skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great time to leverage your VC. They probably have companies that could adopt your product instead of paying money to a competitor.
Moving to Canada from Belgium, one of the most frustrating things is the banking ecosystem. It feels so far behind on what I'm used to, from the banking apps to transferring money to having had to use actual _cheques_ to rent a condo.

EDIT: Like paper cheques, I didn't have to use those in my 30 years in Belgium prior.
Your last paragraph is both hilarious and beautiful.
If you want to go enterprise right away, you need lot of dollars in my opinion or you need to have internal connections at a big ticket company. Otherwise, start small. Go for companies that are not looking for SOC2 (SMBs could be good to start with).

So the answer may be: you don't do SOC2 clients unless you already have connections. I could be wrong but I sell in SMB space so I may be biased.

Oh and you have to do it manually regardless. No ads. No content marketing etc. Talk to those potential customers.
If one has to do this frequently and in size the best way I’m aware of is Interactive Brokers, but for most customers doing $1k transactions (like me back in 2004 to pay my student loans) $8.50 and $10 are the same number but the $60 the best option cost back then (GoLloyds, now operated by Shinsei, if anyone is curious) was not.
VR is the next PC. "VR headset in every home" could be the next Microsoft like company mission and vision. I think for instance VR will have big impact in medicine and education but like I said it is decades away something like PC industry in 1970s.
Gen X never had the numbers to do anything substantial. Millenial's population total crossed the Boomers in 2019. Gen X will not do the same until 2028. From 2019 forward, governmental power will be exercised by Millenials. Gen X will never have an era of ascendancy, our lot is to simply figure out how to be satisfied where ever we find ourselves.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials...
Well in Portuguese it means “fuck”, I think it’s very suitable
> The ONLY tool silicon Valley, the msm, much of acamdeia, the DNC and their loyal sycophants care about is the vaccines and even the slightest discussion of any potential alternative gets promoted as inherently anti-vaxx even if it could be used in conjunction with vaccines

There's been plenty of active mainstream reporting of Merck's new COVID pill, as well as other promising treatments. What are you talking about?

Getting a COVID shot continues to be the single best public health policy, which is why people are going to continue to advocate for it. But there has been no lack of mainstream coverage of developments in both proactive and reactive treatment.
Yes! Speaking of that channel, he did a video on garum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7Bb0Qg-oE
Saw the same argument when they dropped parallel and serial ports on the original iMac. There are adapters that you can leave on the cable, or buy new cables. USB-C is the future and is here now.
I feel stupid for not realizing that crypto would be a successful meme and getting in on the ground floor.
The fact that the author doesn't seem aware that in the future all of money will live on public immutable networks makes me think he's either out of touch or we're still really early.
COVID-19 has killed more police officers than any other on-duty cause of death. This mandate might actually save the NYPD a lot of money in healthcare/funeral costs.
> About a year ago I was bitten by the PL bug. It started with reading Crafting Interpreters and discovering the wonders hidden under the hood of a compiler.

Doesn't sound like the author is super-experienced with this whole interpreter thing, thought might not have crossed their mind.
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I am a fairly militant, pronouns-in-my-bio (he/him, cishet) post-colonial feminazi and I think so-called politically correct language is generally a good thing. But I also have a degree in linguistics, and I have to say I don't think gendered grammatical categories (that is distinctions in pronouns, noun classes, verbal conjugations, etc. that align with cultural concepts of binary gender) have any effect on gender relations in a culture at all.

The (Classical) Arabic language is fairly unique in the Muslim world in expressing gender grammatically in several ways. For instance, in addition to a he/she distinction, there are separate second-person pronouns ("you") for use when addressing men and women, as well as matching, gendered forms of the verb. That is, you can't speak to someone without encoding their gender grammatically, sometimes even several times in the sentence.

Compare this to Turkish and Persian, where gender is not expressed at all except for some words. There are separate words for man and woman, and male and female family relations but that's about it. There's one third person pronoun, so you can write love poems that are completely gender-ambiguous (indeed, much classic Persian poetry can be read as being either about love of another person or about devotion to God). As far as I understand, Turkish even has many names that are gender-neutral. Bahasa Indonesian and its related languages are also free from grammaticalized gender.

And while there are many differences between all aspects of society in the Islamic world, including gender relations, if gendered language was an important factor, I would expect them to be much more aligned with linguistic boundaries, and I have never seen even the tiniest shred of evidence for that.

