skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Write libraries AND services, where it makes sense.

I wrote a Python library to scrape google news [0]

We also have it as a service [1]

Want to know why? Because devs who can't pay won't pay. Businesses who can pay will rather pay for a service (API in our case), and not care about maintaining it.

[0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/google-news-api
Good design is forgiving. To err is human. Destructive actions (leave meeting) should have a safety pin.

https://uxplanet.org/design-principle-error-forgiveness-1495...
Respectfully those are meme stock arguments. A company can have all those things and be worth between 0 and 1 trillion, the question is whether the company is valued accurately by the markets and worth the price.

Tesla is valued at what Apple was in 2019, but hasn’t made any profit ever without tax credits. AMD is at $100 billion, which seems high but could be worth it. Doesn’t matter if they mismanage cash and have to be acquired though.
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There are scales and look-up tables for the produce out in the produce area (the look-up tables are also programmed into the scales but the UI is slow and tedious).

So you gather your, say broccoli, look up the PLU code (it also might be on a sticker affixed to the item), put it on the scale, enter the code, and the scale prints out your bar code that you scan.

I'm a dozen miles north of Boston, MA.
It's not worth discussing BTC, TSLA, GME, or HTZ. That is missing the forest for the trees.

The degradation of even the appearance of an orderly market is the story. The money movement (volume of excess trades X magnitude of price change) seems out of reach of unleveraged retail. Faith in private and public institutions is justifiably poor, but also under organized attack.

This is going to end badly for everyone, except perhaps for China.
Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
An Introduction to NAT64
Once they are officially seen as an apartheid state it will all go away.
I think you're describing the book layout, which has a broader inner margin by default. So pages destined for the left side have a wider right margin, and vice versa. The parent is describing a situation where the inner margin has to get progressively wider as page numbers increase, which I'd personally never heard of. It does sound like something a macro could handle.
MS Office is a great example of this because they squeeze money out of folks when it seems the features added are minimal. The only interesting aspect is cloud-collaboration, but that could be P2P instead. I'm willing to wager most folks still use the same subset of office functionality: page layouts and fonts and such have been around for a while; financial formulas rarely change; etc. But yet, they are charged an arm-and-a-leg for the "cloud."

And then there's Amazon with their lambdas—trying to convince people that they should forget how to program and rely on a plethora of beautiful, shiny one-liners.
That seems like a bit of a simplistic view spurred on by people who don’t know what Chapter 11 is.

It’s not “we don’t have any more money” or “we aren’t making any money”, it’s “we need a little court-mandated breathing room (from our creditors) to change x, y, and z, and then we’ll be ok”.
You do this simply by setting the documentclass option `twoside`. Eg

\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,11pt]{article}

Setting it to `oneside` will prevent the inner margins from swapping.
Yes, Arrow 3.0 has much more string kernels https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/compute.html
that has almost happened multiple times and those times correlate with massive tether prints
>Do the places you work forbid the use of Linux or the GNU Coreutils?

They allow them. I had cases where clients forbade some GPL code (banks, etc) - worse with GPL3.
However, if the bubble is big enough, it won't be boring for the person living within it right? The topics for far left/right can be pretty diverse...
It’s all gambling. People need to stop expecting to strike it rich and just build wealth incrementally. Central banks have made that hard to do though with historically low interest rates and rising risks of inflation.
A Counter-Intuitive Method for Turning a Good Facebook Ad into a Great One
Reverse Engineering the AuthaGraph (2017)
I don't know where I read this, but few years ago someone was advising students on what they should do to survive professionally. And the answer he gave was:

Master one field, and that advise would have been enough for past generations. But for the present and coming generations the answer is, master one field but have at least some knowledge of other(2-3) fields that you think(from your general knowledge) are important for humanity; and don't let go of your hobby. This is a not so clear-cut answer because that is the reality we live in, it is a very dynamic and competitive world!

So, in today's world it does not help to either be a generalist or a specialist. The ethos should be "Jack of all trades, but master of one"
So finally we got 1.0!

I am super happy about the leading dots on multi-line method chains which I also voted for. It was a long time in the making, but it gave the project time to consider all the little nuances.

Great work!
Why Checks are here to stay
It's more of an idiom than a prepositional formula.

It means that people would create their own filter bubbles, even in the absence of an algorithm, so blaming algorithms or trying to do away with them if your goal is to eliminate filter bubbles is moot.
French startup lobby targets Apple with ‘privacy hypocrisy’ complaint
Amazon is spending tens of millions trying to crush this. Honestly, that warehouse is probably the most outright hostile place to work in America. The mainstream (cnn/fox/msnbc/nyt/wsj) reporting on this isn't great, but there are a bunch of lefty podcasts covering the unionization with great insights and interviews.
> SaaS turns your startup into a unicorn and yourself into a rich person

If the function could be served by a library? Probably not. Because someone else will write the library, and then your high-latency, internet-required, for-pay service will be competing against a free (presuming the library is available that way, which if the first one isn't is still likely eventually), low-latency, offline-capable library.
AMD was not a meme. If anything it was a proxy for TSMC doing well.

