skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a print-related disability causing severe convergence insufficiency with my eyes, due to a rare neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system.

I generally use Kurzweil 3000 (http://KurzweilEdu.com) which is made by Kurzweil Educational Systems, as a screen reader. You should definitely considering partnering with them in particular, as it would be very strategic.
Yup, this wouldn't really work in the UK. In Portugal, however, it goes a long way. It helps that the properties are yielding about 20%, as I went for the corporate rental market, and the portfolio has grown about 450% since '17. It's all gone better than hoped for, and I am earning more screwing about in the woods than I did working 16 hour days. My net worth has increased fairly substantially since I threw it all in.

If the world doesn't go to hell, I will keep farming the excess back into working assets - most likely property, following the same formula of buying shitholes in nice areas and turning them into miniature palaces and renting them to banks and tech firms.

If the world does fall apart, we have everything we need here to be entirely self-sufficient. Land to grow food on, a river for power and water.

We're actually spending less than €500/mo on living expenses - more on hardware, tools, materials - which we do in Spain (as does everyone else in this neck of the woods), as it's a lot cheaper than Portugal for that kind of stuff, and the border is only 10km away. For the really esoteric stuff, there's Alibaba, if you don't mind waiting for the slow boat from China.
Mine is managed using Github, generated using Hugo and hosted using netlify. Also costs $0 other than the domain name, which I use for other purpose as well.

You can check it out at: https://about.houqp.me/posts/
Does that change the possibility of such a "venue" being the context for a "tragedy of the commons", should such a thing ever exist?
Thank you, I immediately hit back when I saw how long that article was.
If you used fluxcd you could remove the need for terraform and keeping the state. Validation can be done with kubeval. The issue would be connecting fluxcd with the local bare repo, but it could be exposed with a reverse tunnel.
That's not how it works, at least not in 2009. If you don't have enough equity, the bank is not interested in letting you short-sell your house and thus won't approve it (they would rather you default on the loan!) People who have more equity in their homes will decide to sit tight so they don't have to take a loss. Even commercial real-estate will let their properties lie fallow rather than lower the rent.

"Supply and demand" is a nice platitude and economic theory but it doesn't reflect reality.
I've been blogging book reviews for years to 100 people
There is actually a better strategy than tit for tat, for iterated prisoner's dilemma played in a tournament setting where the winner is determined by total score at the end of all rounds.

The strategy is to submit lots of entrants to the tournament rather than just one, then play tit for tat against all opponents except those that are in the clique. The clique players then lose on purpose to a specifically-chosen player, maximizing that players score.

If you don't want to do it this way and instead care about maximizing the total scores of the clique as a whole, you can default to every clique member always cooperating.

Even in cases where the opponent is "blind", you can use a special pattern of bets to signal that the other player is a member of the clique and then play your win-maximizing strategy once the signal is detected.

This kind of thing has real-world implications. For example: imagine a poker game with ten players, all of the same skill level and without a rake. Nine of the players can collude (say, show each other their hidden cards and make decisions based on the shared information), making it significantly less likely than a 10% chance that the targeted player will win. I suspect this is already done to an extent in extremely high-stakes games (say, $1MM+).
So, first of all, my wife works directly with patients in a hospital in Santa Clara, and she just got tested for the first time yesterday.

You're correct that anyone who wants a test can get one (or, if you're wrong, I'm wrong, too). But that's a very different thing from the kind of frequent, high-volume testing we'd need to actually understand what's going on with COVID-19. There's a serious selection bias at play here when the only people who are ACTUALLY getting tested are those who suspect they might have been exposed or are showing symptoms.
Reminds me of that time when database vendors were overreaching to be message queues/brokers - OracleAQ, MSMQ, etc.
> So if your "userspace" payload is dynamically linked and loaded at runtime, it's no longer a problem?

Indeed but then you’re kinda missing the point of unikernels.
From my armchair, the market situation looks very simple. When the economy hits the ceiling, people at the top create a crisis, collect the remaining value and let the newly poor labor work hard to earn a better life and create value for the owners. Then the cycle repeats. It's somewhat similar to how the combustion engine works.

The stock market is growing because the owners want to start the new growth cycle. They think that's enough value have been collected, they have no intent to destroy the engine, and want to start the new cycle. They achieve it by letting Fed print trillions and buy the stocks. This dilutes the share of everybody not invested in the stocks, but it works for the US because dollar is the internatiinal common stock and the US has the right to issue new shares. Whoever complains gets a friendly visit by aircraft carriers and experiences sudden difficulties in participating in the international economy.

