skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was vague because it doesn't really matter. I could cite specific cases I observed throughout the years but I won't. Suffice it to say that people should be able to post stuff without fearing for their job security. Posting something absolutely should not result in some Twitter mob calling your employer and demanding that you be fired. It doesn't really matter to me what the person posted, nobody deserves to be harmed that way over an internet comment.
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It's like Google is running its own business incubator. I wonder how Google practices and success rates compare to VC funding for startups. What is the distribution of lifetime of VC funded startups before the money supply gets cut off compared to Google projects?
It works very well. I've seen all sorts of monstrosity code bases developed under the guise of "best practices" where the original developer or team jettisoned away and now a business doesn't know what to do with it. They often can't abandon it because it's critical to their work but they also can't go forward as is because of all sorts of issues they're encountering. Application maintainence is where empirical data tests designs, best practices, and new shiny. Unfortunately, those who create these messes never see anything but greenfields while they perpetuate poor cargo cult mentalities.

The tech and terminology often dazzles less savvy businesses and they're happy until problems start to arise.
Yeah Google really messed this up, they had a golden opportunity and they went the wrong direction. Julia would have been better but IMO they should have just created a new language from scratch
The shutdown of the first party studio sends a signal, but the freezing of the Google account for the Terraria lead developer to the point where the Stadia port of Terraria was cancelled sends an even stronger signal to indie developers who were considering Stadia - Google does not support you, you are a digital sharecropper, and you'll take what you're given and like it or buzz off.
From the article: "this paper is perhaps an important example of the importance of interdisciplinary communication."

Indeed. Even within the medical field, huge amounts of progress are never materialized just because the guy who deals with the brain never talks to the guy who deals with the gut. They have another guy who deals with the nervous system who knows little about the brain OR the gut. And you get referrals to all of these, and they contradict each other and argue (by proxy of you) about the best way to treat the thing that none of them fully knows anything about.
Congrats on the hard work and discipline paying off. Best of luck in your retirement, bummer that the first year of it was in a pandemic
> You can have all those wrapped under a high level API, with much nicer implementations, with more support, more documentation, more eyeballs (due to more adoption) in a "slow" language.

You 'can' have those things, but 'should' you? Julia is well designed, so 'nicer' is not a given. Julia is also quite a high level language with excellent metaprogramming facilities. Otherwise, everything you listed is based on adoption level.

Why use a "slow" language if you don't have to? Especially when the faster language is actually better designed...
No offense; I couldn't care less about Java personally. I just mean Intellisense (at all) was this hammer I kept getting hit with. IntelliJ too. I just kept on with vim+google and now the playing field is level. And I'm still getting more work done and paying less.
That argument is true for Visual Studio. Not VS Code, which is Microsoft's "rewrite moment". Visual Studio is targeted at Windows apps, which you have to pay Microsoft to use. VS Code is targeted at web apps, which people run on Linux. The revenue impact is highly indirect: it's not like people will write more web apps than before now VS Code exists, somehow benefiting Azure.

They could try to do a reverse JetBrains and introduce an enhanced for-pay version. Supposedly they're already starting to do that with Python support, it seems. But starting commercial and going free is a lot easier than starting free and going commercial, in terms of user loyalty.
Yup, stock market is all about factored in valuations and others saw the writing on the wall. Since rises and drops are due to surprises, the only way it’ll rocket further is if things will go even EVEN better than already expected. I sometimes have to repeat all this for myself... it helps :p
Food is just one part of the basket.
-maybe because your comment isn't super additive to the conversation.

You are correct, but i felt i should draw attention to an issue i think is extremely serious. Also, there is the possibility to explore that Hezbollah may sabotage the project.
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When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
AIG is very important to the story.

A lot of banks saw what was going on in the market, and decided to "cover their ass" just in case the mortgage industry collapsed. They didn't quite go short like Burry (and everyone else in the movie), they just "hedged", to protect themselves just in case of a collapse.

Any bank that was worried about what was going on would have bought a few credit-default swaps from AIG (not that everyone knew that AIG was the main CDO counterparty: they bought CDS from the market and AIG happened to be one of those sellers).

If AIG went bankrupt, a huge number of shorts (well, "protection buyers") on the mortgage market would have gone bankrupt with them.

AIG isn't covered in the movie because it runs entirely counter to the narritive the movie is trying to build. A huge number of banks did in fact see the mortgage crisis and take moves to protect themselves.

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That's the thing about CDS and going short on the mortgage market: even if you were right about it, you had to also be right about the so called "counterparty risk". The bank who took up the long-side of the bet against you still needed to be around to make the payout.

That's why AIG was bailed out. Also: because the collapse of Lehman Brothers / Washington Mutual and other financial companies was wreaking havoc on the economy.

