skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly my favorite quote from Meditations (the Martin Hammond translation):

"... you would never say of him that he 'broke out a sweat': but everything was allotted its own time and thought, as by a man of leisure—his way was unhurried, organized, vigorous, consistent in all".

Here, Aurelius is referring to his adoptive father, Antoninus Pius, who was known as one of the good Roman emperors and undoubtedly a very busy man.
Forgive my ignorance here, but isn't it simply better for the economy to have low rather than high unemployment? And since a recession is basically "the economy is doing bad" doesn't that mean that the unemployment argument is: "it may be doing bad, but not /that/ bad". And then the discussion is if the economy is doing bad enough to call it a recession, people point to low unemployment and say: no.
Do you think traditional engineering culture is not an academic one?
It's hard to continue this conversation in good faith without pointing out that you literally have no idea what you're talking about. You don't know what HFT firms or what market making actually is, yet you don't mind throwing out outrageous accusations of fraud and illegal activities with zero evidence to back it up.

Your entire argument is "I don't know what they do, and they make money in finance, so they must be doing it illegally." The burden is on you to provide evidence to back up your claim. That's how things work. I could claim that HN user rgifford is the Zodiac Killer, and my evidence is "I don't know him but if you rearrange some subset of the letters of words he's typed in the past, they spell out 'I am the Zodiac Killer'". Whether you realize it or not, your reasoning is that specious at best.

> The market for consumer electronics hasn't fundamentally threatened the stability of the US government every decade for the past 5 decades.

Nothing HFT has ever done has come within even 0.000001% to threatening the stability of the US government. Period.

> Renaissance Technologies Medallion fund may as well be an insider trading scheme for all the public can tell.

Again, claims require evidence. You need to provide that evidence. But more importantly, the fact that you compare RenTech's Medallion Fund to HFT again demonstrates your complete ignorance on the topic. The Medallion Fund isn't powered by high frequency trading. It started decades before HFT ever existed.

> Do HFTs issue or purchase billions of dollars of debt with the express goal of market liquidity? No? So why do you use the term "providing liquidity?" You know "providing liquidity" isn't the same thing as "frenetically purchasing and selling derivatives," right?

You don't know what providing liquidity means. When you place an order to buy or sell 100 shares of MSFT in the market, who is taking the other side of your order? The vast majority of the time, it's an HFT firm.

> If these funds didn't exist, I've seen no compelling evidence markets would so much as hiccup.

I'm sure if you took all of the grease out of your car engine, it would continue to operate without a hiccup.

> I've seen plenty of compelling evidence that much of financial services in this country are a net drain on its productive capacity.

Another false comparison. HFT is not a standard "financial service" that is provided to consumers.

> We'll have to agree to disagree [...] Time will tell!

Flat earthers also ignore reality and disagree, but that doesn't make their perspective equally as valid as those who look at pictures of the earth and conclude it's spherical. Time has already told us, but whether or not you want to look at facts or educate yourself on even the basics of what you think you're talking about is a different question.

Almost every sentence you said in your post contained some flat out false or wrong statements. Your unfounded arrogance is matched only by your ignorance on this topic. You have not made a single concrete or factual point about how HFT might be fraudulent, yet you seem to hold this worldview with the same conviction that the sun rises in the east.
Not only for nordic skiing. In the Alps, for touring and slopes, the conditions are also very volatile. You have these heat waves in the middle of the winter which are making the snowpack very unstable. One day the conditions are good, the day after you are not sure anymore.

For touring, you basically need to relearn all the heuristics (especially with respect to the safety of the snow) you developed over the years. This is not comfortable.
It seems a bit odd to me to credit Total Commander but not a single one of Midnight Commander, Windows Commander, EF Commander, WinNC, PC Commander, SpeedCommander, XCommander, XTree, YTree, ZTree, or the venerable Norton Commander.

It even still uses the same hotkeys as Norton Commander. Still, it supports Total Commander's plugins in case someone is using those, it's LGPL, it looks like a decent example of a useable Free Pascal application to dive into contributing against, it's cross-platform (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS), and it builds against gtk2, qt4, or qt5. Overall it looks like a nice project. It could probably use a commit in the About page for a first contribution to the project noting a little more history of its lineage.
Yes, we have a conservative party and a criminal party. We don't have a true progressive party. We are in the period of the cycle where political parties shift. As the Democratic-Republican party, Federalist party, Whig, Copperheads, Bull Moose, Know-Nothing, and others all got relegated to the dust bin of history, it is time for the political grounds to shift again.
Precurses? They make and market new analogs to pass importation on Alibaba (though they don't pass the Analog act so don't get any ideas it's legal).
Yeah some of the really cheap vinyl windows just fall apart. Should be illegal to manufacture such badly designed things that just end up as waste in a couple years.

