skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, RH is backed by a legacy system somewhere. I believe they custom built their OMS (order management system) which was the previous bottleneck but somewhere between RH and the other side of the order is a legacy system that they can't disrupt.
It's about removing legacy systems and pretty directly about reforming xyz industry with the new tech, so I think the principle of reform requiring knowing why something you want to get rid be of is there in the first place is directly related to the topic
They self-regulate in terms of food, assuming they have enough space. So if you don't generate enough food, their population dwindles a little bit. But I'm pretty sure a small household would be able to generate way more than what a reasonable single bin can handle. Especially if you eat fruit. Just a few banana peels and you're sorted for like a week! Also, remember they eat paper and other bedding which goes along with the food waste.
I use Firefox and have no issues, though I only use it as a dashboard for the markets. There may be functionality that breaks that I'm unaware of.
Why not just make a website?
Again... WTF
You may download a version of Java lacking notarization if you'd like to debug it.
Thoughts from the top of my head:

Break up the big ag companies's centralized power. Eg, Roundup/Roundup-ready. This includes shortening or eliminating seed patents that prevent farmers from keeping and reusing seeds for the next harvest.

Ditto for companies like John Deere who use the DMCA to extract more money from farmers - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farme... . More generally, pass right-to-repair laws.

Strong environmental protection laws, with real enforcement, to prevent companies like Smithfield Foods from undercutting smaller farmers who can't get away with massive pollution - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/boss-hog-t... .

Nationalized healthcare, including mental health care, with enough staff to handle rural areas well. This should include regular home visits to people who live too far from medical offices.

That is, I think there's lots that society can do. But money buys voice and power in our current system. So, proportional representation, single transferable vote, estate tax and global wealth tax, etc.
That is correct. kW is used the same way as HP, except that kW is better standardized.

There are many definitions of how much power a horse has, and just one definition of the watt.
For example: the 'mechanical' HP (commonly used in the US) is the equivalent of 0.7457kW, but the 'metric' HP (commonly used in Europe) is 0.7345kW [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#Definitions
I'd argue that the consequences of reddit not being available for a certain amount of time are absolutely not comparable with a financial services' firms infrastructure.

Mistakes, any mistakes, are very hard to excuse when people, or other financial entities happen to lose money.

Comparing it with a site like reddit is, frankly, a bit disengineous.
L1 Fill Buffers are somewhat special at least on Intel because a memory read can be satisfied from these before the data is written into L1.
For those who hate copy/paste - https://github.com/byu-imaal/dohjs
I think the criticism in the article resonates with many people and I doubt we see editorialized content. Independence is an issue for newspapers, but it would be dishonest to start here with this topic.
Why should we be "getting rid" of Wells Fargo? That part isn't clear to me. The magnitude of the false accounts was relatively small. There are probably worse things happening in the banking world. Is there such a focus on this because it is easy to understand relative to other complex issues in the financial world? Or is this just a piece to advertise for Elizabeth Warren? When I see phrasings like "Sen. Elizabeth Warren mopped the floor..." it comes off as unprofessional and nakedly biased reporting, rather than factual reporting.
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That doesn't seem to be the reason Robinhood is having issues.

I don't know if it was the case for the two other platforms OP mentioned but Robinhood seems to have some issues handling the request volumes.
You are not fully correct with "Oil prices going down is a good thing for the economy."
This is true only as long as oil prices are high enough for producers to keep producing.
Heard of shale-oil margins?
honey can have natural source maltose and that will make a honey crystallize like you describe. these are often sold as creamed or whipped honey, and are often stirred to promote crystallization.

A honey lacking maltose will crystallize into large hard crystals that have to be melted .
The two concepts definitely may be related, but the approach used in this paper doesn't make use of proteins in the blood. Rather it uses the DNA methylation extracted from white blood cells in the blood.

Interesting article thanks for sharing.
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Changing the landscape of the Savannah in favor of "only tiny cheetahs" risks deleting cheetahs altogether. What level of concentration is undesirable, and what level is necessary for the next investment?
from what i've heard from reliable sources there are only 2 spanner clusters, one for ads and one for everything else. i'd be surprised if there isn't an isolated one for gcp but for internal google products there are only 2. i also have it on good authority that data sharing between services through edgestore and tao is common. i have less insight into the others.
In the big-name Wall Street banks 1/3 of employees are VP or higher.

Senior Developer in the "outside world" typically means Associate in the banks, and VP is the next rung up from Associate, so VP really is just one hop from Senior Developer.

Just how they do things there.
> I really doubt there's any viable fix that won't require pilot training.