The business case was apparent, and it happened: Intel apparently decided to get to their next node using, I don’t know, a magnifying glass and a flashlight, they fell badly behind, and now AMD has an extremely solid position in the high-end enthusiast market, plus a plum spot in PlayStation and XBox sales.
We were the maintenance team for the old system. We were allowed to only work on the parts of the etl pipeline that required updates due to changes in the data we were extracting. The more experienced team members were dealing with mostly database issues caused by trying to load 8 million documents every night.
Another classic case of this is your car's "key fob" buttons. You usually have three functions on three similarly sized buttons right next to each other: lock doors, unlock doors, and... SOUND THE DEAFENING ALARM. Really? Can anyone spot the one that doesn't belong next to the others?
I never said you shouldn't help them, why are you erecting this strawman? I'm just saying that while you help them, don't forget that you can prevent people from ending up in that situation.

You can't save a sinking ship with a bucket alone. You have to plug the leak.
Wasn't all of those scandals tied to foreign branches of the banks and the strictness has mostly only been applied there? I might be wrong, but I haven't heard of swedish residents being denied banking.
I think the answer would have been for Java desktop apps to take off. I think if we had had a more diverse desktop landscape in the late 90s / early 2000s Java desktop apps would have won. As it was that was peak Windows and Java desktop apps were never given the time they needed to mature since the cross platform pitch was at its least compelling. The browser pretty much won because it was able to unseat the Windows hegemony without directly attacking Windows the way any of the alternative OSes had to do.

Sadly here we are now with bigger computers, better performing JVMs, great Java dev tools, and still losing to the browser due to massive inertia.
Some people (you, apparently) have these associations, others (e.g. me) don’t. It’s quite prejudiced to assume that everyone has them.
I've been working on an IDE for music composition and I like to think that I nailed the UI. Launching soon http://ngrid.io.
Texas Hold'em Hand Strength, Visualized (2015)
It became a Ponzi effect where buying made the price go up and encouraged more buying. Short interest being so high helped a lot.
At that time there were basically 3 browsers to choose from. IE, Netscape, and in some particular cases Mosaic (which no one really did anymore).

Out of those 3 one did not crash as much, was faster, and was already installed. Before Firefox, Netscape would crash if you looked at it wrong.

Netscape started off decent but quickly devolved into something just as bad of a mess as IE.

That was our choices as a consumer. So we worked with what we had.

It was not until Firefox came along and showed everyone 'hey there is a better way' that anything happened. Even that took a few years.
Man these stories have so many issues.

I let someone trade forex for me, I set up a subaccount with limited power of attorney. They were not able to withdraw (or it would have required some social engineering). They did okay. Oh, they did not approach me I hired them.

Anyway, yay, privilege.
I'm not so sure it's a matter of civilization - it's more a matter of infrastructure:

The other piece of the puzzle is:

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

Basically the government runs debt collection in Sweden. They have the ability to withdraw money from your bank account.

All of this is enabled by every resident having a (public) personal identity number.
App stores should really prevent these type of no value add apps.
Please whomever has the power to downvote don't allow this to be the top comment, or China wins
Mind you, the vast majority of my retirement money is in index funds and other boring investment vehicles.

The AMD trade was (reasonable) fun money.
Was there ever a JVM web browser?
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Regarding lotteries, yes, with one difference, at least based on my personal experience: where I'm from state lotteries have to distribute all their gains to local charities, associations, sport clubs, etc. In fact they are the largest supporter of small associations. Because of this you don't have the risk of making the few people managing the lottery rich while everybody becomes poorer, it's more a way to gamble small amount of money and feel that you support local stuff. It's not for me but that doesn't sound too bad to be honest.

I don't know about the US.
Yeah, and that reply is from CEO of Epic Games. I don't know if this holds any weight with ISO, but it at least explains why this particular Twitter thread complaining about access to ISO-8601 standard is hitting HN frontpage.

