skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I did not know that. This is such a no brainer paid feature for a premium Twitter plan: storage & search.

I suspect they probably keep all likes, but do not expose them.

Another premium service that searches your Twitter like is https://www.favourites.io/, but it's too costly for me. I might pay $10 for a yearly subscription, but not 29 GBP/year, which is ~10% of my monthly rent.
A propped up fake economy that continues to grow income inequality?

Fairness matters in an economy and government. If less people have faith in its institutions it will begin to break down.

There needs to be a trade off.
It’s called “surveillance capitalism" to differentiate it from other forms of capitalism. From this[1] interview with Zuboff:

> So even early on in the theorizing of capitalism it was understood that capitalism takes on different market forms and different eras in the context of different technologies. We’ve had mercantile capitalism, and we’ve had factory capitalism, and mass-production capitalism, and managerial capitalism, financial capitalism. And typically what happens in these new concepts is that modifier, like “mass production,” or in my case “surveillance” capitalism, what that modifier is doing is pinpointing the pivot of value creation in this new market form.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-an...
> I think the reason why surveillance capitalism is so successful is because people actually like the automation and transparency.

(I still have to read her book.)

They pay with their privacy, but the payment is not at all transparent. In a way, it already happened: if you upgraded to Windows 10 for free back in the days (before GDPR), you paid with your privacy. If you use Android instead of iOS, you have a cheaper device, but you pay with your privacy. The Apple tax is high in a lot of countries. Too high for the masses. In essence, an iOS device is a status symbol that you paid with money instead of your privacy.
Oh yes, I'm trying to combine this with spaced repetition to keep what I've learned.
Lots of interesting software around Conway's Game of Life. Here is Hashlife [1], where the states of living organisms are hashed; sometimes enabling prediction of all future states.

It helps trading-off computation with space, sort of like Halide [2] does.

I've been playing a bit of Factorio with the social distancing recently. The bottleneck of mega-bases is often compute power. I wish the developers could implement something akin to Hashlife. The bases are made of the same repeated patterns, all possible states of which could be memoized. This could be the next step in automating to a higher scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife

[2] https://halide-lang.org/
Record yourself making public speech and listen. There some very easy to correct mistakes, habits and mannerisms that remove power from speech. For example:

- Run-on sentences or not pausing enough between important sentences. If you have tendency to hurry up, it's less convincing and memorable. If you stop after a sentence, it sounds like you said something important and emphasizes it.

- vocal fry and nasal voice for women. For women in certain age groups there is culturally adapted creaky voice or alternatively nasal voice. It's possible to get rid of it with very small amount of practice. It's almost never normal voice, just adopted mannerism.

-"Uptalk" is the habit of ending all sentences with rising sound. Everything sounds like a question.

- I don't know the name for this, but some male speakers have tendency to start sentences in discussion with high pitch fast speech that slows down towards end. Even some very high profile journalists and podcast hosts have it to some extent. Ezra Klein for example.
The distinction is whether the resource is owned by another tenant or not. Often a user can view a resource but aren't allowed to edit it, at which point 403 is correct. However if it's something owned by another tenant entirely, and is not public, then a 404 is correct.
My point was that outside of perhaps NY, hospitals are not overburdened and still able to treat auto accidents.

I am not claiming conspiracy or dysfunction.

I don't think it is any more "antisocial" to do a cannonball run today than it was this time last year.
I'm not sure you can definitively state .1% of the population has been infected with any certainty.
"falsifying data" because someone disagrees with which data was excluded from a table.
Not exactly - a shortest path algorithm would lead to the monsters "anticipating" the player coming around the obstacle and cutting them off.

The algorithm is summarized in the article as:
"When an enemy enters the Chase state it tries to raycast to the player and if nothing is in the way - chase em! If something is in the way, it goes through the scent trail in order and tries to raycast to each scent until it can see one, then - chase it!"

With complex geometry, this will frequently lead to a non-optimal route, and is probably more fun to play against.
A very rough JavaScript implementation I did this morning after looking at the Wikipedia page

https://gist.github.com/RaedsLab/e4d5eed8f1d7e0b90f407bdef71...
So, get Arch Linux running via UEFI (no grub) with gnome on boot? Always a fun challenge!
Every Name a Person – end of life care
There's a balance between everything being JIT to everyone living in a self-sufficient bunker their whole life. More agility is better for developing the economy and technology and efficiency and all sorts of good things while more preparedness is better for surviving freak events. I think we need some of both. The JITters might not survive a disaster and the survivors might not produce much value, but both keep civilization going.

