skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people just don't understand how all this works behind the scenes. It works by 'handy wavey magic' and the messages just arrive.

In their minds, they did email their brother, and the weird guy who replied is wrong. It might be possible, with enough investment of time, to help them understand how/why it went wrong, but as nicolas_t experienced, it is sometimes easier just to block them and move on.

I was lucky, I was a Hotmail early adopter and I regularly receive emails for two namesakes. I was able to figure out their correct email addresses over the years and they are both tech savvy enough to understand the issue. I forward on messages when they come through, and I actually met up with one of them at a house party he was invited to.

When I forwarded the invitation, he suggested coming along as well and I figured why the hell not. It was a fun ice breaker in a room full of strangers.
How? What leverage does Netflix have that would convince their ISP to give them free bandwidth?

It seems like if Netflix were unable to upload the video to their customers, that would be pretty detrimental to their business.
No click to confirm, Venmo has to mail YOU to ask for binding arbitration by certified mail, asking YOU with a SASE to confirm by certified mail back. Then it would be consent.
Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
You might find Guy Shrubsole's book, Who Owns England?, an interesting read. It deals with land ownership, so not directly with freehold v leasehold for householders, but it contains some startling statistics.

There's a decent review of the book (from 2019) here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/28/who-owns-engla...
Python types just work. Just use these 30 libraries, spice up your IDE with settings and voila /s.

This is garbage and moving backwards as a programmer. I loved python when it was easy to use with any editor and with few plugins. Now I'm just going to switch to a statically typed language where I don't have to install a zillion plugins to get first class typing.
Me thinks its a joke. But one has to wonder what why they block addresses with a specific name, did a lazy developer take a shortcut and use it to indicate admin rights? Testing/QA mode? Triggering extra logging?
Recently I ran out of mobile data, and using my phone providers app, I couldn’t buy any additional data, because I had no data left to connect to them.

There are definitely circumstances where it makes sense to give users free access to data, just like how it makes sense that you can call toll free numbers.

The opportunity for abuse is probably large enough to warrant that we can’t have nice things.
I've had good results from answering spam calls, following the prompt to get a human to "resolve this matter with the IRS" or talk to "Visa and Mastercard customer service" and just screaming into the phone when they come on the line.

Seems to get me on a "don't call this number" list after a few goes.
There is no conclusive and objective evidence that static typing helps at all. Studies are at best inconclusive, certainly a far cry from confirming the superiority of static typing. Everything else is subjective. To have a recent and complete opinion about the one thing you necessarily need to have less of a recent and complete experience with another.

The benefits of masks against spreading respiratory viruses are easily and objectively proven. Completely different thing.
At this point for me it’s less about the weight loss benefit and more about my body’s inability to effectively use the insulin. I’m not opposed to a plant based diet, but for me, the additional carbs would create extraneous insulin dependency. Most grains for me are just not doable at all…and every vegan/vegetarian I know seem to rely on grains as a main staple of their diet.
I could be both... ;)
I understand what you're saying, but it's worth noting the M1 definition changed in 2020 to "recognize savings deposits as a type of transaction account".

> This change means that savings deposits have had a similar regulatory definition and the same liquidity characteristics as the transaction accounts reported as "Other checkable deposits" on the H.6 statistical release since the change to Regulation D. Consequently, today's H.6 statistical release combines release items "Savings deposits" and "Other checkable deposits" retroactively back to May 2020 and includes the resulting sum, reported as "Other liquid deposits," in the M1 monetary aggregate. This action increases the M1 monetary aggregate significantly while leaving the M2 monetary aggregate unchanged.

M2: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
I think commercial operations like Huel and similar supplements will definitely be thought of like that. It just seems crazy, having watched the evolution of "scientific" diet advice over the past 70 years, to now think it's plausible that industrially-produced protein drinks are a suitable food substitute.
Said who? You speak as a newagey vegan utopia believer. I wonder how some assertion like yours has ever been proven by anyone.
Depends how you measure it. Any X kg/lbs of matter here on earth is still that same X kg/lbs everywhere in the universe. Assuming the scale being used to weight is correctly calibrated to whatever planet it's in, it would still show up as the same amount of kg/lbs.
> If you recall people were getting pretty bent about him not having such a thing, as a zillionaire.

Some people, a minority, from a particular political bend. the overwhelming majority of americans don’t consider his finances at all
The gluten in wheat causes leaky gut syndrome which lets other substances go into the blood stream for which people may have an auto immune disease.
But that's my point: the dominance of a C monoculture has relegated alternatives to being "awkward and academic".

When you're in a C straightjacket it's hard to take advantages of other architectures like transputer, connection machine, or cell. Ever run bsd unix on a Cray? It was dog slow because the CPU assumed very deep pipelining and always had to continually resynchronize because of the frequent branches in the C code.