The movie wanted to focus on the narrative that "Bailouts are bad". Well, sure. But its pretty easy to build that narrative by ignoring the AIG situation, as well as Lehman Brothers / Washington Mutual.

If you go back and look at the actual history and debate of the bailout, the question is way more ambiguous.

>> the upshot that the AAA's were in a position to be unstable and possibly cause an economic collapse was in fact very true

That's not what the Jenga scene implied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hG4X5iTK8M

You know what a number of my friends took from that scene?

"Wow, the banks are so stupid. Why would AAAs rely upon the B-tranche?"

Yeah, cause that scene is misinformed. The Jenga Tower is upside-down. America's Mortgage market wouldn't really collapse until the AAAs were being threatened (which eventually, they were, but because of CDO-squared and Synthetic CDO leverage).

But yeah, its a long story. You'd expect that the core of the story would be covered by a reasonable documentary. But "The Big Short" isn't one, its an entertainment movie.
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Super smart view. What's worse is when google (or other FAANGs) gets into a new product area, it in-effect suppresses development in the marketplace because very few people are brave/stupid enough to challenge a trillion dollar behemoth.

Nobody wants to say it, but Google is basically internet government at this point, and when government starts building products instead of just directing traffic, it's going to be anti-competitive and destroy opportunity in general.

How do they get out of the way and benefit while enabling growth? Move everything new into Ventures and whatever products survive on their own should be taken public in the markets and vertically dis-integrated from advertising and search. If they want to create growth, they're going to need to open it up to public markets, otherwise, they're going to be an anti-competitive monolith.

It's not a charity, and it will still make bazillions, but leveraging their incumbency means they are both risk averse themselves and opportunity destroying for everyone else.
Considering none of you want to pay full price for anything ever, get used to it. I don't see people complaining about how Netflix isn't making DVDs and Blu-ray for their content, or buying physical games even any more. You all want the moon; you want digital content forever at rock bottom prices.

The subscription services exist because people didn't want to pay for games. The games as service model exists because trying to make what you want just leads to piracy and enough lost sales to make it not worth releasing the content. GTA V for example probably learned its lesson from the piracy of chinatown wars on portables; its GAAS forever.

This is the world you made, I guess.

I mean, even with advertising on the net; no one wanted to pay subscriptions, and people here wanted content to be free. So the people moved to a model that would get them paid, and it was much worse than if we all just subscribed to physical magazines. Monetization models are often in reaction to the audience's willingness to pay; what we are finding out is that the old model of "buying physical product and not pirating it" actually was the best way to balance value and demands from the customer.
Printing money is the problem there, not interest. If you banned interest/loaning, you could still end up having inflation because government would print money (or do other things such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin#Debasement_and_clipping ).
I was referring more to your comment that inflation can be caused by only two things. It's much more complicated than that. In fact, if you were able to predict such things with an accuracy matching the confidence of your position, you would be a very wealthy person indeed.
Why would I give a hoot about that $1000 value. It only exists in the heads of corporate people who are trying to hook me up. The only thing that matters to me would be do I like games X,Y,Z and how much am I willing to pay for it.
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I should have elaborated on this in my other flagged comment, but: the poster has linked two papers, the relevance of which is not obvious, and not explained it at all.

(Also, I feel we've gone somewhat offtopic here; it's not a Party matter, the depiction of sex in American films - unless we're counting the targeting of films at the global market resulting in films being made compliant with Chinese censorship? Could OP and/or the upvoters explain why they think 1984 is relevant?)
1700km is fuck all. 2 hour flight for commercial airliner, less for pointy aeroplane. even eurocopter can go 300-400 kmh, not a problem
A random company is asking $6M for facebook.com.bd
AFAIK, it was Lisp that pioneered multiple dispatch. It hasn't “dominated” a substantial number of languages since then. Maybe the problems it solves haven't been seen as important enough? I really don't know, it seems such a logical extension of the single dispatch known from many OOP languages.
So what gives?

Does anyone have the data sets and the formulas used to calculate the CPI? No, I don't think so, because they are hidden.

Until the data used to calculate the CPI is open, it is all speculation.
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TLA+ is what rekindled my genuine love for mathematices.

I am a self taught dev and learning TLA+ gave me the feel of a "real" computer science.

Learning how to think of of programs excusively as state machines gives a kind of intellectual clarity I didn't know existed.

It is also the only thing that actually improved my dev productivity by magnitudes.
Also, much like Disney, Nintendo is notoriously awful to its third party artist/developers and they are very litigious about fan art projects.
If I had to be poor, I would rather be poor in Europe.

Otherwise, I would rather be wealthy in the USA.
"Game theory is not about winning games, but finding equilibria."

