skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on other things didn’t seem to stop him from writing 399 single-page papers, all of which are full of undefined, nonstandard notation and prose that reads like the output of GPT-2:

https://github.com/advancedresearch/path_semantics/tree/mast...

If that time were spent on writing just one, but clearly written explanation of the core idea, I might have been more sympathetic to the project. As it is though, ‘path semantics’ is an exercise in obscurantism at best and in psychoceramics at worst.
This one also includes a styled Dropdown, which missed from the 98 one.
Because most people using JVM in production understand that your claim is without merit and performance in the JVM land can be tuned to the workload and finally it is never a single dimension decision to chose a language/ runtime. JVM had many additional properties that make it an excellent choice for big data use cases.
What if I have no reasonable way of fully understanding the code nor being able to judge the author on their trustworthiness (even disregarding that this isn't constant).

As a community we need to accept that the above mentioned DOES happen. Pretending otherwise only hurts us all.
If you don't tip cash, GrubHub takes back the hourly they pay the driver.

Say you get $10 an hour delivering for GrubHub. You earn $10 in delivery fees and credit card tips in that hour. How much do you think the driver gets? It's $10. GrubHub gets to say "your whole tip goes to the driver!", But never says they claw back the drivers hourly making them free for GrubHub to employ.

Tip cash, or literally don't tip at all. I never saw my credit card tips the whole year I worked for them.
its moved once a year to prevent bushes and trees from appearing. Maybe to simulate the wild fire that would briefly sweep over the meadow and clear the small dry plants in fall.
I actually specifically believe this is a major problem with FB. Maybe if grandma seeing pics on the other side of the world wasn't a thing, people would be more in tune with keeping grandma living within driving distance.

FB gives you the ability to live half lives. You think you have a connection to the people but the real connection is missing.
Thanks so much for saying this. Those thoughts hold me back when I'm thinking about starting an open source project. I already do lots of coding at work. I'm single and no kids, but spending a large amount of time on it in my free time would totally wreck my balance. I love coding but I also need non-technical activities in my life.
True. I think the rejection of operating systems managing resources the way it is today (dynamic resource binding) is coming. Pinned threads make a ton of sense in HPC.
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Have there been any real studies on this? "The vast majority if used for good." Good for who? Good for what? And what "vast majority" are you alluding to?
This is naive. If it's a bad library full of bugs, it's going to be garbage code. I'm not going to spend inordinate amounts of time & effort wrestling with shitty code to earn the right to say the library is bad. IMO that's not a good standard.
GC without tuning. With optimization, not so much.
I think what happened was that Jim Hugunin wrote Numeric (Numerical Python) in 1995 with help from a bunch of other people, and Travis Oliphant and some other people put together SciPy in 2001 from modules they'd been working on previously. A hecking lot of work had already gone into Numeric and SciPy by the time I first tried using it, around 2003, and so it was already pretty stable, with a broad range of capabilities. It had already left Perl's PDL far behind (except for 3-D plotting support), and Ruby's NArray barely existed, being under 10KLOC when it was imported from CVS in 2001: https://github.com/masa16/narray/commits/master?after=447c96...

So Numeric and then SciPy (2001), numarray (2001), and Numpy (2005) just had a big head start on the other free-software numerical computation libraries, basically because a few early Pythonistas were interested in the field, and it kept accruing more and more powerful stuff: FFTW (1998), SparsePy (1999), the ability to read MATLAB files (1999), matplotlib (2001), IPython (2001), and so on. It got popular enough that dozens of people started contributing code to it, making it grow faster and faster.

At the time, most scientists were still using MATLAB; other alternatives for array-based computing included R, Bell Labs's Lush, and if you were a real masochist, PV-WAVE's IDL. Octave, the free-software MATLAB clone, wasn't yet a reasonable replacement. And all of these languages had the disadvantage that they were sort of trapped in their own little library ecosystems: if you wanted to do Gaussian quadrature or calculate a Kullback-Leibler divergence or plot some data, you were golden, but if you wanted to scrape some data out of some web pages with regular expressions, parse command-line flags, read members of a zip file, or run as a CGI process on a web server, you were shit out of luck. Numpy's syntax for a vector of numbers is pretty shitty compared to Octave or APL, but it's worlds better than R or especially IDL, and most people prefer it to Lush's Lisp syntax, although I have a soft spot for Lush myself. And Python and Numpy have reasonable language semantics too, unlike Octave or R.

(I think Lush may have been a bit late to the free-software party, too, so it wasn't really an option.)