GPGPU is the sole recent exception, and even then it's still at the margins. And we have CUDA which is an attempt to, yes, get back to the C model.

These modern CPUs benchmark pretty well, but in practice little code can really take advantage. For example the M1 is a multicore screamer, yet most apps are still restricted to a single one.
There isn't a consumer ISP anywhere that doesn't oversubscribe bandwidth. It makes zero sense to give a residential connection dedicated bandwidth.
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Expanding global payouts with crypto
Feels like there are parallels to the big corporation vs. small business discussions that pop up every time labor abuse is discussed here.
Yeah good point. My concern was that leaving it on my teeth all night would erode the teeth somehow. However, it looks like they did a study about that concern:

https://www.listerineprofessional.co.uk/safety-profile/pH
After you unsubscribe to about 10 different mailing lists it stops coming.
Just curious, for what you really use this bandwidth?

- I now see, 100mbit for one person is enough, I very rare see it is limiting factor (few times per month I doubt), but I can't imagine how I will utilize gigabit :)
In theory :)
Tips for building contextual help in web applications
Why do you request push notification permission? I can think of no useful use cases for push notifications in your app.
Also you should open links in an external browser on iOS rather than using the safari view controller, or at least provide the option to; switching apps is easy, a user interaction doing something you don't want is annoying.
If you have programmed extensively in Pascal, assembly and C, you aren't "one of those scientific programmers". Or at least not the newer generation that got started on R, Python and maybe SAS...
I think my business is simpler and more permeable than Quantopian for the regular retail investor. Also, Quantopian let algorithmic trading dev's publish their algo's for a percentage of the income in return. I would love to include such a feature in the near future but for now it's just too risky for me to let anyone publish an algorithm without the correct KYC. Also i think Quantopian's business model, however complex and well thought, was flawed.
There's no winning.

You build highways and they screech about cutting up neighborhoods.

You don't and they screech about the resulting sprawl as development becomes more diffuse.

My pet favorite solution is more park & ride transition points on the outskirts and light rail in the dense areas but the cognitive dissonance it takes to argue that raised highways and highway pits cut through neighborhoods but not let out a peep when it's subway and tram lines doing the same should disqualify one from voting.

As much as I hate the NIMBYs for insisting on violating other people's property rights you at least have to give them +1 for consistency.

Looking back with hindsight we'd probably be better off if we had just built all the urban highways and rail lines (and other transit infrastructure projects) that have been seriously considered over the years.
Those already exist and have been used by many.

Coalton is a set of macros to make it easier for to write with the safety rails of static typing.

Now if I write in Swift, for example, static typing is great, because the IDE can give a lot of hints during development. Non lisp languages have quite idiosyncratic syntaxes for various constructs, so static typing really does help a lot there. In large code bases in those languages it also helps a lot because they do not have the power of Lisp macros to reduce syntactical complexity via a Domain Specific Language.

Now with Common Lisp, with a powerful generic functions and object system, with runtime dispatch and introspection that far exceeds other languages, plus with the abstraction power of macros, trying to add static typing guard rails simply doesn’t make any sense. I rather program in TypeScript if I am so far removed from the core essence of CL development.

Each language has its strengths and the dynamic nature of CL is one of its biggest strengths (with the lack of a GUI and interop with other tools being its largest deficiencies today). Static typing in Lisp is like trying to fit a square plug in a round hole. If somebody wants so much guard rails, other languages are much more suitable because they have been designed (quite successfully if I may add) in that way.

TLDR; As per On Lisp by PG, lisp code should be built in layers over each other and hence static typing is unnecessary. Furthermore generic dispatch provides similar features to some extent (although i recommend combining with closer mop and catching edge cases etc)
That's wild.
Twitter System Architecture
I hope the growing interest (probably driven also from the crazy $$$ that prop shops are paying) in algo-trading will lower the barrier of entry.

Another interesting platform which grows on similar concepts is Composer: https://www.composer.trade

A big missing piece in OP's project is a backtesting - I think that a very important part of testing your strategy is trying it on real-world data.
Alibaba will also share your phone number with sellers, its super creepy to be messaging someone on there and suddenly get a get a call about the conversation.
>they were hoping to make it into a life raft for when the cable companies collapsed

interesting point. maybe there was some benefit to building the cnn+ infrastructure prior to their merger, and they did it because they figure they'll need it eventually
I never went Mac until getting an M1, albeit I did it on the laptop side. Couldn't care less it came with macOS, itd be really awesome if it didnt have to but I'm also used to paying for Windows any times I havent needed it so it wasnt a new experience. It's really just that the hardware is both extremely capable and extremely quiet. Now I can run native Linux on it.
If you spend a lot of time scrutinizing g++ output (which thankfully I haven't had to do in over 20 years) you'll see that the impact is negligible and that was true when Raymond made that statement. As you point out there's a lot the compiler can do to make the common path really fast.

