skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are providing similar services to several financial institutions using a first-party solution we have developed over the course of the last 5 years. Our approach for enabling non-technical people to impact the business is on a radically-different side of the spectrum though. Instead of "no/low" code with fancy UIs and modules, we went in the other direction. We asked the following question:

"Can we reorganize the codebase in order to expose common business concerns in such a way that non-technical people can reason with them simply by viewing the source code?"

The answer so far has been a resounding "Yes". We proved that there was extreme amounts of value in non-technical people being able to read the current state of the business implementation. Using functional business rules instead of imperative ones makes all the difference in the world. E.g. "if(CustomerIsAMinor) {...}" vs "if(customer.Age<MinorLimit && someothercondition) {...}". Using C#8 and having the ability to use functional paradigms as well as things like pattern matching also enable us to write highly expressive code that non-technical people enjoy reading. Also, really basic stuff like splitting important points of focus into class partials can make it 10x easier for non-developers to get into that 1 focused file and understand what is going on (e.g. MyBankWorkflow.CustomerValidations.cs).

But we didn't stop there. We then asked this question:

"Could non-developers make changes to certain areas of the codebase?"

We have done a few trials with our project managers and are finding that they are more than capable of: turning a new branch in GitHub, checking it out locally, opening Visual Studio, updating a parameter listing or resource file, making a commit, and then submitting a PR for review (typically by an actual developer). As confidence with this practice grows, we will further expand the "safe" areas of the codebase (i.e. what non-developers are allowed to edit).

Ultimately, we are trying to move into a direction where the development team is more of an internal consulting group rather than the means by which every line of code must be authored. The other view of this is that highly-intelligible source code is also useful for quickly ramping new employees and growing the team. We are beginning to view our codebase as not just a tool for the developers, but something that anyone in the organization should be able to work with in some useful way.

If you think more broadly about this cyberpunk reality we are sliding into, this is the only reasonable path. You have to enable everyone in your organization relative to the technology. You cant afford to slap a Fisher Price UI around every scary technical thing you run into. Tear down your silos and do not be afraid to show code to your project managers or even customers. Start writing your new business apps with these ideas in mind and you may reap some very unexpected benefits down the road.
The Need for Speed (1997)
Just want to add. The return to "normal" is when a majority of the world population is infected. Not when the virus is starved of hosts. Host starving has never been successfully achieved against corona's, even in the ancient times before motors and easy world travel were around.
Having used functional languages extensively in a job setting and now using C++ more and more, I find that there's nothing wrong in just writing procedural code if that's easier. Easier both to write and easier to read later. I've seen people take 20 minutes to write a single line of functional Javascript or Kotlin, when the underlying work is obvious and just writing the loop directly would be faster to create and much easier to understand later by you or anyone else who has to read the code.

The move to functional-style code the last many years seems a bit silly to me. Even C++ has been moving in a well-known trend of "no raw loops" in favor of the algorithms header in STL. I don't find there is a significant reason to abandon easy code most of the time. If you actually need to use the functional paradigm to swap out behavior in a polymorphic fashion using functions instead of inheritance, for example, then great.
The Fermi bubbles are super-prominent, is eROSITA the first x-ray telescope sensitive to detect them?
The Disproportionate Joy of Getting Paid Users [video]
And what is the angular resolution of the real thing?
Ask HN: Would you play this game?
Every few days, you are given questions related to topics you are interested in.

For example:
Politics => "who will win the 2020 US presidential election?"

Economics => "will the SP500 close above 3500 on July 31, 2020?"

Sports => "who will win the 2020 UEFA champions league finals?"

Etc.

The questions will be indisputably answerable after a certain date. Players can submit their predictions in varying forms such as "yes/no", "Trump", "Trump 30% / Biden 70%", etc. Predictions can be updated until a preset deadline.

Players can wager points and receive payout points for each question. Players will be ranked according to their predictive ability. Rewards will be given out every quarter to the best performers in each topic.

Anyone is welcome to play including casual news junkies, hardcore sports fans, and data modelers.

I believe this game can become a fun way to encourage accountability and transparency for predictions.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/287444/how-to-clean-the-clip...

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=286096

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60937438/how-to-clear-th...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48490382/how-to-clear-bo...
I'm not sure if I'd put a lot of stock in a Bloomberg article versus an Apple supplier. Isn't this the same Bloomberg who filled a political debate audience full of plants to cheer for himself, after buying his way on to the stage?
> The difference is, in our culture as it is now Apple can’t possibly take damage from such a statement, while women regularly suffer violence from men.

So your counterfactual claim is that if statements about about women "scheming" didn't exist, violence against women would be lower? That seems like a pretty strong causal claim when all we have is correlative data.

