skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Excellent question! Personally, I'd argue that a language cannot be viewed in isolation from the problems it's trying to solve.

I'm not sure I'd agree with that, at least not entirely.

A language is a tool for thinking. It doesn't solve problems by itself, but it is a good language if it makes thinking easier. k is a great tool for thinking! With only 25 (or so) easily accessible symbols, it's amazing we got about a hundred primitive operations out of them, but what's really incredible is how tastefully Arthur selected those primitive operations such that the symbol could indicate an entire class of operations.

Some work well: - means subtraction and negation. Others are cute: < means grade (ascending) and less-than (and the grade of a grade turns out to be pretty useful!). Some are (however) unfortunate: + means flip and addition (which aren't the same thing at all), and I don't think + would be flip if flipping wasn't so useful.

And it's the tool that matters to me: I don't think I ever used array_flip in php until I learned flip in k, and now it's "obvious" (although PHP's array_flip is limited to a single use-case and requires other functions for other use cases, oh well). And I'll probably know how flip works until the day I die, and if I need it (in another language), I'll probably just make it again.

The tool has survived! And it's the tool that I go rooting in languages to find.

Lisp and Erlang have some really great tools (concepts) like this.

> 5 years ago I maintained decades old HLASM programs for IBM mainframes during a consulting gig and haven't touched anything like it since.

How funny!

I've had almost the same exposure to HLASM (although it was more than a decade ago)- consulting gig, never again. Any language designer who thinks comments can begin only on the first column needs to be taken out and shot.

However I think having to refresh myself on exactly how BALR works, or what types dyadic ! takes isn't going to waste much time. Are these real concerns you have about forgetting the tools you learn?
Eyewear is a broken market, with atypical margins sustained by a monopolistic market leader [1]. The market leader's lock-in stems from its distribution power. Sidestepping it with DTC makes sense.

None of the above apply to mattresses or suitcases. (It more-closely applies to razors.) There is limited fat to trim that would overcome incumbents' economies of scale and distribution advantages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
k9 (from Shakti) will have optional word equivalents for some symbols (or at least common compositions) by default.

Have you looked at q?

numpy has a lot of k/APLish primitives built in.

fml was also interesting but never made it past the spec stage:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/etpbbf/fml_an_optimi...
Best UI of any platform, very user-friendly, no options trading commissions (although any serious options trader wouldn't care about that). Those are the reasons people continue to use it.
Do any of these roles involve writing software?
The problems with facebook run far deeper than just politics. If you think that doing what you suggest would change perception you are sadly mistaken.
The cultural and intellectual purchases are for me, the point of existence. So while tightening up the necessary and utilitarian aspects of life, I think we should not put ourselves under austerity.

For instance, skipping three restaurant meals can be exchanged for an amazing home cooked meal, with top of the line ingredients and drinks, while being less than the cost of a single restaurant meal. Have a friend over as well, we don't have to cut off access to whole world.

Don't trade the restaurant meal and hulu for a package of top ramen and 4chan. No one benefits.
The same way the US government bans certain sites from existing in the USA - (attempted, at least) the pirate bay, child sex trafficking sites etc.

If a government of a country defines a website illegal, then that website simply will not be accessible from that country, end of story.
HN can be very disappointing. Software developers in general can be disappointing because we usually have enough information to make us dangerous and we also succumb to conspiracy theories.

WHO currently represents the scientific consensus.

I'd rather be on the side of the scientific consensus rather than entertain unfounded accusations of corruption promoted by random weirdos on YouTube.
Fair enough, that's a good point. Art is constantly given new meaning, whether initially by the artist, or those who choose to display it, and finally by those who view it (and in some cases those who then try to ban or suppress it!). I do see the argument that a human element is required. Is computer generated noise "music" until someone selects and features it?

I'm not necessarily arguing for one view over the other, I'm just not yet entirely convinced that a computer can't generate art, without devolving into debating what is and isn't art altogether.
Well, to be fair, its not meant to be a textbook or a journal article where being super explicit matters much more. It's a fun article for laypeople like us.
The cash reserve should depend on your particular situation. True cash (e-fund) should probably be 3-6 months of your expenses (that is, you should be able to live on it, not party on it, but live on it). More if you're in an expensive area with a home you can't easily get rid of, or think you'll have difficulty getting a new job or income source.

I have a very stable job, I have about 3 months reserve. I want more, but that's what I feel I need. It's more to cover things like emergency expenses for medical or other causes than job loss. Other money is invested and that's what I would touch if I ever needed to, but hope not to.

I have a friend who spent years in the video game industry, he has generally kept close to a year in reserve. He got laid off a lot over the years as game projects wound down and they didn't need the staff. That gave him the ability to continue living without any real fear or discomfort.

