skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allocating capital towards the most useful projects is a valuable real world skill. Bankers are essential for an advanced economy, as is capital investment.

Now, we can certainly argue the specifics of the best way to do that, and whether our current system is working as it should, but it isn’t as simple as to say everyone working in finance is useless.
The Russian Orthodox Church calendar is Julian; but keep in mind that church attendance in Russia is low - only about 15% attend at least monthly (for comparison, the same figure is 45% in US), and 35% never go at all.

Thus, most believers aren't aware of those details even if they self-identify as Orthodox Christian.
Except that business is not like sports. There is no "level playing field" that matches teams 1 for 1 against their counterparts.

In many cases most parts of the company just have to be "good enough". If you have a great marketing team and 90% of the market already then you don't need a world beating tech team.

Even when you are competing against equal and similar companies there are areas there are points of differentiation. One Company's product might be cheaper a easy to setup, Another is good at Enterprise Sales, a third has great tech and features.
Romeo and Juliet was produced for a mass open air theater with penny tickets for the working classes. Does that make Shakespeare not art, since it was intended for mass consumption?
The Future of Business Intelligence Is Open Source
The Ishango bone is so significant that the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) has intentionally designated it as the 100,000th sequence A100000 [1].

[1] https://oeis.org/A100000
This sort of sounds like the premise of Permutation City.
Since you opposed app store fees, I thought you didn't like making money on the Internet.
I have a call tracking metrics SaaS to determine which ppc marketing campaigns drive incoming sales calls.

http://calltrak.io SEO is the real struggle !
I was kidding, of course. Neither running an ad blocker nor running a website that runs script is stealing anything.

However, I do run an ad blocker and I'm completely fine if every company that relies on ads for income goes out of business. In fact, I'd appreciate it.
There’s absolutely no way this could go wrong, eh?

My prediction: if it even becomes a successful community, China will eventually take ownership of it. Probably by leveraging Bitcoin, too. Isn’t Bitcoin effectively CCPCoin at this point?
API for Apache Superset
What qualifies as incompetence? As a former PM and Engineer, I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
But if you’re after weight why ask for crude proxies for weight? Adult v child is worse than “age”. But why not ask for weight if you’re after it?
The One Time Purchase Myth
>the entire App Store ecosystem is not free.

and building a competing ecosystem that is is Not Allowed!
A timeline of mathematical innovations would also be interesting.
Why wouldn't they? Apple is in the same business Google is of selling ads and in-app payment processing for apps on their platform. In one respect, Google is better than Apple for warning you ahead of time when an app contains ads. That's not an endorsement, mind you. There's other things Apple does better than Google. But there's no "good guy" here. Only less-bad guys.
"We're gonna take into overtime, welcome to the space jaaaayyyym!"
You didn't break down anything step by step. If you actually start with an 100% passive market and try having a single active investor in it nothing works. Funds can no longer buy and sell the basket of stocks they need. At that point they'd just trade among themselves and simply not trade with you. To actually be able to trade in the way you describe you'd need a 99.9% passive market where there are still some active traders you are trading with and together you are creating tracking error for the passives siphoning off their gains, which is what I described.
Wow, I can't meet any of my coworkers, the interviewing process is totally opaque, and I'm quitting the job I already have for a two-week trial at your place? Where do I sign?
I suspect this was deliberate. Customer service is expensive and this seems very low margin. When I worked in banking, password issues were 1/4 of call centre volume.
This is a rhetorical bait-and-switch. The "stealing candy from a store" messaging is crafted to imply moral failure. The implication is there when you present the situation with that framing—you can't just walk it back when called out on it!

Nobody frames, say, taking a bathroom break when the ads play during a football game this way.
Why do you see Brave as less trustworthy? I don't think the news has reached me.
Right that's my point - the "hacking" has some objective, utilitarian goal.
Airplane takes off with less thrust after adults are assigned child's weight
I try to keep things pretty playful, I have a bunch of ice breakers I've learned over the years (stranded on island, what do you bring, what would you do if you had a million dollars/what would you do if you had only one dollar). From there, I dig into things that may lead to more interesting dialogue. This sounds really one sided, but I try to provide my own input if the candidate doesn't ask for it (nerves, just shy, it's all good).

The more open I am, the more open they are, and we both leave with a better understanding.
But how does a complete newb know what is a great used sewing machine and where to find one?
I do app window shopping, but only on F-Droid. I rarely install any of the apps I see, but occasionally I stumble across an open-source tool I didn't know I wanted. E.g. recently I found Pocket Paint, a neat little drawing app. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.catrobat.paintroid/ I mostly use it for quickly annotating screenshots, which it's much better suited for than my previous solution of just using the stock image viewer's editing capabilities. Especially Pocket Paint's layer support is quite handy for quickly hiding/showing annotations.
> Cryptos take the sharp tool out of the hand of the retarded child.

