skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IEEPA. No, it hasn't happened to an app before
Most of the time that I cook rice, I also need to cook something to go with it. So after I turn on the rice, I then start preparing for the rest of the meal or just tidying up the kitchen a bit. Usually by the time the rice boils, I’m still around.
Once you turn down the heat, it doesn’t really matter if you leave it on for 20 or 30 minutes. (40 minutes would be kind of crunchy, but if you’re going to forget about it that long you probably weren’t hungry and shouldn’t have put rice on)

Also I use a glass pot which will stay quite warm for at least an hour after turning it off.

I used to have a rice cooker. But I gave it away to free up counter space. My stove has 4 elements, but counter space is precious.

The original article describes rice cookers were invented because cooking rice over a wood fire is very difficult. I’ve no argument with that. But cooking rice with a generic pot on a modern stove is trivial, and most people buy rice cookers because they’ve been taught to.
Yeah, the American free market system is expensive, but man, ~98% survival rate for breast cancer? That's extremely impressive.
TechHub, once the heart of London’s startup scene, goes bust
Macs running Apple Silicon can run iOS apps unchanged.

It's the legacy Intel Macs that need Catalyst.
Considering they were using Coinbase, with linked email addresses and drivers licenses, I'm going to say they should rather be banned from any role involving opsec.
You're right that mutable state should be kept to a minimum, but immutable state is fine. There usually isn't much need to mutate env vars.

Some thoughts/remarks:

- If we don't change a variable/value then it's immutable. Some languages let us enforce this (e.g. 'const'), which is nice, but we shouldn't worry too much if our language doesn't.

- We're violating 'single source of truth' if we have some parts of our code reading the env var, and some reading from a normal language variable. This also applies to arguments through.

- Reading from an env var is an I/O effect, which we should minimise.

- We can solve the last 2 problems by reading each env var once, up-front, then passing the result around as a normal value (i.e. functional core, imperative shell)

- Env vars are easy to shadow, e.g. if our script uses variables FOO and BAR, we can use a different value for BAR within a sub-command, e.g. in bash:

BAR=abc someCommand

This will inherit 'FOO' but use a different value of 'BAR'. This isn't mutable state, it's a nested context, more like:

let foo = 123
bar = "hello"
baz = otherCommand
quux = let bar = "abc"
in someCommand

As TeMPOraL notes, env vars are more like dynamically scoped variables, whilst most language variables are lexically scoped.
In GF(2), addition is xor and multiplication is and.
There is a firewall that exists between doctors and billing. Or maybe it's blissful ignorance. I have noticed doctors often have no idea what their tests and procedures will cost the patient.

Moreover, a doctor's vocal tone often changes when discussing cost. The tone changes from friendly/caring to annoyed/defensive.

I don't think the firewall can last forever.
I've been very happy in the last few months with poetry.
Warning: VXX is virtually guaranteed to drop in price in the long run. It uses periodic reverse spits to maintain its price. Never buy and hold it, ever.
I knew about most of their architecture, but what puzzles me is: why are some servers vertical boxes and some horizontal?
There was once a comment I read on HN. Paraphrasing, most movements over stay or overreach at some point in time. African liberation movements continued to fight yet they were in power. Instead of getting on with the business of leading. The one lesson I hope we learn as Africans is to put in place systems that work and not place too much faith in people. People tend to be fickle.
I'm applying to work at ByteDance, and this whole thing is quite interesting.

I'd most likely, if I get an offer, ask if they would wait to see how this plays out. Last thing I would want to do is join a company that's having these kind of issues.
Do NLP Beyond English
Ever since Vanguard started there has been a constant barrage of anti index fund propaganda in the US.

One of the early slurs was that index funds were communism (pretty daft, but probably effective in the US). The latest is this scaremongering "what if all investment were into index funds" (answered several times in this thread).

From the perspective of index fund advocates, unsophisticated investors are systematically getting ripped off and the daft propaganda only adds to the offense.

This is probably why you're picking up an aggressive preachy vibe from advocates.

The empirical data is however unambiguous and there is now a lot of it.
The real reason behind this is that TikTok teens ruined his Tulsa rally and now he wants to get back at them. Simple as that.
I'm sorry you're going through this, but please don't confuse the terrible healthcare system of your country with the fight against cancer in general.

A few years ago my Mum was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer (certain death). She had many rounds of radiation and chemo, and after initially being given 6 months to live, she was put on cutting edge trial drugs and given treatments that where unheard of just a few years ago.

For almost 2 years she did really well, living a very high quality of life while the doctors got very close to nailing the cancer. It was of a type that their drugs couldn't quite attack fully, so it eventually won and we lost my Mum 2.5 years after being diagnosed.

