skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't dug very deeply, but from what i can tell google sheets also uses a canvas too and it works with screen-readers somehow.
Paying off a loan contracts the bank’s balance sheet and the liability side thereof is what most private persons use as money.
My favorite quote is at the end:

"Per the report, the Digital Service Academy would serve as a third reservoir for the best and brightest technology workers, but one that would ideally produce graduates imbued with a sense of government duty."

... because places like MIT and Stanford sure as hell don't!

It looks like Schmidt just wants the next generation of students to forgo their dreams of starting the next Google.

I think a better idea to help this country stay competitive is for companies like Google to stop offshoring their operations ... and pay their goddamn taxes like the rest of us.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/31/21044662/google-end-tax-...

https://fortune.com/2019/12/06/big-tech-taxes-google-faceboo...
Solution in search of a problem. What you are suggesting is not a realistic business model and would result in another ever money losing startup.
My comment was more relating to how their schedule (in timing relative to MIT) will be affected, assuming they were trying to use newly made videos.

Probably not the case and they just structure their own course to be similar to MIT's courses.
Yup thats a good point. Govt is a factor. Will be interesting to see what happens when interests don't align between the two.
Pretty insane that the compiler for such a popular language is so basic.
Really fascinating, thanks!
One thing missing from this list -- and pretty much any mention of open source music tools for some reason -- is OpenMPT: an open-source Windows-based tracker with full VST support. It runs great under WINE.

It's a tracker, and not a sequencer-style DAW, but unlike every other open source DAW, it is battle-tested, non-beta non-alpha post-1.0 release software, and capable of producing commercial-quality music.

https://openmpt.org/
Browsers have bugs so it's not really possible to do that and maintain a reliable web.
This line of thinking is exactly what got me down the path of building out Passbox fwiw.

https://passbox.co
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Also a special note of thanks to the clojurians community: the folks on slack are highly responsive, knowledgable, and go deep when they help.
> Nuclear trains might make sense

Modern steam engines!

But I guess they'd have to construct a lot of water stations. The stops to take on water might negate some of the advantages.
Not sure what you are saying.
> See, I think you've missed what everyone in this thread is trying to get at.

Not really, no. "Aesthetic" is "concerned with beauty", not necessarily "beautiful". If you do care about beauty, you care about shape, texture, color.

> Who determines what is fashionable or "aesthetic"?
These are two different things - the first one emerges as industry consensus, the second is your sense of beauty.

> What metrics do they use to decide what they're going to call fashionable?

Literally, I don't care. At all. The discussion wasn't about fashion. OP asked why people would consider hip pockets ugly. The answer was "people who prioritize beauty over function". There's no "they" who determine beauty. We have our own preferences.

My reply wasn't about fashion. It doesn't mention fashion with a single word. Neither does OP. And so I'm deeply amused to see that you think I didn't read closely enough.
While I suppose I can respect that Stallman has principles and sticks to them, he can afford to do so only because of his position, and he doesn't seem to realize the privilege that affords him.

He's also hugely hypocritical; for example, he refuses to own a cell phone, because they're all extremely proprietary, but he won't hesitate to ask to borrow yours when he needs to make a call.

Also, he's... extremely problematic, to say the least, in many other areas.[0][1][2]

And then, from the Wired article, he refuses to use Google Docs to read the deposition, so he asks someone else to use Google Docs to download it for him.

This isn't someone who refuses to have anything to do with proprietary software; it's just someone who refuses to touch it with his own hands. I can only assume that he's ensured all of his internet traffic travels through routers which run open-source, GPL'ed software, but if not then I'm not sure what the difference is.

In other words: Stallman was out of touch even before anyone cared that he seems to be pretty okay with sexual assault, sex with minors, objectifying women, and so on. Now that he is, he deserves to be excised from our discussions on anything but the history of emacs and free software, as well as the discussion of troublesome white men who abuse their power and get away with making other people feel shitty and unwelcome in tech.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...

[2] https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec2...
> I have come to the conclusion that the problem with fractionally reserved money isn't the fractional reservation mechanism at all. Rather, the problem is that banks effectively promise the same money to multiple people at the same time. There is one "piece" of money, but multiple people have claims on it.

Banks get overnight loans to cover the case where creditors want more money than they currently have access to.

There is no single piece of money anywhere anymore.

When you deposit a $100 federal reserve note in the bank you are only giving that bank a means to pay taxes or pay back loans from Federal Reserve Banks. If you take a $100 note to a federal reserve bank they will look at you funny.

The reason this works is that U.S. currency is so stable that any potential commodity you might desire as currency can be paid for with USD money from virtually any bank in the world. Banks are just an accounting system at this point who barely hold any physical thing of value, and only on a just-in-time delivery model. The rest of the economy satisfies the market for transactions between money and goods.

