skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A large part of Julia, a pragmatic language for technical computing, is written in Scheme.

No, not really. The parser is written in FemtoLisp (a Scheme dialect), but that's it. It's not actually doing anything other than the parsing, and there's actually work being done to replace that with a pure julia parser.
How long is "a long, long time"? Both "quarterly results" and "peak" in that form are pretty common usage, and definitely not something Amazon have invented.
>U.S. adults who get their news largely from social media platforms, and compare their understanding of current events and political knowledge to those who use other sources, like TV, radio and news publications.

Well, I'd bet most of the news they get surely come from media outlets--like techcrunch--that post on social media. Perhaps a better distinction would be between not reading past headlines on social media and actually reading--or even skimming through--articles published in any given website. Even then, the vast majority of "news publications" are guilty of clickbait, and that's not something techcrunch is innocent of.
I like what you're saying. Do you (or anyone on this thread) have any comments/thoughts on the following?

During a conversation with an academic researcher (non-Computer Science) friend, when I brought up the topic of data sharing, especially in context of the infamous "replication crisis", they have their reasons not sharing.
I'm loosely paraphrasing here, while trying hard not to misrepresent/misremember their exact views:

"I want to protect my data; I don't have enough time to present my data in a presentable form; and more importantly, they'll just steal my idea and go present it as theirs—and I might lose funding" ... and so on.

I can empathize with the academic pressure of "publish or perish". And not least of all, "need some food on the table, and roof over my head".

But I still wonder, there must be other effective ways to gently persuade a said researcher (especially in the 'soft sciences'—I'm not using the term derogatorily) on the importance of sharing data that allows reproducibility of a given experiment?
I take these results with a grain of salt, since the quality of news on social media varies widely from timeline to timeline. If all you follow on your social media platform of choice is recognized, credible news outlets then you'd consume the same information as radio or TV, but probably closer to real-time. This study doesn't control for this variable so it doesn't tell us much.
Do entry-level salaries in Europe have to cover health care? They do here. Even if you're working somewhere with a group plan, you're still taking more out of each check for medical coverage than for anything else except maybe taxes.

And if you're on your own for it, it's the same, except you pay more and the quality of care is a lot lower because the "marketplace" plans are the absolute minimum the insurers can get away with and still comply with the law.
Token authentication requirements for API and Git operations
Perhaps also that Apple is known for making quality phones. In times of economic pressure, people buy for the long-term.
My dad just bought one so he could get out while social distancing.
I believe he is talking about: https://shakti.com/ which confusingly is a version(?) of K https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K hence K9.
Use This AI to Find Your Next Engineering Gig
Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs into Boothole patch trouble
Misleading clickbait title - Google quarterly revenue has declined multiple times in the past, the last being in 2015.
Good catch! Thanks you very much, I'll fix that!
Abuse of market power is illegal in many jurisdictions because it places the consumer at a significant disadvantage.

By obliging merchants to mislead the consumer about pricing, Apple have very likely distorted the marketplace. Which is why half the competition regulators on the planet have a file open on Apple right now.

So no, corporations do not have carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want. See also: Uber.
FWIW this is what I do. And I run stuff in WSL when I occasionally encounter stuff that won't run directly on Win10. Been working for me for about a year now.
In China, the Panopticon Is Already Here
Really great post. I'm glad the post in particular mentioned community, because I think in the end this is the huge advantage Envoy has over NGINX. NGINX, could, in theory, resolve all technical issues raised in the post. But the fundamental tension between the open source and commercial versions cannot be resolved.

(Disclosure: We use Envoy as part of Ambassador, and so of course we're big fans!)
The Big Mother Artificial General Intelligence Project
It's impossible to build a money system that isn't at some level shady, outside making it completely totalitarian. Just based on simple definitions and some logic.
> Money laundering

You mean the trade-off between global surveillance and easier life for some sorts of businesses. Is it immediately obvious which of these is more worth supporting?

> and child pornography

Oh yeah, think of the children. Never gets old.
Slack announced they were going to switch.
Quick google search revealed that to be around 2B. Facebook is a giant here.
> If my friend owns a book and lends it to me, can I not lend it out to someone else during the period I'm expected to have it?

That isn’t what happened - in your metaphor: IA started lending friends’ copies without asking.

IA only after the fact got endorsements from libraries and they certainly didn’t have agreements in place giving them any inventory.
Usually RVs are bought in addition to other travel, they are more of a luxury item.

I've seen plenty of newspaper items in the last few months about people who usually fly places for summer vacation putting that money into a used, or cheap new R.V.

