skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More patio11 laws: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html

A variant of the current law also makes an appearance:

"The amount of money flowing through capitalism would astound you. The number and variety of firms participating in the economy would astound you."

My picks are:

"Startups are (by necessity) filled with generalists; big companies are filled with specialists. People underestimate how effective a generalist can be at things which are done by specialists. People underestimate how deep specialties can run. These are simultaneously true."

"You radically underestimate both a) how much you know that other people do not and b) the instrumental benefits to you of publishing it."
I'm so sick of Gitlab support spam in every thread that mentions any issue, making it so that critical conversations are interrupted with self serving pitches!

>I once saw Gitlab do this thing.

>Hey, Bob from Gitlab thing here. We are really trying to make thing great for our customers . Our next release of thing will do foo which we hope will fix this. Here is a link to a marketing post comparing us to GitHub. Hope that helps. Please don't mention us in a comment, or I have to do this. It hurts to live.
Look at Kim Jong Un for an extreme example.
Would you be okay with tracking software if it was installed on a work provided computer?
Koch does not even seem to be consistent with hardware. A synapse is sufficiently complex, yet a transistor is not? He seems to be offering a peculiar panpsychism in which almost everything, except transistors, has the potential for consciousness. It seems to be a remarkably tendentious view.
The Unity engine is the best thing to ever happen to aerospace UIs. Makes this feel like the actual future (I think) we all imagine.
.. and I downvoted you, because it absolutely true by definition.

Regulation, by definition, decreases freedom.

That's the whole point of regulation - to threaten with violence, acts that people have agreed are not a good idea.

If software engineers were regulated under IEEE, the freedoms of software engineers would decrease not increase.

I quote from the article you linked:

"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

Regulation, by definition, is intolerance.

For example - the minimum wage regulation. You have now removed the freedom of an untrained, unemployed person to sell their labor at a lower floor which was their only way to gain employment when there's a trained but unemployed person willing to also work for minimum wage!
There's no value judgment in my statement. I'm for competition, but I'm just pointing out that it's easier to everyone to embed a margin they can live on when there is less competition.
> Walmart has a history of building stores in areas where local stores already exist, letting them bleed money while they outcompete everyone with their lower prices, dominating the local area and driving other stores out of business.

So it's not a monopoly at all, they just offer things at cheaper prices and drive more expensive businesses out of business, while many reasonably efficient competitors still exist.
> Nazis still exist

Sadly, they always will. There will always be people with ill intent in this world, because the world isn't perfect. However these neo-Nazis use free-speech to get a voice that they otherwise wouldn't have.
Thanks for pointing that out - I kinda missed it until seeing your post. I went through each step - it's still a bit convoluted, but definitely helps me appreciate hashing functions. It's probably very easy for a poorly coded hash function to accidentally wipe important data or accidentally and a bunch of data with zeroes, so it's pretty cool to see a lot of ROT and XOR usage which does more interesting things with the original data.

Had no idea about the prime roots and multiplication, that's pretty clever too.
> What would you have done,if you were Boing CEO?

If you're Microsoft or Apple or Google, the answer is "Hold hundreds of billions of dollars of cash" [1]

That article, from late 2019, feels such holdings are in need of explanation; today, they seem like common sense.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...
That could help, but if someone is MITMing you, DNS is all in the clear too.

I do not enough to solve that problem really.
yeah agreed, we will add it. Thanks for pointing it out! :)
Even a larger company like Ableton is not supporting the previous version of Live in Catalina and won't release any updates for it:

https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=235803

The grandparent suggests that conservative users are to blame on this and that's partially true but it's not out of irrationality. If you are charging by the hour, you cannot afford any downtime. Studios run extremely lean teams and don't necessarily have a tech person on hand to fix things. If they find a configuration that works, they're going to stick to it.
If anything non profits have a somewhat of a reputation for being a way to pay the top people big salaries without the pressure of having investors pushing for more profits & getting the image of being "good" mostly for free since it's a non profit.
Spot on. I am so surprised you've been downvoted to hell.

Sometimes it seems basic economics is an alien concept.
I'm confused by this. You say that becoming a landlord is more accessible to the masses, yet indicate this somehow creates wealth disparity? Wouldn't it be the opposite where your proposal of making more exclusive would have that effect?
I got a Pixelbook Go Monday and it is definitely the best Dev machine yet!

Running Linux on laptops has been such an annoyance with buggy drivers and programs. The PBG offers an amazing UI/UX with Debian 10 on the side. You can install and run just about any Debian package and containers are working too!
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
A MITM can intercept and modify dns requests too.
>Instead, lots of valuable work was effectively lost.