After all that treatment and care and hospital stays and cat scans and x-rays the total amount my family paid was $0 and zero cents.
You're right, a lot of the benefit is in deferring taxes to a later date. This deferral is quite valuable when you consider the time value of money and the fact that by spreading out $millions of gains over many decades, I get to put a lot more of the gains in a lower tax bracket, where if it all came in one year, it would basically all be taxed at 20%.

When you combine decades of deferral with the sizeable charitable deduction, it feels like double dipping. If putting equity in the crut only gave me one or the other (deferred taxation or a big deduction) that would seem intuitively fair. But both together? That feels absurd.
Hidden electric motors have been used to cheat in real pro cycling. If they can’t always catch it there Peleton etc. have no chance.

I guess at least that makes it realistic.
How many Mars missions have been successful?
What's worse, asking about things like vitamins to help cancer treatment gets you labeled as a kook. Wouldn't improving your general health help your body fight cancer?

That would seem to be a reasonable assumption, but you must not like vaccines if you think that way, Karen.
Ah yes, all of those noobs who need weird numpy extensions and highly domain oriented and specific odd data storage formats.

That's the generalisation part I mentioned. The distinction you're making is non-trival for a wee noobie. Better they get the ground work in and expand to where they need to go.
There is one way you can beat dollar-cost averaging when you're investing large lump sums like this. Selling cash-covered put options until you get assigned. This is the only strategy that has proven to outperform buying and holding. The reason is obvious: you're buying at a discount if you get assigned, and you get to keep the premium if you don’t. Selling a put is basically being paid to put in a limit order.
Products like this make me furious.

Selling a product whose interface/API/whatever is deliberately obfuscated so that the manufacturer also has a monopoly on a subscription service or an app for said product is blatantly anti-consumer, anti-competitive, anti-environment, and should be illegal.

Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies.

And apparently fuck me for having the gall to want to control my air conditioner from my computer rather than GE Android app #12 that has God-knows-what baked in and that's going to be abandoned in two years anyway.

Nobody should ever feel like they have to throw out an otherwise functional refrigerator-sized appliance because of software obsolescence.

I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this.
> C# was said to be the slower of the two.

I don't think that was ever the case, (Java VM's always had some clever optimizations in due to being more mature, but if you used C# properly and used its value types effectively, you could beat idiomatic Java hands down, and the Java that ran equally fast was often bastardized C-looking java that didn't use proper types but arrays. Basically High perf java only supports AoS, only SoA, which may or may not be convenient).

For a lot of workloads obviously the difference is minuscule, especially if a database or web server is involved (in this case, both).
Human sperm don’t swim the way that anyone had thought
if the user is the product, the situation is better described as "blocking a foreign company from mining it's resources"
If you’re going to list vices, you better list those of both sides. America is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases by far and is this directly responsible for the climate change catastrophes we are watching unfold before our eyes.

EDIT: this fact is incorrect, please see child comment for the facts. It looks like China currently emits twice the amount of Greenhouse gases emitted by the US.

(Not justifying what China is doing, which is horrible and needs to be condemned too. But acting as if it’s one country that does terrible things without pointing out the single largest existential threat to humankind is a bit rich).
According to one source, around 400 million people in China live in poverty [1].

If anything, their policies over the last 40 years were effective at raising many people out of destitute poverty. That said, there's enough people doing well enough that competition for the worst jobs is decreasing, forcing wages higher.

Coupled with China's disregard for basic IP rights, environmental regulations, worker protections, and other rights we in the West fought for over the last century and beyond, it's no wonder people are jumping out while they can.

Sources:
[1] https://projectpartner.org/poverty/china-poverty-statistics-...
> Other than the omnipresent paranoia, the thing that struck me as the most bizarre is that almost nothing in the country is oriented around children. The fertility rate is basically the lowest in the world, as the way of maintaining the population seems to be simply skimming the top few percent of qualified workers from India, China, and other southeast Asian countries, people who will essentially live at the office until they have made enough money to return home, or simply retire and die alone in the country.

I've been revisiting Brave New World after watching the series on something called 'Peacock,' which honestly bares little resemblance to the plot of the book (John the Savage is less a cautionary tale of these types of Societys and more Revolutionary apparently) and the ideas of acceptable Dystopias by Huxley in his presentations at Berkely were brought up. One woman asking why only Tyrannical Governments would use these methods, and could they not also be used by so-called 'democratic' institutions for the same end. Huxley scoffs the idea as greater 'pessimism' than he holds.

The idea of being encumbered by replacement rates with fertility seems blase if you can simply import a perpetual underclass for what you cannot outsource to serve your affluent Citizen class seems like the long-term goals of any despot/regime. That would probably ensure long-standing dynasties, and political stability more than anything imaginable, as dark as that is it aptly reflects the current Human Condition. In a way I think this was the US' goal in the 21st Century as we've seen the shortage of STEM really be a Cooperate driven regression in wages (and probably working conditions) for its domestic population.