This issue has nothing to do with type ratings and pilot training.

Boeing had delegated authority from the FAA to certify portions of the 737-Max for airworthiness and certified the wiring harnesses based upon the fact that they're identical to the 737-NG's harnesses which were certified in the 90s.

Unfortunately the 737-NG was introduced in 1997, and new regulations introduced in 1998 made that design invalid for new aircraft. The 737-NG is allowed to fly because it's grandfathered in under the old design standard.

Boeing is trying to argue that the 737-Max should be grandfathered in as well since it's similar enough to the 737-NG and the NG has a proven safety record.
> The comparison with languages as Chinese is not very appropriate because everybody has a native language. In that sense, programmers have more of a 'tabula rasa' (not completely, of course) that makes for more appropriate comparisons of readability.

How do you figure? Programmers too, have a "native language" (usually the one they use the most, or that has the most powerful features they know how to implement).

> Usually, when people talk about "readable programming languages" the definition is taken as the amount of effort an average programmer needs to read a certain "standard" piece of code.

I think that's a load of shit. What would be the point of communicating such an opinion to others?

> 1. If you are using a database then it's not an argument for the language, I think.

It's built-in to the language. You don't call Python a database because it can unpickle things.

> 4. Views are cool, I reckon that. Although K is not unique in that regard.

Excel has views. I'm not aware of any other language that has them. Do you have some examples?

> I can't reconcile that with the documentation of the find function https://code.kx.com/q/ref/find/ because I don't know where comes the function argument.

See the first example under type-specific uses of find. x (the left argument as given in the example) is a simple list.

> / means 'over'. Together with '&' (which somehow is both 'and' and less than? that's very confusing)

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/accumulators/#unary-application

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/lesser/

To x&y is the lesser of x and y. You can see in binary this harmonises with logical and:

00001110b&11110111b
00000110b

> I get that ` means 'print'.

No. `foo is a symbol foo. A symbol by itself is an atom, but `a`list`of`symbols can be written just by writing them together.

https://code.kx.com/q/basics/datatypes/#symbols

> code example that, despite being pretty simple (if the input has k, return Paper, if it has i, return Rock, else return Scissors) I am not able to understand it even with the documentation at hand.

Actually the point is to look at the analysis to see how I chose k and i. If you already know you can solve the game by searching for "k" and "i" then you've missed the point: Array programming languages make this obvious.
Looks like they had a bug w/ leap years and load.
Can we just not be having the same discussion over the same article, over and over again?
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Debt implies that we know there is a shortcoming and want/need to fix it, but don't have the time or knowledge.

The healthcare situation in the US may have started out as a hacky WW2 era fix, but has been explicitly and aggressively lobbied against for years at the highests levels of government.

Framing it in a technocratic context as "technical debt, but for laws and stuff" completely misses the intense crusade against it in the US.
> is better than email

You need to define better first, for many a-synchronous tasks or less-time-critical email is superior to Slack
Haha yeah we better watch out. Another prediction could be that blood tests will become standard when signing up for various forms of insurance.
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There are certain sources where the mere source itself raises these about concerns about editorialized and politicised content over accuracy. e.g. "The Daily Mail" is one. "Spiked Online" is another.
If these losses are sustained I wonder what that will do to the SV investing scene. There's still deep pocketed funds, but I wonder if they wouldn't pivot to less risky bets until things recover.
There's also decreased demand - look at airlines, jet fuel uses 1.7 million barrels per day normally, and COVID-19 is causing fewer people to want to get on planes.

The fraction of the price drop that can be attributed to large producers flexing market power versus the decreased demand is a tricky thing to determine.
basemap, maplotlib, geos...

The easy solution was to just use Conda.
>In a better company that’s a lesson the company already learned.

FTFY. Just because you work at a company doesn't mean you were around to experience what ever event provided some sort of "learning" experience. If you don't experience it personally, what ever systems the company has in place to protect itself from said events just look like bloat/legacy cruft ripe for a young upstart to disrupt away.
Trump running massive deficits and forcing rate cuts when times are good is Trump’s shaky ground.
Are you requesting people confirm that Spiked is approved by a specific orthodoxy before reading the article and judging for themselves?
Cool, more dog-whistle far-right content on HN. I'm looking forward to my comment getting flagged and removed for pointing this out.
LeTourneau Land Train concept seems to use large tires as well. And is even more insane (in a good way) https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2009/11/19/54-wheel-drive-the-...
Comparing social media sites with a financial services firm is not really a valid comaprison.