But OK, it could potentially be nonzero. Let's say epsilon cost instead.
If I pay you to bring me a package from <somewhere else>, all is well. If 10 other people pay you to bring them packages from <somewhere else>, all is well. If 100 want to pay you to bring them packages from <somewhere else> and you suddenly don't have enough manpower to deliver those packages... do you suddenly start charging <somewhere else> because they have too many people that want packages? No, because that would be ridiculous.
The average program does not.

Right -- the average system does not. But that doesn't mean that every system does not. That's all I'm saying.
Increasing bandwidth in the last mile is not cheap at all.
It's always been on one Microsoft domain or another, for almost as long as there've been blogs at all. It's almost 20 years ago now, but when Blogs started their initial ascendency as a useful format, Microsoft had a a number of developers start writing publicly facing personal blogs. Raymond Chen was one of that group, also including Michael Kaplan, Eric Lippert and Larry Osterman, among others.

As far as I know, The Old New Thing is the only blog from that wave that's still being written - and it's been written every weekday for essentially that entire time. To give an idea of the scope of the work, he did a compilation of posts in book form sixteen years ago, and it was over 500 pages long.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YWCL5W/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

I don't read it daily anymore (hasn't been relevant to my work or professional interests for ten years or more), but I do read it occasionally and continue to be both impressed and grateful for the effort he's put into the blog.
Great article. Very nicely written.

In partial "defense" of the "autocorrelation" article, the author was in fact arguing against their own perceived definition of DK, not what most people consider to be DK. They just didn't realise it.

Which is an all too common thing to begin with. (that particular article pulled the same stunt with the definition of the word 'autocorrelation', after all).
Interesting. I might suggest a (optional) section in the profile with sizes, since many of the gifts are clothing.
Good luck in your journey.

Sounds like you know yourself well - which is a great start. I believe in you.
And I forgot to mention something - my productivity and my team's productivity have soared! I don't know why everybody else on my team is so much more productive but I know why I am: I play my guitar while thinking through something. For some reason playing music leads to insights I otherwise wouldn't have had. I keep my guitar within arm's reach of my desk and pick it up and play for a couple minutes every so often throughout the day. Try doing that at the office!

Oh wait, one guy tried. One of our best developers brought his guitar to the office because he said it helped him think. He did what I'm now doing (he was my inspiration actually!) and was soon asked to leave his guitar at home. They didn't give two shits what it did to help his productivity. No one on the team complained either because they always wore headphones. Seems as though a busybody walking by the team space thought somebody playing guitar at work wasn't "professional." All management said was they had received "complaints."

Yeah, screw that.
> Have you considered the possibility that you're merely sensitive to certain types of food

Possibly, I’d l just be nowhere near narrowing it down.

The only reason I suspect IBD is the occasional formation of painful mouth ulcers which I hear are common in Chron’s disease. It was the only thing I could find that left sores exactly like that in the area on the inside of my lip in front of the teeth.
It's far more reckless to tell people to do something specific because they supposedly have a very specific disease because it is very easy to misdiagnose symptoms.

There are so many symptoms that could either be something harmless (that can be fixed with a diverse non specific diet) or be cancer. If you spend too much time on medical websites trying to self diagnose you are at some point going to convince yourself that you have the worst disease of all the potential options.
I think this is a great idea, but in my experience there are surprisingly few such experts available. In practice, most statisticians not doing active methods research (I'm thinking of 'trial statisticians' mostly here, in CTU's) just cargo cult whatever procedures previous trials used. I guess they would pick up issues around sample size, but without also integrating that with some substantive knowledge about plausible effect sizes I'm not sure what value they would have.

Plus, it would reduce the number of publishable papers quite substantially including from high profile authors/groups, so I don't think they want the fight. We should also remember that most journal editors are also involved in publishing this research — they often have no real incentives to make things awkward.
If and only if you build the system around those cars. If there is no free parking and a parking lot is taxed like it is productive land, then parking is expensive.

Cars are convenient because we have made the tax system cater to them. It makes for terrible cities for everyone not in a car at the moment.
i guess i am in the wrong business
Indeed. At least for now, this is the law in the UK as well... EU directives have to be implemented into national law by member states, and this one is old enough that the UK actually implemented it.