How? It's Java. You should be able to download the JAR and run it on any compatible JVM.
Software for people who took a coding class one time, maybe
Incidentally, the font images ([1]) should be usable as Dwarf Fortress tilesets [2] with very little work (just change the background color from black to transparent).

[1] https://github.com/spacerace/romfont/tree/master/font-images

[2] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Tilesets
Here here. Buying rental property is a risk, not a guarantee, and articles like this seem to imply that these people should get some kind of bailout.
Dart&Flutter Improve Performance,Safety,and Tooling for X-Platform Mobile Dev
I can't imagine forced remote for all employees would ever become the norm. It feels like likely that companies would move from dedicated offices to leasing co-working spaces for those that want it.
This really becomes a question of leverage. If she only put down 20%, then her return on invested capital is 10%.
maybe the explanation is that management level is a replacement for the caste system to measure social status. not much different from western cultures. social status used to be the size of your land and how many people lived on it, now it's the size of your company or your team. the difference is that it is less universal but differs depending on the industry you work in.
That conflates type of work with payment. Plumbers or other specalties like say underwater welders can make quite a bit of money and those certainly are blue collar jobs. Not common mind you but still blue collar.
You can't really make that assertion because no one can pay money directly. You have no way of knowing if people would pay for them if they were offered as a product. You just assume they wouldn't because that fits your belief that no one would pay for cross-platform framework driven apps. Until you bring some actual evidence to the discuss to back up your point the whole argument is pointless.
Someone is paying for games. What other B2C software is making money from the general consumer (besides MS) and not the “prosumer” who is buying software to help them run their business?
Henry George's single tax[1] is criminally excluded from the Overton window. Tax rent-seeking, not productivity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Upper middle class vs lower working class. So while ownership is more accessible to the top 25%, it is hurting the bottom 25%.

You also have to consider that the UK was formerly feudal, so they never had the same culture of individual ownership as America does.
If finding types is especially difficult, it may depend on a particular library (poorly documented types) and on the tooling you use (e.g., VS Code allows to quickly jump to definition/implementation/etc. on any imported class or component in your code, which often takes you to the place in that library where you can find out which types you need and where to import them from; it was a bigger pain in Vim).

By the way, keep in mind that it is often unnecessary to specify types explicitly because TS can infer them from context. I used to specify way too many types when I was initially learning TS.
We Still Can't Deliver on the Promise of Hydrogen Cars
And they probably pore over metrics more than anything else and prepare reporting based on a bunch of old queries and automated reports package it and send it off. They might also have chats with subordinates about those metrics and at the end think “what a good boy/girl am I!”
I'm pretty sure the townhouse they're talking about is a second income property. And the lady with 27 units that claims to make $24k/year is ignoring the equity building in her properties. If she ends up with $2 million of property after 20 years she's ignoring $100k/year.

Lots of business owners, farmers, landlords, etc. give the same sob story and conveniently forget they're going to end up with multi-million dollar properties, farms, businesses by the time they retire.

I can see how it's tough with no cash flow right now, but how is that any different than your mom ending up unemployed? Excluding the current situation, no one cares about normal people losing their jobs, but now that the business / landlord class is in a negative cashflow situation we should all be thinking of them.
Check out haxe : https://haxe.org/

For js, specifically : https://haxe.org/manual/target-javascript.html

Coincidentally, Haxe Foundation announced a new version here today : https://haxe.org/blog/haxe-4.1.0-release/

(disclosure : member of Haxe compiler team)
Pretty much. I suspect I may be a minority, but I'd rather just have a really good case study in text format, with images where appropriate, rather than having to keep clicking through with cute visuals.

It feels to me a bit like it's cheapening the content by putting it into that context. It's like watching an anime version of Pride and Prejudice; I'm sure there's an audience for it, but I'm not it, and it feels cheap.

EDIT

Having thought about this a little more, it also feels like the analysis is more shallow than I think it actually is, due to the presentation context.
The State of Broadband Internet in Canada
That's really a library problem. On a cursory glance it seems Racket supports DFTs.
> With Index funds, we all have to trust that S&P is doing the right thing.

No, you don’t. Here is the document that outlines how the S&P 500 is calculated: https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology...

> Managed versus index is to me, open source versus closed source.

This is also backwards, indices are transparent and open while managed funds are not.
Have you seen your local software? It is rarely about making great software.. good enough.

Open source tries to make great software. Does the best job.
> Nevermind that the original takedown from MPAA was not in good faith.

I think people are reaching that conclusion from prior bad behavior, and maybe courts should consider that.

