skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how feasible it is for individuals (or groups of individuals?) in the US, to also incorporate themselves and, through the same or similar loopholes, also pay no tax...

How would the IRS respond in those instances.

Has that been tried? Is anyone aware of anything like that? Is the cost of such a scheme prohibitive for an individual vs. a large Corp? I'd be curious what the challenges and outcome of such an experiment would be.
I haven't used this but watched a talk from the author about how it can load huge files really quickly and can even edit while saving. Sounds pretty god tier in terms of performance:

https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig

Check out the talks from Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente. They are truly next level imo.
Ahh, that's even worse for Nate Silver then, if the "polls-plus" and the "polls only" predictions were not assuming the election happened today (which it seems like they weren't, even in 2016 [1]), then Taleb's criticism is all the more accurate.

Whatever Nate Silver was doing to incorporate future uncertainty in 2016 was clearly inadequate for all the reasons that Taleb pointed out (you could reliably make money betting on Silver's prediction odds to tend toward their time-smoothed average, implying that their time-smoothed average was a better representation of the probability than the probability itself).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160930201714/http://fivethirty...
I got more from reading the source code of Emacs, Ultrix, Dynix and TeX,then eventually NCSA Mosaic and Linux than I ever did from almost any other "senior staff" that I ever encountered.

I would hope the same is true of the comparison between reading the source code of Ardour and meeting me in person.
The computer systems running this LISP code had 4k of memory. There are a few subroutines (e.g. APUSH, FPUSH, CAR, CDR, etc.) but the inner loop looks pretty much like a tightly coded state machine. I suspect most of the FORTRAN statements will compile to single instructions (on some architectures). FORTRAN level subroutine/function calls would use a stack and chew up memory.

My PDP-8/f System was a small machine with a paper tape reader/punch on the teletype. Running the multi-pass FORTRAN compiler, linker, and library code paper tapes (including intermediate tapes) could take all day. I usually just hand-patched the final binary paper tape (using a small plastic holder and a 1-hole punch). The fact that I could run LISP and interact "on the fly" was an amazing advance.

Later, when I worked for Unimation trying to computer-control industrial robots I got a Data General NOVA. Unfortunately I didn't have a FORTRAN compiler. All the robot work was done in hex machine code. Oh, if I only had a LISP!
You are indeed right.

Look at Nate’s current prediction though: 89% that Biden will win.

I highly doubt anyone would take betting odds of 89% Biden. This is actually one of Taleb’s main critiques
that's likely a side-effect of emacs bindings being the readline default in Bash more than anything. (set -o emacs)

What will be interesting to see is if this changes now that zsh (which does not use readline) has become the standard...but alas, if you don't have EDITOR or VISUAL set, emacs is the default there too...

As for those curious, emacs is the readline default because readline is part of the GNU project.
See upstream thread about a coming fix for this (search on page for “GitHub”).
That colorscheme looks cool though. Is it available for other text editors?
Compelling means that the reader doesn’t give up after a few paragraphs. I like long form, like I have subscribed to Harper’s since forever, but sometimes an article is just extended and not more interesting.
That’s a lot of negativity just for someone experimenting with a unique programming language to see what it’s good and bad at. People see a new tool and try to figure out what it excels at and what it falls short at. Rust tends to be an “everything” language and people try to uncover new patterns and techniques.

“How much faster/leaner/more user friendly can I make X when I don’t have to care about safety, performance, or package management?”
Translation: GPT3 is fun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartOS

If linux comes out with tools remotely approaching the quality of either freebsd or solaris planning everyone should drop what they're doing to go watch. Linux ain't gonna improve itself, and the pains of docker are an excellent entry to pressuring linux devs to do anything that can improve userspace experience, an otherwise deeply unlikely prospect. It took them more than a decade to implement basic jailing after BSDs and the tech is still, shall we say, extremely rough....
Bridgefy launches E2E encrypted messaging for app used for protests/disasters
That's infuriating because even in this "success" case, the company won. The user lost in at least the following ways

* going down the wrong back and having to do a U-turn

* spending the physical time and labor to organize, and to go to court (just this might be over 700$ of time for some people)
Sony reportedly puts a stop to third-party PS5 faceplate plans
In the Netherlands people use marktplaats.nl much more than eBay.
So they can not pay the content providers and pocket the advertising money?

Not saying that's what happened but there's definitely motive.
There's also been work on getting solar thermal to the point where heat alone could be used at input into an industrial process.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90477609/this-startup-uses-mirro...
pphd was a new metric for me so I did some googling because I wanted to know more.

From that searching I came across the following article. Now this article has a clear bias (but so do the people advocating for rail), but bias doesn't mean that there aren't valid points being made even if exaggerated. Curious what your response is to their counter claims:

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/sound-t...