Aside from not being able to fly out of the country, it apparently gives them peace of mind knowing they can take their quarantine bubble with them wherever they go.
Yeah, it was getting a bit pricy to buy lots of 100 apple shares at a time and sell covered calls. This is much better. Honestly I think selling covered call on Apple is one of the few good plays left out there. Long term the company's value is going to keep going up, but with so much volatility in the market lately option premiums are bananas and though I expect a pretty dramatic stock market pullback Apple is one of the few companies that has very strong fundamentals and should weather it pretty well.
London based here, my company is on G suit as well.
I know. I was just complaining about generated passwords.

Edit: and being forced to depend on a working phone for authentication.
There's a slight tax disadvantage in using a non-calendar fiscal year since tax brackets typically adjust upwards annually and the non-calendar accounting means that you'll be booking some revenue in year X at the less advantageous year X-1 tax rates. But other accounting matters can outweigh that.

https://www.benzinga.com/news/16/10/8617799/why-do-different...
Can somebody educate my the benefits of a stock split?

In case of Amazon, they don't seem to mind the high stock price. Also, many trading platforms nowadays allow fractional shares (though you don't get the same voting rights with fractional shares).
> Some companies have very unusual quarterly systems

This can make things quite confusing when comparing revenue or earnings between periods as years may have 52 or 53 weeks (a 2% difference) and quarters may have 12 or 13 weeks (a 8% difference).
Alphabet announces second quarter 2020 results
I just wish systemd would upstream the ProxMox pve-efiboot-tool. The thing works great, it syncs multiple ESPs on different disks for redundancy and it just has a hook to run on kernel updates, etc. /boot isn't even left mounted during normal operation and only gets mounted to update the contents meaning it's less likely to experience corruption during a power failure or accidentally get deleted by some script gone awry, etc.

Systemd also supports using kexec to reboot a machine booted with systemd-boot for faster OS updates. Of course you can use kexec without all of that, but anyone who has knows that it's not exactly streamlined whereas with systemd-boot it'll use the kernel image, initrd, and kernel cmdline straight from what the bootloader is configured for. For UEFI it really is great, only thing "missing" IMHO is support for adding boot entries for EFI stub kernels directly to skip the bootloader entirely for the fast path and rely on the UEFI bootloader if you need access to systemd-boot or an older kernel. Not too relevant for servers where it shaves off like 700 ms or so but still a neat trick and I like my desktop booting without an extraneous extra bootloader when it's not needed.
Russia ceded an immense chunk of its most prized territorial posessions, leading to 11 countries declaring independence and defaulted on almost all of its international obligations. In fact, the harshness of the terms proposed by the German army was such that the German negotiators were shocked at first. The harshness of the treaty was also explicitly cited by the Allied Powers in response to German complaints about the Treaty of Versailles.
I've also seen scummy tactics like changing the headline to be less "clickbaity" some timeframe after the article is released.

Then there's also the disgusting tactic from news companies on social media like Twitter where they post the same article multiple times to spam it across people's feeds throughout the day.

I think wide adoption of social media is the cancer that destroyed great journalism the world over.
bloviation
You're right. The work-from-home angle could be part of it.

My company recently announced everyone is staying home for at least the next 10 months, and is trying to get hundreds of iPhones for everyone who didn't have a company-issued phone before.

The company my wife works for is half at work, and half at home right now, but everyone is getting new phones, just in case.
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook, which combined are worth almost $5 trillion dollars[1] all releasing earnings on the same day seems crazy. From what I could find, that is 14% (5T/35T) of the total stock market posting earnings on the same day [2].

I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on what effect that has on the overall market in terms of volatility? (I really have no good idea as to how any of this works) Could we see other stocks dip/rise as money is reallocated?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/big-tech-including-apple-and...
[2] https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/
> The firm’s research also found that social media news consumers skewed young — 48% of those who mostly used social media for news were between 18 and 29, for example. They also tended to have lower levels of formal education, as only 26% had a college degree, versus 47% of those who read news websites or the 49% who turn to print.

So the only actual insight here is that younger people are less informed on average (big surprise).
Thank you! I was looking at the Volume 1 only.

But IIUC it will not be accessible at user-level, so capability detection will be significantly less convenient for cross-platform library authors compared to x86.
Show HN: Social Amnesia, wipe out your Reddit and Twitter account histories
I tend to agree. Philosophically I really, really wanted to do away with managers but after working in a company that basically did that, it was the loud and forceful personalities that became the de facto bosses/decision makers. It created several monsters that I could not wait to get away from.

