalltalk system that could go all the way down to modern assembly, but unfortunately no such system exists today (that I'm aware of). If you can live inside the image then yes, Smalltalk is possibly even better.
A PDF isn’t for storage it’s for display. It’s the equivalent of a printout. You don’t delete your CAD drawing or spreadsheet after printing it out.