It could simply be that the people who are violent against women start and perpetuate such statements, rather than that such statements causes people to be violent towards women.
I think we can just assume that in a nuclear war or major EMP event the Internet will be one of the first things to go.

But this is one of the best uses of a Raspberry Pi. A Pi with an external USB drive and a small display will run off solar battery power, but still have enough storage for a complete Manual for Rebuilding Everything.

Add some EMP protection [1] and update the Manual from GitHub once a month or so, and you're set.

[1] And food.
In pure form, gold is a fairly useless metal, except for being hard to obtain, being shiny and staying shiny.

That’s why I think it historically, had 3 only uses: as money, to show wealth, and to show power.

Also “ritual” is not a well-defined concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual says it may include coronations, can be part of warfare, etc), so declaring something as “ritual” most of the time isn’t a bold claim. In this case, I would think it mostly says “it doesn’t look like a form of money, and we don’t see people at the time use this to make a living”.
EEE 2.0. The social aspect is just an antitrust indulgence.

Seems to be working fine for hoi polloi. For now, at least.
Many disagree with this. Others defend such ads, claiming that the process of blind peer review is broken anyway.
> Android while perfectly able resolve your first request (video calls and web browser)

Android did not have a FaceTime equivalent back in 2010 to 2014. I know, because I tried it. A simple app where you pressed the contact name and it called the person, reliably and consistently was all that was needed.

There might have been Viber but I didn’t trust that company at all. But when I’m dealing with non tech literate people, I want a consistent, unchanging experience, and that’s what FaceTime was and what all the Android video calling apps lacked.
Yes, but demand response for thermostats, EVs, water heaters, even overnight ice freezing for daytime cooling use - all those are dispatchable loads.
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The Thrush
I don't. That's the rub with anything iPhone/iPad. Ultimately I'm at the mercy of Apple's app review process.
There are European countries that have their own digital IDs that provide authentication and signing.
Also cool: the last one wasn't discovered until 2015.
Three Cheat Codes for Founders
HN Flagged – We need to be able to have difficult discussions
First clue I noticed from the 1st photo was they seem to drive on the left hand side, which is fairly rare. The language on the signs obviously is a great clue.
I think that’s the core of the problem. With strong googlefu you used to be able to find what you wanted if it existed. Google have made search far easier; for imprecise searches the top few hits are probably going to be what I want. But if I need something precise, Google can’t help me anymore, no matter what arcane set of search terms, symbols, and flags I use.

I also wish Google would detect when one page and another page are just the same content with different wrappers. You see this a lot with multiple sites that re post mailing list conversations. Google will not only return all the different sites, but will return replies, etc. as if they are unique results. So your entire first page can be a single conversation that just happens to be plastered all over the internet.
It would be ironic if they will ship macOS Simulator for iOS.
I am buying a house and I spent months to find this perfect, simple, contemporary design. This article made me think a lot about my choice of architecture for my home. In my mind, living in ‘boring’, modern, blank, mostly empty spaces gives me a taste of how in my mind the future, 300y from now will look. Less colors and sharp edges bring to my mind less chaos, gives a sense of minimalism and simplicity. I do not want my physical space taking my attention, too many colors and shapes do not help me to think. I make my living from thinking and living my digital life, contemporary design aligns with it.
If you're looking for what is going to be the next digital/industrial/etc revolution, CRISPR is that thing.
For an N=1 sample, I'm a younger person who moved to the Bay just for work and chose as out of the way of a place as I could find to live. If I had found a comparable opportunity nearly anywhere else I would have taken it in a heartbeat.

I did wind up liking it here and have a preference toward staying, but starting every morning with a swim in the ocean and having plentiful hiking opportunities is much more of a contributing factor than the city amenities.
Yup. It isn't even one defined thing. And in the sense that it barely is definable it's no different from placebo. Probably because it is placebo: have an authoritive source tell people if they think some way it'll make them feel better.
This kind of reminds me of my brother. Carrabbas (an Italian chain restaurant) brings out their bread with a small plate of herbs/olive oil for dipping the bread...and from the time we were kids he loved it and always described it as tasting like “Christmas”.

One might think this is just an association of flavors, but he never associated any particular foods from Christmas with the herbs but to him is tasted like the actual holiday.
Solving the Fake Coin Problem in Python
It's a shame this is a polemic when it discusses important issues.

It's not as if these issues aren't discussed in architecture. And there are definitely weird pathologies and pomposities in architecture (as in any field), which manifest themselves in a variety of unpleasant ways. But this doesn't mean all we have is ugly buildings; we also have new, playful, and enjoyable buildings as well.

Another HN comment this morning (on a different post) brought up Postel's law and how it is usually both misunderstood and overused. The same applies to "a house is a machine for living" or "form follows function": they can be taken as an excuse to ignore the person, or as a call for: make sure the person's needs are at the centre of the design.