If you're particularly risk averse but in a stable spot, you may want to push towards that higher number too.
The DJIA is asinine [0], please try not to perpetuate it. Look at any other index instead.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/010917/opini...
I went through a few scenarios with a developer lens here: https://www.swyx.io/writing/coronavirus-recession/

TLDR:

- If you make buying decisions (e.g. running a company or a department): think about how you can turn fixed cost into variable cost. If you were kinda half remote anyway, maybe go full remote or swap the office for a coworking space subscription. Hire contractors instead of full-time. Buy SaaS services instead of build internally. Focus on conversion and retention rather than inorganic user acquisition.
- If you are a freelancer or agency: Think ahead to how your clients could be affected - you may need to aggressively grow your funnel while also planning for more downtime between work.
- If you are an employee: You can't do much about your options or 401k. But recognize that you are doubly long the economy in terms of both your stock compensation and your job (and real estate in affected states).
- If you work at a startup that has a cash burn necessitating future fundraising, be aware that this can become very very relevant to you if the funds don't materialize, through no fault of the founders. Think through second order effects - the funds may not materialize not just because VCs are less willing to part with cash, but also because the startup itself may fail to meet targets because of the broader economic environment.
Just how big a market do these companies have? It seems like the target demographic for most of them is rich college kids and marketing/mba/tech yuppies in 4 or 5 cities.
It's called the "Buffett Indicator" – the US market cap divided by the US GDP. It peaked before the dot-com bubble burst, and before the 08 recession, and has been at its all-time high recently.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett-indicator-signals-war...
Arthur wrote an OS in k with some c. Not public, but geocar can probably talk more about it if he shows up.
That's a broken window fallacy; how many people have perished because of degradation of infrastructural services? I don't think we'll ever know.
Well, first I would like to point out that in your example there are three parties with the exchange being the intermediary and trading firms transacting.

Assuming you agree with my characterization, on the surface nothing about the transaction facilitated by the intermediary makes it not consistent. You have my full support here.

Now, your argument appears to revolve around knee jerk reaction to me saying that in real free market, the rules would not artificially prop the market. My argument is that in a true free market, the rules would not restrict it arbitrarily.

Ergo, we do not have a truly free market, but just a reasonable approximation agreed for by various parties.

Would you accept that?
I don’t want to buy the index?
Actually no...I hadn't ever visited before a few days ago :)
> This is not "probably say"

I'm not sure British English translates over the internet that well, but this was hyperbole.
> Software is considered Ethical Source if it meets the following criteria:

> It can be freely used or combined with other software.

This seems to prohibit Copyleft.

> The source code is available, developed, and maintained in public view and welcoming of public contributions.

I have no real objections here.

> Its community of contributors is governed by a code of conduct that is consistently and fairly enforced.

They'd probably object to the following Code of Conduct: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." But it would work.

> It is distributed under a license that prohibits the software from being used by any individual or organization which directly or indirectly facilitates, encourages, manipulates, coerces, or forces people to engage in behaviors that are in opposition to a specified framework of social good, provided that the framework does not conflict with the rights enumerated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

That prohibits pretty much all existing OSI licenses. But again you could just have the Thelema framework from above.

> Creators have the right to solicit reasonable compensation from any commercial entity that benefits from the software.

That's meaningless. You can send all the strongly worded letters you wish.

> Users of the software must, upon request, be provided with any and all data generated and stored from their usage of the software in either a human-readable or widely interoperable open format.

I don't object to this in principle, but there isn't always a "widely interoperable open format" for every data type. Nor is there any universal "human readable" format. You could technically comply by simply converting the output to hex, since it's "human readable". Maybe do it in Japanese, transliterated in EBCDIC for the hell of it.

It's not even well phrased enough to be a wishlist!
One of my friends bought counterfeit frames from China and then got the special lenses he needed made to fit the frame. Regardless of the cost of lenses, there's no way in hell I'm paying extra for a frame that is otherwise identical to 100 others, but it has a tiny little logo on it so now it's 1000% of the cost.
Pensions are fantastically unsustainable

How so? Annuities are the best-understood financial instrument of all. Of course financial projections fail if the participant pool is too small (vide Philadelphia with the rotten industries at the core and office parks at the periphery), but that is a political decision and could be fixed.
Isn't "economic warfare" a bit of an oxymoron? If it's warfare it involves violence, if it's economic then it involves free trade in the aggregate.
>They've only relatively recently started to do something resembling policing of these things.

