skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoken like someone who has never done algorithmic betting or trading.

It's true there are risks associated with trading. But keep track of the money you have at risk and there is no reason not to have a go.

I know more than enough people who have made consistent returns doing algorithmic trading in under-serviced market segments.
Yes, but only in the form of carbonate tablets
I've been a Mailplane customer for close to 10 years now, and this is a distressing development. Having Gmail run in its own app that users can easily Cmd+Tab to is a no-brainer. I actually don't understand how people run it in a browser as a tab. It's not a tab, it's an app!

Worse, Google hasn't even built a native Progressive Web App for Gmail. If you're going to hinder apps like Mailplane, at least release a native PWA! Go figure.

More recently, I've experimented with the new Mimestream client. It uses the Gmail API, as opposed to being a browser wrapper, and closely mimics the UI of Apple Mail. It's incredible, and I think my new long-term solution to a Gmail-friendly client on macOS.

Mimestream is a fully native Mac app that plays so nicely with Gmail -- it puts Apple Mail to shame in this regard. In fact, the developer was a former Apple Mail engineer who seemingly got fed up with his team's approach to Gmail support!
The very reason you're downvoted is the reason you're right. People have their heads in the sand. They don't realize that there's no political will to oppose China because China has already bought the needed to control to tamp down on any efforts to oppose them.

Hell, we're witnessing in-your-face genocide of the Uighurs, takeover of Hong Kong, imminent takeover of Taiwan, support of North Korea's psychopathic regime, destruction of the environment in every way possible (as in this story), etc... and the rest of the world sits on its collective hands. China knows how to boil frogs nice and slowly.
Having lived through the debut of Firesheep, which prompted the industry to get serious about using TLS, its an amusing triumph of cybersecurity that today a site has to be careful to not accidentally get issued a certificate. Back in 2010, when certificates cost substantial sums and needed some expertise to apply for and install, I wouldn't have guessed we'd ever get to this point.
I'm talking about from a technical perspective.

ACH is roughly free - it costs about $0.0033 to the depository institution in bulk (citation available on request) - which makes sense as Strike also allows you to deposit via ACH in the US.

Their fees are likely dominated by risk, compliance and regulatory.

Obviously Strike's service isn't costless to operate so they're subsidizing their operations via investment.
I can remember a time when every byte of memory was precious. We still should act like it is, if only to not to waste as little memory as possible.
Please touch grass. You are either exploiting people all day, taking the money they make and putting most of it in your own wallet, or you're being exploited and you're just experiencing Stockholm syndrome.
I don't entirely agree. The SYSV vs BSD thing was constant before either (Free,Net,Open)BSD and Linux came into a rivalry. I was there, using both across the timescale (I'd been doing sysadmin and development work on V7, Unix 32V, BSD4.1->4.2 (thats sockets) and then Ultrix/Solaris &c)

SYSV had streams/STREAMS when BSD had sockets. Arguably streams is a superior model.

NFS came to the fore in BSD. SYSV had RFS. It was a different model of network filestore.

MGR -> v8 ->Plan9 was there too. There has always been room for more than one viewpoint of what a UNIX conforming system is.

The rise of Linux has a lot to do with licence terms (for some reason the BSD 4 clause hold harmless appealed more to the embedded market) and the natural tendency of some driver vendors to write for Linux. Google deciding to deploy linux at scale inside the borg, and as Android was recognition of reality.

Van Jacobsen, who did a lot of work on TCP tuning and congestion control in the BSD kernel, wound up in Google, and stopped developing for BSD. So, BBR (for instance) came to BSD late and only because Netflix sponsored it. A bunch of the GPU driving space, WiFi card blobs, they're in Linux kernel before BSD. Docker hasn't been ported to BSD notwithstanding the possibly superior models in Jails and Bhyve, the supremacy of Dockerfile has to be understood as "mindshare"

TL;DR BSD lost a lot of "mindshare" but there was always room for a BSD-vs-SYSV-vs-Plan9 thinking, from before-times.
> It is a false assumption that everyone who wants to work needs a wage that will support a family of four with no other income.