But I don't see a factual basis for that in their filing. The MPAA establishes legal precedent and harm done to them; they check all the boxes for what a complaint is supposed to be.

Also, this doesn't fall into the patterns of verbose but invalid complaints, e.g. it clearly isn't some takedown they spammed at a random publisher.

> What are you reading into the counternotice that makes you believe it isn't in good-faith?

It's what I'm not reading that means I can't make the case that it is good faith.

The complaint addresses one issue. All I can read in Popcorn's response is that they didn't do something else entirely.

Your argument is simply not what they wrote, and the law requires one to be explicit, which is why legal brief is a contradiction in terms.

Because it's not relevant to the complaint, it's as though they left it blank and hit submit.
I wrote a tiny multimethod library for Janet: https://github.com/staab/janet-multimethod

The stack traces have so far been really clean and helpful.
Engineering Manager Learns to Write
> - At least 20% performance improvement over plain JavaScript.

How would that work? TS is not an optimizing compiler, it's only a type checker.
Good question :D We haven't spent much time trying out RedisGraph, nor we ran any kind of benchmarks at his point, but from what I can see, I would say that the main differences would:

1. Memgraph is a native GraphDB which means that it's specifically engineered to support graph and graph only whereas RedisGraph is a module that runs on top of key-value store (nothing wrong with that, but it might have some limitation when it comes to performance on complex graph algorithms and traversals)

2. Cypher coverage – We cover about 80% of the cypher query language, where I think RedisGraph covers only a small portion (But I hear that they're improving on that)

Apart from that, I guess you would really need to test both when for specific use-cases to judge performance and scalability. We'll try to provide some benchmarks in the next few weeks.

I hope this helps :D Have you used RedisGraph? Any thoughts?
On evidence and “good science” in Covid-19: Harvard epidemiologist weighs in
ReasonML is the one with the biggest support behind it. It's your best bet.
It's tricky. One person takes out a loan to start a small business and it fails due the virus. Another takes out a loan to purchase properties and be a landlord who also gets wiped out. Economic rent is a societal problem. But landlords aren't actually reaping in the profits most of the time, and it might be argued that they're providing useful services to people. On the other hand, most go into it with the hope of just sitting on stuff and making passive income for low amounts of work. If landlords are doing societal good, it's mostly accidental, and at best a local maxima of a well function system.

I'd say in the scheme of suffering going on right now this doesn't feel like the most deserving of sympathy. Taking out huge loans is a risk. As a society, this is not a good way for members to build wealth. But they're not villains by any means.
FeaturePeek raises $1.8M in seed funding, announces FeaturePeek Indie
I don't understand this 'past sins' accounting in the thread. It's not 'wolf of main street' for a reason. Sure there are the bean counters in banks, but they also hire people on the ragged edge of sanity in risk management, making giant bets on incomplete information and parlaying those into more bets before the grand settling comes around. It's like those old-school cartoons of someone running across a footbridge just fast enough to stay ahead of its collapse.

The idea that a few of them aren't going to break some laws is kind of laughable. The only problem is whether or not they are penalized.
we, the people of the united states, need to forcefully push back on this encroachment. we lost the advantage when politicians fell all over themselves rushing to grab emergency powers, and the timid majority not only did not take pause at this, but begged for more.

instead of allowing millions of entities the freedom to tackle the crisis from millions of vantage points, we let politicians collapse that down to essentially a few dozen governmental entities in charge, amassing power in people who have adverse incentives to the populace. we willingly gave up most of our optionality and diversity in tackling the challenge.

the better configuration, imho, is a set of governments primarily organized around gathering and disseminating crucial information openly and transparently for all (which they currently do as well). as the nexus of critical information, those governments would then also focus on connecting people and businesses who can advance the democratic goals of the polity. politicians are leaders of their departments and representatives of the electorate, not the other way around (as currently acceded).
> I don't like that mindset that an unverified certificate is somehow not better or even worse (see browser UIs) than no encryption

Of course it's worse when the user thinks the connection is
encrypted when he actually has no idea who he's talking to.

What kind of attack do you have in mind where someone can sniff on
the data but not tamper with it?

And how should a browser explain this situation to the user? No,
the mindset that an unverified certificate is better than no
encryption is very dangerous.
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter by Rupert Spira

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
I read little about rent price depreciation, but it seems to me this is already happening. People will move to cheaper housing, and the existing mortgages will be untenable.
The answer to this is to increase the housing supply. Housing costs increase when demand increases and supply doesn't. Increase supply at the same time and rents don't increase faster than inflation.