I'm unconvinced that this is even a good thing. It's really hard to police that without seeming biased. Take this new story about labeling a clip of Biden as "edited". Biden said those words, but the clip was cut short. This is essentially a sound bite without context. It makes Twitter look like they're defending Biden, but I doubt that this was Twitter's intent. I think that trying to police these things now will simply dig themselves deeper into a hole.
I don't think the US would benefit much from understanding iron dome, as you can likely beat the 14% success rate of Qassam with ramjets, multiple angles of attack, or more than 20 missiles... Not much of a stretch for the US.
HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
> The actual prices of stocks are constantly changing 24/7/365

They are not. For any meaningful interpretation of "actual", the only price is the market price during trade hours. Speculative overnight agreements between private parties at agreed-upon values are contract agreements. The stock price doesn't change between market close and open.
2000 puts on SPY @210, 5/10.

Everything in cash/treasuries before the market crumbled.

This was eminently predictable from a payoff perspective. The market lagged the info coming out of China for a long time.
They’re substantially worse. ACA plans have worse networks, higher deductibles, and higher max out of pockets.

Imagine if they didn’t? No employer under 50 employees would bother getting group coverage as they could get better coverage for less via the QSEHRA route.
But Italy did not start earlier; France and Germany did. Here's an animated map:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...

So I ask again, if this is such a super-pandemic, why are Germany and France fine despite having looser quarantine measures and earlier outbreaks than Italy? And why do you expect them to get dramatically worse over the next week?
An Opinionated Coding Styleguide for Angular
I'm touched that you think it's cool. It's my passion project I built to try and make an impact on the divisiveness and polarization in society but it hasn't been well-received.

Thanks to your comment, I'm wondering about a new approach. Before, I was pitching politicians that they should get their own number to have a forum for community discussions. But maybe I should try to start my own community about politics and incline people to call in to share their perspectives. You think that could lead to somewhere?

Idk, but if you have any thoughts or ideas I'd love to hear em. The project is in its death throes right now.
The solution isn't more scanning, less encryption, or banning Tor or other apps. The solution is stronger penalties for the sexual abuse of children.

Production should be a life sentence, no parole. Sale should be a minimum of 20 years. I'm not sure about mere possession since it is possible to be pushed this material by a malicious actor or to have it accidentally as a result of being in some group where someone shares it, but clearly intentional distribution should carry a much stiffer sentence. It's possible to distinguish the two by number of images possessed, duration of possession, and whether there are extenuating circumstances like the presence of malware or the operation of a shared device (e.g. a kiosk or open WiFi network).

It's clear that police can and do regularly find the perpetrators of this stuff, so it would really help to greatly increase penalties especially for primary producers of it. Current sentences are just too lenient for what this is: systematic rape and torture and profiteering from rape and torture. A typical large scale offender spends less time in prison than many people do for mere possession of drugs, and drugs are not even morally in the same universe as rape porn.

BTW I think the sentences should be just as stiff for adult rape porn, but there's just a lot less of that around as it's much tougher to get away with.
Binary size is a drop in the ocean most of the size of game installs is in assets.
To be fair, the Russians also occupied Afghanistan with very similar results. I think this is a tenant of colliding ideologies of the occupied people, ideologies of the occupiers, and asymmetrical warfare (see a fantastic book titled "Small Wars").
This.

It was really just insurance. I fully expected the $1k I bought to expire worthless, and the first $230 did, but these ones I was able to exit for a nice profit.

I highly suspect the expected value of options trading is negative, but it's useful as a hedge. Really wish I could spend like 10% of my salary on put options for my employer in case I get laid off, but it's forbidden apparently.
There's something more going on here I think.
It's not "better than nothing" if purchasing and wearing these masks is affecting people who actually need them. No official organization is advocating for their use. It is pure fear-mongering to purchase and wear them as a healthy person. Here's what the CDC says:

> CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.

> Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. The use of facemasks is also crucial for health workers and people who are taking care of someone in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-t...
When I recently needed to replace my specs, my options were (as you say) an independent optometrist (selling overpriced Luxottica stuff), a chain optometrist (selling the same overpriced stuff), online-only retailers like Zenni or 39dollar, or WP.

I know there are others like CostCo but I'm not a member and didn't feel like bothering with all that.

I've purchased from Zenni and 39dollar in the past. They're cheap and decent for the most part, but I couldn't just try on frames or easily get my script updated. WP has a physical store nearby where I could do just that and still buy cheap frames/lenses.

