skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t need AVs for that. Adaptive Cruise Control with self-breaking cars can do this now; it’s very much how I prefer to drive on a motorway, knowing the car will deal with it if I lose concentration or react late for whatever reason.

Obviously these are optional extras on most cars, but the self braking and auto-distance-keeping could be made a legal requirement well before we see self-driving cars. I’d be all for that.
it is easier to just virtualize the whole damn computer

IBM did this starting in the 1960s as a way of providing time-sharing. It became their VM/CMS OS product line (VM - hypervisor, CMS - single-user guest OS - but any OS could be the guest, including VM itself)

CMS influenced the CP/M microcomputer operating system. So yes, it was not unlike DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
Oh, there are undoubtedly bad actors on both sides, but I don't think there is reasonable doubt about where the vast majority of contemporary behaviour we are talking about - the pressure to obey the diktats of self-elected social arbiters at risk of career etc - comes from.
Yeah, I just checked some threads and definetly it's still being talked but not with the same visibility, I am afraid that it might be getting hardly downvoted by big enthusiasts, same as I am getting downvoted now
How does that support your assertion?
I'm just reasoning why it will happen. Macro markets do not always react fast to these kind of trends.

I agree with your description of the present and close past, thus calling an imminent bull market.

The more time this present situation holds, the bigger is the buying pressure.

I'm guessing you have a computer tech background and still don't share my view: imagine all the macro-investors not having this knowledge. They can't predict magic-internet-money eating their lunch.

Cool thing about free markets: they find out the correct solution out of the greed and collective inteligence of the group. <3
Putting limits on toxic compound X in food would also be an overreach according to your views. At some point we have curves of accident rate and estimated speeds of accident and a decision is made. For food, we have an estimated exposure (plus other factors such as lab tests on animals etc) plotted against chances to develop a disease later...

Roundabouts are not always a good solution, in US I kept seeing people taking them the wrong way going directly left..

Also what is your proof that cameras don't slow down traffic? Just talking about me it make me more conscious of my speed in the city to avoid getting fined. So I guess I'm the kind of people it is directed at.
IMO, you could highlight the differences between similar titles.

It's easy for recommendations to get stuck on a local maxima if they only look at one metric at a time, like "similarity" weights. But if you have a lot of metadata about each title, you can break out of those "loops" by sprinkling in metrics like ratings/genres/release date/popularity/etc. This doesn't have to hurt from a performance perspective, either; you can filter on the same single metric, but request more recommendations than you need and pluck out a pseudo-random set in the application logic.

That also lets you provide context for the recommendation. "It's like this, but [older/more obscure/with vampires]."
Based on what, though?
This article is really well-reasoned.

I’ve been watching the BTC community recently, and there’s a widespread misunderstanding that all investors have the same goals, risk profile, and strategy.

This looks something like “$BIGFINTECH is buying $HUGEAMOUNT, buy everything you can get before it’s too late!”, without considering that $BIGFINTECH is playing a completely different game.

(Edit: Even this thread has comments that assume there’s only one way to make money with BTC — typically buy low, sell high.)
I had a Radio Shack scientific calculator about that same timeframe. It was stolen during a lab. I then bought a 32Sii. Just wanted to thank the thief, as I likely never would have been a lifelong RPN user.
Project Reunion 0.1 Prerelease
I have the HP-35s. I really like it, but the batteries die in around 2 years even if you don't use it. Other than that, it's a really fun, tactile calculator that I find myself pulling out for simple calculations.