Bahasa Indonesian is quite interesting, by the way, in that it and languages of that family (that Austronesian languages) have interesting ways of encoding social information grammatically. You might have more than one first person pronoun ("I") that are appropriate in different contexts, and the relative social status between the speaker, the addressee, and the subject are encoded in various ways. I can only assume that Indonesian letters to the editor about the lack of respect that young people have for their elders are full of just-so linguistic argumentation, and that the inevitable clashes between generations have elements of linguistic reform. But at least when trans people gain recognition there, they won't have to argue about pronouns.
As noted in the post title, the original article is from 2018. I had either forgotten about Meow hash or just never knew about it, so I appreciate the post, but I was curious about the timing of the post.
SQL calculations on columnar data are quite different from row-based databases, so its effectively a different database engine. You can take multiple advantages of columnar data store, because it usually employs a form of vocabulary compression. For instance, obtaining distinct values of a field in a columnar DB is much faster because it's typically just the vocabulary of the field, so it doesn't even require a full table scan. Many other columnar computations such as filtering or aggregation can be done on compressed data without decompression.
I think that's in the realm of grey legal theory that hasn't been tested in court. But yes, that's a great point, and I coincidentally just said something similar in another comment.
There is a long history of hams going to put rare countries on the air. In the fifties through the seventies it was mostly solo adventurers. I got to know the most famous of them all, Gus Browning, in the early seventies. He had been around the world multiple times and I worked him in different countries all though high school and college.

He wasn't a rich man unlike others and depended solely on donations. I remember being in his hotel room at the Dayton Hamvention where he pitched where he was headed in the next year. People gave him stacks of fifty or hundred dollar bills along with either their business cards clipped to the money or QSL cards.

I vividly remember tens of thousands of dollars laying on his bed. I've never before or since seen that much cash in one place. Being a poor college kid I felt so badly that I bought him lunch the next day. The tales that man could tell, he'd ridden on river boats with peasants and partied with Kings.
> This is the most important fight for Press Freedom in our time.

I beg to differ. Journalists are assassinated regularly for their work. More often than not this happens as the result of investigations into corruption. I wouldn't put Assange's work over what those people are doing.
The reason I stopped reading HN (looking deep into the mirror) is that all the smart people here generally have a negative sentiment to something that's math based. It's a head scratcher but easy for me to move on after 14-ish years of being here.
It’s hard for me to read because my eyes keep rolling so far back in my head. Didn’t he say the same things about Facebook?
I know this is OT, BUT

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The "continuing to browse this website" seems shady. Can someone explain how this is even supposed to work? Is there a timer that expires? If I scroll at all am I opted in?

Also, is this even legal in jurisdictions that require a cookie opt-out? I thought I read some language about required a positive user interaction to accept tracking.
The most thorough format I know of (and which is the one I use) is http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/

Though, this here is much easier to edit. May need to create a converter ;-)
Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data
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Reddit and Twitter proves that it's not the case.

They have allowed anti-vaxxer, conspiracy, misinformation etc communities to thrive and flourish and it's happened without recommendation algorithms. It happened because when people can see other's peoples comments they are able to follow them to discover more people like that.
Once you have a hint that there may be something there, it’s worth seeing if it holds for a larger same size.
It's not going to be useful to understand Lagrangians in detail unless you're actually doing the physics yourself -- especially because the whole framework is super problematic, pedagogically (I hope it gets 'refactored' someday into something more intuitive).

The important part is: a Lagrangian is a function that encodes the relationship between all of objects in a physical model, in such a way that you can 'add terms' to the function to add new interactions in your model. That much, at least, is quite elegant, and it's kinda miraculous that such a thing exists at all.

For what it's worth, integration is really not that tricky. If I had to guess what really deterred you was the obsession with annoying proofs about dividing functions into little rectangles and summing them up and taking their limit. That stuff is totally unnecessary, imo.

It's easier to think of integration as the inverse of differentiation. If differentiation tells you how fast a function is changing, then differentiating your position gives your velocity. Integration is the opposite: integrating your velocity over a length of time tells you how the position changes. That's a pretty intuitive idea: if I told you the velocity vector for the whole duration of a road trip, you can probably figure out where I ended up, if I also tell you where I started. That's all integration is.
The Afroasiatic languages (including the Semitic languages) already had a grammatical distinction between masculine and feminine nouns many thousands of years before the animate gender has split into masculine and feminine genders in most Indo-European languages.

