skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the billionaires do spend it on worthwhile things. Elon works on transportation and energy. Bill Gates tackles climate change, wiping out polio, sanitation, revolutionizing nuclear energy. These guys take huge risks on multi-million dollar projects that no other people would do.

Then you have Warren Buffett, who buys stocks that plummet from hype, probably preventing or dampening recessions.

On the other end you do have the monopolists who use their wealth to choke competitors, and Trump, who got lucky a couple times, but otherwise make the world a worse place.

For the most part, billionaires rarely do nothing with their money. They get there by being willing to take big risks, being good at taking risks, and they do things that no billion-dollar CEO would be willing to do. I'd say a huge reason USA is so rich is because of the spirit of taking risks. If you get rid of billionaires, you lose that.

From a practical angle, how would you outlaw that? It's not like a billion dollars in gold or cash lying around somewhere. Much of it is in stocks that go up and down.

What if they put $100 million into a failcoin, which drives up the value of that failcoin? What if they put half a billion into buying ancient Roman busts? What if they invest $1 million into a startup, and then "donate" $100 million into it?

I doubt a FAANG founder would just sell his shares if there was such a legal reason, because it's still a cash cow. It's easier for them to just milk it to hit a quota then throw away the milk.
In the "History" section (p.2) they state that

"We started Asana because our co-founders experienced firsthand the growing problem of work about work. While at Facebook, they saw the coordination challenges the company faced as it scaled. Instead of spending time on work that generated results, they were spending time in status meetings and long email threads trying to figure out who was responsible for what. They recognized the pain of work about work was universal to teams that need to coordinate their work effectively to achieve their objectives. Yet there were no products in the market that adequately addressed this pain. As a result of that frustration, they were inspired to create Asana to solve this problem for the world’s teams."

I can only imagine that the complexity of the coordination inside Facebook continued to grow after Asana was created.

So is Facebook a client of Asana to solve this problem ? How does a company like Facebook handle the "coordination problem" ? Do they have one tool that solves all the issues or a myriad of project management tools ?
In April Credit Suisse released their outlook on the real estate market in Switzerland, I think their views can be broadly applied to the US as well though.

"Low mortgage interest rates mean that home ownership is currently cheaper than renting...and would rule out the prospect of a significant increase in defaults... This is due to the low mortgage interest burden seen in recent years, as well as the fact that financing requirements have been tightened on several occasions. Specifically, this means a majority of home owners are unlikely to have any difficulty servicing their mortgage debt in the event of a temporary reduction in their income" (https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/en/articles/private-banking...).

I think the thesis still holds up for owner-occupied homes. Residential, luxury, and commercial property market is a different story, although it seems that residential has bounced back, not sure about luxury, and commercial has gotten destroyed and is why Amazon is buying it up for cheap.
> Does scientific-grade code need to be reproducible? Yes. Fundamentally yes. The reproducibility of results is core to the scientific method. Yes, that includes Monte Carlo code, [...]

Reproducibility in the scientific sense is different from running the same program with the same input, and getting exactly the same result. Repreducibility means that if you repeat the measurements in another environment, getting somewhat different data, and apply the same theory and methods, you get to the same conclusion.

The property of a computer program that when you run it again with the same input, you get the same output, is nice and very helpful for debugging. But the fact that you can run the same program does not mean that it is bug-free, as much as the fact that you can copy a paper with a mathematical proof does not mean that the proof is correct.

Also, multi-threaded and parallel code is inherently non-deterministic.

> when there is no such thing as truly random number generation on contemporary computers, only pseudorandom number generation,

That is wrong. Linux for example uses latency measurements from drivers such as HDD drive seek latencies or keyboards to generate entropy. While it might not the best thing to rely on for purposes of cryptography, it is surely not deterministic. If it would matter, you could download real-time astronomical noise measurements and use them to seed your Mersenne Twister generator.
A new Firefox for Android experience
I wonder what this result indicates with regard to tests. Will tests be able to detect all the various strains of SARS-CoV-2?
Rust 1.46.0 (pre-release notes)
Texas politics aside, plenty of innocent people from all walks of life could be displaced from their homes, left destitute, and spill over into other states. The richer folks would be just fine, so I don't think shrugging is an appropriate response.
Privacy and freedom of speech are threatened by INFRASTRUCTURE, not domains or tools.
You can lose your freedom of speech because your hosting or your DNS/CDN provider terminates you (CloudFlare anyone?). That is the big web he is referring to.
But I fail to see how his technological response addresses his concerns: TheSmallWeb offers no way to replace the current hosting mechanism, which is the single source of threat your website can currently suffer.
"How do you keep it clean?"