It's possible that the owners have messed up this time, as they are often just lazy greedy types, and the engine will stall, but in that situation it won't matter whether you hold dollars or sp500.
I think it's just that Rust brings a fairly new set of semantics to system code (memory safe, but no GC), and people are pretty excited to rethink large parts of the software stack we all depend on.
20 is probably an exaggeration, but I see nearly identical (long) blocks of code fairly often at work. the project has been in development for a very long time, and there have been periods where people were not terribly disciplined about DRY. once this happens, it can be pretty hard to refactor; like GP said, it's hard to tell what differences are merely superficial and which handle subtle edge cases.

a common pattern I see that leads to this:

1) construct a relatively expensive object.
2) use that object to do A, B, and C (each of which require setting up their own smaller objects)

there are a lot of different places where people want to do A, B, or C, but not necessarily all of them. but people are reluctant to break A, B, C out into their own helper functions because of the cost to construct the object and possibly the very large number of parameters that need to be passed. with enough time/effort, it is possible to detangle this stuff and encapsulate it more sanely, but it's usually easier to just follow the existing pattern.
iOS has been slowly making HEIF more common. It’s just that it takes a long time for the entire tooling chain to support it.
Reminds me of this classic pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Specifically this quote: "The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine."

There has been a lot of grumblings about the state of search these days. Maybe the time is nigh for a new search engine?
It's paywalled. I'm not interested.

Perhaps I'm a fool, but I don't want to be part of that kind of internet. Most of my blogs have no ads. There are no paywalls. There is no subscription.

I am trying to monetize it with Patreon and tips because I want that information to be freely available, but I have bills to pay. I gotta eat and I'm frequently broke.

I'm flat broke right now. That's an all too common occurrence.

So I'm pretty fed up with hearing people decry the evils of ads on the internet, decry paywalls and on and on because the same crowd that does all that turns around and tells me "Get a real job. Writing doesn't pay." and sees zero connection between their desire for free writing and my intractable poverty.

Meanwhile, local papers are going out of business left and right and it's a threat to political freedom.

I do everything I can to be an independent voice on various topics and people who bitch and moan endlessly about the loss of such do nothing but kick me in the teeth and tell me to stop whining about my problems.

If you want independent voices, support their Patreon. Give them tips. Don't kick the shit of them for posting their own stuff. Share their stuff.

Etc.

This is the world you are helping to create. You can be part of the solution or part of the problem. I have been desperately trying for years to be part of the solution and it isn't paying my bills, making me any friends, etc.
It's not just the "major platforms."

I have a blog which I've maintained for a long time and continue to publish on. But for a lot of the material I write on a day to day basis, I can publish at online pubs/sites where I have editorial support, an established audience, and promotional machinery. I'm not limited--I can always publish by myself--but for many of the things I write about I might as well choose an existing publication.
Yes, the moisturiser mitigates the issue but will not solve it. If you need to sanitise your hands a lot and they’re sensitive you may want to use or switch to disposable gloves.
I have a Digital ocean droplet that costs me $5/mo. I host a static site at https://mrosenberg.pub using Jekyll, nginx, and Lets Encrypt.
For JS, cynical take would be that Javascript is just being consistent in making every wrong choice in language design. More serious (and more correct) answer is that, being single-threaded, adding any kind of threads would be pretty adventurous. Async/await as a sugar for promises is a decent improvement over using promises directly, so it's not so bad of a choice after all.

As for C#, some kind of fibers appear to have been considered but deemed too hard or not worth the trade-offs. See here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/11084

The acceptable alternative was, apparently, forcing to programmers to litter their code with words such as async/await/task in-between the words and symbols that actually describe the purpose of their program, should they want to take advantage of non-blocking IO. All the way throughout the call-stack, nonetheless. And you also get crap like this: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/pull/4868
I appreciate that you took the time to comment. Thanks for that.

If you are referring to the layout of the website, it's a custom theme I wrote specifically for writing tutorials like this. It's heavily inspired by the Octopress theme for Jekyll.
Or Taxes? Weren't a lot of historical criminals indicted for tax crimes instead of murder, kidnap or other things they committed?
YouTube automatically deletes Chinese epithet 'communist bandit'
Boaty McBoatface
I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app
What should you take a position in?
Testability. Single biggest reason for us not going with the proprietary queue. We can create, reset, throw away queues as we want during testing, thousands times a day. Even on a laptop.
I blog via blogger.com. You can use your own domain name with a blogger site.

