skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to fully justify it myself (I'm not sure I believe it either), but more to provide a devil's advocate perspective:

- A key part of the financial crisis is that, collectively the group of auditors and risk evaluators and experts who are supposed to understand/evaluate/quantify risk, generally failed to properly price in the risk of mortgage-backed securities failing en masse (they basically said, the chance of this happening is astronomically low, and were wrong by many orders of magnitude). Taleb's point was that, for certain events, it is surprisingly difficult to accurately assess their true probability, and even very advanced, highly-paid experts (with a strong vested interest in getting it right), can fail (and fail spectacularly). One of the lessons here is, to not place too much mis-placed confidence in certain kinds of estimates, and to be skeptical of gambling on certain probabilities which are fundamentally non-verifiable or hard to verify (even though they might look like regular probabilities and come packaged with lots of nice documentation and fancy equations and backed by lots of PhDs who tell you how wonderful their models are... we still need to be skeptical). When the weatherman tells you there's a 40% chance of rain, you can be sure that even though he might be wrong, he is very unlikely to be wrong by orders of magnitude (i.e. that the actual chance of rain is 4% or 0.004% or 100%); when a quant at an investment bank tells you that a AAA-rated MBS will fail with probability 0.00001%, you probably shouldn't trust that number in the same way, even though both are probabilities and both come with models and equations to support them.

- With COVID-19 and pandemics in general, it's not clear that the relevant public health experts failed to price in the risk or to accurately estimate/approximate the risk. What seems more likely is that our governments and businesses failed to heed their advice (i.e. that pandemics are inevitable, that they will happen with some regularity e.g. every 10-30 years, that in a globally connected world they will spread more rapidly than ever, etc.), and failed to act on the advice they were given (or in the case of the US, almost literally threw out the pandemic response handbook and ignored it). This makes it less of a "black swan" problem, and more of a regular (though still spectacular) failure of governance.

I might argue however that, there is perhaps a general tendency to incorrectly categorize such things as "black swan" events, which is an interesting phenomenon in and of its own (i.e. why do people want to take white swans and paint them black or to simply pretend as if they were black when they are not).
Not really... I've applied to multiple positions on linkedin and the only one that responded was a rejection because I was asking too much; their hourly rate that could offer was between 15$ and 20$. Hamburg startup rates, apparently, according to them.

I was asking 72k$ per year for a PHP position with 6 years experience working for a company and around 3-4 years part-time freelancing.
Don’t you set your own rates and timings at Toptal? From what I can see it functions more as a talent agency than as an employer.
I think that law was changed in 2005 to allow product patents.
By christian names. Hindus mostly look alike and you can't figure out someone's caste by just looking at them. People usually ask for your full name to figure out your caste and if you give them a christian name, they usually understand that you don't have caste. Usually names are the first things everyone exchanges, so people don't end up learning that I am christian later. I am fair and tall ( 6 ft ) so that also works in my favour.
The world has changed pretty substantially from my teenage days when I'd happily run pirated software. Back in the day viruses and malware would either screw with your computer in amusing and reversible ways (so long as you had a good backup), or spam you with popup ads. Maybe they'd relay spam mail for a while until you noticed your internet connection was useless and run a virus scan.

The damage malware can do now is so much deeper - encrypting all your files, which then gets synchronised out through the tool you were using for backups automatically, before holding them to ransom. Then it turns your light bulbs into DDoS nodes to spread that to people across the internet, and probably you won't notice because you're on a fast enough connection for that to fly under the radar.
Emerging Covid-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment
Things like lisp, forth and also lambda calculus are conceptually clean. In theory one can write anything in them in a conceptually clean way. However, doing so one has also puts programming and/or computers in a straight jacket which one is going to notice as soon as one wants optimal performance. This is simply not possible anymore. The language that exposes the machine as cleanly as possible is clearly C. But this is not conceptually clean anymore because now one can store information in global variables, on the stack and on the heap. I.e., one has three ways to store values. This is not conceptually clean anymore but it is how one is required to think of computers to do much with them in a performant way. Note that the 'simple' languages actually only expose one of these three concepts to the programmer. In Lisp and the lambda calculus only the heap is exposed and in forth only the stack. In practice, though, implementations of these languages often expose more than what they do in theory. At that point they are no longer clean anymore and I kind of fail to see the point in that case.
> The big catch is most people forget to factor in their internet cost writing it off mentally as "I was already going to have it", a sentiment the streaming services want you to have.

It reads oddly for you to present something unequivocally true as a catch, especially during a pandemic when most people are especially relying on internet service to talk with friends and family, work, and education.
Besides 'HN Who is hiring' I'm looking at aggregators

https://workaline.com/

https://remoteweekly.cc

https://remotelypeople.com/

Also, you can find remote jobs in those decent list of companies https://www.levels.fyi/still-hiring/
A tale of latency and broken windows
Python 101 – Launching Subprocesses with Python
The most important part of my point is not that I believe that they can’t be replicated, it’s that an IDE offers them with a time investment that’s nearly zero (I spend a couple hours per year fiddling with my IDE settings, tops).