So academia started switching over from MATLAB to Numpy, I think around 2010. The transition isn't over yet; the numerical-methods class I audited last year is still using Octave. R is dominant in statistics and will probably stay that way. But Numpy is pretty broadly adopted.

It basically came down to a head start due to a lot of hard work done in the 1990s that just happened to be done in Python. It's maybe not entirely coincidence that the people whose taste ran to reimplementing Gaussian quadrature were fans of Python and not Perl, Ruby, Lua, or Tcl, but they could have been.
I agree on the original issue but social media tailored to people's own bubble is probably not a good source for enlightenment either...
> the rice is in a bowel

bowel?
I use Java for a living. Whether you think Java is very easy or a pain in the ass depends on what you're doing.

Consider the fact Ubuntu 18.04's default repos come with a pretty ancient version of Java. And if you want a newer version, you have to use some third-party source. And the fact there are both OpenJDK and Oracle JDKs to choose from. Will that be JDK or JRE? Headless? Depending on the combination of JDK and software, maybe the fonts will go all funny. Got multiple JDKs? Some programs will use your default Java, some will invite you to select the JDK to use, some will bundle their own complete JDK. Oh, a program uses JavaFX? No, of course that isn't installed just because you installed Java.

These problems aren't inherent to Java, of course - it's 98% due to Oracle's attempts to inconvenience people into paying for licenses.
I admit I haven't read the paper, but as someone who works in NLP and is in a linguistics department I have to say that this claim seems absurd. Leaving aside what "viable in NLP" means, all natural languages are rich in ambiguities, redundancies, and hazy polysemy that don't occur in, say, FOL used for knowledge engineering. And Sanskrit, being a natural language, is no exception.

If it did turn out that Sanskrit were exceptionally well suited for something in AI, I'm willing to bet that either the domain of AI or Sanskrit (either the systems in its grammar, or our respect for it as a natural language that can only imperfectly be captured by a formalized grammar of it) would need to be so constrained in scope that this supposed exceptionality would seem rather cherrypicked.

I'm not saying Sanskrit isn't cool (it's super cool), but I am saying we should resist insinuations that it's somehow more conducive to sophisticated thought or whatever.
TreeView lists should have selected state for items, otherwise it's very accurate.
This article highlights the importance of the "shitty" typography.

[0] article: https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers

[1] discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129434
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!
This is terrible and wonderful. Thank you. I feel truly blessed to have seen this. It won't open a gate, will it?
Yes. We know, more specifically, that genes are to blame for diseases like hemochromatosis [0], sickle cell anemia [1], or Tay-Sachs [2]. We also know, from pedigree collapse [3], that humans broadly form one single race.

Therefore we know that correlations with any definition of ethnicity or race are spurious, because those definitions must be socially constructed, because the gene pool simply does not have the shape that race realists claim that it does.

Think in terms of contraposition. Sure, if race were real, then maybe it might make sense to talk about racial demographics. However, since race clearly is not real, any demographic correlations must be bogus. There is a much simpler explanation for why some skin colors seem socioeconomically advantaged: Because our society itself has bigoted opinions about skin colors, and has practices like redlining [4] which systematically oppress folks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_haemochromatosis

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%E2%80%93Sachs_disease

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
You should know in general, though, that no one trades "for free" despite what brokerages say.

Your order gets routed, delayed, placed differently, and while you may not immediately see it, your trades are getting a different result than if you explicitly paid a brokerage who charges a commission on it.

Learn about "payment for order flow".
The person who wrote the headlined article also wrote commentary back in 2014 on discussions of systemd, which highlighted the false dichotomy that people propound that the decision is between van Smoorenburg init+rc and systemd. You are doing that very thing, years later.

That was never the case, especially so for Debian that you mention. In the Debian Hoo-Hah, the choices were van Smoorenburg init+rc, OpenRC, Upstart and systemd; the latter three being the main contenders, as was acknowledged partway through the affair. In Fedora and Ubuntu, the choice was between Upstart and systemd, Upstart having been what they used for some years before systemd.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20141222234706/http://uselessd.d...
I don't get it. How does Alpaca offer free broker services?
Why not checking the contributors instead of the forks? Just pick the most regular ones, or the ones that contributed the most (in number of PRs).
> What I do like about fix clients (not fix protocol) is the extra value they provide by keeping your sessions alive, tolerating hot restarts, logging in and out on schedule and managing multiple sessions.

I agree somewhat, but I think the protocol needed to come first. Can you honestly say that in its absence, multiple clients would be able to implement these behaviours in a uniform manner?

The fact that there's a concept of a "session" demarcated with LOGON/LOGOUT, sequence numbering, resend semantics, heartbeating - all this had to come from... somewhere.