I do so for some things.
If we did just that for three weeks all of this would be over.
I'd really rather not we go down the rabbit hole of "class"ifying websites by their method of serving animated clips. GIFs have trade-offs, but on balance they're the most useful for their purpose.
It's simply not true that they keep being wrong. Yes, hyper-inflationists were wrong. But "much larger inflation"-ists were not wrong.

Anything with inelastic supply has gotten more expensive by an average of about 3% every year for the last decade: health care [0], education [1], real estate [2]. That's 50% higher inflation than the 2% conventional target, and arguably after the revelations of 2008 one might justifiably expect even lower than 2% natural inflation.

Then there's the very rapid rise in the price of stocks which is itself a form of price inflation (it takes more money to buy the same share of the productive economy).

Anything rich people/institutions hold or supply in exchange for dollars from laborers has gotten more expensive at a substantially-higher-than-normal rate.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/Medical-care/price-inflation

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/College-tuition-and-fees/price...

[2] https://www.in2013dollars.com/Housing/price-inflation
How to earn money from your photos?
Risk vs reward. If there is immunity, then developing herd immunity sooner rather than later is important (even more so if there's immunity but it's only short-term). If there's no immunity, we're, excuse the expression, fucked anyhow.

Can vaccines even be developed if there's no natural immunity?
That’s really an application issue, but god damn is it an annoying one.
The Fed isn’t actually buying any stocks. And neither are companies diluting anybody to sell anything to the Fed.

What the Fed is buying is bonds. Which are non-dilutive.

I understand the sentiment, but let’s try to get the facts right
You might as well use APNG then, which is more widely supported too.
You have the perfect name for someone making emotive machines.

Would you do demos for well known speeches/texts? It'd be easier to put this into context that way.
HEIF is patent-encumbered and a non-starter.
But then don’t you lose the qualities that make water important in disinfecting?
It was weird reading this. My blog's been around for 16 years, always on my own platform(s), never on Blogger, Wordpress or the like (I have a presence on Medium, but post very seldom since I see little value in it).

Most of the 200-odd RSS feeds I follow are unique voices (albeit 50 or so are "mass market" stuff like Anandtech, The Verge, etc., just so that I know what is making the headlines).

We've always been here. Search results and social networks have added a lot of noise, but you can still get signal.
They didn't go anywhere. Other ways to publish that information cropped up alongside them.
South Korea is this context similar to an island . While it is peninsula the only land border is with North Korea and highly guarded , effectively you can only enter by flying in just like an island.
Introducing mathematical notation into philosophy gives, not the firm foundation, but some firm foundation, upon which to argue. Otherwise a whole lot of shite is spewed and no progress is made.

In its are sentences of long words that serve to emote, cajole and frankly baffle rather than enlighten. There's some of it here but it's not the worst. What I can't accept is stuff like

" has been to persuade many philosophers that the rich panoply of entities the world throws at us can be reduced to individuals and sets of various sorts, for example sets as properties, sets of ordered tuples as relations, sets of possible worlds as propositions, and so on and so forth. It is hard to know where to start in revealing the scope of the damage caused to ontology by the thoughtless or supposedly scientifically economic reduction of various entities to sets"

To model something you need to simplify it. What's he suggesting instead?

Other oddities " Richmond Thomason notes that Montague saw grammar as a branch of mathematics and not (as in Chomsky) of psychology". Pretty sure Chomsky's hierarchy of grammars, types 3 to 0, are considered by him as mathematical, not psychological.

Not my area but I'm not convinced it's worth digging into this paper.

(edit)

Further down we get to the bullshit. The emotive crap: "tiresome to continue citing further absurdities in philosophy resulting from the over-zealous application" so instead we replace defined set theoretic terms with english, delights such as, replacing <x,y> with x followed by y; x and y in that order. Ha ha ha now explain what logical implication means without being formal. (edit: and then show me some symbol manipulation using it, without the symbols) Not happening.

I do understand the terminology is intimidating, and there's much to be said for annotating the set-theoretic with plain english as he suggests but to replace it... that would be a massive step backwards.
Yes, and would Apple please support WebP in Safari as the only remaining holdout? Before we all just boycott Safari and go ahead and use WebP anyways.
“marketing” is probably not the right word since there is no money backing it, and it's not a concerted effort either. “Fashion” would fit better I think.