One thing that stands out is that ST3 is saying it is a theoretical limit of 16,000 pphd not 30,000. Where did you get the 30,000 figure from?
There are degrees of non-repudiation. In a court of law, you may be right - there is reasonable doubt as to authorship. But when a public figure's emails leak to the New York Times, the standard might be a little lower.
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For people who come to the comments first -

There's literally nothing in this article. It's a whole bunch of words put together giving the impression of making sense while doing nothing.

I keep wondering how these get to the front page at all!
Ok. Let me put it down as points. I am figuring this out as I type:

1. There is a fixed exchange rate for every currency.
2. Trade is conducted with this fixed exchange rate.
3. There is also a floating rate for the currency which means that it is strong or weak depending on GDP, economy etc.

4. OTOH, there are local economies. For cities inside the USA. Why should trade of soy and hogs with China affect the rent paid by a retiree in small town America?

5. Many pension funds invest in companies listed on Wall Street, but when dispersed, it is used for exchange of goods for money in high streets and local economies.

6. Can not a local economy be separate from traded currency? This would create a barter like economy.

7. Padding an economy from future shocks is easier if local economy is divorced from trade economy.

Thoughts?
What are you talking about? I’m talking about Cocoa NSTextField, NSTextView etc., got nothing to with libreadline or bash, unless there’s a history lesson here you’d like to share.

Edit: Your comment was expanded as I was replying / after I replied. From which it’s quite clear you didn’t get my point.
I mean it's now ingrained in programming lore, but the reality is that Carmack has nothing to do with this and Carmack himself has never taken credit for it. The fast inverse square root dates back to the 80s and has its roots in SGI's systems. One of the developers who worked at SGI would eventually go on to work at ID developing Quake and worked on this optimization.
I loved Whitefish when I was there, and would have considered it for the long term but was concerned about reports of a growing alt-right contingent in town. Have you encountered that?
I love this feature also. I just wish that when I disable scripts for a website, it would still let my browser plugins that inject JS work. On Firefox, whatever browser plugin I use to block scripts does this out of the box. It makes more sense to do it this way, since I’m not saying “don’t run scripts on pages of this domain”, I’m saying “don’t run scripts originating from pages on this domain”.
Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
The disagreement between Taleb and Silver wheels on technical minutiae in statistics, but the discussions around them by lay-people seem to be about something else altogether.

The majority of 538's ad impressions come from people who start F5-mobbing the site during election time because they want to know before anyone else who's going to win. (A tiny few might be from people trying to figure out which races are worth donating towards.)

So that puts 538 into this awkward position where their audience is demanding something that 538 is unable to provide, but if they get too in-your-face in saying, "look, that's not how this works", then they stand to lose a lot of ad revenue during peak season.

That leads them to do very silly things, like bury this:

> A 10 percent chance of winning, which is what our forecast gives Trump, is roughly the same as the odds that it’s raining in downtown Los Angeles. And it does rain there.

...in the same page as this:

> We simulate the election 40,000 times to see who wins most often.

And that's some bullshit.

Silver and the rest of his staff over the last few months have spent a CVS receipt's worth of text on what went wrong with their predictions -- er, sorry, "models" -- in 2016, and why this year is different, and how uncertainty works, and why they're offering no guarantees really, "but please do keep coming back, and hey check out this cool new simulator thingy where you too can make guesses that are about as accurate as ours".

I almost really wouldn't care, except for one kind of big problem with 538: It is a political observer-effect in action.

Journos, hacks, and other newspeople trying to get one more page impression or soundbite before the end of the day keep referencing 538. When 538 says a candidate is doing well according to their models, it can and almost certainly is changing people's behavior. Likewise when 538 says a candidate is doing poorly. That's hugely problematic and, annoyingly, the more accurate 538 becomes, the more pronounced and dangerous this effect will be.
APIs shouldn't change in backward-incompatible ways. That's sorta the bedrock of a service oriented architecture. If teams have to communicate with each other through more than API documentation and can push responsibilities onto each other by making backwards-incompatible changes then you've kneecapped the entire benefit of a service oriented architecture from the get-go.
I overlooked the glaring exception of India which according to a few seconds of googling is also at least partially a common-law country.
Didn't take me long to find that they have a "RetroPie" listing. I think this is going to be a lot more grey than first glance.
They shipped their hobby project into Homebrew's core tap. 'brew install ox' belongs to them. They've put it out in the world for others to use and have also stated their case for why people should.

This is far above the level of scrutiny of just someone's experiments.