You see the conflict between these two directions with agricultural protectionism. Countries often pay to keep their agriculture industries local however inefficient they are. That's bad for the economy but good for resilience against disaster.
Insider trader data has been mined to death, fyi. If there was ever any alpha in it, it's long gone.
Is any company employing people to work on touchpad drivers, though?
> I'm not entirely sure that it's drastically priced out of line with history. The price per square foot of the average American home, when adjusted for inflation, is almost exactly the same as in 1978 -- right around $130. What's changed is houses have gotten bigger (1600 sqft vs 2400). [1]

Unfortunately, a buyer can't get a 33% discount by only buying 66% of the house.
Nothing about raising capital prevents a functioning economy.

The point is that people have been conditioned to believe we must use public money to save private interests.

If you want long term functioning markets, shareholders have to hold the bag. Otherwise the Bernie Sanders crowd will get bigger and bigger...and rightfully so. And eventually the system will topple via revolution (political or otherwise).
Basically, trades that exceed a large amount, say $10 million worth of Delta stock bought or sold.
That terrifying thing to me was that a critical module like that obviously had no unit tests.
Case study: selling no-content journals on Shopify
In addition to the suggestions in the post, I would strongly recommend https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

It’s a very clear introduction to creating a language and building parser, interpreter, compiler, and VM for it. The book uses Java and C, but you can use pretty much any language you want (ex: I used Swift).
Well, the semantics of what constitutes light and what not are a bit murky. CO2 lasers are still considered LIGHT amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. CO2 lasers operate at ~10000nm.

In the optics community we usually consider everything we can manipulate with refractive optics as "light" – and yes, I am fully aware that this goes down well into what's considered microwave radio.

My personal cutoff for where optics begins is, where I no longer can use an antenna that is part of a resonant _circuit_ to emit / receive the radiation, and have to resort to quantum mechanical state transitions.
I think most companies have given up on good AI (except maybe id) - all the money's in PvP. Single player campaigns are an afterthought.
I have two books here, Snow Crash and 1984. Pick your poison.

I'd rather have neither, but I trust my government more than corporations. Corporations will continuously try to break the law, and work around it. The government will perhaps do this as well, and a danger is when they're being pwned by the chains of another government. However, that could also be done by corporations. Crypto AG, was a corporation on a leash by USA/Germany secret services.
I also have a custom domain on fastmail that seems to end up in the spam folder of people using outlook in an enterprise setting. Kind of unsettling. I have never had it happen in any other case that I know of. But I’m pretty sure I have gotten spam flagged even when they have sent an email to me first. And I also think I have been OK’d at some point by them flagging me as not spam.. I talked to fastmail support but all they could do was verify that my domain settings were indeed correct
how do they get the data so soon (15 mins)?
> For instance, if everyone stores several years worth of food and water at home

1. That wouldn't allow us to pause all economic activity. Not even close. Not even remotely close. Notice that 0% of the economic damage caused by coronavirus could have been prevented by stockpiling food and water.

2. Lots of economic activity is not possible to pause. Think about e.g., large construction projects or any manufacturing process. There's an enormous amount of economic activity that just can't easily be paused, at varying timescales. At the short timescale, for example, you can't simply stop pouring a foundation and come back to it later. On a longer timescale, you simply can't restart an oil well at $0 cost. These facts aren't due to bad planning. They're due to the fundamental laws of physics. And for any given type of disaster scenario, even the most resilient and localized supply chains might be disrupted. In fact, it's not really clear that localized or even redundant supply chains/processes would make you more resilient in any given scenario. There are likely fundamental tradeoffs and, even if not, individuals and small firms simply can't plan for every possible apocalypse.

3. That level of food/water stockpiling would be enormously expensive. Stockpiling would become a nontrivial drag on GDP, not only through unproductive resource allocation but also due to new frictions (e.g., moving 2 states over now becomes a five figure investment).

4. Like it or not, most folks simply don't have the means to stockpile at that scale. A waitress working 80 hours a week will never be able to afford the space and continuous investment necessary to maintain a multi-year food and water stockpile. Heck, even the largest firms with the best margins have to take on some existential risk in order to operate. At some point, the choice is between extreme resilience and having a given sector of the economy.

5. I can't find the problem you're trying to solve with multi-year food/water stockpiling. I'm having trouble figuring out what scenario would only last a few years, and would result in substantial destruction/disruption of the agricultural sector, but would not result in either a) also damage stockpiled food/water or b) trigger extinctions/mass-deaths that aren't possible to prevent through stockpiling. Literally no massive natural disaster or attack I can think of fits that bill. Not blight. Not super volcanoes. Not pandemics. Not nuclear war. Not bioterror. In none of those scenarios would stockpiling likely be particularly helpful at a multi-year timescale. Maybe in some of those scenarios stockpiling buys you a full growing season, if all of the other stars perfectly align.
I wonder. If I'm sat in my car with the air conditioning on, the car parked in front of me also has their air conditioning on. If I have my air intake set to external...
I'd sum up my feelings on intro Java as requiring too many "except when..."s.

