skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It turns out I'm spending somewhere between 1/2 to 1/3 of what I spent on food pre-COVID. The interesting thing is that it is not a hassle. I always knew I could eat a lot cheaper if I cooked at home, but that also took a lot more time. But for most of what I'm keeping now, cooking is really just putting it in the microwave or in a frying pan for a while. That doesn't really take much time at all.

I always cook more than I need and always have leftovers. This is a great way to cut down on the amount of time spent in the kitchen (I care more about the time lost than the money saved). You don't have to immediately eat the leftovers, you can freeze most of it and rotate what you made a week or two ago to keep some variety.
yes, just tried again, same issue. stuck at "Importing..." forever. I looked at the dev console.

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.dropbase.io/v1/pipeline/HhNFQmZnnFkjrqK6Lptr3w/l... from origin 'https://app.dropbase.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

The csv file is UTF-8 encoding.
35% of the Forbes 400 list was born into a middle class or lower household.

22% inherited up to $1m.

12% inherited between $1m and $50m

7% inherited more than $50m.

21% inherited enough for that alone ensure they are on the Forbes 400 list.

The first bucket is clearly self made. The last two buckets are clearly not self made. Depending on your definition of "self made" that would leave somewhere between 35% and 69% of these people as self made.

https://ips-dc.org/the_self-made_hallucination_of_americas_r...
Population isn’t the problem, first world consumption and the expansion of the first world are. This isn’t an abstract problem where people in developing countries need to have less children. This is a problem where we need to personally reduce our carbon footprints.
If Economy is separated from the State, what remains?
so where are the mountains of dead bodies? where are the macro indicators?

what I'm disappointed in is even in the face of evidence that much of the nonsense about fake data and coverups was exaggerated, Westerners will continue to believe it
Take Naps Outside
APL isn't always written (⊂∘⍋⌷⊢), APL has a traditional notation which is like other procedural languages:

:If databaseResult.Rows.Count > 5
:AndIf warnOnLargeData

:For Row :In databaseResult.Rows

logToFile 'Careful, that's a lot of data, e.g. ', Row[1]

:EndFor
:EndIf

and Dyalog APL is a .Net language, which has extended this style with :Namespace and :Class and :Access and :Signature ways to build objects and methods to make your API and export it as a .DLL for use by other .Net languages, or plugin to ASP.Net and make a web service[1], or accessing most things C# can[2], e.g. if you want to use a System.Collections.ArrayList it's right there:

⎕USING←'System' 'System.Collections'
arr←⎕NEW ArrayList
tmp←arr.Add ⊂'Test'
tmp←arr.Add ⊂'Hello'
tmp←arr.Add ⊂'World'
arr[0 1 2]
┌────┬─────┬─────┐
│Test│Hello│World│
└────┴─────┴─────┘
arr.RemoveAt 0
arr[0 1]
┌─────┬─────┐
│Hello│World│
└─────┴─────┘

and that means things like System.Data.DataTable and SQL Connections for your database access. .Net isn't as popular as JavaScript and Rust, but it is a pretty large, stable, capable and established ecosystem to be able to hook into.

The core of APL symbols more or less /are/ an embedded language in the wider APL, just that wider APL is not showy for codegolf and is not unusual and pretty symbols, and you can't use it /without/ the symbols.

[1] See the examples shipped in the install folder like "C:\Program Files\Dyalog\Dyalog APL-64 18.0 Unicode\Samples\asp.net\webservices\"

[2] I expect not /everything/ C# can; C# is the first-class .Net language, but if you have things written in C# you can use them.
I don't dispute that, but also don't want to write policy to change that. It isn't really an informative fact. It's almost obvious, really.
That would require the computers being surprised that something exists when nothing should.
> “A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

I don't understand how this is supposed to be some kind of heart warming story. I mean.... maybe it was something nice for Dirac, but it sounds as much like a ruthless sociopath hunting a the man down like a zebra on the Serengeti plain. I guess there were kids at least! But otherwise there's no indication Dirac ... was any more (or to be fair less) happy afterwords.
Startups Tap a New Talent Pool: Pandemic-Weary College Students
"
- It’s type safe. Really type safe. There’s a mathematical proof and everything.

- It’s memory safe. Ok, this comes with type safe, but it’s still interesting. There are no dangling pointers, no buffer overruns, heck, the language doesn’t even have the concept of null!

- It’s exception safe. There are no runtime exceptions. All exceptions have defined semantics, and they are always handled.

- It’s data-race free. Pony doesn’t have locks or atomic operations or anything like that. Instead, the type system ensures at compile time that your concurrent program can never have data races. So you can write highly concurrent code and never get it wrong.

- It’s deadlock free. This one is easy, because Pony has no locks at all! So they definitely don’t deadlock, because they don’t exist.