Why doesn't it all fall apart? The federal reserve raises interest rates when there is too much money in circulation, urging banks to pay off their liabilities, thus destroying money.
“what whiteboard coding interviews select for” [pdf]
Great points in parent comment.

Additionally: the problem of nepotism. The most recent shareholder AGM showed up in my YouTube recos. I didn't watch the video, but in the mouse-over preview there were only 3 people: Mukesh, his mother, and his wife.
> ... back in the day people used to just carry spare batteries to increase capacity

"Back in the day" batteries lasted 2 hours or less and even then I didn't know many people who bothered buying a spare. The extra weight and expense weren't worth the trade-off.

Now with 8+ hour battery life, the trade-off is even worse.
Right. _they_ were not meant to be Wiki.js, but ANY open source project. And was a meant to indicate the same subject as _any_ in this reply:

> I don't think _any_ of the mainstream open-source licenses allow you to retroactively revoke or change the license.

My reply is in this context, not in the parent's parent which you mean as _relevant_ context. If I wanted to include the parent context the reply would be more specific. This was a direct reply to a specific message. This is a very normal way to reply on the internet, HN is not special.
5 years experience web development/full stack/mobile here. 29 years old. I’ve never had a salaried job in my life. I’m able to pull down $150/hr for a couple months a year (8 hour days), $125/hr for another 6 months full time, then take a couple months off and I’m making a decent salary when it all shakes out. That’s fully remote and working for friends or friends of friends, occasionally taking a contract with a mega FAANG corp for a while, but usually working the contract with a buddy.

If you’re savvy, good at networking and self motivated, you can make money which is comparable to most full time jobs. Just gotta be careful about the taxes and make sure you save for the lean times.
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Try using Vue in WebStorm with their Vue plugin enabled, or use TSX with any IDE. Your "HTML" will be type-checked.
That title flashing "1 new message" nonsense is incredibly distracting.

Is there a UI way to quickly sort by a column?
Oh, and I forgot to include this link:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

He's a horrible person, and has been for a while. He did some amazing stuff in the past, but he's no role model.
The better C compilers use better heuristics in these cases, knowing that binary size can mean I$ pressure and therefore be a detriment to performance.
Everyone went to discussions, and office hours were effectively mandatory, so there was still plenty of staff interaction. In the end I don't feel like I miss much by watching lectures online. I honestly believe asking questions during lecture is extremely disrespectful bordering on immoral when there are more than 100 people listening, so why show up?
A good observation, but why do you need to serve a mobile and a desktop version of your site in the first place? You can with modern HTML and CSS make a website that works perfectly on mobile and desktop, without having to serve a different version for the different platform.

It doesn't make sense to make the choice of what to render on the user agent: for example if it says Android, what does it mean? It is probably a smartphone, but it could also be a tablet, a TV, or even a PC!

An even more stupid idea is to redirect the user to a different domain if you detect that the user agent is mobile, since it usually work one way and thus if you share on a chat the link to the mobile version of the site and the other one opens it on a desktop there is no easy way to get back to the desktop site (most of the times I have to modify the URL!)
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That's just too complicated to do. If they want passwords, it's probably easier for them to just torture you or threaten to kill your kids or something. I'm sure they will think of these tactics before thinking about 1password tokens.
Anecdotal evidence that the title may not be downplaying the scale: while you are probably right about the ethymology of decimate, I, for one always understood the word as meaning virtual total destruction.
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Defresh
i found this cool site called defresh
I can't speak for Stanford but MIT is extremely closely tied with the federal government. The Lincoln Lab for instance gets ~$1B/year from the Defense Department. The only reason MIT became a well known institution at all is because of its ties to the military.
What’s the distinction?
This basically applies to all programming? Reconsider this thought in the context of automatic differentiation, where a similar argument can be made. I doubt, however, that people would contest the utility of automatic differentiation systems.

I also disagree that their functionality could be easily replicated in standard Julia. What you see is the easiest way to provide this functionality in a model-agnostic way.
I definitely agree but there's a lot of room for compromise between "user servicable battery" and "repair shops can't even buy the parts".
My hope would be more meaningful change in housing stock such as the construction of more affordable apartments but I doubt it.
Opera 10 faced the same issue:

> The user agent for Opera 10 (eg Mac platform, English locale) will be as follows: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00

> When we released the Opera 10 alpha in December last year, we gave it a Opera/10.00 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.0 user agent string. [...] It appears that a considerable amount of browser sniffing scripts are not quite ready for this change to double digits, as they detect only the first digit of the user agent string: in such a scenario, Opera 10 is interpreted as Opera 1.

https://maqentaer.com/devopera-static-backup/http/dev.opera....
WordPress expects a working .htaccess for its URL structure, as do most modern PHP applications. So virtually all shared hosts will support .htaccess.