Maybe, but the post at the root of this thread invokes both a $10/hour wage and the virtue of starting a family.
If you're conspiratorial about everybody who supports free speech not really supporting free speech, and instead just saying it in bad faith(?), you're going to have a tough time with meaningful debate and enjoying HN. One of the core tenets is a belief in the principle of charity — assume the strongest interpretation of the commenter's argument, not the weakest.
Many, many are. There’s still a notable squeeze, though:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/05/fr...
So interesting! Thanks for sharing.
VidEarth – Like Radio Garden, but with real videos. Click dots on the globe
Strike is a fiat custodial wallet. They can also be censored in exactly the same way which is part of my confusion around the offering. In fact, it's not available in New York or Hawaii.

Further, Wise offers their multi-currency account, including in El Salvador (https://wise.com/us/multi-currency-account/) and allows you to store any of 56 currencies without conversion and offers banking details in 9 jurisdictions. It's kind of perfect for remittances because you can have your US parties ACH to your US routing and account number, and it appears in the multi-currency account, free, and very fast. Or $7.50 to receive a wire, instantly.

[edit] I'm not knocking crypto here, I'm trying to understand what they've built and why. I don't know why they're using crypto here at all. I'm seriously confused about their technical payments architecture. They seem to only use LN to move money, and between two of their own custodial accounts at that.

For what it's worth I've listened to over an hour of podcasts with Jack Mallers.
No it's not true, the GP just lied out of spite. Also, the OP blog post wrote about Chinese AS' out of spite too /s
Nobody rob your crypto with a knife, but people do for your credit card.
This is what I thought too! I actually emailed the woman from whom that information was taken and this was her response:

"I used to be convinced that the word ‘pastila’ derived from the words you mention below, but the deeper I dug, the more I came to believe that its etymology is more likely the old Russian стьлати — to spread out, which is the root of the word ‘postel’ as well. The derivation has to do with the technique of spreading the fruit paste into sheets to dry, and it ultimately makes more sense to me than the expected connection to various words related to ‘pastilla.’ One of the problems with researching food is that most of the people who compiled dictionaries were not fluent in in the kitchen, so I don’t entirely trust Fasmer, for instance, who states that the connection to ‘postel’ is a folk etymology."
Show HN: Freenode BBS
Actually, I speak as someone who has lost a fair bit of money on algorithmic trading. The pattern I’ve observed is consistent, small gains punctuated by sizable losses. That was in a big market, but if the market segment is small enough, then I would certainly grant that your acquaintances could have had that success. Does put a cap on the gains.
if only humour and charm stopped nazis from funding genocide, slavery, and war. hitler wasn't stopped because the third reich realized in their heart of hearts and mind of minds that fascism is wrong, it was the bullets and the bombs
Yes, if you work in a large US company, they will tell you explicitly that they want to categorize as much work as possible as "research", for tax reasons. You may have to fill out questionnaires asking whether your work might fit any of a series of definitions of "research".

There's nothing secret about it.
VidEarth is similar to Radio Garden in the sense that you can click on dots around a globe. VidEarth lets you click dots on the map, and see videos taken from that exact location. Sort of like virtual travel..
More specifically, a light-bulb behind a hill (no line of sight)
Well thirty years later we can see that it worked out really well for him. The most rewarding things in life take time. Like building up interest on stocks. Time preferences are strongly associated with lifetime outcomes. All the best opportunities exist in identifying truths that exist outside the realm of social consensus. You can build your specialization in an environment free of competition. Waiting for the social consensus to change takes decades. Once it does you're in a good position to reap the economic benefits that follow.
> I believe in reciprocity. China has blocked a lot of the western traffic. So, the west should block China. If they open up, we should welcome them with open arms.