With that said, you can see what the opposite can create as Hong Kong has descended in to the most typical (accurate?) representation of a Cyberpunk Dystopia. Its entirely tragic to see, but Human resilience against all odds against a tyrannical juggernaut (China/CCP) is still something to take solace in and an archetype for a Heroism in all cultures. Even as it dissects everything unique and of value in that city-state its worth paying attention to serve as the cautionary tale of how primitive Humans still are.

For even more context (masochistic watching), consider 10 years [1] on Netflix, who recently refused to take down that and Joshua Wong's Documentary [2] on the events in Hong Kong.

1: https://www.netflix.com/title/81012294

2: https://www.netflix.com/title/80169348
This is apples and oranges. You listed hard good sales - imports (even if actually manufactured in China in the case of Apple).

IIRC, Foreign companies need to have majority-owner Chinese partner entities to "own" business operations in China. So a non-Chinese car company that wants to have ownership over it's Chinese assembly line operations and sales in China needs to partner with a Chinese company (typically another automaker) that actually owns >50% of the joint subsidiary that actually makes and or sells the cars. The alternative is Apple, which owns no manufacturing and had everything produced on contract from independent manufacturers. And again, none of this involves user data. Also, both the play store and Apple iOS store's content are at the mercy of the CCP gatekeepers, so even if a person in China can buy an apple product, they experience a different app ecosystem.

I don't think there's a non-Chinese-owned company that has access to and stores user data streams, like a foreign-owned weibo or something, but I'd be curious if someone had an example.
Thanks for this detailed explanation - it matches the conclusions I had after some research into the matter (stimulated by Derek's sharing his experience!).

I don't think you should ever feel guilty or depressed for... not dying! Really. Think that, unlike most cases, when you will eventually die, instead of passing your large fortune to your heirs, it will all go to charity. That's beautiful, and nice, and better than what most people do. Feel proud of it.
He just towers over most, elegantly.

I remember working in an Internet cafe and in the evenings out of boredom would read Knuth. I used to visit uni libraries and hunker down with TAOCP for a few hours until cramp, physical and mental, became too painful. Oh my golly what a privilege.

These are the tablets of our age. You'll note these tomes are granted the only definite article in English.

But mainly the thoroughness. Every path is an avenue of thought in this vast mapping of computation. It's always graceful, terse, and full of pleasure. The guy can carve candyfloss with a jackhammer and weave a mountain out spider's web.

Gates famously said anyone who'd read the books would get an interview. Yeah! "So what about ..., pretty lovely eh?"

And he's still going strong. A true hero.

I wonder what he thinks about HOTT... any clues? A quick ddg didn't show anything :(

(edit:spelling)
Good poit. All liberation movements fail when transitioning from liberation to governing.
because contrary to what you believe, many Chinese looked up to aspects of the US.
America applies diplomatic pressure too, for the things it finds important. This is how international politics work.
Just a nitpick:

> a management culture that appropriately balances shareholder interest (by paying dividend)

In theory a company should invest in whatever has the most favorable risk-return profile. If it pays dividends, that means dividends are judged by management to be the best risk-return profile among all other alternatives. A company can pay zero dividends and still protect shareholders interests.
It's just a single phone, but google fi has worked pretty well for my use case. I was impressed how well it worked when I went on vacation to Canada last year. If you don't need to have a half-dozen devices on one account there's really very little that gets you as much bang for your buck - unless I'm really burning through data my bill is usually $30/month.
1. homeowner's insurance

2. homeowner's associate fees

3. property taxes

4. maintenance/upkeep

don't those cut into your "compare a house to investing in index funds" example?
I love how in Japan children are free to go wherever unsupervised and there is essentially an unwritten rule that adults all just keep an eye on them. And as a result children as young as 6/7 can take public transport to get to school on their own. A real mark of how safe a place is...
> tar -czf dir/

You forgot the output filename.

The thing I like about tar is that you only need to learn two options: 'c' and 'x':

tar c somedir | gzip > somedir.tar.gz
cat somedir.tar.gz | gunzip | tar x
The biggest problem today be it credit scoring, Social media Censorship, or anything that is using these vast databases of personal info is the complete lack of transparency

Denied a loan, denied a job, kicked off a platform, in none of these situations is the company requires to justify their actions or be transparent in the policies and processes they used to reach that conclusion

This black box leaves people feeling powerless and out of control because they are.

One way to combat that is stronger data ownership laws, and the ability for people to get ALL information a company has collected about them.