"

"By sharing only immutable data and exchanging only isolated data we can have safe concurrent programs without locks. The problem is that it’s very difficult to do that correctly. If you accidentally hang on to a reference to some isolated data you’ve handed over or change something you’ve shared as immutable then everything goes wrong. What you need is for the compiler to force you to live up to your promises. Pony reference capabilities allow the compiler to do just that."

"Reference capabilities allow you to label different bits of data based on how that data can be shared. The Pony compiler will then verify that you are in fact correctly using the data based on the labels you provide. Reference capabilities combined with Pony’s actor model of concurrency makes for a powerful pairing."

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/
Not that anyone feels it is important today, but X11 is multi user graphical computing.

A display server can display anything any user connected to it wants to display.

Actual 90's era use cases:

Application server. One copy of 3D CAD, one database, 30 users all running on a beefy machine well up to the task.

Each ran via X talking to the app server. Admin was cake, data big model access was fast, no user could actually touch the data except through use of the program.

User having trouble, push a window onto my display. I fix it, close window.

Display wall, conferencing. Big wall display, multiple users display data on it, one management user handling windows, etc...

Display wall, many small displays, each running via workstation. App sends display data to all of them.

Distributed computing resources:

Once, just for fun, I had an application data shared via a machine running nfs, fonts served by another machine, yet another machine running the application, yet another handling window management, all displayed on yet another machine serving the display and taking input.

(BTW, it was possible to literally kill the window manager and launch a different one and the display would shift a bit and the user continued along still running their app, but now using a different window manager!)

User could click on an icon, all those machines contributed to the app experience. Was hard to tell the difference between that and it running all locally.

Why?

Linux user wanted to run CAD unavailable on Linux, was developer who wanted a Linux box. So I used X to push the whole experience to their machine and distributed it for fun once it was working well just to learn and really push things, frankly.

While running, it was hard to tell the Linux machine was not an expensive commercial Unix machine.

All that was over 10-T and 100-T ethernet BTW.

Well designed X applications, particularly those using the SGI GLX extensions ran very well on local LANs. Poorly designed ones were nowhere near the quality of experience.

That skill was expensive. I think this is a big part of why so many struggled with X. A browser, for example, would not be comparable, pretty terrible.

Displaying web pages sucked, yet modeling a freaking car was amazing!

At the time, the X implementation of multi user graphical computing allowed for these and other combinations of users, machines, displays and applications.

It was well thought out multi user graphical computing!

The users could be local, as in a multi head machine offering two sets of keyboard, mouse, display, or they could arrive over the network.

Same as the Unix it was built on top of.

I think that is what people really are trying to get at when they say "network transparency"

Not all these use, or the set of possible use cases X made possible, make sense today.

But, when it was done?

Nobody knew, so they made a system as capable and that employed the best ideas in multi user computing, so that it was all possible.

That's why people who got to understand and really use X appreciate it as we see them do today.
How would you feel when criminals use this?
If I understand you correctly, you mean that wealthy americans who have built their fortune and life in america will choose to not only leave but also revoke their citizenship and leave the US? All because they have to pay more money than before in taxes?

Personally, I don't think all millionares and billionares are willing to leave their life and family behind because of a some dollars in federal tax...
Reading ToTC itself you'll find that this is specifically what Hardin advocates for: Mutual Coercion Mutually Agreed Upon. Unmanaged commons lead to ruin. The question is how to suitably manage them.

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_...
> Do civil engineers have the opportunity to create the bridge version of Linux as their masters project? I think the physical limitations of bridge building means that there isn't a great analog to Linux in the civil engineering field.

That may be true to build final product, but to even become interested or explore the field of engineering (and other professions) has a lot of roadblocks and expenses that software developers don't have to deal with. Imagine having to pay $2000 for a Windows Server + MS SQL license to develop your small website. Whoops! I forgot the $500 license for Visual Studio just to get your code to compile.

The availability and power of free, open-source software greatly lowers the barrier to entry for anyone and everyone: hobbyists to make and release a project, startups to create their product on low/no budget, curious people interested in trying programming.

The fact that this free and open software rivals and often beats its paid equivalents is absolutely amazing. It's why despite the problems in our industry, I am so proud to be a part of it.
That numpy example is only obvious to you because you known numpy. Do you remember learning numpy? I do, and it was definitely not obvious how things worked or what certain functions did.
I still wear a collared shirt and do my hair even though we're WFH. In addition to the above, it looks more professional when I'm on camera for work, which is also the only visual impression my team and managers have of me.
> These things always get a wider, and wider net until anyone just starting to get ahead is caught in it.