This sounds like a couple of people I've met, who have a philosophy of "treating people the way they treat me". And what if the other person/side also "believes in reciprocity", what happens then? This seems to rely on other people being nice first, and then always treating them how they treated you, imitating their behaviour, like Tit-for-tat[0]—except Tit-for-tat begins by being nice. It's not easy to put my finger on what seems fishy about that strategy, but it doesn't at all seem the easy solution to being fair and just (or whatever word you most prefer here) its proponents seem to think it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat (See particularly "Problems" and the next section)
Isn't the .67c usually around the limitations of currently deployed optical fiber, but hollow core gets to .997c although it has distance limitations.
> interested in improving the PDFs that LaTeX outputs in this regard, and has projects in this direction

Can you elaborate on what / where those projects are? It's not clear from the tug.org website.

I love LaTeX and if I had a relevant skill set I'd be willing to help out.

Thank you.
So either the satellite will soon experience unexplained technical difficulties or China will be deploying fishing submarines soon.

No, I kid. What will actually happen is China will get caught red handed again and they'll perform the diplomatic equivalent of "So what are you gonna do about it" while pumping more jingoistic lies to their population.
SS: Posted the BBS [1] yesterday, but here is the code. This was written quickly and will likely undergo a refactor, but it's a proof of concept of what's possible when building on IRC.

[1] https://bbs.freenode.net/
> continuing to run the same experiment unmodified and expecting improving results is signing up for disappointment.

Maybe that's an acceptable price to pay for not being the ones to take the next step toward war. If war is a game in which "the only winning move is not to play", then maybe it's also true that when it comes to doing the peaceful thing, the only winning move is to keep on playing, even if it hurts us.
Relevant recent discussion: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359269)
We generally expect models to have predictive value, at least through a set of historic data, before we lens them much credence. We have made an exception for climate models. I believe following basic scientific procedures is a better plan than listening to what amounts to a widely-hekd belief structure. It is particularly galling when we could be using time and effort to combat the proven environmental catastrophes such as air and water qualities, deforestation, and issues such as the one that started this thread.
> Whatever their legitimate grievances, [conflict with the first ammendment]'s not an acceptable response.

That's perfectly good reasoning, but:

> ADL has engaged in lobbying for policies that unconstitutionally conflict with the first ammendment.

as to your premises, again:

> > Citation / explanation needed.
But that's fair they become it. After all they're 20% of humanity...
The crew will likely be desperate and / or slaves.

So how about:

Sell the ship, let the crew live in a nice hotel, book them a 1st class flight back home, then bill the country under who's flag the ship was operating. If they can't / refuse to pay, import sanctions.

That way, you're not punishing the crew, yet making such behavior financially uninteresting. That's the only way because the person who decided to send that ship there is probably far away and busy counting profits.

Also, it's a lot easier to capture the boat if that's a positive experience for the crew. They might flee from a trip to prison but few people run from a paid vacation offer.
If you want your capital to "generating", you should look for some that gives some money back to your capital invested, but more the money is "generated", more is the risk of loosing your capital. If it where a my disposable i'll bet all on red.
It doesn't seem like there's so much a rift as a complete change in policy.

Per the article, the old policy defending Free Speech was ...

> "we are committed to represent those whose views we regard as repugnant"

Whereas the new policy says...

> "lawyers should balance taking a free speech case representing right-wing groups whose “values are contrary to our values” against the potential such a case might give “offense to marginalized groups.” "

It's actually really sad. They've even explicitly paid for campaign ads for Democratic political candidates...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aqKS3ihVM

It's really just the ACLU in name only. They've done what so many organizations have done, and sacrificed their principles to take sides in the GOP vs Dem battle. Shortsighted.
The College Admissions Crucible
I agree.

When I read of Dolphin or MAME updates I feel like the world is a better place.

Why is this?

It seems bigger than just the joy of knowing old games will be preserved forever.
>What does America have to offer in 2021 that would prevent said executives (at the potential behest of shareholders) from jumping ship?