Now that the UK left the EU, and given the "conservative" (i.e. neo-con, market-liberal) government, I wonder if the UK laws concerning this kind of consumer protection will get watered down (or already have been).
> a year-long subscription at a discount — 10 months for the price of 12, for instance

That doesn't sound like very good deal to me, I'd prefer 12 months for the price of 10 or pay as you go for minutes/hours of actually watched content. Though Netflix has so much trash it's not really worth paying for. Had it for many months and hardly watched anything there.
> make things possible, often just to run it once

This is the largest difference. When there's no expectation of code lasting beyond a very short lifespan, why go through the effort to future proof things, improve maintainability, have better ergonomics, etc?
Pods were trialled between the West Cambridge site and the P&R and were proposed to offer 24 hour service, but the main Cambridge Autonomous Metro proposal was for units that could seat over 100 people. But the new mayor likes buses.
Maybe regulators should look into that? Common practices or not, it’s nothing short of fraudulent to sell something you know you can’t provide.
We should really just do (and certainly publish) less research.
Talking about carrots for motorists is just privilege bias.

I have no idea what that means. However if we ever want to achieve more than talking in this area then we need to be realistic. And the reality is that lots of people rely on private cars every day in this country, and they collectively have enough money and political influence that you aren't going to change that behaviour at scale with a hostile strategy. You certainly aren't going to do it with arguments based on some kind of righteous indignation and words like "privilege".

We have to get into the virtuous circle where fewer cars begets more active transport and public transport which begets fewer cars.

That would be great. And if there is one thing we have learned about transport planning in the last fifty years it is that the cycle is not going to be started on the "fewer cars" side. You can criticise as much as you like, that is obviously your prerogative, but I prefer to explore policies that have a greater than zero chance of actually working.

All non-toll roads are loss making, let's not pretend that cars are free.

The UK government has consistently received 3-4x as much revenue from direct motoring taxes as government of all levels spends on direct motoring services for many years. This is why they are so worried about the loss of much of that revenue with the rise of electric vehicles. And if you want to include externalities in the costs of cars then you also have to include indirect benefits and again you might not like the answer if environmental concerns are your priority.

It is interesting that you picked Cambridge as your example because it is an excellent example of what I am talking about here. For years the local authorities have been increasingly car-hostile and despite the unusually high prevalence of bikes in the city the council have always been heavily in favour of relying on buses to solve the congestion and pollution problems. They have been trying that for a very long time and it has never worked. But still every few months someone puts up the parking fees again or adds more restrictions on where you can drive or park or proposes this year's variation of congestion charging. Meanwhile cycling provision is still substandard and the city centre is still dying.
It did, there is just a resurgence of entrepreneurial hipsters trying to bring back hardware stuff like they're trying to bring back vinyl.

I really have a few questions: how good do the analog channels sound? How good is the filter? Is it better than a Prophet 5?
That's exactly the difference this article is driving at!
Because we’re not special enough (though apparently it’s just that every academic talk in France identifies something called a “double movement”).
The single account requirement is problematic until Github makes it possible to grant personal access tokens which don't give access to all of your repos, including across multiple organizations.
Got to say my employer has a shitty attitude towards this. Even if contributing fixes to components that we use as part of defects.

I still do it. I have a separate non work github account and I just scp myself the diff and PR it from my personal account in the evening. Fuck 'em.
When using stock as collateral for a loan, it's not uncommon to get a loan for 30% of the value of the stock. Certainly not 100%.

In this case, MS has offered him a loan for 20% of the value of his stock.
A reading journal named BookBrain!
https://github.com/ben-n93/BookBrain
> Once you are ok with driving, and very many people are, it is the most comfortable and individualized means of transport. So realistically, on one hand of course public transport must be good, but on the other hand it does not matter as much. People will still use cars whenever possible. You have to make it difficult, expensive and uncomfortable.

I think you're missing one really key factor, and that is time. If the traffic is sufficiently bad, even an easy cheap comfortable car journey stops looking attractive, because it is slow.

UK example: I've had the "pleasure" of driving right across central London; my start point was within sight of London City Airport, my destination was Heathrow Airport. The shortest route is more or less a staight-line journey of about 25 miles. You would be crazy to attempt to use that route that during working hours. It is often faster to head straight out of London, and drive a long looping route, a total of ~60 miles in length. It will save you at least 20 minutes driving time.

European example: a couple of months ago I was in the Austrian border town of Kufstein and needed to get to Innsbruck. I hopped on a Railjet train, which made the journey in 35 minutes with very few stops (only one, IIRC). By car it would have taken at best 60 minutes, assuming no major traffic issues. Motorway speeds are limited to 100km/h in that part of Austria in an attempt to reduce air pollution.[0]

[0] https://www.tirol.gv.at/en/environment/vehicle-prohibitions-...