> I would argue that using Apache in the first place is non-optimal

What would you prefer? nginx is not suited to shared environments at all.
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Bugs should be fixed by who produces the browser and not by the website administrator by looking at the user agent and using workarounds.

When someone asks me to build I site for them I say, look I will guarantee that the site that I make is compliant with the W3C specification. If there is something that it doesn't work because some browser don't implement the standard correctly, you go to Microsoft to complain, or you install a decent browser like Firefox.
> We desperately need some mechanism for correcting bad thinking based on falsehoods.

Let's burn the books promoting the bad thinking and then send the offenders off to re-education camps to be corrected.

Update: Edited for clarity.
Stephen A. Schwarzman though.

He is barely 10% of Jeff Bezoz. Not just a name on a building either. A whole new program.
I don't think so, I see most people reading documents. Now those documents might have lots of spyware, adware, scroll highjacks etc. embedded in them using JS, but at heart they are documents. For example a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc, page is more like a doc than an app for the most part. The internet is people consuming content. Even web "apps" served using Rails can happily work like this for the most part, with the occasional form post, for example Hacker News, Banking, Email. I am finding old school web apps much nicer to use honestly. They run work fast on modern connections and hardware.
The issue is old software continuing to work without having to be updated.

Giving more "time" solves nothing for all the programs out there that cannot or will not be updated for whatever reason.

This wasn't a mistake on Apple's part, it's just working around bad programming practice by developers. But there's no reason why users should suffer for it.
It was easy to tell it's almost one man's job if you look at the level of integrity the software has.

https://github.com/Requarks/wiki/graphs/contributors

Main guy commiting 600k lines and the second most committed guy 450 lines.

So yeah, it wouldn't take him a whole lot of time if he really wanted to change the license by removing all the others' commits and rewriting it by himself.

Also, what does AGPL has anything to do with keeping the license open sourced?
Yeah, 100%.

I'm actually flabbergasted why you can't make a team in games like CSGO or Overwatch. And then play in tournaments or matches (against, you know, other teams). It makes no sense to have individual matchmaking in a team game. Game devs create this individual matchmaking system (which is paradoxically taken seriously by casual players, but totally ignored by actual competitive players), and the community and other organizers (enter FaceIT, ESEA, etc.) have to actually set up leagues, tournaments, and events.
Odysseus did not had disdain for God's. But he lied a lot through that was not framed as bad.
indeed we are in a new age of javascript now. one where TS support is (in practice) not optional. https://www.swyx.io/writing/js-third-age/
We're living in the age of emotions. Reason and logic are dead.
I don't think there's an expectation that a skill rating is comparable throughout 20 years, because both individual players and how the game is played (the meta) changes continuously.

But if that's true, then why would rating inflation be a problem?
> Since you cannot predict the UUID for future Windows versions, you cannot pretend to be compatible with them.

Until a clueless product manager tells you to just iterate through all possible UUIDs to check :)
Sounds a lot like the Defense Innovation Board and National Security Commission on AI.
First of all, talking about "the press" as though it's some monolithic entity is just wrong. "The Press" is made up of thousands and thousands of uncoordinated organizations and people. There are still honest and trustworthy members of "the press" out there and available.

Just as each individual member of "the press" has a responsibility and duty to serve that role well, we also have a shared responsibility to hold them to that standard.

What we are facing here is a not just a failure of "the press", but a failure across society as a whole. We mostly don't want to do the right thing, which means putting aside our egos and focusing on what is actually true. We want to do the thing that feels good, which is getting confirmation of our current beliefs as righteous. "The press" is not responsible for this feeling, but some of them definitely benefit from it.

>allow trustworthy people who can speak clearly and honestly about those ideas to do so

And who, exactly, is going to make these decisions about who is "allowed" to speak or not? What, exactly, is that mechanism?
Well said.

Most regular folks don't think like to think about banking, just like how they don't like to think about how their car engine works.

But if you ask them to describe how banking works, they'll inevitably resort to the some version of the "giant vault" analogy. Of course, that's the wrong way to think about banking. Which the article rightly attempts to dispel.
I did before switching to eww. Elinks is pretty nice.
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A reserve (or government cash deposit) is not technically required for a bank to issue a loan.

Its _risky_, since it could lead to a situation where someone tries to cash out and you have nothing to give them, which would destroy your business and reputation as a banker.