I have a hobby project that is a feature-complete scratch
rewrite of Ruby's ActiveRecord, but I'd be kind of an arsehole if I named that something and uploaded it to rubygems.
Is there a term "Threatware"? Should I coin this term?
Do you have deer? In my parents yard when trees drop there is a huge competetion to grow up in the clearing. but the deer swoop in and the maples and oaks don’t have a chance. The pines and holly trees take off.
It’s not expensive to incorporate, but full time employment can’t really be paid to an EIN. You need to be a contractor or a vendor.

Lots of people do it. Self employment comes with some risks, but if you own it, and convert your employment towards it, it can have benefits.

Its how landscapers drive F250s, for example.
I used OCaml for several years professionally. It's a phenomenal language in many ways, but there's no way I'd seriously consider using it for a new project at this point.

I don't really agree on the "Learnability" and "Minor annoyances" sections here. In terms of overly academic discourse, well, everyone's experiences differ but that's simply not a problem I've personally seen in the community (and I'd happily tell you other languages have that problem in spades). In terms of learnability: Ocaml, (the good parts) is an extremely straightforward language in most respects. The tutorials on the Ocaml website are enough to get you up and running, and Real World Ocaml is freely available and it's great. It'd be nice if v2 ever came out, but...well. Between those two, if you're still struggling, give me a call and I'd be happy to tutor you :)

The rest of this article hits most of the nails right on the head. The library support just isn't there, the community is too fragmented (why is stdlib vs. Core vs. Batteries and Async vs. Lwt still an issue?), the tooling is still too rough. OCaml's lack of multicore isn't actually a problem for most use-cases, but the fact that it's been in limbo for a decade despite the endless clamouring for it tells you something about what you're hitching your wagon to.

Twenty years ago OCaml would've been a no-brainer. At this point if I wanted a practical garbage-collected language I'd choose Scala and get a large and active community, as many Java libraries as there are stars in the sky, and the most sophisticated runtime environment mankind has ever dreamed of (for better or worse). If I truly need a compiled language, well...tragically, I've been bitten by the Rust bug (to the extent that I'm starting to believe its rigid approach to ownership helps engineer better code - that the ability to freely and thoughtlessly sharing references to objects the way garbage collection grants makes it a mistake, but that's a story for another post). And if I need 100% of the power and safety types can give me, Haskell is there waiting, with a better ecosystem to boot. Everything OCaml does well other languages do better, and then some. It's an also-ran now.
Yahoo Auctions tried, but they only won in Japan, and eventually shut down everywhere else. As eBay has shifted to buy it now, marketplace sites (amazon, walmart, newegg, aliexpress) compete to some degree.
> Yeah. I can’t even get some Linux containers to run under $ESCOTERIC_DEBIAN_BASED_DISTRO.

I would love any details you can provide; that sounds interesting. (I'm an OS nerd)
Location: CT or Atlanta, GA (student)

Remote: Open to remote and in-person

Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere

Technologies: Python, Rust, C, Bash, JS, Git, Linux, SQL, Flask, React, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy, Pandas

Résumé/CV: http://anishthite.github.io/Anish_Thite_Resume.pdf

Email: anishthite@gmail.com

BS CS student graduating in Spring 2021, open to internships or full-time offers. I have worked on some ML and Full-stack projects, and am interested in applying NLP techniques to interesting problems (open to exploring other fields though). I am open to any offer though (I just want a job tbh). I'm interested in startups and small to mid sized companies. Ideally I want to have high impact within the company and high impact on the world.
I feel that this is the perfect opportunity to create a new auction site called “The Arrrr PIrate Bay”.
Doesn't that just provide separation of cookies (and maybe cache)? If you want entirely separate environments (cookies, cache, bookmarks, history, extensions) I believe you need to use multiple profiles.
I bought my first two RPis from Little Bird, the company whose tweet is linked (albeit through one of their web stores, not via ebay). Those were an original RPi model B, now sadly retired (it still works, just is very slow even for running basic services), and a 3B+, now faithfully serving as a PiHole and HomeBridge machine.

I have a surprising number of RPis around the apartment now; a PiZero with the HQ camera module is serving as a webcam for my desktop machine, and another one is acting as an “on air” indicator to let folks know when a microphone is hot in the room (typically working-from-home zoom meetings). And another zero is controlling a set of “presence” indicator lights, watching bluetooth to determine who is in the apartment at any given time. That makes it so that if one of us is leaving the apartment, we can easily tell whether we need to lock the door on our way out, without needing to go searching through the apartment to check whether another flatmate is home or not. (I found that for us, testing bluetooth was far faster and more reliable than testing arp, wifi, bonjour, geofencing, or etc)

... and I’ve just ordered a moderately large e-paper display which is destined to be mounted with a zero inside a picture frame and hung from the wall like a photo. Haven’t decided exactly what to show on it yet; probably will show a weather forecast and how long until the next tram will arrive at the stop outside our building. That kind of thing.