So for example if you are denied a home loan, you should be able to request every single scrap of info that loan company collected about you (including any and all credit scores) they used to make that determination
> now living in New Zealand

Derek does not live in New Zealand anymore. He moved to England some time ago (perhaps 1 or 1.5 years ago?)
Right. But that’s not what I mean.

Split the total market into 3 funds and see how much better it compares to your solution. (Drawdowns tab also)

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
Maybe I am blaming the wrong companies/countries but it seems to me that platforms like iOS and Android should provide near perfect sand boxing for all apps, including TikTok. No app should be able to quietly have access to our devices.

The new beta for iOS is doing a better job by having little notifications of what app is using the camera, microphone, your contacts, etc.

I would also like to speculate on something: Peter Theil owns a lot of Facebook stock and TikTok is a market threat to Facebook. Peter Theil is close with President Trump. You can see where I am going with this...
To the best of my knowledge, the example has no known heuristics for finding a solution that are significantly faster than brute force.

That puts it in the hardest class of instances for its size (subject to available knowledge), because all instances can be solved by brute force.
I don't think there's ever been a social media platform as widely loved but its users as TikTok, ever.
Interesting that you bring up Lisp and dynamic scope, since I've previously combined env vars with Racket's "parameters" (AKA dynamic bindings): https://lobste.rs/s/gnniei/setenv_fiasco_2015#c_owz2pp
Ray Dalio has also said it's a foolish time to be holding bonds, of which the All Weather he came up with is 55%. A bit contradictory
found "think of the contributors"

http://laurent.bachelier.name/2018/07/a-proposal-for-sanitiz...
Sure, but I'm not teaching here. Even then, unbuntu will tell you how to install pip (actually it probably comes installed), and closing the terminal is sufficient to close the env for most.
Few bits of advice/comments:

1. the schedule syntax. It can seem much easier to work directly with English, but there's a reason most systems use cron-style schedules and it isn't because it's legacy. There's a benefit in having a syntax that is "alien" when you're crossing that human/computer/dev border, as it forces your users to think about how to achieve something. The other half of the reason is because it's a lot easier to validate a strict syntax with a formal grammar than anything even close to natural language. I can basically guarantee you that if someone had come up with a way to accurately parse english recurrence statements, it would have already been adopted by cron in the past (or at least a website like crontab guru[0].

2. There is no description of the job execution semantics in the distributed sense. Is it at most once, or at least once? This is important if you're designing jobs, so if someone is switching to your system from an existing system with a different semantic it will cause a lot of friction especially if you don't even list it in your documentation.

3. You have two data stores. You're using Raft for backing your key/value store, and mongo for both job metadata and also communicating with the dashboard. This is a bit confusing because in the docs you wrote that metadata goes in a sidecar yaml file. What job metadata are you referring to then? Results? Fundamentally, having multiple data stores makes your projects orders of magnitude more complicated to operate and monitor. My guess is you'll see this as a major pain point in the future when you want to scale a cluster in different ways (more jobs, more frequent jobs, longer histories, more nodes in the cluster).

All in all, it looks like a pretty decent distributed cron, but I wouldn't touch your project for my production systems. It's lacking a lot of features we need for getting Legacy (TM) work done[1] like running a specific job on a specific worker because it needs access to special hardware or some filesystem or because our PHB decided that as a policy only one of our servers can run billing code on Tuesdays.

[0]: https://crontab.guru/

[1]: "Legacy code is code that makes money"
You can access a C64 live emulator at http://v.ht/habitat

Also there was a nice roundtable with Randy Farmer at VCF West happening this weekend - recording at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24023684
Yes this pattern of data-driven decisions on our loves is troubling. However if we understand what these corporations are looking for it is easy to exploit them for fun and profit. If you get a decent credit score say hello to multiple $500 credit card opening balances, free plane tickets, free hotels.
> Vine was loved and was shut down by a part time CEO.

Yep. Then the community moved to Musical.ly, then to TikTok. Although the company is gone, Vine is still around in spirit. And I think the same applies to TikTok, too
>It was reasonable at the time it was put into place

I don't think so. It's only been around for about 15 years or so. Internet infrastructure wasn't as advanced then, but neither were there as many people who would've used it.

The only reason I can see for the state of things is that the credit bureaus wanted to nickel-and-dime people for credit monitoring, and because they could water down the regulations, they did.

Another thing that was sorely needed was to make the domain a .gov or something other than a .com to prevent so many imposters.

And I just now read on Wikipedia a list of companies excluded from the requirements, like ChexSystems.
ByteDance Said to Offer to Sell TikTok’s U.S. Operations
TikTok is not a national security problem, no more than Whatsapp or Telegram or Skype is a national security problem.

The last time I asked folks here to explain to me why they think its a national security problem, I got a list of arguments that were just a little bit less plausible then those for the existence of Santa Claus.

Just because Trump says something (while providing no proof) does not make it true.