That's the problem with a lot of housing today - so many corners have been cut and things have been so optimized that we are left with badly constructed dwellings where everything will have to be replaced within 20 years. Old houses are great because they were completely overbuilt and used materials that we can't really get today like old growth wood which will last hundreds of years if maintained. Of course, a lot of these homes are full of bad things too like leaded paint and asbestos, but we can abate all that if needed.

But yeah, you look at old windows and it's crazy how they built these things to last. Mortis and tennon joints in the rails and stiles, muntins that are joined, etc. With a little TLC they are pretty easy to restore and make good as new and as efficient as a modern window.
The biggest problems with terminals are:
- some terminals support escape sequences that can do bad stuff (like when you accidentaly 'cat' a binary file
- keyboard support is severly limited, especially regarding the Esc key and the modifiers.
> 3. Let the commenters tell you everything you did wrong and what they would have done instead

The Codeless Code : The Purple Beggar - http://thecodelesscode.com/case/170

> ...

> The monk opened his laptop. “Five separate posters have each called me a blithering idiot and offered a simple solution to my problem, which they claim to have tested on their own systems.”

> Yishi-Shing nodded. “My walk once took me past a beggar whose sign read, You do not DARE throw coins at ME! His body was purple with bruises but his bowl was always full.”
There's nothing preventing it, but it would be a big hassle to scan the pages with the exercises and print them. Also young kids tend to lose everything. If they have to bring the book and the correct pages it's a recipe for disaster.

Anyway I didn't do it; but I actively looked, every year, for used books and couldn't find any, which means not many people did it either.
When I try to frame a cost estimate for breaking a password I try to do it in terms of how many Bitcoin could be mined by a similar method. I figure, if a hacker could mine a couple billion dollars in bitcoin instead of my password then that's fine, they will probably make the obvious choice and go for the bitcoin instead of my social media accounts. A government or corporation may want something more along the lines of $100 trillion but that's just a couple more characters.

However, I do like BCrypt.
Tencent?
that's why FluidNC is so great: https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC
Designed specifically for teh ESP32, it's a ground-up rewrite of grbl for ESP32. I've replaced all my various firmwares across devices (not my printers- those run prusa firmware) I build or use (microscopes, CNCs, various stages).

I still like the idea of a microcontroller doing the low-level work mostly controlled by a higher level microprocessor/SBC but it seems unnecessary?
> outsource the problem to some vendor

At least that way you can be certain of failure.
No, they just think publishers only deserve to get paid for copies, not licenses.

In the Old Days we had a legal doctrine of copyright exhaustion, whereby once a copyright holder had made a copy and sold it, they had to point to some further act of copying in order to claim infringement. This meant that copyright owners got paid and the public, generally, didn't have to worry about copyright any further.

Then the computers and Internet came. Devices whose only interaction with information is to copy it. Publishers realized that they could defraud the public of their First Sale rights in two steps:

1. Get the courts to believe that every interaction between a computer and a copyrighted work is infringement[0]

2. Stick "licensed-and-not-sold" language on everything they possibly could

There is a direct through-line between the time when copyright was an obscure regulation on publishing houses to today's "you will own nothing and be happy" rhetoric. NFTs are just another manifestation of that: they purport to emulate physical property by letting us sell and resell dangling pointers to a work, as some kind of exercise in mixing the harms of DRM[1] and financialization into one particularly toxic soup. That's why the games industry jumped on them so damned quickly, and why the textbook publishers want in on that next.

[0] See MAI Systems Corp v. Peak Computer, a 9th Circuit ruling so nutty that it argues that dynamic RAM is a fixed medium and any software that isn't execute-in-place cannot be run without a licensing agreement

[1] Yes I know NFTs do not have DRM in and of themselves, "right click, save as" is a meme. Getting DRM into the system is phase two.
Go with the first option, since you have skills in C++. Flutter is well documented and a lot of hand-holding. If you find that you don't like that Wt backend after some time, you can rewrite it with the second option. By then you are familiar with Flutter and probably will only have to do some minor modifications. GraphQL is good for when you want to arbitrarily query/populate data on separate screens for example, where you need a subset och merge with other data. Since it is a side-project and you write the backend yourself, you might not need that, because you can edit that code in REST on your own or just make a new endpoint. A big strong point for GraphQL is that it removes the communication and development friction between frontend and backend engineers.
Ditto all the Pine items.
Could one possibility be that their business goes through the formality of a PIP first then at the first sign of a problem lets them go? I've seen some companies do this to reduce risk of lawsuit though I am not a lawyer and do not know how that works in every state/country or if HR departments may be at times guilty of cargo-culting.
Looking at the design, I believe they should also be able to generate electricity from the setup. They have salty water with an insulated spacer to retain heat on the evaporation layer to make it more effective in removing water. This in turn is creating a saltier layer of water that diffuses into the lower layer via holes in the spacer. That means there is a salinity gradient between the top most layer and the bottom layer which should have an electric potential. Neat.
The EU isn't balkanized, lol. It's just another lame attempt at federal overreach.