Because this distinction between masculine and feminine nouns is quite rare among the known language families, it is possible that the appearance of masculine and feminine genders in the Indo-European languages was influenced by the contact with the speakers of Semitic languages (e.g. Akkadian).

It is known that such an ancient linguistic contact has existed, because there are a number of very old reciprocal loanwords between the Indo-European languages and the Semitic languages, dating to about the same time.
My point is that regulation is necessary, but not sufficient. Saying "It complies with regulation" isn't enough to deflect criticism — compliant buildings can still have serious safety issues.
You have multiple paragraphs longer than mine in your history.
> smart contracts

This word to describe software settling monetary transactions is actually a bad choice and oversells what Ethereum actually can provide. A better term would be a financial vending machine.

On chain EVM transactions are essentially just stupid scripts that act according to the same simple, deterministic roles every time you put money into it. The end result is always either you gaining or losing money (but return some other form of “value” like a chocolate bar from a vending machine) by means of a transaction between two people that do not need to know i.e. “trust” each other.

While it certainly does not redefine civil law, a vending machine — if well designed — can enforce compliance with the law without requiring a middle man like a bank or a lawyer.

As every programmer can testify, however, even simple programs can exhibit fairly complex behavior and that’s often impossible to fully predict by static analysis alone.

Still „virtual financial vending machines“ (it’s not as catchy as “smart contracts”) have a huge potential to disrupt the banking and financial services sector.
While I'd also be curious of the same, I'd like to also point out that the relationship between grammatical gender and biological sex is often strenuous, even in languages where these exist and are nominally tied.

For example, in Romanian (a Romance language), the scientific words for 'penis' and 'vagina' are both neuter (which in Romanian means that they use masculine form for the singular, and feminine form for the plural). Conversely, the vulgar words for these are both feminine. The word for 'breast/breasts' is masculine.

Basically only words that specifically refer to people and mammals&birds are guaranteed to have a meaningful relationship between grammatical gender and male/female sex. Even here it is not entirely guaranteed, as the words for 'child' and 'baby' are both masculine, even though they are used for both male and female (or intersex) babies and children - though there are of course specific words for 'boy' and 'girl' and those do have the expected gender.

On the other hand, what is clear is that gendered languages with two genders have a huge problem with the idea of gender-neutral language, as it is simply impossible to refer to someone without implying a gender. For example, if I had a non-binary colleague and I wanted to say that they are smart, I have to choose between calling them 'deștept' (masculine) or 'deșteaptă' (feminine) - there is simply no other form of the word to use. Even if I were to artificially introduce a plural like with 'they/them' in English, I would have to choose between 'deștepți' (masculine) or 'deștepte' (feminine) - there is no getting away from this.
FAA Plans Warnings to Pilots, Airlines over New 5G Rollout
Who needs real windows in that ant city if one can have all the windows the one may want in the metaverse. The building is designed for maximum security, a Hogwarts North Korean style. In our future ant civilization the punishment will be not the physical isolation, it will be taking your Oculus away and disconnecting from the metaverse.
All a layman knows if that he should not die in his sleep because the building caved in, you can't expect a homeowner to debate you on the exact details of structural engineering.

However I can comment on the culture of negligence - and I think it's getting worse.

Of course in every job, there is constant pressure from management to cut corners, junior colleagues or peers that mess up, deadlines to meet. It is very easy to say to avoid inspecting troubled areas, to say 'I've done my job' and avoid headache. Often it is not in anyone's job description to police this. The 'client' is typically none the wiser, and when problems arise 10 years down the line, often they can't be traced to anyone personally. The fact that we've replaced entire careers with gig economy, and people stay in one job less and companies now invest less in training that ever in the past 40 years means that there is even less accountability and more opportunity for mistakes.

Cases of unpredictable 'something bad happened' are extremely rare. Soviet government was warned that reactors used in Chernobyl were dangerous, Tepco was warned that sea wall protecting Fukushima was inadequate, Robert Lund warned that Nasa should not launch Space Shuttle Challenger, residents of Grenfell Tower warned about fire safety before they burned alive, same goes goes for Bhopal disaster, subprime loans and 2008, 737 Max and every other major event. It is also extremely rare that the consequences of these decision ever catch up with the top brass. Hence we have culture of negligence.
The metaverse is gibberish for “chat apps”.
Of course they should be able to. I'm saying that the totality of the story (spending $30,000, which represents all of your money, when you're unemployed, to buy a vehicle in cash from a stranger who lives 1,000 miles away) is suspicious.
Is it currently different? A college degree in the US costs tens of thousands of dollars.