I understand why (now), but at the time, it just added unnecessary cognitive load on top of already learning hardware models.

C and Pascal require fewer exceptions, despite a larger base knowledge requirement.
Better get cracking on some disaster recovery planning then!
Is a rubber stamped warrant which allows mass surveillance really a warrant at all? How many requests has the fisa court denied? Which law allows for warrantless collection of all this data?
So are algorithms and software, except the rules might be even older
why does there need to be a winning situation? I think the entire point when taking the position of privacy is that you should not be using this software because the down stream effect is more damaging than the potential gains from the software.

All that being said if we’ve learned anything from software messages is that no one will ever read them. We trained ourselves 25 years ago blindly dismissing nonsense error messages on windows.
This is not an issue for GDPR-compliant regions.
I can second the 'make a calculator' as a place to get started with this, that's a solid project to get the basics of flexing -> parsing -> evaluation. Helped me learn a ton when I first wanted to approach this problem.

On a side note, I pretty annoyed by the prevelance of 'So you want to be a <insert something here>' titled articles. It's so common around now and just doesn't seem to express good intent about what is actually going to be in an article at this point.
Another way of looking at it: consumer goods (as measured by CPI) have radically dropped in price relative to non-CPI goods over the past few years (perhaps driven by automation and optimization of global supply chains) while, at the same time, the general price level has risen as we've exploded the money supply.
You could use something like presence.so for a private group voice chat.
With a blanket rule like that you shouldn't do anything ever. What risk do you think isn't addressed properly here?
Very cool @smoo. How did you build it? And does everyone meet in London or are they distributed to the centre of their nearest city?
I mean, that logic is applied to individuals that for example get sick or simple exist in bad economy. They dont get bailout while consequences on them are disastrous. I think that anger over companies being bailed out with no conditions placed on those money is pretty much about that.

Individual get homeless, but the company wont even have to go through bankruptcy and restructuralization. It gets free money instead.
The fact that the most common inflation numbers (AFAIK) don't include real estate makes them worthless.
A Missionary on Trial: Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children-but many died
I have been using it for few years now and so far have been reasonably happy. Works fine with Thunderbird, on my phone however i have recently noticed a substantial delay in getting new emails, sometimes even more than couple of hours...
Based on past experience post-dot-com-bust-bailout and post-2008-bailout:

Prepare for the $1.5M starter home financed by an 0.08% interest 90 year no money down mortgage, $800k student loans at 0% interest, and business lines of credit at 2% to any business that has shown any revenue at all in the last month and that can produce one mammal capable of fogging glass. Any mammal with provable respiration will be able to get a car loan and a credit card.

Go long on real estate, stocks, bonds, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, all the shitcoins that don't even work, gold, oil, cow farts, and pogo stick futures.

Expect more monstrously overfunded "unicorn" startups that lose massive amounts of money and produce very little. These are basically Ponzi schemes targeting the very rich and venture funds.

Wages however will continue to stagnate. Everything always goes up but wages.

As a result of wage stagnation in 2024 or 2028 another even more asinine Populist than Trump will be elected; whether they are "right-wing" or "left-wing" will depend on which side is able to produce a louder demagogue and better memes. Meanwhile the rich will build orbital bases and prepare to leave the planet.
Not really - a shortest path algorithm outputs a single path between a start and an end point.

This gives you a value (distance to player) for every square on the board; you can do a lot of things with that data, like choose between multiple "best steps" based on some other preference, or choose "best steps" for a large number of monsters efficiently.
In a corrupt (nation) state, you could for example buy some information about a person, via the government. Corruptcy is not a black-white definition. There are a lot of shades, wheels in a machine, etc. So a state is not merely corrupt, yes or no.
Check out Rust and Haskell, both have the ability to derive the interfaces/traits/typeclasses for equality and comparison automatically.
My issue with the term is that governments are, and will ever be more invasive with our private data than private companies. This makes sense: the government will never be held accountable for data hoarding, and in fact kinda needs to hoard data to prosecute tax fraud and ensure law enforcement, but private businesses want to make sure people still use them, even if their users are privacy conscious.

Moreover, a bunch of fully for-profit companies are living off of exclusively selling privacy. Their only reason to exist is protecting their customer's information. Think ProtonMail, Tutanota, TunnelBear, privacy.com, the Mozilla Foundation (to a certain extent), Qwant, DuckDuckGo, and so on and so forth.