Kind of difficult to sell somebody a cheeseburger in America without hiring Americans. It's just one of those things that can't be outsourced.
The way I read that is that the pragmatic bit is the true reason, deep down.

Most of us aren't pure-logic Kantian robots. We have a goal in mind that's beyond simply being logically consistent. When we form an organization that sometimes defends the Nazis, we're not doing it because our only motivation is that some rights are absolutely inviolable no matter what. We do it for mostly pragmatic reasons, such as the one you've outlined. If the Nazis get a fair trial, then that helps ensure that we also do. If we make too bad of a law to use against the Nazis, we could end up as victims of it some day. Defending the Nazis is ultimately a means to the end of achieving a good society for us to live in.

That's why whenever the true end of doing such things starts being endangered, principles start faltering.
Most senior engineers I know are key men. The have the corporation by the short curlies and, uhhh, dealing with the key men egos is something everyone has to put up with.

Words like "senior" and "principle" engineer reflect more on company being hostage to coding expertise than reflect competence beyond coding. I'm trying to think of senior or principle engineer who gave two whits about "beyond coding". Coming up blank here.

In large corporations pay is tied to title and often times titles are handed out simply to pay someone not to look elsewhere and it has nothing to do with anything else.

YMMV
Actually, I would argue that is simply economic rationality.

1) A PhD is generally an economic disaster. For 6+ years you are making less than minimum wage, and only the most technical fields benefit from it economically. Those 6 years put you almost $250K behind someone earning a decent engineering salary--and the working engineer has a 6 year experience record and corresponding professional network. If you have to spend a couple more years as an underpaid Postdoc, you never catch up economically.

2) A quick Master's generally makes good economic sense in a technical field--get it as cheap and fast as you can. It's generally worth a nice salary bump, and it puts you into a slightly different category when layoffs and stuff come around. (Master's degrees often can be considered for "R&D" positions that a Bachelor's is considered unqualified for even with 20+ years of experience--HR rules are stupid.)

3) Advanced degrees in non-technical fields are a HUGE net negative economically.

In addition, a non-trivial amount of foreign grad students are sponsored by their government to be there. Colleges love them because they pay full, non-resident prices in cash.
Cheers to that! Fortran introduced me to “:” syntax, back before I’d ever heard of numpy. (Or expression templates for that (somewhat tangential) matter)
Unrelated, but it's surprisingly hard to get backtesting right.

I found a bug[1] in a popular (4000 star) stock forecasting model on github where future knowledge subtly leaks into the training data. People seem to keep using the project though!

[1] https://github.com/huseinzol05/Stock-Prediction-Models/issue...
> For all practical purposes it is used to write code that exerts (local) side effects into the state maintained by the state monad.

Yes, but as long as this is done with only pure expressions, then the whole program is pure functional - that is what the definition is about.

> You can a function in say, OCaml, that fills an array via mutation using only function arguments to deduct the contents, and then returns that array. That function is pure (it exerts no side effects outside and is not exposed to side effects from the outside, its result value only depends on the function argument values). Yet how is that not using mutation, non-referentially transparent parts inside?

The guarantee or at least convention of referential transparency for every expression has benefits. It means I as a developer can make certain assumptions about code that I could not make otherwise. I can do certain refactorings and changes while being sure that it will not change the program semantics.

As soon as parts of the program is not pure anymore, I know have to always re-assure myself that I'm currently working with the pure part of the code. Same for any tooling that I build.