Maybe you don't - when a room gets dirty just close the door and move onto the next one?
How then exactly did epic make over a billion dollars off of fortnite last year?

Free to play, does not mean they give away their products for free
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Also DC - nothing can be higher than the Washington Monument in the district.
I dislike twitter. But do like digital painting artworks. My solution is an RSS feed of a bunch of twitter digital artists. Means I have no contact with twitter itself, but I do get exactly the content I want.
How come Linux has licensing issues with ZFS, but the BSDs don't?
Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
>> The 1400-year-old Armstrong tree

> The bare fact that a tree is 1400 years old is pretty strong evidence that it's unlikely to be harmed by a fire.

For fires the likes of which they've experienced in their lifetimes, perhaps. Hard to know otherwise:

"What is remarkable about the CZU fire is this is a coastal fire, primarily along the the coast near the Santa Cruz mountains... in forests, a lot of redwoods, that have simply never seen forest fires... we are dealing with different climate conditions that are precipitating in fires the likes of which we haven't seen in modern recorded history in dense forests that are well-covered and have been historically immune from significant fires."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiyG9JXNspk&t=9m28s
For the curious I am in column A, occasionally column D, and very recently column C along with much of humanity.

And yes, I am claiming that a lot of feminist twitter is in column B. They themselves have been quite explicit about that.
This is exactly what I’ve noticed lately. Is it a known/named phenomenon? Do you have a reference?
And in 34 years we will get social media videographer gig workers releasing "Illegal cross country trip into the Galveston zone" VR experiences.

This reminded me of the Arkema Inc. Chemical Plant Fire. https://www.csb.gov/arkema-inc-chemical-plant-fire-/

I wonder if it is still not required by federal regulations to analyze the risk of flooding creating process safety hazards.
You are aware that modern recorded history in California goes back much, much less than 1400 years?
This appears to be the first dispute where Apple aggressively retaliated in unrelated areas of business.
As I read it, the article is more about the concept of scripting in general - and not about any specific language bash/zsh/powershell/etc.

I definitely agree, I think that POSIX-shell scripts can often be completely unreadable and difficult to maintain. But I think the concept of scripting in itself is fine, even though the implementations we might use today are slightly outdated.

At the moment there's a huge number of interactive shells like nushell and xonsh being built, but they don't really focus on scripting; I'd really love to see more competitors attempting to take on the mess of bash scripts.
This Orwell essay stuck with me many years ago, well worth a read: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
I guess that would make you one of the 4% to whom the lizardman's constant applies.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Heres a great list from GOV.UK of the kind of words to avoid when using Plain English:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-sty...
This is not the type of forum you think it is--comments like this aren't welcome here. They do not add to the conversation and they reek of hate and personal issues.
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I'm using ZY12PDN USB-C PD boards ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIHj3qMRqqE )
About point 2, IMHO, better a jumper to disable programming mode than having to obstruct the sensor.
In one of the previous housing bubbles (in the run up to the GFC) we had friends who were making offers on properties here in Scotland that were 70% over the asking price and still failing to buy something.
Epic Games won a temporary restraining order against Apple
I believe you are referring to Lodgepole Pines
Don’t worry. We’ll build the wall to keep them out.
I like this idea and m certainly going to try it out for a while. What is the IAP for?
It's not supposed to sound attractive, but investors will largely care about the YoY growth of 121% for Q2.

They spend a ton of money on Sales & Marketing (293,577k in the last fiscal year). That's what's driving a lot of their growth I assume and it's a lever they can pull back to increase profitability.
Who was asymptomatic and previously did not have igg antibodies but had an _expected_ immune response?

This is how the immune system works! Stop sensationalizing this story.
Meh, there are metasequoia fossils in Alaska, I’m pretty sure the 3 sequoia species will be winners in climate change.
Nu.nl's comment section has been back for a while, they dumped the social network ambitions and invested in better moderation before turning it back on. It's helped somewhat.
I think it refers to this[1] page with the header "We <3 people who code" where <3 is supposed to be a heart.

(Probably people from the "post-emoji generation" can't recognise <3 as well as us old people ahah)

[1] https://pics.onsizzle.com/stack-overflow-where-dev-x-https-s...
Lesson is don’t joke or use sarcasm or hyperbole on the internet because you are begging to be maliciously misunderstood.
It might be popular in Britain. Cwtch is the one Welsh word that non-Welsh people know. A bit like craic.
If you enjoy thinking about that, book VII of Euclid would be right up your alley: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookVII/book...