No, they don't. You only have to go back a couple years in the US for an example where tax rates for the wealthy were massively cut.
From October 2020, new Oculus users will need to log in with a Facebook account
Yeah but what about YOU? Are YOU going to choose to not eat meat? Or are YOU going to wait to see what everyone ELSE does first? Its a game theory problem.
RIP Earth ... but at least we'll be able order a ride share on our app while heading off to our next gig.
Event tracking is already supported in the build. I just haven't completed the UI components yet. You simply add a custom CSS class on an element and it will automatically be tracked.
It uses glfw for linux and mac, and win32 for windows.
eat fish != depend on reefs for fish. They have very developed commercial fishing not subsistence reef fishing.
Fallacies of Distributed computing and related ideas [slides]
There was an event when a startup I was at asked Basho (they were the company behind Riak db) about backing up our data. Backing was a little side-feature that was possible to rig up, but I recall they looked at this inquiry as if I had two heads -- as if to say, it's replicated, why jump the shark? There was a bug with one of the Riak releases, and all the data was lost. (When we scaled up with this buggy Riak release, the empty node assumed master roll, and all the child nodes went, ah... the new state has no data, let's all delete records 0..k. Fun times.)
Central USA. I'm not sure what is legally considered a sardine here, but it's definitely something to look into.
Google may have a hard time continuing to explain away it's refusal to respect user privacy as the sole browser that doesn't block GA. And if the Chrome team continues to fight privacy initiatives, Chrome will be replaced by something like Edge, which is compatible but also actually cares about privacy and security (these two things are the same, if you aren't prioritizing privacy you are not a secure browser).

Regulators will also be paying attention to this over the next few years.

I think a startup should be very aware of these risks if building off of GA.
No offense, but those places are cheap because nobody wants to live there and for good reason. It looks much worse than Eastern Europe.

Nobody in their right mind would want their kids growing up there.

In family friendly places with jobs the properties are far from cheap.
Funny, I've not even used my work backpack in months now. Last I remember I put my badge in one of the pockets. I assume it's still there...
And note that this isn't a "oh maybe in the future" thing - coronavirus lockdowns in China never stopped, they just fell out of the news cycle. The city of Urumqi has been under full lockdown for the past month or so.
So how are the economics of decentralized storage solutions supposed to work? They don't have the economy of scale that big providers (eg. aws, google, backblaze) have, but yet they're somehow able to offer the service at a cheaper price?
billionaires definitely can be good for society. they do things that are in the public interest but governments can't attempt because they are inherently risk adverse because politicians want to get re-elected.

Bill Gates does high risk speculative, investments for causes such as eradicating diseases.

Elon Musk is attempting to colonize Mars. Because Presidential administrations are a maximum of 8 years and it takes longer to achieve a big goal in space, such as moon or mars colonization, Nasa has had a hard time sticking to a long term goal for space.
It's user preference. DearPyGui has alot more widgets and power than tkinter. However tkinter is native. So it's really up to you. And like vanni said, you can actually use them together.
Bad faith actors can fabricate "evidence". Therefore all evidence is useless?
there's evidence of capital flight and offshore tax havens now. they need to tax the movement of money.
All the countries from the first link have EU sanctions as well, and as long as the projects are on GitHub it won’t really make a difference even if there weren’t.

I’m as appalled at our government’s foreign policy as the next person, but I would bet my bottom dollar on there not being a blanket government mandated EU IP ban in the next four years regardless of the election results. There’s a long way between tariffs and targeted export restrictions for the EU, and the lobbying to NOT cut off all US internet businesses from the EU would be insane.
> cannot separate causality from correlation

Neither can most humans without rigorous experimentation. Deep learning today seems to emulate only system 1. It just turns out that much of what expert humans do can be attributed to finely tuned system-1 intuition. To achieve AGI we'd need a system-2. (nomenclature for system-1 and system-2 taken from Kahneman and Tversky's work on human cognition)
Anyone else just get good vibes from seeing this? Before everything became 1984 with a couple of companies controlling the internet..

I mean. Blogs! Blogrolls. RSS. I miss the old days.

Now get off my lawn.
Agreed, I've always thought these sorts of "Atlas Shrugged" arguments were ironic coming from free-market thinkers. In a free market, if one person refuses to work for less than $100 million, there's always someone right behind them willing to work for $99M. It would take a pretty extraordinary tax to have any effect on motivation in the economy at large.
This is trickier than it might seem. A yacht is actually an asset! (Albeit one that depreciates quickly and has enormous running costs).

Practically everything a billionaire could spend money on "at scale" is just another asset. Although again, "yacht" is a terrible asset class.

To actually get rid of enormous wealth you have to either waste it (throw a huge party? own assets that depreciate a lot? shoot it into space?) or give it away somehow.
I'd recommended building a custom one, if you're technically inclined. But off the shelf ones are fine, just not as cost-effective, but they are smaller though!