Put another way: if you get 10 brokers developing their own REST/HTTP API's, what is the chance they'll normalise on a similar set of core concepts?
Yeah even if Ruby is not much younger than Python, it only gained popularity outside of Japan somewhere around 2003, and only extreme popularity after the release of rails.
This is exactly how I separated myself from facebook while I straight up deleted my carefully curated instagram account. But I continue to be addicted to reddit and it is even harder to let go off because I actually find meaningful stuff on it.
Seeing this reminded me of how cool it felt when I got an Intel coupon for a free 80287 with the Intel AboveBoard memory expansion board I bought to add extended memory (DIPs!) to my 80286.
Firefox is working on making gifs respect user selected video autoplay setting and preventing to load whole file to save bandwidth: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631598
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I feel like a lot of “technology” companies are like this: consolidation of production and locking people out rather than actually making things more efficient.
It reminds me of a bookmarking pattern. You bookmark several items and later on perform actions on the bookmarked collections. Very interesting concept worth investigating further .
It's debt for money's sake, to keep the mirage running.

There was a multitude of factors here.
Do these statistics consider that in 1971, the "adult generation" was way smaller than others, due to world war?
And then by the 70's a lot of them was in the viet war, as wars came to end their budget tightened, the WW2 bonds were repaid, the money production that had to be turned up got turned down, basically, everything seemed to be going downhill one could say.

But, looking at the same time - sudden influx of new workforce by 1980's - both due to kids born in the 60's being adult now, civil rights finally becoming a thing meant more workers could join the workforce at every level, computers, mobile phones and internet expanded the market to a global one for the companies that could handle it, US companies started exporting production for some parts and there was no huge wars happening after that that would kill off a huge chunk of a working gneration.. nothing could stop the economy blastoff about to happen.

RE: COVID stimulus - Just wait for July, when shit really starts to go down.
Lack of tourists, unpaid loans, what were freshly bought BnB money factories are turning into black holes of debt, stuff that won't be able to reopen, people that won't be able to get rehired, tax income noticably low, universities seeing their applicant rates are lowest ever. Printing money is the best way to solve it tbh, because at the end of the day money is dependent on time, so we're basically hyperproducing borrowed time, and just like it's dependent, it isn't real. I assume either EU falls apart and we get 5-10 years of economic chaos or EU helps countries finance universal basic income and it becomes a a new normal. I put more weight on the second one.
So I came across this a couple of months ago and tried to use it.

It significantly slowed down page loads. When I changed the settings to not be as aggressive in selecting the dark colours, the page load speeds weren't much better.

I since ended up simply creating stylus styles for sites I regularly visit.

Not ideal, but it is better than adding a couple of seconds (not an exaggeration) to the page load.
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A particular case that I have seen is fields for account numbers that expect X characters, but people are copypasting the numbers from sources where they are represented with extra spaces for readability. (e.g. 1234 5678 instead of 12345678) And when they get to the validation, the last digit(s) have been lost.
Wouldn’t operating real estate as a financial market all involve secondary or fund-owned residences, and therefore be subject to capital gains tax?
If you think the biggest problem of blogging is that nobody will read your work, you're not blogging, you're angling for popularity (or ad dollars, which comes out to the same in the end). If you have something interesting to write, write it in a blog. If you care more about having people read it, write on social media.
I think RSS should be better built in to browsers. Make it as simple as a follow button is on centralised websites.

e.g.:
A little RSS icon pops up when RSS is available on a page, press it and you're now following that feed. Feeds window in the browser shows your feeds, and a small alert icon shows up somewhere when there's unread content. Your subscriptions are saved to your account. If you want to read the article, you click the link and read it directly on the source website. It doesn't need to be any more complex than that.

Firefox had "Live Bookmarks" for RSS but it was relatively terrible, and eventually got removed.
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My point is that executives want the tech ladder to be taken seriously. So, mention it in the interview. Whether it actually should be taken seriously depends on the company.
>The time on all contemporary computers is always Unix Epoch Time, which is close to (but not exactly) UTC.

I think Windows computers set the hardware clock to local time by default, actually.
You can almost hear ticks and shwoops from XP! That’s fantastic!

I wish the scroll bars worked on mobile but that probably needs JS in addition to the CSS.
This will probably be helpful. I frequently come across fields which have a tight maxlength where there may or may not be spaces in the field (things like credit card numbers, sort codes, postcodes). When pasting in a version with spaces, this frequently deletes parts of the field which are relevant and required me to delete the spaces and then fill in the result. With this change I would be able to paste it in and then just delete the spaces.
Would this actually remove the incentive for spam and SEO?
1st rule is you don't need kafka.