Plus, of course, the pi 4 that I just use as a generic linux box for my own amusement. These little projects have been such fun little creative outlets; I’ve very much enjoyed coming up with and implementing them over the past few years!
What exactly is closed source? Signing, configs, etc are of course private... but all of the code should be online

- https://github.com/brave

- https://github.com/brave-intl
> it's a high-level language with static types, so easy to make large scale changes as we figure out what the language/product was

> you mostly model data with sum types, which in my mind are the best way to model data

>it's very similar to the language I wanted to build (in particular, we could reuse built-in immutable data structures for Dark's values)

> it had a reputation for being high-performance, which meant that we could write an interpreter for Dark and not have it be terribly slow (vs writing an interpreter in python, which might be too slow)

> We have struggled to make editor tooling work for us.

> Lack of libraries

> Multicore is coming Any Day Now™, and while this wasn't a huge deal for us, it was annoying.

> we also use ReasonML

> lazyness and pure functional-ness I felt were not great

> I plan to leave keep the frontend in ReasonML

You want a statically typed functional (but not pure) language with sum types, immutable data structures, good performance, editor/IDE support, a broad library ecosystem, multithreading, a C-like syntax (I assume, since you're using ReasonML), and a nice compile-to-Javascript experience to run in the browser.

I don't want to sound too much like a fanboy, but all this really sounds like Scala. You want Scala.
Looks cool from a distance, and looks more user friendly than most! However any modern editor which doesn't support multiple cursors (be it terminal or gui) is missing the start line of the race these days.
Most of those marketplace sites don’t allow casual selling. Even Amazon’s Seller Central is slowly being restricted to only businesses.

I’ve been using Swappa for phones and consoles, and Bonanza for other things. But they’re still not mainstream.
And China has laws that mandate all Chinese companies (meaning every company) must share every single bit of data, any time, with the authorities.

Cynical alphanet references aside, you need a judge's order in the US.

No hypocrisy.
I've never had the problem either - I started using the RPi4 seriously when it became possible to boot from USB, and it's great. USB boot is working properly in the newest Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu MATE Desktop images as well as the official Raspberry Pi OS.

The Samsung T5 and T7 are frighteningly fast USB-attached portable SSDs - some simple tests of mine had them at around 335MB/s. On paper the T7 should be twice as fast, so it's interesting that they tested so close (the T5 was even a little faster, as high as 350MB/s), but they are both totally good enough.
Nobody uses just the kernel alone, so I think it's fair to consider the other required components when looking at the system.
Oh I get it, I think you're just underestimating how much effort Apple's developers put into system-wide consistent behaviors in macOS. And also how picky developers are about keyboard first and changing keybindings.

They decided to use emacs bindings because emacs bindings are the system default for macOS programmers.

Apple's developers were also macOS's first users and they started with a terminal long before they had a working UI.
If only there was a recently published high quality book that could walk them through Scala with some hands on examples

:)
Fix coming tomorrow for this :) If you don't want to wait, you can check out the pre-release version here:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71

Nightly already has the fix and Beta will get the fix when we finish uplifting Chromium 87 to that channel
That may be true, but Steve Jobs famously dreamt of an appliance computer and the Macintosh/iPod/iPhone/iPad are all, to some extent, reflections of that vision.
In France there's leboncoin.fr, also more active than eBay.
I'm talking about usability and value to the user. You're talking about optimizing the UI to exploit the users for your maximum profit. Those two motivations are obviously not well-aligned

I could not disagree more strongly. I have built a career built, in no small part, on a simple business model of creating software that users like because it's easy and works well, and consequently attracting and retaining happy (and paying) customers. This has absolutely nothing to do with ad-tech, which I generally regard as a toxic business model for exactly the reasons you're arguing.
If anything pine plantations can feel more haunted with their unnatural uniformity and changes in how far you can see.
Do you have a lot of plugins? I updated my config to disabled plugins when the file is above a certain size and mostly have no problems.
Each one of these discussions kicks me enough to move another service or reset a few more email addresses to a personal domain. I’m mostly off google after a couple years.
I have fastmail set up so that it continually imports new mail from my google accounts, and if I reply from the fastmail interface it replies using the email I received the message on.

It's a very easy first step. Then you can migrate things over one by one as they come in without worrying about missing things or switching between interfaces.
> Cloud Pubsub has HTTP and gRPC APIs
One of the things I love about my city is it was designed with a ring of parklands around it so even people living in the city without a car can access fairly undisturbed nature.

Visible on google maps here
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.9279778,138.6043731,3461...
Storms do not easily flatten small trees, small trees are usually the most resistant to wind.
There were plenty of people liberal enough or cheap enough to live in a black neighborhood. Many tried. But they wound up 100% black/0% white anyway.
When schools were first closed 17% of LAUSD didn't have internet access. Not just a rural issue.