A case of both skill and pathology: One of my homes was designed by an architect and one simply built by a developer. The developer house is adequate. The architect-designed house was a lot more expensive but is also a lot more pleasant to live in. But speaking to those pathologies: it needed a lot of interaction with the architect to make sure it didn't get our of control on design (I'm sure we've all seen this in software too). I think this is why so many corporate buildings end up so sucky: many cooks, complex constraints, and in the end the architect has too much control.
I haven’t seen that data, and it is a fair point. Still, I would argue that at least part of that shift is a result of changes in employability. When my parents were in school, a college degree was not yet considered a pre-requisite for so many people who are entering the work force. In fact, neither of my parents had a degree, yet we were able to live comfortably on just my father’s income. And for those who still carry that view, the situation is much worse today than it was then.
Getting acquihired it seems ... loved the articles, now I probably won't be able to read them anymore. Shame.
Yes sure, but they also command an enormous premium for doing so; perhaps I'm too naive, but I would hope that in a "rational market" this wouldn't be possible. I would expect universities to be running their own publishing entirely to avoid paying for Elsevier's CEO's lifestyle.
Ah, but that distinction was made by the reviewers, who are (in the overwhelmingly vast majority of cases) unpaid; the publisher itself isn't providing that as a service, at least as far as I understand.
there's also the famous bbc1xtra takeover :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIF7iUn-Z8

with a surprise at the end that will please the jungleists
This is a good alternate front-end to Twitter that also provides RSS feeds: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
The human friendly format you're suggesting is Douglas Crockford' Base 32 encoding.
> while there are built-in functions users cannot write their own in the same way.

It's been a while since I've used Excel, but I thought you could write custom methods using VBA that could be called in a given cell.
Risk is a terrible game for anyone who cares about strategy because it has a kingmaker problem. Someone who is terrible at the game can still easily get mad and cause one player to lose by throwing all their armies at them. Monopoly has a similar problem with the ability to trade all your properties to someone for a dollar because someone else pissed you off.
Here: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/wiki/Public-hosts
It's not a data problem, they just literally do not display street names sometimes, even when it's the only road on the screen.
Does Apple actually invests into laptop/desktop development? They are usually couple of years behind competition (DDR3, Sky Lake chips). While their ARM chips are heavily developed.

I think they decided long time ago that ARM is good enough, and are waiting for train to stop to change the engine. It is not about Intel quality, but about saving money and independence. AMD is not even considered as an alternative...
> since it has nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing - to do with race

https://www.etymonline.com/word/master

> In the broadest sense, "one who has power to control, use, or dispose (of something or some quality) at will," from mid-14c. Also from mid-14c. as "one who employs another or others in his service" (in which sense the correlative word was servant, man, or apprentice); also "owner of a living creature" (dog, horse), also in ancient contexts of slaves; paired with slave in the legal language of the American colonies by 1705 in Virginia.

This bit feels like it has a strong connection to racism.

> also in ancient contexts of slaves; paired with slave in the legal language of the American colonies by 1705 in Virginia.
Be advised that betting on elections in the US is illegal.
Lowering the GINI coefficient in a country would be a good start while maintaining or increasing GDP. An example of countries that have done this are Scandinavian countries.

Historically, the GINI coefficient was much lower in the US post WWII, with increased GDP while keeping the GINI coefficient low through benefits conferred to GIs in homesteading, education, loans, and healthcare.
The article title "Power Outage" is a very cute description of Apple's migration away from PowerPC.
20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After $730k Negative Balance
The are also RSSHub, which supports more site, but many of them are Chinese websites.

https://docs.rsshub.app/en/
Show HN: Stocklist – Explore stocks from around the world (Inviting early users)
Internally Apple always had an x86 build of OS X running. Just like I’m sure they have an ARM build running today.

Intel chips ran cooler, had better power efficiency and were way faster at a lot of things than PowerPC.

Leadership was actually super reluctant to switch and it took a demo from an engineer showing the massive improvement to convince them.

If Apple is ready to switch to ARM they must have some impressive CPU. Apples not usually one to dabble here and there, so if they switch it’s going to be a wholesale ordeal. What will this look like for the Mac Pro?
If players would be able to see how other players predicted, this would be similar to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market, except that it might force all players to partake in all predictions (would it? If not, some players might choose to wait for the few almost sure bets to pass by)
Can universities not manage that themselves? Archival isn't a new problem and I don't believe it's a problem that should be tackled by a profit making company; if there were a non-profit responsible for safe-guarding the collective knowledge of humanity that would be one thing, but I'm pretty sure publishers aren't treating this as their aim.
Sondag is a little unusual for this media age, in that she’s spent her entire 20-year career with one company, Bloomberg. She’s transitioning to the top job at CityLab from a six-year stint as a standards and training editor at Bloomberg.