I’d add that I am also quite doubtful that although they may be replicated, in many cases there aren’t going to be gotchas and UX problems not present in one of the popular IDEs. I can’t remember the specifics but I know that when I set up code completion in vim it wasn’t nearly as good as the one in my editor.

Never heard of spacevim but I have tried a few other “plug-and-play” vim adjutants like Pathogen and always ended up running into problems and spending more time on the issue than I had signed up for. Might solve some of the problems I mention, but I’m afraid it’s too late for me.

My IDE does everything I need and more, working out of the box on all machines I own (they’re not even that powerful) with fantastic UX and minimal fuss. I’m a Jetbrains guy so it costs me 6€/month but amortized per hour spent it might as well be free. If I wanted to save that nominal cost I’d go with VSCode, which I’ve worked with before and is nearly as good.

I’d turn this around and ask, why would I ever switch to pure vim?
As an American I never really understood how bad the caste system was until I went to an Indian restaurant and arrived a few minutes before it opened for dinner.

The owner, an Indian gentlemen, invited me into the restaurant rather than making me wait until it opened. He was exceedingly polite and even offered me a complimentary cup of tea while I waited for the restaurant to open.

Then he barked something in an Indian language (I would presume Hindi but I don't know there are a lot of languages spoken in India) and a small man who looked older than he probably is came out of the kitchen with the tea for us.

He would not look us in the eye. He had only a few teeth.

I didn't realize until after I left the restaurant that the Indian family who owned the restaurant probably brought their lower caste servants from India with them to labor at the restaurant.

The whole thing made me feel terrible and I haven't been back to the restaurant since.
I use Autohotkey to map Caps+H to Left, etc. systemwide
Which part of the OP deals with megacorps?

I don't like megacorps either but I don't see which part of the OP you disagree with.

>Isn't it hypocritical to ask for money from common man to fix problems that they created in the first place (like pollution)?

No. I think a better word is "unseemly". I don't think it's hypocritical for a company or person to use carbon and then buy carbon offsets or donate to the rain forest or something.

Even if it were hypocritical I would still rather have a polluting corporation that fought pollution than a polluting corporation that didn't.

>if they really cared that much, why can't they donate a dollar (or whatever amount) from their profit every time I shop there?

Many of them do just that. I don't think corporate giving is the solution to society's problems but it is a real thing that happens and can make a difference for some people.

Corporations of course do things for marketing and PR reasons. If one of you things is to encourage you to donate or to donate themselves then I don't see the problem (although I am annoyed having to press a bunch of buttons to pay).
PyDev of the Week: Florian Dahlitz
Time Machine (I don't know if that is what they are talking about, but it's an example) is designed to be used daily as well as in case your laptop explodes. Opening Time Machine allows you to go back and see every version of a file as long as your backup drive was connected when you saved it.
https://indeed.com -- You can specify remote
Xetra, Eurex and their T7 users Wiener Borse, Budapest Stock Exchange, and some others were halted most of the morning - luckily the stocks can be traded elsewhere, but the derivatives not so much.
I wouldn't say that, and I've interfaced with most of them

it's better than Euronext Optiq, but that's about it
Congratulations!

Did you also consider leanpub?
CodeGuru: Now Programmers Can Find Costly Code Using This ML Tool
I'm enjoying Manning Book's "The Joy of JavaScript", in early access but available. I'm currently reading about how mixins are done using JavaScript's unique features, and I'm looking forward to the function programming and algebraic data types.
It sounds like you’re angrily agreeing with me, but I’m not sure.

Side point: I’m not American, and what you wrote reads like “you guys” means “white Americans” (I’m not sure which political block, if any, is implied); this impression is in part because in my experience only Americans say “in actuality”.
Expressive power of graph neural networks and the Weisefeiler-Lehman test
Maybe they meant implicit return after the last block statement (ie the implicit return void)? But that's not exclusive to arrow functions, so probably not.
Didn't the State of California just repeal its workplace anti-discrimination law?
Show HN: We'll be live streaming ourselves building a product in a weekend
Trading has continued hours ago, probably even before this article was even published.

In a first statement, they blamed algo-traders which created (and within milliseconds deleted) a ton of pointless orders, like buying Wirecard for 0,05EUR (which is ~1/100th of the current price). Yes, they explicitly called out orders on Wirecard. So basically... Denial of Service by bot-traders.
didn't get one for the same thing in April (4 hour outage), no reason to expect we'll get one this time either
Congrats Swyx! Picked up my copy, can't wait to dig into it!
That's definitely something studios all over the world would greatly benefit from. Right now, they're just trying to never ever change the machine that runs those plugins unless they absolutely must.