Alas you are right, we're all tied together- until we're not :)
I’ll undelete any good answer you link to here.
These days I have one IRC channel and one matrix channel with friends and people whose opinion I trust although I've never worked with them. I guess to be blunt you'd call it this "networking" thing, but in this case it's a network (haha) of people who've been in tech for 10-20 years as well and it's good enough to bounce abstract (or semi-concrete) ideas off, when your current team either has no experience or you deliberately want some external opinion. Not helpful as in easily reproducible, I guess.
My dad was a professor and thought leader in his space (Occupational Therapy). He's long dead so I don't think he's going to have any problems with me disclosing this...

My childhood was spent with him complaining about pressure from his academic publisher to release "new editions". OT programs around the world would update the syllabus to call for the latest edition even though my dad (the guy writing the book) thought it was ridiculous that he had to essentially re-hash and re-word the same material over and over again. Looking back on it he was really dismayed and demotivated by the whole thing but he understood that's just how things are.

According to his Wikipedia page he wrote at least seven editions of his two main works... Academic publishing long-ago addressed the secondary market issue.

In terms of the blockchain aspect of this - generally anyone who thinks these existing institutions (up to and including governments) are just going to sit on their hands and forgo revenue "because blockchain" they're not living in reality. If anything (as we see here) blockchain is going to be used to as another tool to boost their revenue (assuming it ever gets any real traction anyway).
If people can stop thinking about themselves and instead focus on humanity across time as a whole, should we end the ice age or keep our ski resorts? Remember me, me, me, and you live in the holocene.
> Like most AI research, the training set and the biases and assumptions it contains are the real challenge.

That seems like an insurmountable problem. AI obfuscates those assumptions and risks deeply ingraining them/causing stagnation. If there isn’t some kind of distributed human mechanism actively involved in not just generating data, but also in choosing the relevancy and the modeling, it seems like many of these AI applications will be actively worse than human centered systems that can address and evolve the model/data collection based on those biases/assumptions on the fly.

AI seems like something that should only be used when the success criteria are super clear/close to incontrovertible.
I get the message, and I strongly disagree with it, as someone who hasn't achieved stability yet.

When you don't have a stable career, or work for long hours for low pay with family to take care of, you wish you had this life. The message can also be taken in a bad way by young people, who then neglect to develop useful skills early on, and ultimately struggle hard to find work. There is so much messaging against good choices in life, that people overlook why they are good choices anyways. I'd rather be at least middle class with the money and freedom to change my circumstances, than struggling with little freedom due to lack of resources.

I don't deny that this is a work of art, and one crafted well, but I just disagree with the sentiment.
The "uniparty" at work. Am I really supposed to believe that the NBER is non-partisan? If Trump were still president every news outlet would be screaming recession by now, and if you denied it you'd be ridiculed for "disagreeing with experts". We are completely surrounded by political propagandists disguised as impartial institutions. Dislike Trump all you want, but you can still call a spade a spade.
I think is just providing some basic information and providing his opinion. For example, he clarifies that the NBER waits on average 7 months to declare a recession,and is essentially a retrospective assessment. However, it has never failed to declare a recession after two quarters GDP loss since WWII
Hello HN, I am Orfeas, the Technical Lead of Adadot. Just to add to what the rest of the team has already mentioned, we've tried to create a tool that can help ourselves and others track and better manage our working habits to avoid burning out and reinforcing patterns that keeps us productive while also keeping us mentally healthy. This is especially important today, where we're seeing a rapidly changing working environment with the increase in the adoption of work from home and flexible work schemas and the changes that come along with them.

Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts in the comments below, and please don't hesitate to ask me and the rest of the team any questions you might have!
The porpoising is apparently because the more expensive higher speed wind tunnel analysis is banned.

Engineering needs engineering,. Physics does not. The interesting thing about aero in physics is the emergence of extremely complicated phenomena, not the equations as per se.
We're especially excited for this release because we discovered a decade old inconsistency with Go's notation of ASCII/UTF-8 that's now fixed in Go 1.19.

A demonstration of the issue: https://go.dev/play/p/R9dm6uYZSas?v=goprev
which fails in 1.18 but passes in 1.19.