And give it to what? The magical hand-of-the-market? An effect that is more or less akin to turning on a firehose and letting it thrash around wildly. The fire doesn’t get put out, but hey, at least that “retarded child” as you so eloquently put it isn’t involved anymore.
I once left a Latin course in high school and went to a doctor's appointment. Sitting at the lobby I listened to some Italian songs playing from a CD, probably. One song was "Parole" and I remember realising that not only could I understand every word, I could also parse the grammar in the way we did in class. Unfortunately I don't remember any of it today.
Take a look at Kaldi and Mozilla DeepSpeech
> I won't argue with 2 (I don't think either of us can really say with certainty, and then there's the second layer of arguments about what is "necessary" in a profit situation)

Both Google and Apple have been stockpiling money for some time. Each company has over $100B of cash sitting in a bank account doing nothing, and the number increases every year. This suggests a market failure has taken place. In a competitive market, they would either be cutting prices or reinvesting profits into their product.

In Google's case, Android is not their main business so it's admittedly a little harder to say whether Android specifically "needs" to take a 30% cut of app sales to sustain itself. But I don't believe for a second that Google chose that number based on any notion of "need", I believe they chose it because that's what Apple had already set as the standard. And when it comes to Apple, the iPhone is their core business, it is wildly profitable, and the evidence seems clear that they are not doing anything useful with the money (see above).

So yeah, I do actually believe there's pretty clear evidence that these fees are just greed and not needed to subsidize anything about the platform. Whether or not such subsidization is ethical is a moot point.
I said to my girlfriend the other week that somebody should make an app that does this. I'm excited to try it out.
I am unaware of any reasons why Wayland won’t come to OpenBSD. Last I checked, progress towards the possibility of running Wayland compositors on OpenBSD had been progressing slowly. OpenBSD seems to support KMS these days, as well as DRM. I don’t know if OpenBSD will adopt evdev, but I don’t think it would be a giant logical leap unless the maintainers are diametrically opposed.

If OpenBSD is unable to transition to Wayland, that does call into question what it will do in the future. My understanding is that Xorg maintenance basically only extends to Xwayland use cases, so it seems like a fork of Xorg or an alternative would be needed to keep things going in the longer term.
Stop being poor so you can go into those badass hedge funds that always beat the S&P 500 /s

But seriously, I'd rather just put money into VTI and VXUS and go back to playing video games, planning a D&D one-shot, programming a bit, or hanging out with friends in my spare time. Let the active traders waste their time poring over 10-Ks and/or charts. I'll be here having fun and taking what the market gives.
I agree that there is some chance that some products will be genuinely useful.

But overall risk of getting persuaded to buy worthless products or scammy "investments" seems to not be worth discovering real gems.

Overall I would prefer both scams and genuine offers to be as far as away from my interests as possible.

Obviously, I would prefer actually useful offers to be close to my interests and to have no scams/worthless trash/malware/porno in my ads, but it appears to not be an available option.
Agree - both app stores seem to have their fair share of junky apps.
> Imagine 100% is passive. That means any stock in an index will be bought tomorrow and forever regardless of price. I could exploit that in a ton of ways. For example, do a "squeeze" (think of the recent GME short squeeze but in reverse.)

With more and more assets going into passive funds, when might we actually see them owning such large fractions of companies that a play like this is possible? Google suggests that 10-15% of the SP500 is owned by mutual funds. Presumably there's going to be an inflection point where this becomes problematic.
Fascinating graph. However, the methamphetamine measures for economic harm and crime seem intuitively off (undercooked). I've seen people on speed and they are often not fun to be around.
Yes, that's a very long way away from going to jail for banging a 13 year old.
This is a more concise repost of a previous comment that I posted too hastily.

It's fair to believe that ads are 'ok' - it's also possible that people in general don't want them. Hosting low-traffic websites on a smartphone with cellular data is just-about-feasible now.

Rather than inventing very technically clever ways to continue on our existing path, as Apple and Google are doing, I think it'd be pleasant to simply move beyond the advertising model of content on the internet.

If asked, I don't believe people would want to be tracked or have ads mixed into their content.
It didn't move in 1901 for Russia, because the country was wholly on the Julian calendar back then, and thus Christmas was still on December, 25.