I very much preferred the previous term: "Government Surveillance". As some other comments on this page also pointed out, this loss of privacy comes with the benefit of productivity and reduced friction, while government surveillance rarely ever has a positive side to it (except catching criminals, and even so at the expense of non-criminals' privacy).
Annoyingly fast, had to close it.
That’s so cool. You could add background chatter too if you haven’t already, you’d just have to amplify the local conversation the user wants to tune into

Edit: by background chatter I mean the noise from all the other conversations happening in the moment nearby
I read Launch by Jeff Walker (https://amzn.to/2xoLNav). I would say it's a great book for starters like me, which didn't even have a mailing list yet.
You would be surprised, but electrical and control systems engineering is still struggling into the digital age. Many very large projects are still effectively designed the same way they were when it was ink on velum, just now it is inkjet dots on a page.

Data based engineering is the way of the future, and packages exit that allow substantially less manpower and greater accuracy (and I mean real packages, not Intools), but there is so much vested interest in the EPCM type model and the traditional way of doing things.

Change is coming slowly, but not because of lack of software tools and methodologies, just lack of boldness and vision by those that don't want to be accountable for a stuff-up on a multi-billion dollar job.

I work for consultants that specialise in trying to do as much data based type engineering as possible, but still for about half the clients we end up translating the end results from a database into .dwg files, at significant extra cost.

One client is forward thinking, we don't deliver drawings, or any paper, they get a database as the final deliverable. One specialist engineer produces the entire electrical design for a major mining hub on their own, replacing up to 20 traditional designers and drafts people.

Just a brief story to highlight how change isn't always about the means, sometimes it is as much about the will.
Kids Activities in a Lockdown?
I did stage 0 installs a few times. While it took a long time, there was fairly little work on my side. Most of the grunt stuff had been automated.[0] I think the only thing the user had to do was config.

[0] Which is the point of Gentoo, after all. It's what made it a lot better than LFS/BFS. You get everything from source with little effort. 17 years later, I'm still using Gentoo. Nothing like it.
If only we could trace insider trades using some sort of big data system. Hmm.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-insidertrading-saf...

KID TRADERS

Using data on a half a million accounts from Finland from
1995 to 2010, the study came to a surprising conclusion:
accounts set up to benefit kids 10 years and under did
really well at stock picking, and did especially well just
before mergers, earnings releases and events that generate
big stock moves.

The analysis was possible since Finland makes available
unusually detailed information about the identities of
investors.

“When guardians trade through under-aged accounts, there
is a relatively high probability that they are trading on
private information,” the authors, Henk Berkman, at
University of Auckland, Paul Koch at the University of
Kansas and Joakim Westerholm at the University of Sydney,
conclude in a paper slated to be published in the Journal
of Finance.

The gap between the junior set and typical accounts held
by adults was striking: in the day following trades made
by kids, their accounts outperformed the adult accounts by
9 basis points.

Ahead of major earnings announcements, the kids chose
correctly whether to buy or sell 57 percent of the time
and beat their elders by 1.1 percent in the following day.

It gets even better - at least for junior. On trades made
the day ahead of a merger announcement, juvenile
portfolios outperformed by 12 percent the following day,
and made the right decision to buy or sell an uncanny 72
percent of the time.

The rest of the market, by the way, chose correctly
whether to buy or sell only 50 percent of the time.

This is probably not all due to inside knowledge,
according to the study. The guardians tended to be richer
and may simply have been more successful at investing, the
authors argue, due perhaps to higher intelligence or an
advantage in obtaining legal, but valuable information.

Even so, the fact that the juvenile accounts outperformed
ahead of mergers while the guardians’ accounts did not
implies that the adults were smart enough to know better
than to trade on inside knowledge in an easily traceable
way.
The problem is that during good times, the narrative switches to not regulating "private" enterprise. The financial schemers extract wealth under the guise of "earning" it, while it's all justified by saying that the market will regulate itself.

Yes, not doing a bailout would be imprudent. But this is apparently the only time we get any say. When we don't get to reform irresponsible business/fiscal practices in good times, but they have us over the barrel in bad times, the predictable outcome is spite.
Banks and other major companies use Smalltalk as a "secret weapon". I put it on my résumé as a skill (mainly because I was arsing about with Squeak in the early 2000s), and recruiters kept calling me about it. Even though it's not publicly acknowledged that these companies are using it.
Or that the rise in stock prices unsupported by fundamentals isn't considered inflation either.
This is a pretty cool website. Reminds of Tiktok with the seemless continuously loading videos, in this case being news articles or other interesting videos. I really like the tv show/movie trailers subsection. Few things to point out: (1) one thing I would do for the news articles is slow down the timer. Perhaps 20-30 seconds. (2) Also image backgrounds and video quality can look off sometimes. (3) The back and forth arrows blend into white or noisy background images -- can the arrow colors change dynamically.
Increase Your Linux Literacy
>I don’t think you’ve thought this one through.

Firms are priced based in the long term future profits. By injecting capital immediately, the firms liquidity problems are resolved.

It sounds like you've never heard of convertible preferred shares. Or maybe you have and haven't thought this one though?