Having good managers is my goal now rather than having little to no managers.
Berkshire is for all intents broken up, everything operates independently.
You may not be interested; do you think the majority would agree?
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. It's boring and rarely ends well. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23994951)
Do we live on a different planet? Google Fi is well known to be one of the worst customer services. I used it for a couple of months and most obvious queries are automated. Anything that requires an human barely gets any attention. The subreddit for Google Fi is very telling.
"here is why we're doing it anyway.":

1. Because if you even use SecureBoot then not booting is a better alternative than your security being compromised.

2. Because you can do a rescue boot and update other relevant software.

3. Because if you really want to, you can just disable SecureBoot.
I’ve got a buddy at amazon who joined 5 years back that’s probably a millionaire now just on the stock rise alone given his stock bonuses.

Amazon.com and prime have become so useful to me I think of it like my iPhone: I can’t go without it.
and, the news people get on social media is a direct result of who they follow, their friends. I am guessing most people arent following a ton of news organizations on Facebook, so what they are exposed to are the most viral headlines that spread by shares.

Facebook, is a tool, and your experience is what you make of it. Follow good sources, get good results. Follow highly tribalistic and fringe people, get edge results.

But back to your original point, unless the majority people are using Facebook to seek out news, their passive consumption is going to be them liking entertainment and not wanting it displaced by serious things.
Are these things actually luxury goods?

A smartphone is probably one of the most essential and important devices in many peoples lives these days. Certainly one of the most used. There is the option of Android instead of Apple, but as someone pointed out one time, iPhones are cheaper than flagship Android devices if you account for the support lifetime of an iPhone being a lot longer than any Android device. And that's not counting the cheaper iPhone Apple launched recently.

Likewise, for many people, a computer would probably be considered an essential device. Sure there are cheaper Windows laptops, but the cost of switching ecosystems is potentially quite high, and if you're already in the i-device camp you're probably going to stick with a Mac due to its integration with all the other things you have (and had before the pandemic)

I would count iPads as largely luxury devices.
The right to counsel is more about what the prosecution can't do (sentence you without giving you a reasonable chance to defend yourself) than it is about something other people owe you just for existing. It's there because sentencing you when you didn't have the benefit of competent counsel to make your case would call the legitimacy of the court's judgment into question. Note that it only applies when you are the defendant, not the plaintiff, and you can't claim your right to counsel just because you need someone to help you draw up a contract. The right not to be sentenced without the benefit of counsel upon being accused of a crime is a negative right.

The idea that other people owe you specific goods or services just for existing—a.k.a. positive rights—leads directly to contradiction and conflict.
It could still be framed within the realm of the underclass. They don’t have enough money to invest, buy a home, pay off debt, but they can certainly buy the best thing within their buying power - a phone, a tv, heavily financed cars, and so on.

I don’t think these buying patterns are incongruous to reality on the ground. In other news, certainly alcohol and drug sales are up too.
Yes, police unions need to be heavily regulated since they have so much power both politically and in terms of what kind of levers they can pull. For example, there was a story about Minnesota police slowing down their responses to areas in which their city council representative voted against the interests of the police union.

But the narrow question of whether the police need a union or not, I think they do because they need representation etc., the same reasons why any employee, public or otherwise, needs a union.
As far as I know publishing royalties is not a source of income for most scientist.
I see what you're getting at with the first point but what about the second? It seems to me the "quality of engineering culture" at a company doesn't need to correlate with company size.
Did he claim it was a proof, or an order-of-magnitude estimate — in the same category as the job-interview question "how many gas stations are there in the United States?"
I don't mind if my tax goes up by the same amount I receive as UBI. In that case it's neutral for me and for the national budget. How many of those 53M people would fall into the same category?
I'm curious. Do trading platforms automatically adjust existing limit orders the night of August 24, e.g. dividing all prices by 4? (Or just cancel all limit orders?)

I mean I would assume they do, but just wonder if there are ever any severe "gotchas" with a stock split with certain existing buy/sell arrangements, or derivatives etc.
It's because Apple has to account for returns, and their biggest quarter is the December quarter. Most retail companies do not end on Dec 31 for this reason.
I walked the labyrinth in Amiens Cathedral and I thought it mirrored the experience of the Christian life pretty well. At the beginning you quickly go from the outside towards the center (God), mirroring in the initial joy and closeness you feel after initially choosing to follow God. Then the labyrinth moves away from the center, but not too far out, as the initially high fades and you learn who God is, repent of sins, learn to serve. The next stage wanders around the edges, far from the center, mirroring the "dark night of the soul" and you wonder if you're ever going to make it back to the middle. Then, suddenly, move from the outside into the endpoint in the middle.
> The reason I ask is because I already have a perfectly comfortable lifestyle business, and would love to pursue something larger (that requires funding and a medium-sized staff) but there is no amount of money or equity that would make me ever be okay with working for a company that helps governments abuse human rights, which is 100% of Big Tech these days. Is there any third path?