But if you could make perfect loan decisions and no one comes to redeem their deposit, you wouldn’t need to have any reserves at all. Most regulators require a minimum amount of reserves to prevent instability or bank runs (and to control money supply)

That’s the difference, you’re not lending out the original amount of cash, you’re using it as a reserve in case someone asks for their money.
jexcel is great, it has more features (sorting, formulas, colors, etc)... but those same features are not very performant with many (>1000) rows since each cell is a html table cell. datagridxl looks promising if you need to display lots of data. I'm a fan of any open source data grid library so I'm happy both exists.
I suspect the simplicity of the English (Latin) alphabet was only of marginal importance in the U.S. having such a long lead in computer science and engineering over the rest of the world. Need (WWII, Cold War), population, industry (the U.S. produced 50% of the world's GDP at the end of WWII), wealth, a market economy, and all that goes with and precedes all of the preceding list (education, opportunities, institutions, culture, etc.) meant that the U.S. was bound to get started on computer science very early, and was bound to make great progress.

If English had had twice the number of glyphs, IBM would still have existed, even though they'd have had more work to do. There might have been some number of glyphs past which the burden might have slowed progress enough that some other nation would have been competitive, but it's all just information, and ultimately computer engineers would have figured out something.

Or look at some evidence: Japan already had what it needed to communicate digitally before WWII in spite of having a complex script (three, four if you include romaji), and most computer engineering and computer science progress came after WWII, and indeed, Japan's computer industry did reasonably well post-WWII -- comparable to France's, which did quite well considering how much smaller France was than the U.S. in population, industry, wealth, etc. And: need was decidedly critical in the UK's computer engineering and science development during WWII (Alan Turing, Colossus). France, Japan, and the UK, each had some of the conditions that the U.S. also had, but not as many, so it's not surprising that the U.S. did well.

I've a feeling that among the things that helped the U.S. that I didn't list above are also: the decadal census (which is intimately related to IBM's rise), Sears & Roebuck (the antecedent to Amazon), the immense geography of the country and widely dispersed population (which impacted the preceding two items). I bet others can add items to the list. Some of these certainly existed elsewhere.

Of somewhat less importance is that a number of very important mathematicians who helped found computer science (e.g., Claude Shannon, Alonzo Church, Haskell Curry) were Americans. Their research was published, of course, and many others were not Americans (e.g., Charles Babbage) which is why I say they were of less importance.
35mb seems small to you? That's an absolutely massive binary.

But to answer your question, you're going to see some performance improvements if your binary can fit into lower levels of the CPU cache.

Kdb+/q for example is less than 700kb, which mean that the entire thing can fit into the L1 instruction cache on high end server CPUs. And that size is even more impressive considering its only dynamically linked to libc and libpthread.

This small size contributes to the out of this world performance the system has. And remember that's the language and the time series db.
yes - tho coverage isn't 100% perfect. still need help to cover some things, this is a very large surface area to cover https://github.com/sveltejs/language-tools/issues/
Not much, really. Unless the device has been created to work with WebUSB, you first need to manually add a udev rule (on Linux) or replace the driver with WinUSB (on Windows) before you can access it through a browser. Even then, the user needs to select the device from a list, like you would when giving a site access to your camera.
So, there was A.F, then it incremented bu 0.1 to B.0. Checks out, except for their weird insistence to use a decimal representation for what is now obviously a hexadecimal scheme. ;)
hmm, interesting. i did mean to say that this is a problem more in the context of games that add tiers/divisions to their ranked ladders, but i hadn't really thought about elo making assumption about the normal-distributed-ness of player deviation from their "true" skill level. does that not just fall out directly from the Central limit theorem (given the taking of large #s samples (game W/L observations vs. predicted P(win|my elo, their elo)) of means, etc.)?
That line has two occurrences of U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS in it. I think one of them should have been U+0028.

On top of that, you really want dir=rtl on the element to give it right-to-left base directionality. If that's not an option (e.g. in a HackerNews comment), you can surround it with Unicode directional control characters U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING .. U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING to make it behave correctly as a right-to-left run within a left-to-right context.
What part of Netflix's arrangement sounds like a "dystopian nightmare scenario"?
years alone mean nothing too.

See example: https://www.centre.edu/bicentennial/
By the point you're playing ranked matches in chess, you're generally invested enough to keep playing. However, chess has a (statistically) significant inflation problem, to the point where you can only compare scores within the same decade or so meaningfully.
> I have heard it’s not.

Really? I was under the impression that the Hyderabad/Banglore office is old enough that they must’ve figured out their hiring process by now. You would expect at least great Infra/SRE support teams for Google Pay - as it’s an India centric product.

As for Amazon - yeah, read those stories here on HN but not sure what to make of it. They must be having huge churn in that case.
How much data are you sending and ingesting?