skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'backend' here is ... HTML. For read-only a blog, that's likely more than enough. Otherwise, for dynamic content like contact forms and such, I don't know if there's a meaningful benefit to building out a whole site in PHP/Python/Rails or something (and paying commensurately more in hosting) than to use Formspree or something similar.

Yes, it calls an API. And thankfully with Formspree, it's pretty easy to see the price breakeven points vs. hosting, but there are benefits to be had.
You may need to update your time management and optimize it for remote productivity as the reality is that we do better after waking up than during the middle of a day filled with meetings and social interaction/interruption. It may mean shifting your schedule earlier to make it work but tbh: it's a '24h' world.
Csgo and tf2 source code leaked
Does this officially place the Magic Leap's consumer device on the list of the biggest vaporware products in the history of the tech industry?

I don't know whether there was some tech hurdle they could never get over or if they were just straight up selling a fantasy from the beginning, but this result has seemed to be the likely destination for years.
I have a side-project to solve Kakuro puzzles with SQL logic, not because it's useful, but because it seemed possible and distinctively challenging.

I'll show off the POC if I ever get around to smoothing the rough edges.
Oppenheimer’s folly: Black holes, fundamental laws, and pure/applied science
I think the name Deutsche Bank makes it even more confusing. As opposed to Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Deutsche Bahn (DB/Schenker/Arriva) and Deutsche Post (DHL), Deutsche Bank never was state-owned. It was just named that way, because it was founded as a project (and arguably still is) so Germany would play a role on the world financial stage.
I can't connect to local network games hosted by OSX in linux.
Thanks for this. Very fun and motivating to read.
Not OP, if you know any great English translated Linear Algebra title or statistics.
What Holds Real Decentralization Back
Because banks borrow short, lend long. This is an exogenous fee generating bonanza for banks. It’s not that much different from someone selling you masks at a steep price. issuing these loans do not cost banks anywhere even close to what they charged.
Something I really like... just tested the webpage -> pdf functionality on vivaldi and it does much better than firefox.

It's one of the things I do frequently - capture a webpage (e.g. purchase confirmation, spot balance/snapshot of banking pages) and about 10% of the time Firefox does a poor job at converting the page to pdf.

Here's a good example page: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/15319

Resulting pdf from Firefox is 1/3 the size because it does not capture the entire form.
Why is a 2% fee acceptable on money being given to the public during a crisis? Why can't the government just give the money directly to businesses without some middleman extracting a 2% fee?

Boggles my mind that anyone jumps to defend the banks in this scenario for what effectively amounts to a racket.
You were speaking about the general possibility of running narrow banking. Whether it is a new bank or existing bank doesn't matter to that point, so you can't dismiss the possibility of an existing bank doing it and thereby claim it's impossible because a new bank couldn't get a license on that premise.

"Narrow banking is impossible."

'What if you did it this way?'

"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the impossible ways."
Another option might be to allow a "rootless" mode in which direct access to the root account itself is impossible (but where there are still ways for non-root users to gain a subset of root capabilities).
Giza?
Everyone was "too far" and no one wanted to be close, it was more of a death sentence than anything else, not a good price for not that much better life. You're talking at most about hundreds of people - out of hundreds of millions (in the Eastern Bloc as a whole).
You have to depreciate that purchase. How long do these robots last?

And, as a sibling comment points out, you have to pay for maintenance and operating costs. The capital price of robots is kind of irrelevant, what's the annualised TCO?
Not to sound too cynic, but unless you have a powerful lobby on your side you won't get much done in government (US, CAN).

Moving higher up in the government to have any position of power means that you necessarily 'played' the game and most likely are restrained by the powerful interests who help you along the way.

Aside from any type of revolution or catastrophe (none I which I personally advocate), I can't see how you can make deep and lasting changes in the current system of entrenched interests.

This is my opinion from observation. I am not an expert.

Quite willing to read opposing views.
I thought that's the norm for NPR?
It seems apparent that the government could’ve distributed these loans to qualifying businesses if they wanted to. The government was able to distribute individual checks to people. It does not seem far fetched to extend this to business accounts.

Maybe someone else can describe technical blockers as to why the government couldn’t have done this. It seems mostly political.
This is such a weird company. They created big buzz over years and it seems they are just fading away quietly with nothing to show for the money they took in. Reminds me a little of Theranos (although not as criminal). Why do these investors keep pumping so much money into a company that has nothing to show? I thought they do due diligence.
I grew up with boomer parents (one went to DJ school) who blasted only Beatles and yacht rock, explaining anything made after their youth was not even music. It spawned in me a lifelong curiosity and dedication to new music. I do on rare occasion reflect back, but never to The Who, who was my unfortunate childhood alarm clock and constant soundtrack as I played/gardened outside. (The DJ wired the yard for Who sound).
The banking industry is highly affected by the economic conditions that currently obtain. Default rates for all kinds of loans are skyrocketing, and this may just be the beginning of an extended period of turmoil that will rock the balance sheets of banks around the world.