I have crappy eyesight and need to buy high index lenses, so I'm already out a couple hundred bucks regardless. No need to also spend that on molded acetate frames.
*being hosted in the USA

The US, despite leading the charge vis-a-vis the MPAA, has speech laws that make website blocking and censorship extremely difficult.
Yes I mentioned Vanguard, and in fact have a good amount invested in their retirement funds. OP is saying to pivot based on recent news. Those retirement funds adjust on a scale of 40-50 years whereas OP is looking at a month of activity, possibly even just today's 7% drop.
I don't agree, my guess is he probably wants to be Twitter CEO more than anything else, including even more than being the Square CEO. That's a very influential and potentially history-impacting position.
1b vs no money but big network?

1b wins. You have no capital.

I think it gets interesting around:
1 billion vs 500 million. Still put m money on a 1 billion and buying access to a network for less than 100 million.
So absurd, Finix's site even mimics Stripe's.
It is difficult to find a group of companies less trusted to do the right thing than the major browsers (Apple, Google, Microsoft). However, the CAs qualifies, ironically perhaps, as less trusted.
At one point I had 3 or 4 mandatory meetings a week, totaling 9 or 10 hours a week.

I think it was a side effect of the scrum coaches having little work to do, so we would have planning meetings with the whole team, even if nothing in your domain was on the schedule for the meeting. We also re-defined primative agile concepts every week, as in we would have to debate what a bug, task, or chore meant, every week.

When I raised the concept of meetings only involving those who it concerned, or even better, letting a workflow develop organically, I was accused of being lazy and not committed. In a lot of manager heavy orgs, the culture is that meetings are what productivity is measured by, and more visible.
I wouldn't say it's terrible. There's a distinction between Dash itself (very general/customizable framework) and Plotly charts (agreed, some chart types are poorly documented).

Dash >= 1.0 has been pretty stable and well-documented without many breaking changes imo.
I am surprised to see this could really happen - Wondering what would happen to the partners and associated led this transaction. Did anyone find out something about this? I couldn't at least through the article.
https://archive.md/sgRt6
The title in my RSS reader says “powered milk”. I guess the title was fixed later.
haha, so they kept only the game play. It makes a lot more sense now.
More than double the horsepower mainly due to turbo charging.

That level of power is for commercial use, an 11L diesel can easily put out more than 1000hp based on the amount of boost but the longevity of the engine suffers and the power is not need for the application.

Here is a Volvo 13L (The Mack MP7 is basically a Volvo D11) putting out 2500hp: https://www.motor1.com/news/94292/2400-hp-volvo-truck-seeks-...
It's the same if you try to argue politics in a bar. It doesn't mean bars don't provide value in other ways.

And although it certainly is anathema to constructive political discussion and debate, I suspect the vast majority of the people tweeting/retweeting/arguing about politics all the time wouldn't sound much smarter or less sucked into the shitstorm if they were using something long-form.
In matters of life and death, being careful is important. Taleb and others have a lot to say about tail risk, and coronavirus looks like a large tail risk to me. If I were a resident or planned an urgent visit in a Seattle nursing home I'd spend a good bit of money on PPE.

The lottery ticket analogy does not work well. I'm reminded instead of the scenes in the Chernobyl mini-series where individuals are sent into unknown dangers- dangers that are impossible to see, difficult to understand, and require conscious thought and effort to avoid. Resources are scarce and authority figures do not have sufficient information to keep everyone as safe as they should. Whether you survive or not comes down to both luck (whether your place and duties precluded you from any other option) and ignorance (whether you picked up a chunk of radioactive graphite with your bare hand). Using PPE is an effort to counteract your ignorance.
> They didn't say they never invested. They said they don't invest their e-fund. That's a very different thing and it's dishonest to try and conflate the two ideas.

I never said otherwise and you should retract your accusation of dishonesty.
Scientists measured cosmic rays in a 1930's, deco designed, self-sufficient, artic snow cruiser with an airplane on top! How cool is that!
I flagged this because this because the title sounds much scarier than the actual content; "I couldn't buy this thing on amazon"

So...?
Content and product marketing in the early stage of SendBird (YC W16)
> They break backwards compatibility in the Closure Library so much that projects that adopted Closure (like Clojurescript), are stuck with a library from 2017. The project is maintained only to serve Google.

Is that the case? The current version of ClojureScript depends on org.clojure.google-closure-library 0.0-20191016 – I know it's a fork, but I'm not sure to what extent it is being synced with upstream.
Why would you need them?
Hopefully the sprawl will work in our favor.
Norovirus is the bane of my existence as a parent of 3 small children. One kid throwing up? Great. Expect everyone in the family to have it within three or four days.
Heard it on NPR, I think.
It's a government body. So the Plaintiff in this case is presumably the Australian Federal Government, in a case in our Federal Court.

https://www.oaic.gov.au/
Australia would be better off without it. No far right indoctrination. No Russian Meddling projects etc.