As I said, you can make that choice and sometimes it is the best thing to do - but you cannot call your application "pure functional" anymore when you do.
Such politicians are not liberal, no matter which party they belong to.
I can't claim I know the answer, but I know what I wish was the reason. I'd like to hope that millions of workers in low-end service jobs, such as food service and retail, saw that their jobs kept their heads above water but gave them little chance of ever progressing and decided to take the opportunity to move on to jobs with more opportunities to learn and advance into something with better long-term benefits.
hopefully no one repeats fedi
It's particularly disheartening to get a letter like this from the office of a politician that you actually admire. Often it's not a fake survey, but rather an appeal to "fight voter suppression" (for the US left) or "defend our borders" (for the US right). Always ending by asking for money, of course. I wonder if the politicians are even aware their staffs are sending out spam mail like that, and making them seem like hucksters.
Many of us in China are absolutely saying Chinese Traditional Medicine is garbage and there s no "western medicine", just medicine.

It's not racist in China to say the truth, why is it where you are ? You probably live in an oppressive political regime with a biparty dictating what you can think ? :P
> This isn't how most people actually work. Most of us see principles as a means to an end, even if we don't say so, or initially don't admit it.

I agree completely. This is exactly the reason why I believe most ACLU staff are thoroughly unqualified for the job. Defending civil liberties as a matter of principle is not something most people can do. That's perfectly fine. What annoys me is the hypocrisy of it. Don't believe in civil liberties for all? Fine, just don't pretend you do.
I might be missing some obvious point, but I think that your premise assumes (all/majority) of people are lazy. From the greatest utility viewpoint, if being unemployed (vs "lazy") gives liveable monetary benefits vs the employment's barely-scraping-the-barrel-and-dieing-at-it unliveable one, it is only logical for one not to work, and "laziness" shouldn't really even be considered a factor.

Unemployment benefits should (at least?) provide for/cover the living essentials.

Therefore, the question should be "what if the (minimum) wage/pay provided (at least the same) liveable value"? [Or, rather, that is the problem.]

Coupled with the potential ability to advance above the minimum wage and earn more, majority of people would choose to work.

I believe that well-known USA minimum wage stagnation graph says enough.

(Disclaimer: I am not a citizen of USA, but I believe I am, frankly, more familiar with its policies vs my own (EU) country's... and that has only taught me that I shouldn't even contemplate living in the USA. [Personal opinion based on an informal cost/benefit/risks analysis.])
I can assure you that the list is accurate (as in - that's all useful stuff) and not that hard to be at least decent at.
> I use Multicast DNS on my home network - mostly this is just for convenience, and so I don’t have to remember lots of different IP addresses.

> NetBSD includes multicast DNS support by default through a port of macOS’s mDNSResponder called mdnsd. It seems it’s available for FreeBSD but not a core part of the OS. I’m also under the impression that it’s more common to use Avahi (the Linux community’s answer to mDNSResponder) on FreeBSD, but I don’t know for certain.

I use Avahi on a vnet Jail. I basically put every host on /usr/local/etc/avahi/hosts and this is enough for name resolution even if the system or device has no mDNS broadcasting capabilities.
Sure, unless it turns out automation is cheaper. Be careful what you wish for.
C++ was never at any stage a preprocessor.

It was, instead, the first of what became many, many compilers that generated C from its AST as the target assembly language, relying then on the C compiler's optimizer and machine-code generator.

Nowadays, LLVM IR fills exactly the role C once did, for new languages like Rust and Zig. Zig is just now in the middle of transitioning to its own optimizer and machine-code generator.

Preprocessors were also common at the time, e.g. m4, Ratfor, and Cpp ("C preprocessor", which initially was a separate program), so it is not surprising that Cfront was mistaken for one, back then.

That is not a reason to repeat the falsehood.

You don't get a runaway success for four decades by accident.
Doesn't 4 contradict 1? Or do you mean "can stand for one another in a certain context". That would be rather weak criteria then though.
You seem to be contrasting the proportion of US citizens in postgrad education (in your experience) to GP's point about supply and demand in the labor market for low skill, low wage service jobs. What's the relationship there? I don't understand at all.
Now Backtest it from 2015 onwards. 4% yearly return. All your returns come from the first 2-3 years.
Maybe somewhat but what it mostly does is allow for more batteries to be made without driving up the cost of materials.