This. However, if you understand the equilibrium for some behaviour, you can understand what would it take to change the behaviour.

I use this in my startup where we create an equilibrium for dentists to provide reliable dental care. And, it actually works.
I like the idea of the material editor being part of the product. It would make a much better workflow for Substance; it gets repetitive exporting from Designer to Painter.
There is a "general price level", it's just the price level of a sufficiently broad basket.
There are a lot of people who are somewhere in between these groups and providing a language that goes up and down the stack well would be super useful.

I agree it needs to be as simple as python on the high level though, or the data science end of the spectrum will just never adopt it.
To be fair, it's often used in place of aspirin, which I believe is also an addiction on the other side of the pond.

I imagine misuse of easily available medication is pretty universal.
Aker company buys US$58M worth of Bitcoin [pdf]
Do you feel the same desire to point out Israel’s war crimes and genocide?

That is a serious issue that needs attention. Especially because they are in large part funded by the US.
Why is it not great?
there's this also:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
You'd probably want to do that on heavy stock or cardboard, with big squares to minimize weighing errors. That's what lab assistants are for, right?
Hezbollah has a strong influence in the south of Lebanon, and consequently proportionate control in parliament, but the other half of Lebanon is strongly anti-Iran.

The civil war is over, but divisions and complexity continues.
I know. Only the account discovery works way better if your adhar and mobile number are linked to all your accounts. I've seen it fail otherwise.
The premise is simple: explain the difference between bill-by-the-hour and fixed-price-project and how they vary when growing a company from a single proprietor to a small number. I wish the article also addressed the OTHER huge difference: how the interaction with clients change when the billing switches between hourly and fixed-price. The change in incentives can destroy a company or drive its success, but either way, I believe this makes more difference than the compensation issues this article addresses.
There have been a number of legal challenges of it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...

In particular:

> In 1992, a legal challenge (Nordlinger v. Hahn) was considered by the United States Supreme Court, which subsequently ruled 8–1 that Proposition 13 was constitutional.
is also isreal decision

reality is turks are often... detach from reality politically. such is life in 2nd world countries like lebanon, turkey, malaya, indonesia etc
Perhaps they should try and broker a peace with Israel like Jordania and Egypt have done. Access to the power sharing agreement could be an interesting bargaining chip for both parties. There is a lot to gain for Lebanon (more stable power, less expenses on the military) and also a lot of potential benefits for Israel (less threat from the north, overland (railway) transport possibilities to the European mainland).

(Yes, I know the influence of Hezbollah over Lebanese politics makes this development unlikely. I'm just saying it would be a good idea for both countries to get closer together. Source: I used to be in the military and served as a UN military observer in the region.)
https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-philippes-45cen...

>Frank Martin, bought the restaurant from Philippe Mathieu in 1927, and then the coffee was priced at a nickel.
What do you mean by 'driving'?

Causally, inflation in the US is driven by the Fed's 2% average inflation target.

How those 2% distribute amongst the basket of good is a different question, of course.
“...not general enough [...] not object oriented...”

The object oriented model is a subset of the more general multiple dispatch model offered by Julia. So these two notions contradict each other.
I still think a pixel based screen reader should be a thing, too.
Here in Australia, being a millionaire just means you finally paid off your mortgage. :/

If you are supporting a family, you probably still can't stop working.

If you've got no dependents and you're willing to go lean you could sell up, head out to the sticks and live off your capital. It would not grant you a lifestyle conventionally described as "wealthy" but you'd be doing OK.

Or am I just in the trap?
I'm not arguing that mosquitos shouldn't be killed. I'm arguing that one should not wantantly choose a painful way of removing them. Alternatives which could be better include natural predators, quickly squashing them, soapy water, soap film on stagnant water to kill off the larvae (but not where other aquatic life may be harmed). Just avoid the mean ways.
That’s just the guidance that some companies were using to play it safe. It’s not written in law that this is the way it must be done, because Bitcoin wasn’t around when the laws were written.

I would expect to see companies like Tesla try to recognize their holdings as currency instead of intangible assets.

The bigger reason most companies have no interest in holding Bitcoin is that it’s extremely volatile. If a non-crypto company held Bitcoin and then the value of Bitcoin crashed, the CEO would be on the way out the door for gambling away the balance sheet.

Despite the headlines, inflation isn’t destroying the value of cash at a rapid rate. A company might spend more on Bitcoin exchange fees and paying a company to keep their Bitcoin safe (not trivial at the corporate scale) than they would gain by offsetting inflation if the price of Bitcoin was stable.
>> so not adding any value.