And he raises a good point downthread, too:

"So, what's the calculus with something like the ISO C++ standard? You sell 1000 copies at $200 = $200,000 lifetime income. Meanwhile, a lack of understanding of C++ details is kneecapping a hundred billion dollar segment of the technology industry. It's absolute madness."
This seems laughable. An "Awair", to aovid sitting in a cloud of CO2? So what, for millennia of human achievement, it was only by miracle that so many people could stay alert enough to think up anything while sitting in their personal clouds of suffocating CO2 prior to the invention of these office/home air monitoring tools? Really? Sounds like nonsensical faux cutting edge woo to me.
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Sounds like advice for a previous generation. Then, it contradicts itself by say why it won't work (correctly). Maybe its time to rethink those half-century-old memes like 'build wealth incrementally'.
that’s my experience too: because i am serializing unloading, scanning, paying, bagging, and reloading, the checkout process itself is longer, but when buying only a few items and including line wait times, total time is usually shorter.
I might call that the Transmeta approach. Back in the early 2000s, Transmeta offered x86-compatible systems that ran a proprietary VLIW core with software translation. The resulting system looked like an x86 system to the OS and was more power-efficient than contemporary x86 systems from other vendors.

Intel has a perpetual license for all Transmeta patents and applications.
Ah, thank you for clarifying. I've been emailing with clients since Eudora and Trumpet, then Pine in college but did not recognize MUA.

Maybe it will get picked up this time around, maybe it won't. That's okay.

I'm happy about this release and perhaps it can grow to be something more.
> as well as the most obvious modern development of MIDI data and the piano roll which is not an interchangeable format with a "score".

midi is pretty much a piano-oriented subset of western music theory in terms of expressive power
Can I burn fat and lose weight while sleeping?
>or China wins

Could you elaborate?
I work in defense and our stuff only runs with Internet explorer and Java applets. Requirements were written in the early 2000s and the product is still not ready to ship.
Let me turn around and ask you - if you think this is not a problem, why don't you publish all your purchase info online? Along with where you bought them, what time, how etc? While you are at it, also publish your travel info - including mode of travel, time of travel, source, destination...

I might be the boring-est person on the planet - lets say nothing about me is of any value to anyone. It is still nobody's business to know even the most mundane aspect of my life. My life is my business, just like your life is your business. Thats all.
Welcome to the USA. You shouldn't, but you certainly can and we have. Read any laws about driving licenses and reasons for suspension.
> it just annoys me that I should even know who they are

Bingo, there's a weird curation of news and pop culture that seeks to fit everything into the media narrative.

So you've got the upper echelon of society portrayed in ways that are supposed to key into the narrative applied to common people, as though there's anything relatable between the two.

Of course, the people that inhabit the media are anything but down-to-earth, so it's an uphill battle already.

They've got their own class bias and relatively monolithic, conformist worldview as a starting point.

As far as anyone can generalize an entire profession like that, it seems like this is the only way to explain the mismatch between society & media.

The conversation doesn't seem to correspond with reality or any sense of proportion.
Your assertion is hard to engage without knowing the distinctions you identify between "manager", "clerk", "director", and "evangelist", and what it would mean for a so-called manager to be "just masquerading as some other responsibility".
Charge money for it? You know, like back in the stone age, when people charged money for software?
I think it’s extremely likely that Tether isn’t backed and is responsible for most of the BTC price increases. Got any links for these events?
This is already happening - there is an absolute glut of warehouse robotics companies at this point. Mostly in adding robotics to legacy warehouses. New warehouses will almost exclusively be built with automation in mind.
So in this context, do you think generalists are needed to set high level strategy and specialists needed to execute it? If so, would this imply that generalists would be a better fit for senior roles?
So if I were to apply this to my career, I should be a T-shaped engineer, right? :P

Joking aside, I love this comment.

To expand on this further - maybe the question of generalist vs specialist is not the right question. Rather, I come to this conclusion when exploring that topic - adapt to the environment.

So, the 3-step plan to become successful at life (TM):

1. understand what it takes to be successful in the current environment

2. adapt yourself to be successful in the current environment

3. understand that your environment will change, so iterate over time by going back to step 1
> Do you mean you don't think they'll compete with Twitch, or you don't think they'll compete with Steam and Amazon?

I do not think Gamestop is going to compete with twitch. I will be very surprised if they do not try to compete with Steam.
In fact, preventing filter bubbles (so to speak) is an explicit design goal of recommender systems.

This is one of those annoying articles where someone talks about their specific interest as if it's a universal truth for an entire domain of problems. For an Amazon product listing or a Buzzfeed news page that thrives on users seeing new and exciting stuff to click on and buy, sure, the recommender system needs to avoid getting stuck on one specific type of content. For your Facebook newsfeed or YouTube video sidebar where divisive politics rules the day it is not absolutely not goal because that would stray in to challenging user's beliefs, and that would push people away.
"and then we'll be ok"

More like: "and then we'll pay back as much as we can to our creditors, and then if there's still money left at the end we might be ok"
I'm guessing you don't just mean blockchain, but rather virtual, unregulated currencies. If so I'm glad that's the case.

If you actually mean a company using blockchain in other ways: do you have any examples?
Hi Tom! It sounds great.