Here's a bug list tracker: https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/articles.c...
I wonder what Gouguenheim thinks about Porphyry’s Isagogy and its influence on the Arabs.
I'll give you this, I had no idea how much Christian self-help literature I was missing out on.
isn't pkd inherited?
Why not use ISO date/time using GMT (time zone 0) in the HTML,

and let the CSS describe whether it's shown in absolute vs. relative units, and whether it's written vs. spoken (for screen readers).
Hi there! Don't be disappointed :) perf benchmarks coming. The article was about architecture. As a new project we have a lot of content to put out... Stay tuned. Very likely early next month.
Every other president managed alright without depending on Twitter.
Wouldn't it also disable nice-to-have features such as 'click to copy' button on some sites? Very useful in some cases.
Tavis, it would be great to see a screencast from you using gdb.
Just shows how early we still are in all this.
If you are calling me archaic, I'm going to have to ask you to step outside, you young whippersnapper.
The US has spent money trying to train police in other countries. Unfortunately, the main motivation has been stopping the drug trade, so most of that training has been militaristic.
Fluid Thought: The Art of Exploring Without Expecting
"Zero correlation to the markets" is one of the things that makes Bitcoin desirable. Diversifying your portfolio is all about having things that do not move in the same direction at the same time.
The whole Smith story is just fast-forward for what Orwell wanted to say, which is all contained in Goldstein.

Examine the world of 1984 from Goldstein on out, and it's an excellent example of what might happen if one took Plato's Republic[0] and attempted to practically implement it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[0] I'm not sure if the Republic referents are direct, or indirect due to Orwell's second rate boarding school having stanned the greeks.
The CEO of MicroStrategy is either going to look incredibly smart or incredibly dumb as a result of all of this.
Ask HN: Which currently free services you use would you pay for?
Of thr free services you use, social media, YouTube and some streaming sites, mail maybe, what services would you pay for and how much? What expectations would you have for said paid service?
I agree wholeheartedly on the Brooks' "conceptual integrity" thing. I really enjoyed his book The Design of Design.

It takes effort to maintain cohesion and sound architecture, but it pays off for future development.
Google Photos isn't 'safe' or versatile enough to be a good location for your master copy. It works better as a convienient photo browser with some backup and sharing features. There is a rclone backend for Google Photos but it has a few limitations due to the api. Theoretically you can use this to mount Google Photos locally but there are a few restrictions.
He's offensive as hell in his vids on youtube too, so I think he's just a jerk
The PayPal mafia in general are interesting folks

Peter Thiel the “libertarian” went on to found Palantir, for example, which helps governments do precrime and encourages mass surveillance of their citizens.

He also opined that “competition is for losers and you should build a monopoly” which as the first check in Facebook helped influence Mark Zuckerberg, and the results we see today. Back then Mark Z wanted to make peer to peer encrypted networks like Wirehog.

Peter thiel also wrote op eds saying stuff like giving women the vote ruined the USA by making it more social-democratic instead of capitalist.

Musk I think has long moved on from the PayPal days.
I've used ddd for debugging statically compiled code, C C++ and Fortran. It is quirky. Its weirder with MPI, as you get lots of debug windows.

For dynamic languages, Perl Python and others, I use komodo from ActiveState. Been a customer of theirs since 2007 or so. Excellent tool, though with a few quirks as well.

Julia has/had a native debugger, and an atom plugin, but seems to be moving towards vscode. Vscode is many things, and is highly opinionated. I've gotten the debugger to "work", albeit not being helpful for the Julia I was working on. I tried the C/Fortran plugins for it and was disappointed.

I wasn't aware that totalview went OSS. I thought it was closed.
Amazon seller awarded $9.5m over fake reviews, unfair competition
Is that a direct consequence of using a different UI pattern though, or just incidental?
At 110mph fuel consumption per mile of most cars is ~3x that at 55mph:

http://mpgforspeed.com/

And so is its "carbon footprint" 3x greater.

To answer your question: You're hurting everything that's alive on the planet.
When you act you collapse the space to one truth.

Ie even if you probabilistic view on a stock. You ultimately comment by buying and collapsing the probability into a single truth.

I think most, no, all people act with certainty when they act.
Is this missing half the article? The page just stops on mobile and there’s no footer, nothing.