Although there are a few larger DRM "alliances", for some reason manufacturers have not yet been able to agree on a common DRM and package management system. Currently every larger company and a number of smaller ones want to push their own plugin management system.

VSTs are a mess anyway, there are only few hosts who are able to scan all of them correctly without crashing (and these do it by separating the process that crashes from the rest of the host).
Yes, they are. The ratio is relevant within the place, even in insulation.

That ratio basically determines the economy productivity.
Yes, I am trying to get as far away from all major US cities as well. Remote work is hear to stay.
> Why can’t I be anti-vaccine and pro-choice?

That is not a box others want you to be put in. People want a justification for their views. There are the nazis and the people that think they are better than nazis (hint: not hard) and build their raison d'être around that. Well, nazis are quite unpleasant. Still, anything that might convince them of being wrong, which a position that cannot put you into firmly defined groups will do, will result in hostilities. Furthermore the tactics of both opponents will become the same with time. In the end there isn't even much difference between fascists and their opponents. Again, you fight the former most effectively by ignoring them and see the rights of people protected, that are target of the mobs. Those involved will quickly loose any conscience. It is the result if you believe you were wronged because people are somehow oppressing you. That is also when you loose your believe in meritocracy/fairness.

I don't think your perception of people not working in your interest is true. You should differentiate between public statements and deeds though. Meritocracy will still prevail in the long run.
I've found my last two jobs through stackoverflow. They have a filter for remote.
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?r=true
Lua's weak point is around doing things with arrays, IME. It's just not very fast when you actually need something simple.

I actually started poking around at a language design over the past month that tries to leverage Lua as the compiler for something that can run in its own separate bytecode interpreter, with more of an emphasis on low level primitives. It started off as a simple adaptation of Forth ideas, but yesterday I started playing with a revision that shifts the data structure from plain old stack towards growable arrays containing three cursors(thus, "tricursor array") which can be purposed to describe bounds, destinations, insertion points, read and write, top of stack, etc. In Forth the top three values of the stack tend to get dedicated words for their manipulation because they are used quite often; this model runs with that idea plus methods I've often used for array data(text edits, sound sample loops, blotting sprites) and tries to extrapolate that into a language that can ease certain forms of array programming, while falling back on using the array as a data stack. Still just sketching it now.
That said, patent restrictions are arguably the only reason the drug exists in the first place. So let's not get out over our skis here.
> This is fallout from the exclusion of Italian immigrants from the higher classes in the early 20th century

I am Italian and I can assure you that those who remained in Italy are not different. Large part of the Italian immigration to the US comes from the south, where the different types of mafia are only the official and extreme degree of a widespread culture of corruption, shady dealings and reciprocal abuse.
When I first started using jq, all of the examples I was following used the short-form. It took me a while to figure out how to use the functions and do some advanced transforms because of this. Since this article is Part 1 of a series I suspect the author will cover this in a later article.

From a teaching perspective it is probably best to start with the long-form.
Build your first crypto app using Amazon HoneyCode
Product name Linear doesn't seem to be the best choice to me. Google search (correctly) gives linear algebra results.
This, I work in specialty pharmacies and Remdesivir is a complicated drug to produce.

Currently Gilead believe they can bring down their production time from 8-12 months 6-8 months, that means we won't see a large supply of this drug until 2021.
I used this when looking and think it needs to be shared wider. Everyone should feel free to contribute! (Not mine btw I found it during my last job hunt)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLJSlNxCbwRNxy14Toe1...
> Hate speech may be in a dictionary but its not well enough defined to decide whether or not someone actually broke any law

In many countries it IS defined in such a way.

>"how do we get there?" Peacefully maybe? Maybe not? Maybe its just a really stupid idea and there is no reason to find a way to get there? But anyway there is no call for violence anywhere in the expressed opinion.

If you argue against every option but violence, you indicate your support indirectly.

> Consequently? Really?

Yes. The radicalization patterns are well documented and it starts with self proclaimed intellectuals who use lies to lead viewers down a certain path that leads to even more extreme views.

Same holds for Muslim extremists. And while we don't ban the Quran, we DO ban or investigate some religious groups. Now, this is in some ways more easy because they often meet in real life.
How to build an on-demand Uber for handyman app?
jq is honestly one of my favorite tools ever. Super powerful yet simple.

I've written some relatively complex programs with it, e.g. this one [1] I just wrote to manipulate the output from neuron [2] to generate index files based on tags. It's probably overkill/not as efficient as it could be, but I wanted to be able to expand upon it later.

I think once you grok the basics, which can be a bit confusing at first, you can accomplish some amazing things with the help of a few of the more advanced features like reduce, to_entries/from_entries, etc.