Especially not when this happens for the third time in a row.
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Elizabeth Warren is a political figure (she recently ran for President), but she became a political figure through strong advocacy on the issue of consumer finance - she was a law professor who proposed and built the US's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before entering politics proper. So it's reasonable that people tend to treat her as an authority in this space.
Surprisingly, last week's outages didn't drive their customers away. They still have enough demand to crash their systems. Inertia is powerful.
Slight reversal.

I've read a lot of human oriented, commented code which meant nothing to me, because the overall state space / architecture was fuzzy.

Whether it's a oneliner or a framework, readability is quite secondary IMO

ps: this also connect to the mathematician views about naming vs structure.. names are mostly arbitrary, it's the structure that drives the logic and the device.
Maybe it is irrational buyers who are getting the benefit this time. A lot of unknowns right now. Past performance does not always predict future gains.
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Gonna be a lot of traders bailing out on Robinhood . . . not reliable
This is such an underrated comment!

Yeah, right, it's so nice platforms prevent people from selling, just as the big fish unload their own stocks.
I think he knows why it’s called that :)
Music, like weaving, is a predecessor in using algorithms to do work. For hundreds of years, music theorists have been codifying the algorithms, or creating new algorithms, that create good music (for particular definitions of good). Like other code instantiated in a network, this code is more tailored to specific prior states and is less available to analysis of its details than prior efforts.
It resonates with many people because it's been drilled into their minds for literal decades. Decades of right-wing academia rejects shouting "I've been silenced!" on literally every media avenue until people actually believed universities were orweillian nightmares (and not just very bland binge-drinking places).
Truly grokking Python as a first language also took me a few months of studying it and writing it, so the author is probably trying to say it's the same as any technology. The only caveat is once you learn something like Algol, you can kind of pick up similar ones fairly quick, while something like APL or K requires you to start over again.
Reason for his non-success is clear.

Nelson called for universal and open, but his Xandadu project was closed and ZigZag algorithm patented. He wanted to own and control the hypertex and sell the applications that use it.

He made some moves to open it up when it was too late.
The new criterion restoration is amazing! The cover art is great.
In addition to it always being done that way, there's also probably some benefit to having there be no such thing as a "night shift" in charge of market operations and security, given how destructive exploitation of vulnerabilities in the system can be.
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> This makes a lot of developer tools hard to use, eg. debuggers don't work anymore https://jdk.java.net/macos/

They don’t work in notarized apps, and only notarized apps are allowed through Gatekeeper. But if you’re a developer who needs advanced debugging capabilities, you can let the non-notarized app through Gatekeeper and continue on your way.

But maybe you're a hardware developer and need to debug the kernel, or replace the kernel entirely with a self-compiled version of Darwin. Macs let you do all of that too, just turn off SIP and the system is yours to command.

What Apple has done with macOS is lock down the experience by default so your average technophobe doesn’t ruin their system. If you’re a programmer or power user who wants or needs a less restricted environment, macOS can still be that platform.

I think it's a healthy balance.
All tautologies are informationally meaningless. Your statement is equivalent to the statement: "all humans are mortal".

I guess there is _some_ information there, but really not a lot.
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If they do that, then they're definitely harming any customers who have a position they need to get out of, as opposed to only potentially harming them.
Yeah, I guess this is fine if by "Transformers are Graph Neural Networks" we mean Transformers < GNN, rather than Tranformers == GNN.

"Sentences are a fully connected graph". Ok fine, but that's a graph with basically no information embedded in its structure. GNNs are supposed to be useful for graphs that have interesting structure, right?
Another example: Frank Langella as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. According to the actor himself, one of his favorite roles.
"Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world."
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Agreed. I'd like to have a discussion about the truthfulness of this event. If it has credibility then we should worry about it and discuss resolutions.

It's unfortunate that HN has already marked this as "dead".
Interesting point, the idea of transfusing blood from healthy subjects had never occurred to me.

I'm not sure I understand; what was the claim from the startups, and what does the rumor mill say is happening at a low level?
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Good move, Dec I moved 33% to Bond, 2 weeks ago I moved another 33% to Bond. I'm kicking myself for not moving the rest, but I can stand to be in the market for a very long time. Most knowledge that say rid the wave is rubbish. Get out if you know that things will be down so you can live to fight another day. If you have $100 and market goes down 50%, you have to wait for it to come back 100% to break even. Most folks don't understand that movement isn't equal in either direction. Market goes down 10%, comes back up 10% most folks think it has balanced, but it hasn't.
Those SoCs were designed exclusively for Apple products by Apple and Samsung. They were branded Samsung because then Apple failed to notice the importance of brand power of APs.
Reputation of a source matters. An anti-vax publication would rightly get a negative reception here too. This is Hacker News. People shouldn't be posting garbage like this. Go to Reddit.
You have to be suspicious when a British magazine starts complaining about Chicago University.
Sometimes the reason it's done that way, is because they were in a rush in the first iteration, and never got around to refactoring.