Bloomberg has a reputation in the media world as being a very conservative company to work for. I have a relative who worked for them, and while the pay and perks were solid (thanks in large part to Bloomberg's successful terminal business) you can never criticize the company once you leave owing to a very restrictive NDA tied to severance.

There is also, as the NYT put it, "an entrenched culture of bullying, where women are often objectified and sometimes face discrimination, according to interviews with more than a dozen former employees, as well as lawsuits and internal corporate documents." (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/michael-bloomber...)

For CityLab supporters, I would be very concerned about the way it's being absorbed into the Bloomberg mother ship. There won't be much independence to ask hard questions when buttoned-down Bloomberg lifers are brought in to keep the kids in line and global multinationals like Hyundai are footing the bill.
Ah, I have more experience with SML than OCaml, I just kinda (ignorantly) lumped them together.

I should put some more time in with OCaml, Merlin sounds nice.
For twitter I use the perl backend scripts (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme/tree/master/fcgi) from http://twitrss.me/ by itself. It's pretty easy to scrape twitter users/searches and generate RSS feeds on disk for my native reader.

# in a bash script called by cron every handful of hours there are many, many lines like this:

perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl gnuradio > ~/limbo/www/rss/gnuradio.xml

perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "rtlsdr" > ~/limbo/www/rss/rtlsdr.xml
Given how IPv6 went, a decade seems optimistic.
Thanks for the insight. I meant game points and rewards, not actual currency.
Oh hey, that was also the topic of my master's thesis. In particular doing it for arbitrarily large scenes without running out of memory.

https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2015/WEBER...

Code here: https://github.com/ginkgo/micropolis (I guess it's gotten a bit bit-rotten at this point)
HTTP 2 only recently reached 50% adoption.
There are some gotchas when using sprites/images for hexagons. 1. The bounding boxes overlap, so you'll want to make sure that the sprites have transparent corners so that they don't overwrite what's in the next hexagon. 2. The images won't be exactly regular (equal sided) hexagons because regular hexagons have an irrational side width or height. The image size will be rounded off to the nearest pixel. You'll need to adjust for this in your hexagon calculations, either shrinking or expanding one of the axes a tiny bit so that both axes are integer sized. For example if your hexagon spacing is 173.20508 x 150 then you'll change your spacing to be 173 x 150, or whatever matches your image size.
Oh this brings back memories. I was browsing around this site and came to a section that gives the complete, start-to-finish set of instructions to beat The Black Cauldron. I can't tell you how many hours I spent on that wonderful game. Looking back, I don't even remember if I completed it. Just reading through, I remember various screens being described:
http://textfiles.com/games/blackc.txt
Five highlights on the Spark 3.0.0 Release
Mindfulness is primarily Zen Buddhism stripped of the appearance of religion. As much as I encourage anyone to try either traditional Zen or Mindfulness, pushing it on someone who doesn't want it is absurd.
One of the keys is cost control. That aspect, in addition to municipal building codes, constrains s lot.

If you want to see utilitarian built by the dweller, visit locations where there is no oversight for building: favelas. Purely utilitarian built with tight budgets.
Nonsense, in the context of slavery - as in humans abusing other humans as forced labour - the word master has this meaning. In the context of a version control system it evidently does not.
> What if we don’t have control over the frequency of requests (e.g. using a service like Feedly)?

I believe most RSS reader-clients and aggregator backends are programmed to respect HTTP cache-control headers; so as long as the developer of this service sets those headers appropriately for their endpoints, there shouldn't be a problem.

The warning is likely more for people's custom scripting using curl(1) et al, where there isn't an HTTP cache in the code path.
> Albums are still a thing; people still collect music that they like.

Sorry but this is an ignorant statement about the current landscape. A tiny minority of people still buy mp3s or CDs. Most music these days are consumed via streaming. Just because you do it doesn’t mean that most other people do it. Even I still use Winamp and listen to mp3s but that doesn’t mean that most people still do.
Nonwritten communication is unreliable. People often have different interpretations of what was said and what exactly should be done. The only way to reliably manage work is to have everything written down.
> People like you don't need any of that.

On the contrary, people like me do need it. The status-quo right now is that companies are forcing us to use security theater measures to further secure our accounts. But since those measures are actually weaker than the original password, it actually reduces the actual security around our accounts.

And I never use the remember password feature in my browser because I don't want to inadvertently give someone access to my account if they manage to access my machine.
The article states sources from banking confirmed this theory as well. Not just some lone RCMP.
NeXTStep ran on Intel so when they ported it to PowerPC they simply kept the Intel builds running.