A little background of the issue:

1. Go uses UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 is a superset 7 bit, 128 code point ASCII. (Two UTF-8 creators, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, are also two of Go's creators.)
2. All UTF-8 points over byte 128 must be encoded as two bytes. All code points 128 and below are encoded as a single byte.
3. Single byte code points between 129 and 256 are valid in Go, but not as UTF-8.
4. Go uses different notations to make the distinction between 129+ code points that are two bytes and 1-256 code points that are a single byte, notably the code points in the 129-256 range. Go represents single byte code points with the \x notation, "\xXX", and multi-byte code points with the \u notation, \uXXXX. All ASCII and single byte 129-256 codes should always be represented with "\x" notation.

The core of the issue is that Go was printing code point 128, \x7F, as \u007f. As previously said, the "\u" notation is reserved for valid UTF-8 points past the ASCII range, which are always encoded as a minimum of two bytes. \x7F is a valid single byte code point in the ASCII range and should not be printed in the "\u" notation.

We discussed this issue on an old thread, and Rob filed a Github issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52062, and it was fixed within hours.

So the following line in the release note is us!

>Quote and related functions now quote the rune U+007F as \x7f, not \u007f, for consistency with other ASCII values.

How did we find this? We're fans of arbitrary base conversion (https://convert.zamicol.com) and we discovered this issue while checking our work in our Go libraries. If encoded as two bytes, base conversion would be less useful.

Thanks Go team!
This is great, it feels like it's one of the better frameworks that is actually trying to improve the way we write terminal UIs.

Seems like Textualize is coming at it from the right angle, abstract as much as you can away such that a widget is something self contained and your UIs are actually composable à la web frameworks like React or Vue.

Declarative UIs are the future. Now... When will someone make a Go port...
No other company wastes nearly as much money on AWS routinely than Capital One. Entire Kubernetes clusters for microservices that do essentially nothing.
I’ve given TikTok a try four or five times now and for some reason it just doesn’t click with me. It’s not that I’m immune to this stuff because I really enjoy Instagram and I read HN fairly regularly. It seems that I’m somebody the TikTok algorithm doesn’t know how to serve.

I did see a few interesting videos, but nothing very compelling. How many dog videos or welding videos does one person need to see?

Instagram, on the other hand, is super sticky for me because I know the people I follow and it’s wonderful to see a photo of them and message back and forth once in a while.
The difference is parsimony
I meant that solely as a joke. I can kind of buy that someday systems can replicate themselves. But I don't see that on any near horizon; such that I agree with you on this.
Housing and urban centers in general are a comparatively small part of society's water budget. Agriculture beats it by 4:1, and most agricultural use is very poorly optimized (water has historically been mostly free).

It's sort of hilarious, but I think the libertarian answer here is the right one for California: remove zoning restrictions on housing to put as many people in the Bay Area as want to be there, and remove all the public subsidies and infrastructure spending in the central valley to force agriculture to pay true market rates for the scant water available.
Thanks! I see a lot of people complaining about Workspace, so this sounds like the way to go.
Over 7 months after it was fixed? Why not disclose immediately after?
Yeah this is it!
Where were you a month ago when I was stripping a dozen of these things?!

But seriously, I’m glad someone likes the job. The glazing is fun for me. Scraping a hundred years of paint off of molding with every possible radius… not so much.
What a mess this comments section is.

Something to keep in mind is that many of the folks who read hn are in tech. You're less likely to feel the immediate effects of a recession (job loss, inflation) than folks who are in other, lower demand and job security, fields.

It doesnt FEEL like a recession to me but neither did 2008. That was a problem other people were having.
> Under Windows, I used Total Commander.

I would recommend Far for Windows users. Much more like the original Norton Commander.

https://www.farmanager.com/
This reminds of Doron Zeilberger's statement that "real" analysis is just a degenerate case of discrete analysis [0].

[0]:
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/...
Now instead of supporting 3 browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) you now have to support 5 different terminals.

Though it's probably easier to fully support a different terminal.

Interesting trade offs.
I'm so excited about textual!

I started working on a TUI application over Christmas that used it but put it on the back burner until the css branch gets merged.
Nope, no AI, no NLP. Being so in love with that stuff is why everything is so disappointing now. I’d like a pure speech to text mode where I must get the syntax correct, or the system rejects the command. Eg I must say “set a four minute timer”, not “timer for four minutes”.
Capitalism brought hundreds of millions out of abject poverty in the last thirty years. It has real consequences. The poor in the US have better living standards than half the planet and every opportunity to better except their own cultures holding them back. The left refuses to acknowledge or deal with this, creating generational poverty. What's not to blame is "capitalism".