It's an interesting question as to what exactly is going to happen when it's time to move it. As I noted earlier, the Russian law on state holidays explicitly designates January, 7 as Christmas - so that would need to be amended to conform to what the Church says. But, much like in the West, Christmas is not a purely religious holiday in Russia - it's effectively the last day of the New Year holiday week. In theory, individual regions can opt out of it (to reflect their local religious traditions - some are majority Muslim or Buddhist), but none have done that in practice. So, if the question of moving it arises, it will be debated by the society at large, not only by the Orthodox.
In your hypothetical 99.9% passive scenario that doesn't work either because passive funds have long ago disallowed borrowing their stocks to short. If you start with a ~100% passive premise the reality is so different to what a normal market looks like you can't just propose a normal strategy and expect any of it to work.
This was one of my biggest frustrations that weighed on my decision to leave the company. The PMs I worked directly with rarely felt a true sense of ownership and pride over the roadmap and evolution of value to users. They never bothered to think how the future was evolving. They seemed to be brought in on pretty regular rotation with no attachment. They were mostly interested in seeing product management as some kind of accounting/ROI management problem. They would go through a long list of line items and try to assign priority and tried to remove as many things as they could. They also wanted to make the few things they did commit to seem much bigger than they actually were. I most directly saw this with Android Camera framework and APIs. The worst part was sitting through feedback meetings from developers. Instead of truly listening and challenging their current views, they would try to fit the feedback to their current view and dismiss a lot of really important insights from the field.
Speaking from experience or speculation? I can't stand how HN has started to turn into a political soapbox. The amount of assumptions being propagated makes me understand the social tension the US has.

How did a Starlink post devolve into this chain about rural ideologies?
Scores are an input into the decision on what rate you pay and probably an input into underwriting, but they're not the sole input.

Car loans, though, I think are almost entire driven by scores.
> Nobody will advocate it, no, but there's a significant set of the population with self destructive tendencies. They're gonna use what they can get their hands on, and lots of whatever it is. I know a few folks who have taken tens of tabs of acid, and every single one was traumatized by the experience; some were incapacitated for months or years following.

When I was in high school and college, kids would regularly get alcohol poisoning and need medical attention. Some of them would drink, drive and die. People like this will exist whether or not it's legal for them to consume whatever substance they're abusing.

> I'm in favor of universal legalization, but it's definitely worth considering the impact to everybody, not just the people who use drugs responsibly

Criminalization isn't going to stop these people, and even if their use leaves them unscathed, the justice system can impose lifelong negative consequences on them.

This is why I'm in favor of funding real drug education so people can make informed decisions, healthcare so people can get help if their use affects their heath, and legalization so that lives aren't ruined by legal consequences.
MBTI is Meyers Briggs Type Indicator; personality types.

For anyone else not familiar with the acronym
https://lwn.net/Articles/839257/
I think Java Strings are pretty well accepted as being a good implementation:

1. Primarily, the Java String class stores an array of characters as instance data. The underlying format of arrays in Java is JVM dependent, but most JVMs store arrays (which are immutable) as a contiguous block of memory, with a 4-byte length field. This allows for very fast access for a number of different operations, at the cost of storing those 4 bytes for each array.

2. String instances themselves are also immutable, which has a number of very nice features.

Back in the day when C was created there was essentially a trade-off between storage (storing the length as an int value for each array) and ease of use. These days I think most people would argue that the teeny amount of storage used for Java arrays is mostly a moot point. Also, since Strings are immutable Java can do some optimizations like representing the same string value as just a single underlying instance even if multiple instances of that String are created in code.
What's going to happen is that sites will enumerate which FLoC IDs represent which set of interests, and just use send that data off together with whatever unique ID they're already tracking you with.

You can do this by just setting up a new profile and visiting various pages, then checking what the FLoC ID is. See here for an example by Jonathan Foote: https://twitter.com/footePGH/status/1380568421490905088

It's based on your browsing history, so companies will now be able to get an aggregate of your interests without having to actually track you across other sites.
Although on the second thought, maybe you could expand it make it as match making dating up, that matches people beside interests ... I do not know is there already something similar.
I had never heard this before. Do you have a source? It seems to me the more informed in virology people are the more they seem to think the 'leak' is the most likely scenario.
This is spot on. I have been a student of Eli’s work since about 1995. He was an amazing individual.

An important point not always noticed is that restricting WIP improves both flow and quality in organizations. I see flow and quality as “mutually co-arising” attributes of thoughtful management of organizations.

I also like the work done by Dave Snowden with his Cynefin framework. Anyone else share this view?
I find it highly unlikely that there's an open-ended, philosophical question that is really that likely to ferret out closet misogynists.
damm i should have wrote https://picc.io in kitten
I hear what you're saying, and I think it hinges on how you assign credit for making more pie. Did the employee make the pie, or did the person choosing deploying the capital that particular way make the pie?