Second rule is don't forget about 1st rule.
This is a common view I've seen.

It usually starts like this " but we're all in <tz> so we should just use that so no one needs to do any maths."

Then later when operations spread to elsewhere it becomes "but most stuff is still done in <original tz> so we will still use that and everyone in other places will just need to deal with it and use our 'real' tz."

Then when you are operating in 3 or 4 or 5 or more locations it is too late to change anything and you are screwed because now you are in some provincial timezone for 50% of your systems - complete with clock changes - and the rest are a mess of either in UTC or some other TZ local to that server with their own different clock changes to the original TZ. Chaos.

And you can guarantee that none of the log files have TZ in their timestamps because of that original "we're only in one TZ" mindset so why bother saying what TZ it is... From then on every time you look at a log or a database or a web UI or whatever you need to double guess the timezone.

For those that come after you, please please please if you can't use UTC then at the very least always show the timezone in your log files/UIs/etc even of it seems redundant at the time - in the future someone handling an incident or trying to fix a P1 bug on a Friday afternoon will thank you.
Yes, though it operates at the post level only. There's absolutely no indication that a post in which you've already indicated strong interest by participating in it has ongoing discussion. If you've received a reply notification to your comment, my own, immediately adjacent, receives no such notice: the tpost is effectively dead. Visiting a subreddit gives no clues as to recently-active posts.

Mind, inbox replies for any activity on, say, /r/funny or /r/politcs would get old fast. But some indication of 'this thread is still live* would be tremendously useful. Again, from Google+, I (and other) users frequently "lived" in the Notifications pane. I'd customised that through CSSso that it was large and functional enough to do that.

Twitter's TweetDeck and the similar Mastodon web client similarly feature a Notifications pane as a principle feature, and much engagement can be transacted from it. One of Ello's iterations had a similar and incredibly fluid design making following up very lightweight, unfortunately later abandoned.

HN's "Threads" view is ... similar, but crippled (lack of context within the subthread I'm replying to being a constant annoyance). Reddit's notifications suffer similarly.
That "ofcourse" you can implement Game of Life in one statement if you implement (parts of) the standard library of APL is not obvious to many people. The point of the blog is to introduce people to the concepts of APL, not to pitch some innovation.

As a Ruby programmer who already knew about APL, I thought the title exactly matched the article. I was pleasantly surprised at how clean he designed the apl library, and the nice explanations.
The author mentions that you shouldn’t use std::, but offers offers no alternative other than “write your own version that is shorter and better”.
That looks much more reliable than I thought. I am planning to use Posenet to augment my workout game ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mknXbyVJm3c ) with full body poses. Does the background influence the tracking much?
We do eventually require a vaccine or similar.

SK and NZ can "end" the outbreak. The "herd immunity" strategy will simply continue it straight through the whole year, with a lot more deaths.
For your first argument: Isn't that argument absolving companies of all blame possible? If a company for example chooses to dump waste in a local river and there aren't any laws preventing that, is that because of the consumers failing to act in their own best interest? I just want to establish according to your logic at which point a company should be blamed for immoral behavior.

It's also overly reductive and ignores things like voter suppression, extralegal affairs and abusing the court system.

For your second argument, you seemed to ignore my original point which is that it's generally impossible to actually establish the origin of said clothing due to the complex supply chain behind the scenes. Even if it's a trusted third party, that clothing is still being delivered via companies that deliver sweatshop clothing and sold in stores which sell sweatshop clothing. At a certain point some percentage of what you pay will go to support said sweatshops whether directly or indirectly, so how can you expect a consumer to operate in a full moralistic behavior when all of their actions are losses? At that point the only winning move is to not play, which is also not possible because, well, Capitalism.
> it is common sense that this makes it more susceptible

If you’re saying that the British attitude of “use common sense” is what made it more susceptible, then I agree.
Generally, those are the same. Manual labour does not scale well and is prone to error.
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Just a minor clarification/correction: Möngke wasn’t the direct successor to Genghis: there were two other leaders in between.
What is Common Sense (2002) [pdf]
Just because there are a billion possibilities with a billion traffic sources, different marketing positions, and you can do clinical trials and doesn't mean that providing someone the answer they expected and the possibility to search for other things beats just searching for things... which was what they were doing on the previous page.

If it was such a brilliant idea, DoorDash & GrubHub should change their sites so that links from their search results only take you back to their search page.
This book is well written. It has the right amount of detail and simplicity. When I started out in game development the book helped me lot in understanding game development.
I'm getting the same results. Clicking on the dollar icon to buy takes you to a page you can put in your offer. Quite strange.