I count 4 paragraphs in total.
Precursor Stretch Goal: Larger Battery
I'm curious - which road is that? In Brampton maybe?
> Really wonder why HN community nowdays completely ignores tether discussion everytime a bitcoin thread comes.

Because it's not an issue? The NY AG issued the subpoena roughly 3 years ago. If tether were fraudulently unbacked, it would not take that long for a restraining order to be issued. Hell, it would be malpractice to see missing funds on their balance sheet and not file in that time.

To believe otherwise is to say that Leticia James got the results of the subpoena, looked at the lack of funds, and decided to let them continue issuance rather than take expeditious action. You'd have to be deep into tinfoil-hat territory to believe she's in on the con.
I thought at some scale Amazon has different affiliate agreements.

For example Duck Duck Go. I had thought there was no way DDG could possibly be paid at the normal affiliate pricing structure.

Anyone have insight into this
I had the impression the main problem was missing cognitive flexibility of developers.

Some people just do things like they always have. They don't bother to understand what people before did and then bend everything to their will.
I keep going back to Vim + commandline gdb. However, QtCreator + CMake on a large project worked well enough to be productive.
I've been working through the Advent of Code, doing it all in Lazarus/Free Pascal... the main limitation I've hit so far is in working out the logic, some of the puzzles are tricky. https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_Pascal

[Edit]
One of the nice things about pascal strings, and variable parameters, is that you can write functions like

getinteger(var s : string):integer;

Which literally pulls a sign plus digits from s, skipping spaces, until it hits a space, comma, etc... s gets shorter, you get the integer, and it just works.

I don't think that type of thing is even possible in C because of null terminated unmanaged strings.
Had a similar experience, most of my recommendations are childrens books.
This is wrong.

If all of us would respect an ultrastrict quarantine for 14 days, then agree to use masks and social distancing for the next month, the case rate would plumet, and the economy could start to recover in earnest.

All of the people who want to deny reality are dragging down those of us who are similarly frustrated, but willing to confront it with scientifically valid solutions.
The thing that strikes me about this piece, is the tremendous research and hard work involved.

My father worked for the CIA in the "red scare" days. It was an...interesting...time.
I believe that you're seeing the whole article; it is short.
Minecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
Mini-series!
Afew years ago, I ran all my family photos through a script that renamed them based on the year, month, and date. I may have retained the old name in the metadata.

I'm looking for the script I used. I also have some tools that compare hashes and find duplicates.

You can google that stuff, or if you want to hire me to help, PM me.
Does anyone know if this is only in the UK (since the report is by The Guardian and the fee is mentioned in GBP) or is it introduced in other countries too (if so, which ones)?
Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Francisco
It's still possible to understand, although not condoning toleration of lies:

https://theconversation.com/why-hard-core-trump-supporters-i...

It is often a facet of populists and underdogs, that they do not understand what is required of power. Also, if intimidation and lies have been tolerated in school and working lives without reprecussions, it may be part of the conditioning creeping up into seats of power. Look at it as a mirror of consequences.

Stay curious.
Show HN: On-demand customer support for your bootstrapped SaaS side project.
These are reasons to ban driving. Anybody can have an accident at any speed that could lead to a fatality.
I read about sapiens. People with credentials in field seem to dismiss it as overly sensational, though.
Cognitive performance of four-months-old ravens may parallel adult apes
Is there an easy way to check if everything is set up properly and also to get tips on what needs to be changed?
Well, the part about Airstrip One having always been part of Oceania is due to hit at the end of the year... (although I guess we still don't know exactly how, yet)
No mention of the fact that Orwell plagiarized the plot of 1984?
Plus the pollution from the car, your embalming or cremation etc. And You are clearly endangering other people coming behind your flat body later and putting lifes of emergency service and cleaning crews at risk, just for your the enjoyment of breaking a rule you feel isn't fair.
Stereotypical but not inappropriate. Using chemistry in this example is kinda bad, anyone that studied it knows that it's much less memorization and much more understanding that is involved.
It used to be that all basic (low end) US checking accounts had fees and the concept of no-fees being the norm has happened during my adult lifetime. Low end accounts (no money in them, basic tier) may not cover the yearly expenses for the bank to keep up with the legal paperwork on that account, but a high end account ($$$) has always had no-fees because of exactly what you describe. (digital life has I'm sure reduced said costs)