And years of your time. With an AI companion, you might have to pay $500/month but maybe you can start working right away. Skipping all those "learning" years.
This is a letter about governing; it's inherently political. People do tend to take offense when their decisions are being questioned, and Rich is being polite. Nothing wrong with that.
More from the '90s, but I recently discovered Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena and have been listening to them quite a lot.
So crazy and dangerous.

For some reason makes me think of the Demon Core accident(s), from the early days of bomb development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Yes, we are still early. patio11 is very aware of cryptocurrency, he has rejected it for as long as he has known about it.
SBCL 2.1.10
Formal Verification absolutely would have helped in this case. CreamFi abandoned the formal spec that Compound Finance used when they forked their code base. Had they maintained the spec and paid attention to the constraints that this spec imposes, the devs would have been aware that some of the tokens added to the platform would open them up to this attack. Had they maintained the standard, they would have been aware of this and could have notified the listing committee about this prior to the listing of these tokens. Doubly so because both currently and in the previous governance epoch the committee had members of the CreamFi team on it.

https://mudit.blog/cream-hack-analysis/.
I'm saying I think it might be the other way around. I'm thinking that maybe _because_ English lost it's gender system (due to the reasons you listed above) is why we see this "gender progressiveness" in our society. But I can only speak for the USA. I don't know if this same kind of gender progressiveness exists in other societies
The reason these false conspiracy theories spread is because many people distrust the motives of those in charge, now more than ever I think. Motives can't be observed scientifically of course but they're still there.

In a better world all rulers and experts would be well-motivated and seen to be well-motivated. In practice some of them do 'get with the program' neither because they are convinced of is correctness nor in a spirit of hand-rubbing glee, but out of mundane fear of losing the esteem of their peers.
> Free checking wasn’t free. Instead of most depositors paying a predictable (and relatively small) fee for their checking account, a tiny portion of the depositor base was assessed many, many $25-$35 fees stochastically based on how frequently their incomings and outgoings were temporarily mismatched

This is a really great point which had never occurred to me.

Free current accounts (as we call them in the UK) are the norm. We had - or still have? (I haven't kept up) obscene overdraft charges too. If my memory serves me right, people paying £10-40/mo in overdraft charges wasn't uncommon. I feel our situation is/was even worse because free accounts were the norm.

When paid accounts did get introduced, but they came bundled with things like extra interest, insurance etc, so you kind of broke even (not so much now).
Local commercial banks can have a similar experience to credit unions (at least until they get bought out).

FWIW "overdraft fees" and "overdraft protection fees" are two different things. If you do not sign up for "overdraft protection service", then when a check bounces, your account will generally get charged an "overdraft fee", and the person trying to deposit the check will generally get charged a similar fee for the checking having bounced. Hence businesses (that still take checks) having notices about passing their banks fee back to you if you write them a bad check. If you try to use your debit card, the card will be declined, since it is an online transaction.

If you do sign up for "overdraft protection service", then the bank will extend you a small line of credit. When a check would bounce, the bank will honor the check but charge you an "overdraft protection fee". This fee is usually the same amount as an "overdraft fee" would have been, but depositing the check will have been successful, saving the fee on the other side. However, I think that such services tend to also apply to debit card transactions, so if you swipe your card and overdraw your account, the transaction will go through but you'll get dinged with that fee.

Whether it benefits you to sign up for such a service will thus depend on your expected usage and the banks specific terms. Which back to the general point about banks attempting to create revenue by nickle and diming customers with an arbitrary fee structure - this is just another facet you need to know about to avoid them. I've never paid a monthly or punitive bank fee in my life, so I started off a bit skeptical of the article. But I've still had to deal with the existence of such fees, whether by double checking transactions, making sure to keep a minimum balance, or having to get management to remove erroneously assessed fees. The increased share of large online-only (or online-first) banks has created a good amount of competition that has driven the prevalence and dollar amount of such fees down.

FWIW last time I did a comparison of the large online banks, I saw that Capital One has an (optional) feature whereby if you overdraft your account, it's treated as a regular line of credit with a reasonable interest rate and no fees. This is probably the best option for someone concerned about regular overdrafts. The trade off is that their customer service sucks.
interersting. does mercury support bill pay? can you get a cashier's check? how long do deposited checks take to become available for withdrawal?