Adding nothing and removing much. I have yet to see a console that can handle mods properly. There is no greater sin for a console developer than to allowing the player to edit game files. That road leads to cheating and piracy. I don't think Minecraft would have become what it did without mods, without the creativity displayed by PC gamers.
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The hard part is when you aren't at all confident you can "quit and find a new job."

It takes courage to take actual risks and make actual sacrifices to do the right thing.

You are right that it takes a lot less courage if you are sure you can just "quit and find a new job" and end up just fine. I'm sure most people would do the right thing when there is no cost to them at all of doing so and they are confident that is so, that's not the issue.

Honestly your confidence that of course you would do the right thing always just makes me think you've never faced a hard decision, or have always convinced yourself that no decision that would involve a significant personal sacrifice or loss was ever the right thing.

The latter is what lots of people do, it's not that they say "oh yeah I'm going to kill the astronauts because my career is more important", all those other people who overruled McDonald convinced themselves that it's not gonna kill the astronauts at all, so they didn't have to face the choice.
Yeah, this is similar to my experience. I used to like the language a lot but there are many aspects of it that are a hindrance to productivity.

I think Swift with the best bits of Julia would be the perfect general purpose language.

Some people think multiple dispatch is a killer feature but in langauges like Swift, extensions are a much neater approach.
Suggestion: Something minimal, like an exception for viewpoints with over 95% rate of rejection by the public, would avoid having to deal with legitimate concerns about how being associated with messaging in support for NAMBLA could damage a brand in a way that being a forum for political debate could not.
How much did your PC cost? What games do you play?
That's what happens to people who piss Israel too much.
That kind of unit tests sounds great. I always reach for writing tests for eg. for library functions. Though I tend to skip when testing some app functionality which basically requires stubbing/mocking tons of services, and feeding them what output to expect on what input - in those cases, I don't find tests or TDD very helpful.

I find a lot of value in unit tests for isolated logic testing and in functional tests for end to end testing. Still that leaves a lot of code in a modern web application (like stackoverflow) where I find tests don't provide enough bang for buck.
Ask HN: how old were you when you started noticing this? It took me far too long to develop meta-conversational awareness. I must have been in my 20s before I picked up on it.

It feels like a superpower in some ways.
Scientists detect radio blast coming from further away in space than ever before
Not quite sure what you mean by 'may not real'. Its not possible for most ordinary ppl to even think about buying a house right now. Why isn't this a concern for policy makers.
One way might be measure his total net worth last year vs this year. You'd be subject to the vagaries of the stock market that way, but given that most of his wealth is paper wealth, that seems fair.

Certainly Amazon revenue is not the best way.
Do people forget the powerhouses that Youtube, Android, GCP, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, Chromebooks are (plus gazillion smaller companies like Waymo that have insane potential)?

People have been predicting the downfall of Google for a very long time now and yet they have never been bigger growing every year at astounding rates.
Yes, your home wifi does. For unicast frames, an ack is required from the receiver, else the frame is re-transmitted.
Never mind signals, the last hn thread on Stadia said third party developers were basically left on their own with a paltry $10,000 budget (as opposed to Microsoft’s investing millions).
It looks quite useful; especially for cannot-fail systems, like operating systems, development tools, and Mars Rover firmware.

It seems a bit overkill for the kinds of code I write, which represents a design flexibility that makes wet spaghetti look like a load-bearing truss.
So the beaches of Iraklion won't smell like diesel anymore?
Mullane was on STS-27 -- that was a disaster on the level of Challenger or Columbia but by pure luck they avoided a deadly ending. The failures were predictable. And this was the second flight after Challenger's last.
Yes, I think people need to just accept that Israel is a part of the middle east and is not going anywhere. It's in everyone's best interest to become friendly with Israel, and that will help the neighboring countries prosper.
"In the early 2000s, there was a brief period where actresses pretended that their thinness was natural, almost accidental. Skinny celebrities confessed their love of burgers and fries in magazines; models undergoing profile interviews engaged in public consumption of pasta; leading ladies joked about how little they exercised and how much they hated it. It was all bullshit: no one looks like that without calorie restriction. We knew it then, and we know it now."

No they where taking Clenbuterol or DNP which will make anyone lose weight like no tomorrow no mater their activity level. For a significant cost that is.

The more disturbing thing is male actors are clearly taking PEDs and/or being dehydrated for shirtless shots, distorting what a normal body should look like. Even in fitness circles where I live, no one looks that good without juicing or prepping their body for the shirtless pic.

[0] https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/hollywood-dirty-diet-...
That's playing a bit fast and loose with the definition of "free market". Hydropower is also geographically unique.
>"100% convinced it's worth learning to debug or verify any kind of distributed or multithreaded synchronization primitive."

Might you or anyone else have some resources you could recommend for learning TLA+?
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