I don’t think they deserve undue sympathy, but they are far from unaffected.
There has been no general business failure during this crisis. The government is mandating businesses be closed and businesses and employees are suffering because of it.

If you are only talking about 2008 then yes - that bailout was fucking dumb
Not to mention that the first statement is simply false...

The final result is a bitstream that determines which LUTs (lookup tables) and BRAM (memory/block RAM) to use on the chip, and how they should be connected/routed.

The FPGA fabric itself is made of transistors, but your C/C++ (HLS) or HDL code is not directly controlling these transistors. This is what makes FPGAs so flexible relative to ASICs.
In regards to 'select' before 'from', there could be a similar argument to be made for declaring imports at the top of a file. When you write a program, you may not know what libraries you need. Variable declaration at the beginning of a function is also a common pattern.

The SQL language stood the test of time where as COBOL did not. I think it says something about how well it was designed.

I strongly suspect that developers have such a hard time with it is because of ORM. ORM trains you to think of the database as objects. Another poster mentioned that treating databases like sets made SQL click. I think that is a good way of thinking about SQL.

To be fair, SQL does have some archaic things in there that make it annoying to work with. However, once it clicks, it's fits naturally with how a relational db works.
I’m the latter - a 12 core Ryzen 3900X means even Visual Studio itself feels snappy!

Seriously though, VSCode isn’t bad. I use it on my Surface Pro (dual core i5) without any issues. It’s a nice app.
> Paketo Buildpacks build images that run on Kubernetes and any other Cloud Native platform.
Fundamentally, your retort to the parent’s (poorly expressed and now dead) reply is sound, though I believe they might have been circling the concept of negative vs. positive rights. It’s an interesting topic and one worthy of debate, though sadly that debate has become fraught with emotion and passion, to the point that it’s on a level with abortion - it just can’t be discussed in most circles.
This is trying to avoid the reality that the data is in a database. A database is not just a flat storage area that can be poked by code from outside. It has a lot of relationships and integrity constraints that need to be maintained by the DB itself, and all this is expressed in SQL/stored procs. Trying to avoid this is basically removing the power of a DB and converting it into just an expensive and cumbersome storage area.
I don't see your point. That alternative title is exactly as accurate, so it seems like a good idea to pick the version that sounds a bit better and is easier to understand.
Computational Approaches to Modeling Artificial Emotion – An Overview (2016)
> If they really want to do their best to "guarantee" permanence, they should guarantee the debt relationship, so if the forever condition doesn't hold after a couple of years, they will be sought out and collected all the money they took.

What's to say that there would still be an organisation left to pay up the debt?

They'll probably need to hold some funds in escrow for it.
Glad to hear it! Are you building a side dish or main dish?
tl;dr: If money is tight, just mute yourself. You don't need any of this unless you want to play.

Looks like a shill page to get people to use Matt's affiliate links on Amazon.

If you like playing with gear, get a DBX 286S (knobs to 'tune' the sound) and a Focusrite 2i2 audio interface (USB soundcard).

If you like software, get the 2i2 and use Reaper or Cadence/Carla (if you're on Linux)to tune with software instead of using the 286S.

The 286S and 2i2 are just devices I'm familiar with. Other devices in the same class are equally adequate. Focusrite has a 'kit' that includes Mic, audio interface and cables. I'm sure other bundles are available from other manufacturers and vendors.

If you want to spice up your video conferences, check out OBS. You can place objects in front of you instead of just having a backdrop behind you.
Even in Athens I can imagine an ancient inhabitant being lost and confused amongst a grid of midrise concrete buildings. Then they'd turn a corner and catch a glimpse of the Acropolis...

London, sort of continuously inhabited since Roman times, wouldn't pass the test even if an ancient Roman inhabitant was standing on a street following the line of a Roman road and looking direct at the foundations of the London wall. Even the river course would be unfamiliar.
it doesn't matter, you'll google the details. many people aren't aware that sql isn't just a stupid way of filtering tables and can do things server-side that you'd spend hours implementing and testing on the application side with worse performance in the end most of the time.
Getting Root on macOS via 3rd Party Backup Software (Druva InSync)
Very true about git. I would add C++ to that lis. Done full time it’s super powerful. But later or with less experience you look at the code and think “WTF?” .
Full text search in milliseconds with Rails and PostgreSQL, without triggers
One of the paper [0] looks at biological inheritance with a nearly computer science point of view.

I could not judge of the value of those articles, but I am happy that someone says that DNA is not the blueprint of life. If someone in the trade could give more insight, I would be thankful.