I work in an unrelated industry where the economics are the same - low spend accounts require more hand-holding (support time = money, etc.) and can be "upside down" (no profit, lossy), whereas large enterprise accounts generate money by their sheer hands-off approach done at scale.
I think that's wrong in a way that's kind of subtle. It seems to equate the system being created by intentional minds with the system being an intentionally-created one. But intentional people can still be non-intentional participants in emergent phenomena.

Tweaking it brings up an important point that's made in debates here on HN about privacy, censorship, etc., in relation to developer ethics. That is, if you are an intelligent and intentional participant in building something, and you're not thinking about second-order effects, the system you're building will still have them.

The intention in making Facebook more "engaging" probably wasn't to have radicalizing isolated communities. But Facebook was intentionally developed toward more engagement, and that was the result. Ask people who worked on the project and they'll almost certainly tell you they had no intention of worsening the situation in Myanmar. But the system that led there was still intentionally created.
For Windows users, just use chocolatey and run:
`choco install lazarus`

...and you'll be up and running with (1) FreePascal compiler (2) Lazarus IDE (https://lazarus-ide.org) with integrated debugger and RAD (Rapid Application Development) GUI designer.

Lazarus and FPC can create high-quality native GUI's for macOS, Linux, and Windows. And many open-source 3rd party GUI components can be installed right from within the Lazarus IDE via the "Package" > "Online Package Manager" menu option.

I've been using Delphi and/or Lazarus + FPC for 15 years. It's truly the most productive way to build a GUI desktop application, and makes it extremely easy to build powerful console apps.
eBay is in the midst of migrating all seller accounts away from paypal to their own integrated solution. While buyers can still use paypal to pay, as a seller, you no longer have to touch paypal if you don't want to.

On the other hand, you now have to give them your SSN #.
Continuous Learning: Your Competitive Career Advantage
_“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!”_ - Niels Bohr
On low volume price reacts to changes in sentiment more than on high volume, this is not evidence of anything shady.

Tether has been discussed many times and for all the doom prophecies of past five years, it’s been quite anticlimactic.

Audits and bookkeeping aside, the argument “omg have you seen tether printed X amount of BTC to pump the price” laughably misses the point, that it’s exactly what stablecoin are - when somebody wants to buy large amount of BTC through tether, they send real USD which get converted into “printed” USDT which then is traded for BTC on exchange, driving the price up. That’s like literally what one should expect of how this system should work, what’s the issue?

And lastly, if your hands are shaking checking the price - you shouldn’t be trading, you’re killing yourself.
Despite my somewhat crippled ability to think RPN, I love the simplicity and expressiveness of the above.
So therefore it follows that blatant disregard for civil liberties is justified? I thought you guys were against "cancel culture."
hi, I am condret, one of the core developers of radare2.
I'd like to state here that I do not intend to contribute to rizin and instead will stay at radare2 and become more active again. That is mostly because I disagree with rizin-developers ' perspective on what a welcoming and open community is and how to achieve that, but also about how this fork was created and about technical differences too.
I wonder if a similar fee would even be allowable in the US. It would seem to run counter to many states' escheatment laws (at least in my completely anecdotal understanding).
> that it is the closest language to mathematics and makes reasoning mathematically much easier than even other functional languages

Closer than e.g. Lean?
Mark Chang on Chrome and Keystome
Paypal still does the credit card transaction. I know because their black box algo blacklisted me for whatever reason many years ago and I tried that. They have no customer support its just an abyss of a company and you are a statistic. Fine with me because I really dont use Ebay but I remember that.
>The court found that the defendant manipulated the product reviews – namely by offering free products in exchange for reviews.