In any case, the point I think is important, and which I wanted to make, is "more pie, not dividing up the same pie" which works with both our stories.

Edit: oh, and I think it's probably not true that the people at the bottom are having a "harder and harder time". It of course would depend on which metrics you pick, but I generally understand that sort of sentiment as popular in the media but wrong in a Better-Angels-of-our-Nature kind of way. I could believe that people at the bottom are getting a smaller share percentage-wise, but the actual amount of pie they're getting is growing. People are living longer, healthier lives, there's less food insecurity, etc.
Note that the Firefox app for Fire TV is very different and much more limited than the Firefox mobile app.
The related trustchain project has been posted here before and the one interesting thing I learned from it was the NAT punching technique to build an p2p network overlaying a exisiting network, IPv8 they call it.

I don't know where it goes from there or how or why we need this blockchain without a POW. Don't get me wrong, I don't like POW, but if you remove it you might as well remove the blockchain too. Just normal boring web stuff.

Say you want to build a clubhouse clone using this technology, it's all the rage, how would this practically work for things like onboarding, scaling rooms up to ten thousands of users, on a mobile phone network, who will pay the content creators, hell who will pay the developers, and what tradeoffs does this involve as nothing is for free.

Given this is it even the best way to spend or resource, dunno aren't there people staring. Does anyone really care about this except the academics who get payed for big ideas. Plus a clubhouse clone is super lame, a real "copy without an original" idea.

It is at least a little bit ironic that this decentralised technology has only been adopted in a super app:
https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp/

This not my idea of democracy. I'd wish more people knew about Arrow's impossibilities theorem, especially privileged people into decentralisation.
Immigration and Housing: The Meaning of Hsieh-Moretti – Econlib
Looks like a great idea. I'd have probably just made a webapp though, and skipped all the walled garden hurdles you mention. I did see the "web version coming soon" blurb.

Is there something about this that works significantly better as native?
Dubai is the opposite example of this as it does not allow migrants to settle in or (until recently) own land. Presumably startups cities want to jumpstart their economy, not to subsidize it with oil money. But still, UAE spends its money better than other oil-making countries in the region.

Plus, foreign aid did not exactly work well in africa; maybe it is better to teach people how to fish this time
Anyone aware of discussions of these ideas? I'd be very interested in knowing of groups of serious educators who are exploring these ideas.
because combined with browser fingerprinting it is exactly the outcome
Iv seen this plot before. Plug a dead fish into neuralink and validate its not playing the game by itself
Pay close attention to the x axis because the scale here is highly misleading.

The width of 100 years looks like it might be different each century.
I don't know. I live in the UK but I'm Greek and very often I realise that people around me have trouble with Greek words borrowed into English- like phenomenon, automaton, etc. The trouble is not in using these words properly but in understanding what these words mean. To me it's quite clear because, well, they're Greek. But they're, ah, Greek to others.

I disagree in general that there's anything wrong with teaching kids new things of any kind. Knowledge is knowledge. We learn a new thing. We file it away. We may need it one day, or we may just feel the warm glow of intellectual richess that can sustain one through difficult times. Why deprive kids of this opportunity? One might as well argue that children don't need to know their native language and should learn English instead (when it's not their native language).
I think it depends on what one considers the purpose of basketball to be. For entertainment and spectacle, high-box-score players are worth more. For pure team competition, RAPM is worth more. The latter is important because you generally want to win, but the former is what really draws fans in.
Like others said it depends on each problem you are solving. Consider Java, nodejs, go, rust, ruby, python, c# - the one you know best is the best. Build up some Util classes for stuff you do regularly. NPM has a package for everything eg there is a cron so I like it for that reason.

Consider docker for some situations. Consider kubernetes if the need is more devops/ running a production system.

Consider powershell if on windows.

Travis ci / Jenkins / appveyor etc. for CI

Be lazy - can I get out of writing this code should be in the forefront of your mind (for any code!). The answer might be no but consider it.

No code tools can be considered - Google sheets, Wordpress, plethora of saas to do this. Paas eg aws lambda etc.

So many options. Solve the problem, rather than transliterate bash.
“Both” runtime and compile time would be correct.

Runtime checks has nothing to do with GC. Bounds checking has nothing to do do with GC for example.
Fair point. But still a far cry from current drug prohibition and alcohol prohibition of the 20s. Not being allowed to smoke in a restaurant is an entirely different animal than mandatory minimum jail time for anyone who possesses a cigarette.
I was hoping to use computer vision for things that a user might do by hand, e.g. removing the background/foreground. I'm focusing on 2D image processing so most functions are pretty performant if you use WebGL, even for large images.

Thanks for the Rete.js recommendation, I'll give it a try!
How often has this worked in your experience?