At NewsCatcher [1] we've been asked for webhooks to our data a few times. We still did not start the implementation. Do you think Diahook would be a good solution to consider?

Also, 1$ per 1,000 hooks. What exactly does it mean? Like any push through your hook?

[1] newscatcherapi.com
Just wrote a complex calculation for my wife's work in Anthropology, regarding translating a Canadian grid to gps coordinates. In Excel. Because it was there, and it can encapsulate a complex expression and present it as a field and resulting value.

So no, even if Excel died we'd need something much like it the next day.
If you want to use config files with esbuild, esbuild-config is for you:

https://github.com/bpierre/esbuild-config

(disclaimer: I am the author)
Book: “The Bubble that Broke the World” - Garrett 1931.
There has been an update:

>… The M1 seems to use something other than an entirely conventional reorder buffer, which complicates measurements a bit. So these may or may not be accurate. (This paragraph previously said "it seems to use something along the lines of a validation buffer". I think the VB hypothesis has since been disproven. Various attempts to measure ROB size have yielded values 623, 853, and 2295 (see the previous link). My uninformed hypothesis is that this may imply a kind of distributed reorder buffer, where only structures that need to know about a given operation track them, and/or some kind of out-of-order retirement.)

https://github.com/dougallj/applecpu/commit/dc3c220f58f428b5...
If it is common service used across the company, writing service makes sense as teams can use different programming languages to consume it. Libraries expect everyone to use same language or that library has to be recreated in other languages & managed.
I can't remember how many times I've written Redis-backed retry timers in Go to handle unreliable endpoints. It'd be great to not have to do that again. I like that you're focusing on such a concrete problem that I can see shaped functionality need into which it fits.

What happens when the requests to your API fail? Do I need to retry? Will there be an SDK that can help with this?
My 8 and 10 year olds give out their Roblox user names to friends. Most recently at a softball tournament, my little short stop traded names with a few players that she befriended on other teams.

I'm not sure if there is any grand meaning to this, I just thought I'd share a thing I noticed.
ironic writing this right before $2 trillion is about to get distributed to the people by Congress, while the Federal Reserve is still buying corporate bonds across the entire curve and mortgages using money created at the time of transaction.
Gambling is when you take big risks with hope for a big payoff. It’s possible to invest in the stock market and limit risk by diversifying and hedging positions, but how many meme stock investors are doing that? It’s much more likely to see people yoloing their life savings on Tesla or GME and hoping to retire from the windfall. Not going to be pretty if stocks ever go down again.
I'm not very much worried about my personal data being collected, what worries me is that when it is pooled with the data of many other individuals the entity who controls that pool will be able to do all sorts of analysis and make all sorts of predictions about behaviours on the small and the mass scale, the benefits of which might allow them to engage, with an advantage, in various fields and with various intentions which cannot be predicted or understood by other entities.
I think in regards to finance, the only thing that's under attack is the idea of "stock market as source of knowledge about value." But I'm not sure that the stock market has actually served that purpose for decades.

IMO, it's good that people are beginning to see the stock market as a casino. If people want to "invest," they'll figure out more pro-social ways to do it than the stock market, and if they want to gamble, well, there's always the stock market.
Why this hybrid dataframe? [1]:

> [Arrow] adoption will take time, and most people are probably more comfortable seeing NumPy arrays. Therefore a Vaex version 4 a DataFrame can hold both NumPy arrays and Apache Arrow arrays to make the transition period easier.

There seems to be agreement that Apache Arrow is the future of dataframes across ML ecosystems. I didn't realize this transition impacted NumPy arrays in addition to Pandas dataframes in Python.

[1] https://vaex.io/blog/a-hybrid-apache-arrow-numpy-dataframe-w...
I think it's less of a moral narrative, and more to do with the way our brains process information - at a physical and organizational level, the human brain is like a series of stacked filters, cutting extraneous (or what our brain thinks is extraneous) information down to a size that can be interpreted by the higher cognitive functions within some acceptable limit of stress. The exact boundaries of what and how much information constitutes stress is different for everyone, itself produced by a learning process.

Throughout our lives the configuration and extent of these filters changes in response to stimuli, yet another series of feedback loops and filtering processes that exercise meta-control over the large-scale structure of our brains.

The end result is what you describe - people turn companies into singular, personified entities, because our lives are completely shaped by interactions with mostly-understandable people-units. Most people just don't have the mental model to process the behavior of multi-national conglomerates (I certainly don't) so our brains filter the incoming information (observed behavior) until it becomes something we can successfully process without too much mental stress (i.e. pretend it's a person).
Spreadsheets are everywhere. Heck our local power company uses a complex spreadsheet for load prediction. It includes holidays, football events, historic weather and weather predictions. Saves them a bundle.