I previously had a HP N54L with FreeNAS, modded with extra two extra drives to get 6x4TB and that setup was very simple to do.

Now I moved over to a custom one which is a Fractal Node 804 case, i3 8100T, C246M-WU4 mobo and 32GB ECC DDR4 RAM. It has a SF450W Platinum PSU, and it pulls less than 40W in use - could get it lower with some underclocking. This runs Debian Buster with ZFS on Linux, and it's been rock stable for over half a year now - moving the drives over from my N54L was surprisingly simple. Plex transcoding works fine as well. Definitely recommend it.
What other meritocracy is there?
You can self-host sentry?
It uses prisma.io for the database connections and SQLite is supported. I just haven't had the time to implement it yet and make sure all the custom queries are working. I would welcome a PR.
Covid has created an atmosphere where certain questions are not allowed to be asked. Certain discussions are not allowed. Welcome to the coronavirus discussion on the Internet.

Bring up how people are dying and it's terrible? Automatic upvotes. Attempt discussion about the tradeoffs of the lockdown (economy vs lives)? That person is stupid and uneducated and a Trump supporter - automatic downvotes.

It's pointless to even attempt a discussion that isn't simply lamenting deaths. Don't waste your time like I have.
Why not both? Digital-only locks mean that the landlord can lock you out of your own apartment without having to send a maintenance person around and hope you're not at home to argue with.
> A C-level desk warmer could do its job as effectively if paid a high, yet decent (in comparison to the average wage) amount.

The problem is you won't even find a desk warmer, at least none with actual experience in leading a ~750 employees organization, without taking part in the wage racket.

The only ones you'll end up hiring are either newbies wanting to use your organization as a "career trampoline" (which is bad because you want stability, not a change of course every other year) or failures that don't have a chance anywhere else.

The system must be fixed, and the system is absurd CxO pay. Relying on individuals sacrificing themselves/their orgs won't work.
Are there no listed PE funds
David Hornik (August Capital) AMA
I agree. It is a shame things are this way. I wonder what the solution could be? Maybe developing an extremely educated society will help in the future mitigate this as people will have higher standards. I cannot think of anything else that will allow for natural change of this and I doubt we will see forced change by anyone.
Have we reached herd immunity against other coronaviruses?
Do you have any data to back up this claim? Parent comment provided links. It seems fair to me that a rebuttal should as well.
Indeed, meta-level reasoning is insufficient to determine morality. The object-level facts matter most.
Zack, the priority is Mars! ... or, if you're not that good at rocketry, then low earth orbit, or possibly the moon.

THAT's the priority.

We need to mobilise for that.
I think startups would have a lot easier time recruiting great people if they offered Stock Appreciation Rights [1] instead of typical options. I didn’t even know SARs existed, they’re so non-standard in the startup industry, until as a founder considering an open-ended hiring offer for the first time I desperately looked for some legal upside compensation system that wouldn’t screw me in all likely scenarios. Stock would mean tax bill upfront with high chance of failure. Options would likely expire before I could securely exercise and liquidate to cover costs.

I ultimately decided to stay the founder course, but glad to have found what I think is an acceptable compensation structure. Even if requiring it adds friction to deals until docs are standardized, at least people should know it’s an option. I’d be curious to understand if anyone has found a downside, except to the investors that build these anti-employee systems to arbitrage on knowledge asymmetry.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_appreciation_right
To get rid of that incentive you need to advocate for separating government from economy, in the same manner and for the same reason why state is supposed to be separated from church in a modern secular society. No lobbying from economic players and no government intervention into economics.
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies
Show HN: Quma – Plain SQL in Python
"For me, the real issue is timing. How do you backup a cloud full of constantly changing data? Do you draw a line in the sand, an image of the cloud state at a particular moment?"

I can only describe what we do, and, of course, there is an enormous scale difference here, but ...

Every single rsync.net account is it's own ZFS filesystem which means every single account gets snapshotted[1] nightly on a schedule. This means that the enormous operation of "backing up" all of rsync.net happens in small, manageable, chunks.

Of course, the ZFS snapshots of a customer account are not "backups" per se, but if a customer choose "geo-redundant" storage in another facility, it is those very same snapshots that we (zfs) send over. Those are, indeed, backups.[2]

The most interesting part, in my opinion, is that the daily/weekly/monthly snapshots are immutable. So you can publish your rsync.net credentials or suffer a disgruntled employee or ransomware attack, etc., and those snapshots remain safe - they are read-only.

[1] Accessible, browseable, in ~/.zfs/snapshot

[2] GR storage costs 1.75x normal pricing.
The goal of the current startup system - YC especially - is to do productive work young, and make money off investment later. There's no reason you can't do productive work in your thirties - I am, and plan to continue for a couple decades. As a life plan, however, it's incompatible with the plans that YC is selling.