Buying property and renting it out is expected to yield returns. There's nothing wrong with that. It actually increases access to housing by allowing people who can't afford to buy property to still live somewhere in the meantime. The problem is when you're not just buying a $200,000 house whose value tracks inflation and renting it out, but buying a $200,000 house as the value quintuples and all of that money goes to the landlord while the tenant's rent quintuples as well.
Spotify Kids App Now Allows Parental Control
Old and unmaintained websites are not collecting any information, let alone sensitive information. They’re mainly read-only, informative content that the web would be infinitely worse-off without.
Indeed!

Just talk to professional landlord about cap rates. Generally you aim for 10%+ cap rates, which are exceeding difficult to find with the exception of a few markets.

If your cap rate is less than 10%, you’re on thin margins and a new roof would probably push you into the red.
Love this - but moderately confused by the distinction between "English" and "British", since the two Brits listed are English! :)
On one of the slides it says "Great use of my first name" when in fact it uses the whole name or whatever was given in the name field. Since you are here, why did you write "first name" when "name" would be more precise?
don't forget clojurescript :D
Apple unilaterally just reduced the maximum validity of HTTPS certificates in Safari to 15 months from 27 months. Not too long ago it was over 5 years. All this bit by bit increases the burden on the smaller independent non-commercial webmasters, who in the end just give up and leads to further centralization of the web: forces them to platforms, who take care of your "safety" ( not just from MITM but usually also from "violating" content).
I don't think any of that is conflicting; probably just a quirk of language. Agriculture requires infrastructure and space. If you've moved on from rice farming because it's not economical, it might not be possible to bring back old varieties because the infrastructure is gone, or the rice paddys have been covered with buildings, or some such.
Does Interguard have a license from NBC to use characters from “The Office” in their marketing and other materials? It would be pretty funny if they got dinged for this and had some revenue extracted for profiting off someone else’s work because they weren’t productive enough to generate their own content.
For your first point: Yes, good quality domain-specific libraries go very far in allowing one to be productive. Lisp does not offer a good, general-purpose, integrated numerical computing environment (plotting, scientific functions, etc.) and as such wont be good for belting out scientific code. If you like DIY, then Lisp is wonderful to write scientific code in because it can compile to extremely fast code.

For FFTs in particular, Common Lisp has very good support for them [1, 2, 3]. For matrix arithmetic, there’s an up-and-coming library called MAGICL [4].

As for DSLs, there’s no problem using these on a team. Their utility does scale if the DSL is actually solving a problem.

[1] NAPA-FFT3 https://github.com/pkhuong/Napa-FFT3

[2] BORDEAUX-FFT https://github.com/ahefner/bordeaux-fft

[3] Patrick Stein’s FFT https://github.com/nklein/FFT

[4] MAGICL https://github.com/rigetti/magicl
That video is really, really awesome! And it won't leave you feeling "Japanese" either. (Which is a great people, btw. I'd really like to go there someday, mostly for the food and language and history. And Anime also, I'm forced to admit.)
fyi it's 'Hear, Hear'
>> that doesn't make sense. Browsers are unlikely to add native typescript support in the foreseeable future;

It's not my fault that browsers are not going to do it. It doesn't change the fact that it is necessary and that TS is useless without it (the cons outweigh the pros).

>> huge benefits compared to untyped javascript when it comes to large codebases and refactorings

I've provided you at least 1 robust argument why this is not the case. You've provided 0.

I can provide another argument against this:

TypeScript only protects the code from compile time type mismatches, it does not prevent every other possible kind of error; it does not even protect the code from runtime type mismatches (for example from JSON objects passed in an HTTP or RPC request).

It also does not protect from race conditions, memory leaks, issues with multiple sources of truth, unexpected asynchronous state mutations, poor choice of abstractions, poor encapsulation of state changes, poorly handled runtime exceptions, poorly handled runtime schema validation errors, bidirectional data flow issues (which lead to glitchy state changes and infinite loops), poor choice of ADTs which lead to inefficient code, poor choice of libraries for the use case, misuse of common programming patterns, and any other major logic errors... At best, it projects code from only 5% of all possible bugs; typically the simplest, most obvious kinds of bugs. Please think about this objectively. TS adds value, but very little value and also it takes away value in other ways.

For the really difficult runtime bugs which take serious debug time, it adds no value; it makes debugging harder because of its reliance on source mapping.

And by the way, instead of down-voting, please try to convince me otherwise because I'm really suffering with the new TS-first reality (I'm on the losing side). I really do want to see the light but I'm not seeing it at all.

I'm seeing masses of people running towards a cliff. I know there is a cliff there because I pulled myself out of it (learned the hard way) and have been walking in the opposite direction for the past few years and I don't see why I should go back there simply because that's the direction where all the cool people are heading.