Honestly, what's wrong with that?
You’re most welcome! Thank you for your comment, it made my day. :)
The Dangerous Idolatry of Christian Trumpism
I agree, vocabulary is the most important part. I emigrated to US when I was 13 and I understand English very little at that time. I remember how difficult it was to read the textbook in high school. It took 3 years to catch up. It is just impossible to understand without know what the words mean.
In Germany not all drivers want to go fast even on unlimited sections. And people are much more respectful (both fast drivers and slow drivers) of who use which lanes and to not push you if you are in the right lane. Statistically you would be safer anyway at 130km/h on that same highway than at 160km/h. Lets compare apples to apples.
Interesting timing. I just read https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 due to r/programming https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kbs11a/a_damn_... yesterday.

Apparently Cambridge Programming Language (more or less a failed language that became proto-C) designer Christopher Strachey had some misgivings about this usage of "else".
Maybe nowadays, after the last 4 decades, people learned some lessons. It's indeed very important to keep a core skillset, whenever the money cow dies.. if your smartest left for a better company your left with nothing.
This is indeed a problem too, but it's avoidable if you want to put in the work
Tech Just Killed the Auto Industry as We Know It
It's surprising how often you can replace 'but' with 'and' in a sentence.
I think the bit about imitating a foreign accent in order to sound more like a native in your target language is one of the better pieces of advice in this post; at least, doing so has worked pretty well for me in the languages I’ve tried to study so far.

It’s not always a benefit to quickly pick up the phonology, though. When native speakers hear a foreigner speaking with such a non-foreign accent, they tend to assume that I know the language a lot better than I really do, and I find myself asking people to slow down and repeat quite often...
You can connect via USB and write programs on your PC and transfer them over if you wish.
Averages are one kind of truth though, and if your worldview is based on averages it has some amount of accuracy to it. The trick is that there are more averages than just the mean, such as standard deviation, so to have a correct view you must care about all averages.
There are laws being proposed now that basically say all stablecoins are banks.
As far as I can tell, there are also situations where people (usually women) who talk to you about their problems don’t really need or want help with problem-solving, but would appreciate you showing empathy and solidarity with their situation.

For example, my wife cooks a lot and complains about it, but she’s not interested to engage in brainstorming about how to throw money at the problem (which we have the budget to do). So I believe the best thing I can do when she brings it up is to express empathy and appreciation.

Being curious so as to “listen better” may be a good technique, but doesn’t seem like the central insight needed to best navigate this scenario.
“Under-the-hood of GraphQL”-look at the execute req part of the query lifecycle
Maybe I was traumatized by eclipse. Anything to extend in it required a federal reunion and a taskforce.
There's not much of an equivalence between some professor saying something illiberal and the apparatus of state power doing something illiberal.
Hi HN,

For the last few years, I was focused on helping SaaS companies with conversion & retention optimization as an independent consultant.

One of the best ways to ensure a proper retention is about providing a top-notch customer support. However, most of the bootstrapped SaaS founders are wearing many hats at the same time and it gets almost impossible for them to respond to their clients on time.

This is exactly how the idea of Foundkit was born. We've launched an MVP in two weeks and tested all of our processes on our first 4 clients. Now we're ready to scale and start freeing up the time of the fellow bootstrappers here.

Happy to answer any of your questions.
After spending ten days in an ICU (with happy hypoxia[1]), and seeing it hospitalise a member of my family for about a month, leave one almost bedridden for days and with a metallic taste in the mouth for weeks, and two others with cough/fatigue/completely no sense of taste, I'd've probably suspected something was up. Could I rule known diseases? Maybe not, but it'd have to have hit us usually hard and with an unusual set of symptoms.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/happy-hypoxia-...
Google takeout delivers the results in an archive (.tgz, .zip, etc.) you grab via URL; it's just a delivery mechanism from Google to your hands for the data drop/transfer.