You mention Snapchat, and I think that's a great example. I'm somewhat cynical, having tried (and failed) several times launching a consumer-facing social-style app, but Snapchat gives me hope. For years, it was a pretty mediocre one-trick-pony, but it just goes to show how important user metrics are. It didn't start out with millions of dollars (like TikTok) and it didn't start out with influencers (like Clubhouse). It just resonated with high school and college kids, and that was enough.
There's a concept in the options trading world called "correlation skew," which describes how tail risk for baskets like SPY/QQQ/XLK can trade richer than tail risk for the basket components, based on how much correlation there is expected to be in the components. When correlation is expensive, you can buy option contracts on the basket components and sell contracts on the basket itself, to set up a position that profits when the basket components exhibit dispersion rather than correlation.

Sure, we could see sector rotation into tech tomorrow. This may be somewhat muted because tech is already a very crowded trade, and tech names are already trading far higher than where they closed.
I recently read Steven Levy's _Facebook_, which I thought was a well-balanced history of the company.

Some mistakes he highlights that resonated with me: Facebook Platform, Beacon, Cambridge Analytica, foreign expansion without native language support, release of private Messenger records to 3rd parties, placing Security within the business rather than engineering organization and failing to respond to state-actor threats
+1, works well for me
PCI compliance helps a little.

When I was doing IOT power/temperature monitoring sometimes companies wanted us to show PCI compliance before attaching our hardware to their networks. (we weren't) which meant we had to explain to them to put us on a separate network, without credit card processing devices.
> but you won't find a significant difference when comparing 110 and 125.

IQ is the measurement of how capable you are at abstract learning. So a lower IQ will lock you out of certain jobs, at least on merit alone. Like you won't be a university math professor with a 110 IQ, but you'd probably be a fine nurse. A 75 IQ locks you out of basically any job. I believe the military found that ~83 is the lowest IQ that is trainable for the most rudimentary job.

But having a high IQ is in-and-of-itself, not a guarantee of success, because socio-economic factors can also lock you out of certain jobs. 100 years ago, being a woman was enough to prevent you from being a university professor, regardless of your IQ. And even today, you still have to be born in the right country to the right parents to have the chance to be a doctor or something.

However, there is a pretty big difference between a 110IQ and a 125. That's a 1.5 standard deviation improvement. That's like comparing an American man who is 6'1 to one who is 6'6.
Definitely agree from a technical perspective. But I do think it was marginally successful in translating technical risk to business risk, which is something that hadn't been done very well previously and did drive a lot of investment into 'security'.

Unfortunately the security industry somewhat predictably responded with snake oil and bullshit that were predictably countered with overpriced Big N assessments, but that's another story.
It's an excellent analysis of the fundamental problems in academia, but "people should just act against their incentives" isn't really a solution.

It really is the incentives themselves that are the problem: just looking at number of publications and citations (or even: citations of articles in the journals that your articles happen to be published in as well) when determine who to fund or hire.

The problem there is that we have those metrics, are relatively quick and easy to obtain, which are accepted because they are what's been used so far - even though plenty of research has pointed out their flaws yet [1]. And anything new that is proposed as a replacement of those metrics (whether other metrics, or other systems of evaluation) is dismissed for not being proven to live up to a standard that the currently used methods do not either, or for not being available quickly or easily enough. (Which is reasonable - e.g. it's not viable to read and properly evaluate all research of your applicants.)

(Disclosure: I do volunteer for a project, https://plaudit.pub, that tries to offer an alternative nevertheless.)

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...
Control W is really annoying. But you can rebind keys, but that wasn't untill fairly recently that you could that.
I'm not sure it's really the same. Someone asks Google "how far is it from Portland to Austin", and before they got 10 blue links, and now they get a number. That's not the same as "amazon, send me some Coke" and them sending Amazon brand cola drink.
That's not true at all. You've posted bogus insinuations about this repeatedly. It's time that stopped, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is what https://www.fast.co/ Does
If you look at ST's product chart page, STM32F4XX microcontrollers can have anywhere from 512K to 2056K of flash, maybe they're suggesting that 512K doesn't justify the use of small rtos?
Hahah I actually like to decide my rate on this exact basis - what amount of money would I feel happy if they accepted.
Yeah same. I uploaded a little vid to see the experience since I like being involved in the Indie Hackers community.

(https://indielog.com/video/yo-indie-log-you-ready-53ab5efa)

It would need to support longer than 2 minute videos to do that. I'd like to see Indielog pick up momentum.
Grin is perhaps the first cryptocurrency to be written in Rust, starting in October 2016. Its constant 1 Grin per second emission tries to keep speculators at bay.