I really wish it was more actively developed, I feel like it actually has potential to be a semi-general-purpose functional programming language.

1: https://gist.github.com/b50a047115d1dcf1f15c16a6f7b71e3c

2: https://github.com/srid/neuron
Selective reading?

He acknowledges Tesla to be difficult to fit, right under the "Tier Table": "[...] Tesla not really properly fitting into any category (with their category being the closest fit)".

And in the "Bonus: Reputation" section, he supplies an argument/reasoning what he doesn't like about Tesla:

[...]I find the Tesla thing interesting since their responses are basically the opposite of what you'd expect from a company that was serious about safety. [...], they often have a very quick response that's basically "everything is fine". I would expect an organization that's serious about safety or improvement to respond with "we're investigating", [...]

For example, on the driver-side small overlap test, Tesla had one model with a relevant score and it scored Acceptable (below Good, but above Poor and Marginal) even after modifications were made to improve the score. Tesla disputed the results, saying they make "the safest cars in history" and implying that IIHS should be ignored in favor of NHSTA test scores[...]

(end quote).

In that context I think it's important not to skip on Tesla and mention the above. And by giving his thoughts this allows readers to make up their own opinion (and you're free to come to your own conclusion).

Full disclosure: Safety was one of the main reasons to get a Volvo. However, I am not someone to hate on Tesla.
Yes, they were at least partly :- https://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/trading/production-n... (but not Powernext - they are still on a different platform )
We've (in the US) have been captured by two parties that are exploiting us to prevent democracy from breaking out. How does the elite stay elite? Take the anger that people have from being in a rigged system and focus it on the other party or someone else instead of the people that write the laws.

I would argue that Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Trump 2016, and the latest social unrest are all symptoms of an unresponsive political system. People are angry, and looking for someone to blame. With social media amplifying the anger, the whole situation may get out of control and damage the US for years to come.
Terminal 1:

mkdir /tmp/project
cd /tmp/project
touch file{1,2}
ls | entr -d echo "a change"

Terminal 2:

rm file2

Terminal 1:

entr: cannot open 'file2': No child processes

Regarding `-d`:

> Track the directories of regular files provided as input and exit if a new file is added. This option also enables directories to be specified explicitly. Files with names beginning with ‘.’ are ignored.

So first, it doesn't track NEW directories, and second, it exits if new file is added. Exactly how is this useful?

EDIT: All I want from filesystem watcher is to track files by pattern and just re-run the command, however complex that may be to implement via OS interfaces. When I'm working on a Python project that has packages (directories), I may also refactor (rename files), and this simplistic behavior does not catch that.
Kudos on the launch!

If I read this correctly, your team isn't discovering new drugs, but addressing the logistical need of building new compounds to make drugs, using ML to circumnavigate the most efficacious route to generate said compounds. Once complete, you actually outsource to manufacturers to build the compound molecules using your ML generated map.

Is that close?
Eurex was down:

https://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/trading/production-n...
Impatient Programmers should be reading "Patience for Impatient People" or consider an alternate career.
YGBSM. Are you sure that you want this post to stay up?

EDIT: I removed the quote of your insult, and simply flagged your post. Let's be adults, here. I'll probably remove this post before the two hours are up.
PredictIt has letters of non-enforcement from either the SEC or the one that regulates commodities trading or both. It’s more than just saying “academic”.
It’s been a while since I looked further into this, but are you accounting for data transfer fees as well? I recall that being a non-trivial cost.
> It can and should

That last word is the problem: there are many people, without a drop of sarcasm, irony, or smiling, who think government should indeed be run like a business.

A public information campaign on why that’s not the case certainly seems important to greatly reduce this idea’s popularity. Are there any groups doing this?
Zen vs. the U.S. Navy
According to the comment IDs, you beat me to the punch by 4 comments. Looks like i need to upgrade my HN commenting stack to use an FPGA ...
Depends entirely on how much they pay for the content. Is it profitable?
Wiretap Orders Were Up 10 Percent In 2019
Have you tried shadowcljs? Its default (:shadow) option is to use advanced optimizations only on your code; it will not run advanced optimizations in libraries but will include them minified. For me, this has struck a good balance and delivers consistently small and dependable bundles.
You do realise that's the tool TFA is about right?
I second that spreadsheet. Easy to search and sort information such as nb employees, city, country.
Another anecdote, my previous manager has one of those last names. He was hiring for a position and screening the resumes. He would send them to me for initial phone screen. After a while, I saw a pattern, all the candidates he chose to move forward with had same last names.
Python mostly. VScode just seems to get in the way with a lot of things.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm continuously surprised by how many tools exist in the *nix ecosystem that I've never come across. It makes me question if there's a discoverability problem here. Is there any website that broadly categorizes what utilities are available given a desired goal?