The algorithm you describe is VII Proposition 1.
It would be funny if it still let you comment, but it showed your test results besides your comment.
While there are reasonably good reasons that most scientific articles are in PDF format (way too much work to change), I heartily agree with writing blog posts on articles. I started doing this: the effort (once you have somewhere to publish it) is negligible compared with the amount of effort of writing a paper, and it is also quite fun to be able to write more free-form text on the subject.
Pocket calculators. Paper calendars. Film cameras and film development labs. Alarm clocks. Analog telephones, one for every room. Pens and paper and correction fluid and typewriters and typewriter ribbons and typewriter repair service, as physical things that required labor to exist.

A phone/computer replaces all of those, but it's one product instead of hundreds. It doesn't take anywhere near the labor to produce as all of those things once did.
Element attributes are awkward to express in JSON, at the very least. Maybe if the markup language was originally designed around json it would be a more natural fit.
Aveva to Acquire OSIsoft for $5.0B
Also Fear and Loathing of the English Passive http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
Doesn't seem misleading to me. I think most readers would take it in context of the COVID pandemic, not all time highs. Plus, is pre-Great Recession a good benchmark? That housing market was buoyed by a lot of bad subprime mortgages. Of course it was bigger.
In other words, we expect "others" to pay for us through economies of scale. This might work for top-tier video games, but it definitely does not work for niche software.
I don't get it, isn't it already easy to run your own server in a closet at home? You need a static IP (which is still very common, and getting easier with IPv6) and a linux box that is always plugged in.

It's less convenient that renting a VM or VPS somewhere and that is again less convenient than a fully managed web presence, but you can do it.
Depends what he means by "modern recorded history", but yes, I'm aware of basic history, thank you very much. What I was saying was that it is not at all obvious whether they have actually experienced such fires before or not; it seems possible they haven't.
I'm sure the front-end programmers you work with really pay attention to the size of their JS build /sarcasm
Interesting, this appears to be the same concept for the app I was going to build because I couldn't find any like it!

Edit: Nevermind, I thought it allowed scheduling of one-off or periodic Todo lists.
I was immediately reminded of https://xkcd.com/927/
Well then don’t comment. How were you commenting without reading?
It’s a thing we discussed 2 days ago here, that isn’t happening even with public support.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24249527
Providing objective, non-biased events would be very hard.

Consider for example the current riots going on in the US. How do you objectively report on that? With bias, on one side you have "peaceful protest disrupted and escalated by the police", on the other side you have "police intervening in riots to maintain order and protect property". There's not really inbetween.
They are not immutable in the 'chflags uchg,schg ' sense.

Updating these files is not in any way shape or form a hassle anymore if you do not update them. etcupdate has that solved. Even mergemaster has specific options to handle unchanged /etc that only diffs in svn-id tags and similar.

But in my opinion the basic premise of the article is false. mergemaster and etcupdate with their diff and 3-way merge capabilities are there because these files are assumed to have local edits.

The startup procedure, scripts, options are expected to be customized; thus the update procedure has handling to preserve local edits.
A wealth tax would be nice, instead of income or expenses taxation. Tax those who hoard. If a billionaire is spending $800m on things, he's doing a lot of good for the economy, probably more than taxing him $10m would.
Link for the lazy: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-gene...

This seems like a very useful read indeed.
I'm an OK developer, don't know anything but superficial about AI or parser combinators or compilers, and most of my work is building pages, forms, APIs and databases and has been for the past decade+.

However, my experience doing that trick is very varied by now; I can do the trick in a handful of back-end languages, front-end frameworks, even native iOS.

So yeah I'm nowhere near a rockstar developer, but I'm experienced, productive, pragmatic, etc.

It won't make me ridiculously rich but I get by. That said, I could increase my income by going self-employed I guess.
It doesn't have to be though, there's just a high correlation between hard-to-automate apps and non-command-line apps. You can e.g. make a GUI app where every button or keybinding is bound to a named function (GUI Emacs comes to mind), and where those named functions can be used in scripts. Another option is to have a scriptable backend; LibreOffice has a terminal interface that lets you e.g. convert between document formats from a shell script, and Astroid Mail is built on Notmuch as its backend which is scriptable.
Engineers and other well paid professionals.
"a mistake was made" as a good use of passive? Is that a joke?
> Monte-Carlo can and should be deterministic and repeatable. It’s a matter of correctly initializing you random number generators and providing a known/same random seed from run to run.

Perhaps if you use only single-threaded computation, you are interested in averages, and the processes you are interested in behave well and mostly linear.

But

- running code in parallel easily introduces non-determinism, even if your result computation is as simple as summing up results from different threads

- the processes one is examining might be highly non-linear - like lightning, weather forecasts, simulation of wildfires, and also epidemic simulations

- especially for all kind of safety research, you might actually be interested not only in averages, but in freak events, like "what is the likelihood that you have two or three hurricanes at the same time in the Gulf of Mexico", or "what happens if your nuclear plant gets struck by freak lightning in the first second of a power failure".