Loads of VC money means you can take more time up front to architect things better. Maybe have more experiences engineers and architects on the team from the start.
Yep, I think people tend to forget how bad the blackberry line up was compared to the iPhones and even androids they were competing against. Their flagship in ~2011 was the Bold, which could barely browse the internet, had a horrible camera and an extremely dated UI. Going up against the iPhone 4s which is still functional to this day.

Sometimes some companies just deserve to fail. The current duopoly formed because the competition just couldn't keep up, and that's on them
Most of those who work in drilling will be laid off in the next six months. Been there done that. But it doesn't change the fact that it will be over all beneficial to the economy.
Yes the Horvath Clock seems to be the standard.

Thanks for sharing the book i'll have to sheck it out!
Yep, I've also read the linked article and for me the summary is more like "HET motor has some interesting ideas, some difficulties, some claims are incorrect and it's probably a bit difficult to manufacture."
I use to program financial applications in K/Q for a stint. Very elegant and orthogonal language. And very well documented. One major issue I had with it and other APL-ish languages: lack of skimmability.

I can easily skim thousands of lines of Perl and Java in seconds and have a rough idea of what the code does. Reading K, however, requires careful and deliberate attention to every single character. I found it useful to maintain documentation on how to /read/ the code (almost a literate programming approach).
I have no idea whether a transition is imminent, but Apple is famous for abandoning cruft, so I wouldn’t treat that as indication of anything.
I think he was great in The Emigrants and The New Land.
Haha yes good point take everything with a grain of salt
Yeah, I believe in an orthodoxy called "fact checking" and "not being funded by agenda-pursuing, climate change denialist billionaires"
Worth reading: "The Myth of the $600 Hammer"

https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the...
Hypothesis: New tires have some break-in where they wear more than after the break-in period. To test- how much do 1 yr old tires emit?
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What an amazing actor, he had so many fine performances during his career. I loved him in Dune, and also this cameo as King Osric in Conan the Barbarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTOag1lQHc
markets knew about covid for a month before it started tanking
Ok, you're right. It's not so clear-cut, but there's definitely a balance to find.

Of course, assembly is far better than machine code. C is almost always better than assembly, because it maps better the mental ideas to code than assembly. After that, you have higher-level languages and then the change is not that clear. High-level languages tend to hide the complexity of dealing with the computer: in Python, JS, Haskell or K you don't need to worry about memory allocations, or how objects are defined, or how to pass arguments to functions. Sometimes you need to worry about that, and having a language that does that for you makes your program harder to understand (how does JS work with parallelism? When is an object an object and not a copy? Suddenly you need to know how does JS do certain things and that complexity reappears in your program).

Now, for the example, when I said that the million-line program is well done, I was thinking about some JS, Python, C++, or Java application without too much unnecessary cruft and that maps properly problem concepts to code concepts. If the 1000x line reduction (if that even exists) is done on the basis of smart one-liners, unreadable code and constructs and language-specific, it's not worth it. Say your application was a physics simulator of a certain situation. Most people would want the million-lines Python code where each function and each part is understandable and lets you focus on the problem at hand, instead of a thousand lines where you not only have a difficult problem but also a difficult code.
I'd be curious to know the root cause(s) of their outages. I presume they're using Kafka as an event bus, based on their Faust library[1]:

Faust is a stream processing library, porting the ideas
from Kafka Streams to Python.

It is used at Robinhood to build high performance distributed systems and
real-time data pipelines that process billions of events every day.

I did some evaluation of various Kafka ingestion methods a while back (including Faust), and didn't find Python to be a great fit, so I'd be curious to know if that has anything to do with it.

[1] https://faust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You could draw an analogy that monads are to text as defunctionalization is to an AST.
Dexie is great, but it's a good idea to understand the lower level before you start leveraging the wrapper for it. I jumped into Tone.js before understanding the Web Audio API, and I eventually regretted it.
It doesn't have to be the military industry, and I know first-hand it's used for other companies as well. For example, buying computers.
He was perfect as Leland Gaunt in Needful Things. And his little turn as Joubert in Three Days of the Condor makes the life of a professional assassin seem almost reasonable.

He has but a scene in Conan the Barbarian, but what a scene! "What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance! ... I salute you."
That happened to me when I bought my first house.