Rust has long been something intellectually interesting (solving memory issues found in C and C++, while keeping their low level and with equal performance is quite a feat), but it recently started to become affordable to use (libraries are maturing, there's tons of quality learning material, and even the language itself reached a level of polish that was simply not here before), then many people who have had it somewhere on their radar for a while took the leap, and now share their enthusiasm. And the interested ones who are still waiting for a good occasion to learn it upvote and then it ends up on the front page.
And now, you get this kind of low-quality content, which is merely surfing on the trend to get some clicks.

This kind of things happened with Go a few years back, or with node before that, such is the fashion life of the programming world.
If the language is strongly typed and reduces opportunistic threats of mis-application or unexpected data, I'd consider that an upside.

If the compiler targets multi-cores and the language helps express implicit parallelism or asynchronous code possibilities which map to multi core, better than the original language, then thats net beneficial too.

If the language encourages coding patterns which are extensible or re-usable, then its possible the runtime code state gets smaller as increased use of shared code patterns leads in the longer term to more COW shared libraries.
Immigrants are not refugees.
That didn’t answer my question about what kind of water to use.
this is awesome, needs a timer though. But I guess I know what our team is doing during our daily 15 min non work meetup
Codio: A media format to record and playback the process of programming
Yeah and when I think about writing about rehashing basic things, I realize why those basic things are so prevalent and why they actually shouldn't be rehashed. It's like a call to enlightenment.
I didn't realize this was an old article initially and I was thinking to myself... Yes it's true. So right, Facebook should not even be worth $33 billion!
I thought he was going to argue that most of the profits which FB makes come from large corporations which have easy access to free credit and just pour the money into Facebook ads as a way to get tax deductions and faster growth by artificially reducing their profit margins. Then those profits show up on Facebook's books instead!

That somehow it was all the result of the US Federal Reserve Bank's decade long policy of near 0% interest rates.

Based on how the world used to be, DHH would be absolutely right - But the world has changed. The financial system is an elaborate fraud and we must all find ways to accept it and navigate it.
Excuse the incivility once again, but no.

While we're on the topic of linguistic pedantary, strain isn't exclusive to direct mutations from a parent genome. Strains, like much of biological taxonomy, are a human abstraction to make communication of the idea of -- in this case -- "a virus sharing similar properties to coronaviruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome" -- albeit this is a very simplified definition for the sake of brevity.

SARS is caused by SARS-CoV-1 and COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2.

Rather, if we would like to be absolutely correct about these classifications, we would say SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both strains of SARSr-CoV (Severe accute respiratory syndrome related coronavirus), which in itself is a species, an abstract concept used to group related organisms into a convenient umbrella term.

There is no "eukaryote" organism the same way there is no "SARSr-CoV" organism. The added "r" was a recent addition when COVID-19 was discovered.

I will cede that I didn't specify this last point, and you were correct to point it out.
Transparency is supported now.

https://codepen.io/pbhj/pen/dyPzwEj
Because by and large it’s good enough outside of special cases.

Video formats get something new pretty much by necessity as resolution and quality increases mean older formats strain links.

Serving a 100k heif instead of a 500k jpeg is not going to materially change much.
That annoys me too. However, you can easily read the full text below that button - it's all there.
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There will always be some subset of goods that rise in price faster than the rest of the basket especially when those goods have artificial constraints on supply. That doesn't mean that inflation is rising faster than the overall basket of goods.

When we talk about the rate of inflation we aren't talking about the cost of health care or education or real estate or really any other particular good. We're talking about the value of money.
If videos looped seamlessly I'd happily serve videos. Sadly, they do not.
That's definitely the way to do it. For my first game I built pong.
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> To model something you need to simplify it. What's he suggesting instead?

But is set theory "simple"? The author mentions several ways in which it is the opposite of simple.

Also - if you need to model _something_, that doesn't mean you should try to model _everything_ with the same kind of model.
At the moment you more or less need to write a DBMS in your app code, but I don't think that's the end state. I think what we're seeing the beginnings of something big - it just might not seem like it yet because it's the v1 / no where near complete version. I think having all your data in a single system (Kafka, KsqlDb, ..) that allows you to work with it in cross paradigm ways will turn out to be very compelling.
> Anonymizes pool of financial gifts but he was in contact with the guy? Is that a joke?

More than a joke, it sounds like Ioannidis was out right lying. From the article:

> But according to Neeleman, the authors did know he’d given money to fund the study. Neeleman confirmed that he made a $5,000 donation to Stanford to be given to these researchers and that he was in communication with them while they were conducting their research.
Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
This looks pretty cool. When I was learning Go a long time ago, I used a site called Gophercises and found it really helped me understand the language better.