What should be reproducible are the conclusions you come to, not the hashed bits of program output.

> If you aren’t doing that, you aren’t running your Monte-
Carlo correctly. That’s a huge red flag.

No, it does not follow from that.
Like the other poster mentioned, we don't really know.

I'm not an economist, just an interested investor and from my understanding, using QE on this scale is just an easy short term solution to a longer term, hard problem.

Printing money like this has never really been done before on this scale, but the fear is that "printing money" like this will potentially lead to very bad debt and hyperinflation inflation crisis (maybe already started).

The limitations of QE aren't entirely known, but will be known as more money is printed and money becomes more worthless.

Will having a lot of "monopoly money" in circulation be a problem? Time will tell; however there have been many examples where hyper inflation has caused economies to fail, such as Venezuela recently and the Roman Empire in the past.

The US Federal Reserve should probably be careful with their actions because they wouldn't be the first country to run into dire issues doing this.

What I fear is, the people at the top of the US are blinded by greed and the desire to be reelected and aren't concerned about the lessons of history.
I never had issues running public http servers on residential isp connections. It's fine unless you get massive traffic.
It's not clear what this "Small Web" gives users instead of simply running a WordPress installation on a VPS or a shared hosting plan. In fact, the "Small Web" command line installation instructions on the accompanying site.js website are considerably more complicated that the easy one-click installation process widely available for WordPress. This suggests the "Small Web" will appeal only to technically savvy users rather than appeal to a wider audience.

WordPress, regardless of whether you like it or not, gives you an easy GUI for editing your website and a wide choice of plug-ins and themes. The "Small Web" with it's accompanying site.js website ("small web construction set") is more complicated and appears to offer less but dressed up in language to make it sound new and unique.
QE results in strange market dynamics. As the safe assets are bought up by the central banks with newly created money, there is an excess of cash in the system, which needs somewhere to go.
The ZFS license (CDDL) is (arguably) incompatible with GPL. This is not a problem for FreeBSD since it’s not using GPL.
People who need somewhere to live? Not sure what you’re asking?
Because the CDDL (by design, as inherited from the MPL 1.x) is not compatible with the GPL, due to the fact that both try to enforce their own copyleft without allowing relicensing (i.e the MPL2 avoids this thanks to a annex clause that allows you to consider everything as covered by the GPL instead). You can't cover the ZFS modules with the GPL in the final agglomerated result (i.e. kernel + module), so it's not allowed technically by the kernel license (see the difference between the LGPL and the GPL for more info). In practice no one ever questioned this in court, so who knows what the final result would be.

FreeBSD uses a super weak permissive BSD license instead, so there is no conflict because it leaves whatever code you're trying to add to it alone, without trying to enforce any additional terms on it.
What criteria do you use to determine "best"? Safety, construction cost, fuel efficiency, capacity factor?

Pretty much all modern designs are much safer than designs of Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors developed in 60s.

One of the most recent designs (classified as generation 3+) with operational reactors is VVER-1200, operational reactors: Leningrad-2, Novovoronezh-2 and soon Astravets (Belarus). Next iteration VVER-TOI is under construction in Kursk-2 and Akkuyu (Turkey). Both of those designs easily satisfy post-Fukushima safety requirements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER

Other reactors can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor#Generat...

Also arguably operational BN-600 and BN-800 can be considered Gen IV reactors (though they currently lack necessary fuel processing lines).
Well, the specified defaults are in a folder in /lib or /usr. You can find them there and copy them to /etc or just write what you change.

The issue is not how much is backed up but what.

If /etc only represents changes to system defaults, then the backup represents a list of my changes and it's always easily visible from each full snapshot what changes were active in the system at that time.

If /etc contains all configuration, then from a single backup snapshot, you cannot determine what changes where made to the system.

This would be an issue if you're trying to recover the backup to a freshly installed system, for example, because you cannot tell what changes you have made vs what changes occured in the backup due to updates or upstream due to updates since the backup.

It's a semantic difference that can make restoring backups easier and replicable across different systems.
You should ensure that both your Switch and TV have the same range configured-- for various reasons, many legacy signals have 16-235 as the black to white range instead of 0-255. If your Switch sends 16-235 and your TV wants 0-255, you'll see a washed out image that doesn't have pure blacks or whites.

After that, you can tweak HDR emulation to get a tolerable image. Not true HDR, but it should look good. "works on my machine" (LG OLED B7).
Fortnite is the highest grossing free-to-play game, and the Epic store also takes a cut of games sold on their store.

It's not 30% but the actual amount doesn't matter in the context of that particular part of the order.
The issues are caused by GPL, while BSD is, well, BSD licensed.