It is true that some people have studied morphogenesis since many decades (including Alan Turing).

[0] https://science.umd.edu/cbmg/joselab/myPdfs/JoseAM_Interface...
Nothing in Europe north of Belgium and the Netherlands made the cut.
It is kind of weird that there isn't several lists for Europe. When there is for several other geographic regions.
The IRS has the capability to put money directly into business bank accounts, or require businesses to sign up for EFTPS.
No. whether I charge you a fee through an explicit transaction cost, or I charge you based on a hidden spread to some rate, it’s still revenue from the perspective of banks. It’s a common trick used by consumer banks (to masquerade interest based spreads as no fee loans).
Hmm, that makes sense. I suppose a 10 mile move was significant pre-industrialization.
> "If you take away the deposits, who has that much money to lend out without being dangerously leveraged?"

mortgages don't have to go through retail banks, and there are plenty of other transaction fees to support banks of all sorts.

in fact, there's no reason we should have allowed the consolidation of banking other than to allow rent-seekers to amalgamate more sources of relatively risk-free cash flows under the control of fewer and greedier hands. we could have maintained lots of small banks that serve the community and region, enriching those communities, rather than a few behemoths that strip-mine them.

a lot of the "work" of mortgages is really mindless paper-shuffling by other rent-seekers taking their little slice of the large transaction price. none of those service providers go away if the government decided to take over (not that i'm advocating such a takeover).
You're correct, but anti-intellectualism (as defined for the context of this thread) doesn't belong to its targets.
Show HN: Information Extraction and Knowledge Graphs
Pre-1943 USSR was very much into violently rejecting anything Tsarist. Ioffe, Kapitsa and others survived only as pragmatic accessories to weapons and industrialization programmes.

Post-Stalin they had an opportunity to develop their schools of science but it's only so much a few, even dedicated, individuals can do. By 1990 these efforts largely fizzed out.
> If the government wanted to do for $0 fees they would have figured out how to do it themselves.

Why would you assume that?

You sound like the PR department of a bank.
Discounted SaaS platforms to support in Covid-19 situations
Do you take notes as you read? Not necessarily during the action of reading, but after each chapter or each new idea. Then there's the Anki cards. Like, is your learning active?
Yes, think of it like Rails for the Elixir language.

Phoenix -> Elixir

Rails -> Ruby
They should be reasonably compensated for and able to profit from administrating these loans but 20k is not a reasonable compensation per transaction.
The banks have a preexisting relationship with these businesses and know what they would need / qualify for. Plus provide boots on the ground for vetting.

The best the government could do was send a paltry check to pretty much EVERY american. I'm sure you'd object if they decided to send 1 million dollars to EVERY small business.

That's the best a fed government run program could accomplish with only a couple of weeks.
A new iPhone email security bug may let hackers steal private data
The first time I accidentally typed "select 8 from users..." and, instead of an error, it returned a column called "8" with a bunch of rows with the value "8", my mind was blown.
Slightly off topic, but playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey brought out an infatuation with Greece within me. I am truly envious of your Greek heritage and that you get to enjoy such a rich history, a relatively secular society, and gorgeous scenic areas. I am actually Persian and although we also have a rich history and scenic lands, I find Greece and Greek history far more appealing. Getting to explore many facets of ancient Greece in Assassin's Creed Odyssey has been an absolute treat.

EDIT: a word
I meant "observation of timing".
Great work! I think the phoenix framework project really recognizes the power of "Defaults". Defaults for dev, user interaction, server, and client. Make useful things quick but also learn how and why they are chosen.
A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients
a similar thing happens with folks when debugging. They assume something, and test their assumption and can happily declare victory. Instead, they should be testing _against_ their assumptions to prove their theory wrong.
Making $15,000 from simply disbursing $300,000 seems a bit steep.
TLDR: A faulty loss function leads to faulty results.

This article has wonderful real-world examples of AIs gaming the mathematical problem specification created by the AI researcher in order to both produce a world-class score on a given dataset and be utterly unusable in the real world.

While it doesn't appear to be mentioned in the article, this is exactly why I believe that AI will not have a democratizing effect.

Either you have the mathematical and stochastic skills to describe your problem criteria as a differentiable function, or not. In the first case, you're already a good programmer, but AI might save you a bit of time over trying to find the optimal parameters manually. In the second case, you will not be able to ensure that the AI follows the implicit rules of the real world, which means that you will produce something that scores extremely well on its training data, but does not generalize to the real world.

And that's also why if someone claims a new "state of the art result on benchmark XY", you should mentally append " ... but it works nowhere else."
I apologize if my citation and my explanation were not clear enough to convey the concept in my original comment ("Federal Reserve will not issue banking licenses to allow new banking entrants to operate as narrow banks").
Plus indices, views, synonyms, constraints, and the entire concept of data normalization...
Hmmm... I'm also curious why JPMorgan Chase only had 4% of the rescue program ($14B out of $349B) when they have 9-10% of the commercial banking market share (IBIS World). Maybe they don't serve small businesses as much as other banks? Or did some other banks get a disproportionately large % of the total?
> The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service.

Go check in countries with large public services and let me know what virtues they display...

Spoiler: you're gonna be disappointed.
Absolutely. We have extremely varied usage in the wild. From sports/content websites with tens of millions of users (bleacher report, cars.com), to folks running social/chat services with millions of persistent connections, to folks running Phoenix on embedded systems. And as you would expect, there's a ton of "boring business app / JSON API" usage in there as well, so we have a good story about generalized use. The goal of the screencast, as I outlay in the beginning is to show how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive and real-time applications, and a social timeline was a decent way to do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's just about taking a bet. I'm sure that magic leap must have had some demo (perhaps rehearsed) of a rudimentary alpha version they showed investors that was enough to convince people it was possible. From an investor standpoint, there isn't much downside outside of losing money. But the potential upside would have been huge.
That's actually good for testing this idea. If most of the people dying are non-smokers that would be an indicator.
I don't get that impression. The cities listed fall into two required criteria: documented history and civilization. This does not account for neolithic settlements of which some grew quite large for their respective lack of centralized management. This is qualified by the list mentions some cities were neolithic settlements before they qualified for the status of "city" and some cities existed far earlier than the history available, as far back as 7000 BCE the theorized start of civilization. This does not account for civilizations that may have appeared earlier but failed before historical documents were written.

People were all over the world at this time leaving in various states of habitation. The earliest surviving civilization was Mesopotamia at around 7000 BCE but the earliest known neolithic settlements were in the area of modern Czech Republic circa 45000 BCE. By the time civilian began to flourish there were neolithic settlements in many unrelated places of the world. People have been living in the northern polar region since well before the earliest neolithic settlements and did not civilize until recently and some remain uncivilized.
No? If we interpret his intentions generously, he didn't say he only wanted to hire people of Eastern European descent, but people who went through their education system. This can include people from any ethnic group that happens to have people living there. That's like saying it's racial discrimination to only hire people who went to MIT.
Bad use of word ‘shed’ for the headline. If they are unable to shed the virus then it’s a good thing.
Consumer Confidence: The KPI Your Business Should Optimize for in This Pandemic
This is neat! Great work!
> Obviously it isn't very palatable to hear about others making money off of this kind of thing but we need incentives for people to step up and help.

With "people" you mean private businesses in this context I suppose?

If so you could call these incentives "regulations".
> If you let a manufacturing company fail, someone will buy the contracts from them. Will they buy the plant with its union workers and environmental liabilities? Probably not.

So we're just subsidizing loser industries forever?
First of all, I suppose that it will be possible to make them unsigned (just like for standard types). Is this correct?

Also, what's the relationship between standard types and the new _ExtInts? Are _ExtInt(16) equivalent to shorts, or are they considered distinct and require explicit cast?

> In order to be consistent with the C Language, expressions that include a standard type will still follow integral promotion and conversion rules. All types smaller than int will be promoted, and the operation will then happen at the largest type. This can be surprising in the case where you add a short and an _ExtInt(15), where the result will be int. However, this ends up being the most consistent with the C language specification.

For instance, what if I choose to replace short by _ExtInt(16) in the above? What would be the promotion rule then?

Note that it was already possible to implement arbitrary sized ints for a size <= 64, by using bitfields (although it's possible that you could fall into UB territory in some situations, I've never used that to do modular arithmetic).

Edit: Ah, there's this notion of underlying type: one may use the nearest upper type to implement a given size, but nothing prevents to use a larger type, for instance:

struct short3_s {
short value:3;
};

struct longlong3_s {
long long value:3;
};

I don't know what the C standard says about that, but clearly these two types are not identical (sizeof will probably gives different results). What's will it be for _ExtInt? How these types will be converted?

Another idea:

what about

struct extint13_3_s {

_ExtInt(13) value:3;

};

Will the above be possible? In other words, will it be possible to combine bitfields with this new feature?

I guess it's a much more complicated problem that it appears to be at first.
My point wasn't that it's a slam dunk - my point was just that "$100k buys a lot of labor in a recession" is a strawman in the other directions.

Industrial automation is only getting cheaper, more capable, and easier to use with every passing year. Things you "know" from even a couple years ago don't apply today. The rate of progress is pretty incredible.
If anyone's wondering, these are the people that regularly appear on Bon Appetit magazine's YouTube channel.
The American Book of the Dead