jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So, uh, what are you actually after? Just use Scala if that's what you want. If you can't be bothered to manage memory in rust, then it seems hard to believe that native compilation makes a difference for you.

Is it all just about the hype? Write code, ship products.
But, you can also possibly habitually change a few things in your initial coding syntax that produces less computational effort to begin with....

I thought it was a good article.
Both, also. From a technology perspective, I think a lot of people are greatly underestimating the gap between autonomous vehicles operating under relatively controlled conditions with a human available to take over control within a modest period of time and the general case. I.e., it's easy for me to imagine autonomous cars being possible for highway driving in good weather in the relatively near term. But, unfortunately, I suspect robo-taxis are decades away.

And regulations will be slow to change as well, especially to the degree that autonomous vehicles are seen as toys for rich people. One of the issues will be that, even if they really are statistically safer overall than human-driven cars, they will tend to fail in ways that are different. And you can be sure that those different failures will be highly publicized.
Here are a few:

1. I'm on a few "mailing lists" that are delivered via WhatsApp, like "weekly one-minute sermon" type stuff.

2. I have a friends that are all into the same kind of music but don't know each other. I use broadcast to send them links to bandcamp, spotify, etc.

3. I have a broadcast list for my local friends. If I want to get rid of something or looking for something ("hey I'm getting rid of this, do you want it" [photo]) I use that list.
It depends what you call working. Nvidia proprietary driver has a broken wayland implementation (a choice that nvidia made), whereas nouveau has a working one.
Better pick AMD or even Intel GPUs on Linux as drivers are much better.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749542.
http://archive.is/iIrqR
These articles (and a lot of what g. marcus writes) are attacking strawmen. I ve never heard no one claiming that NNs will invent new theories and i dont think that 2008 article is widely read. But, for things that are hard both computationally and theoretically, like protein folding, NNs may really be revolutionizing the field even if we don't know how they do it. Scientists do not buy-in foolishly into every AI hype. The problems lie with VCs and funding bodies, which are indeed swayed by adding "AI" to every kind of proposal. That's a separate problem, though
I'm surprised that FB after all these years hasn't offered something as simple as a paid upgrade for removing ads and maybe better photo storage or something.

Maybe that lack of long-term feature is endemic to the capitalist system/environment, because decade-long growth usually isn't allowed to sacrifice short-term growth. I couldn't imagine a private company like Valve Software making the same decisions.
I've already flagged lph's comment smearing vorpalhex but I see it as so egregious I'm also going to list the HN guidelines that I see it as breaching:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle
Exactly. The very reason for existence of the two companies, pdl and oxy, is to tie n pieces of data with m pieces of data.

So depending on how the "anonymous" phone number was used, it's plausible that the number can be connected with other PII.

In fact I wonder if there is any such thing as non-PII, given the existence of such companies.
Yes, it seems like email with capability to interact with SMS and a few other things.
Not often I find a C project that can compile to JS via emscripten without too much work.

http://i.imgur.com/XMZE04i.png

If it takes off for game engines then it could be used for scripting canvas/webgl games too.
How about a self-respecting dev using a md-to-html blog implementation?
> I'm amazed that the investors doubled down on such a poor end user experience

Sunk cost fallacy.
We developed highly accurate instruments that measure incredibly small and large things. Yet all of our scientific progress is biased, because we have evolved in a very specific environment that we handle well. Virtually all of our scientific measurements had been done in a relatively small time frame[1] and on one very specific planet with certain conditions [2].

I think it is way to early to call universe unnatural. Sure there is a chance that it might be true, but we are not going to find out until we have way more data. For one there is so much in cosmology that we cannot explain yet, such as dark matter and accelerating expansion.

[1] Last 250 years or so.

[2] Gravity, magnetic field, stable trajectory around the sun (sun's gravity is more or less unchanging)... I do know there are variations and experiments in microgravity, but all high-energy particle acceleration experiments had been done in relatively same conditions.
Great work! Love the well-documented source. Will definitely look through it and try out the language.

I have used Swift quite a lot in 2014, and loved the way to do ranges. But it's the complete opposite of Wren:

1...8 includes BOTH 1 and 8. Wren would not include 8.

Is this an error in the documentation, or the actual design of the language?

In the beta of Swift, 1..8 was not including 8. But I really like a change in the final version where it instead is done using 1..<8

It makes it much easier to discern between the two;

1...8
1..8

vs.

1...8
1..<8
> I hear it from her and her female engineering friends a lot.

Well, the two variables your subjects have in common is being engineers as well as being female. Personally (being a male engineer), I'd say being a bad negotiator has just as much to do with being an engineer as being a woman (except if women engineers are even worse negotiators than I am).
I think I might have missed what I meant to say. Can we be sure that is wasn't a self-limited condition that resolved at he same time as the dietary changes, but not because of them? That kind of thing happens a lot. People get over strep throat without penicillin, after all.
Dang, that's frustrating. That's exactly what I was hoping against, having any for of hivemind or clique.
No problem - I think you will really be able to do anything you like, 3 years or not. If you are really set on learning Arc I know you will do fine. Since you aren't looking for a job or anything, and I guess just want to learn in you spare time, Arc should be completely O.K to learn.
Having a premium product could also mean that the open-source version grows faster.

Having stable revenue means the ability to spend 100% of the time working on the project (instead of it being a side project), and hire more full-time employees. It is possible that as a result both the pro and open-source versions improve faster than in an only-volunteer open-source project.
What makes this different to the keyboards with the exact same feature set that are established for years and years already (Filco, DAS, happyhack...)?
In as well. Hope I don't get something like SOAP::WSDL :)
How expensive would that be? Plenty of people already wear headphones to shows. I bet some of them would love to have a high-quality audio souvenir, replicating exactly what they heard.
People don't get to make the choice themselves now. They are forced to see the advertising, whether they want to or not.

Removing the advertising would, in fact, give them back choice they currently lack.
While there are some changes every year, if you batch by LTS, the change window has shifted from 10 years down to 3. And I think it's a reasonable choice.
>As the maintainer of Excalidraw, I now sleep much better at night. If the hosting service gets compromised, it doesn’t really matter as none of the content can be decrypted without the key.

Seems the maintainer maded the point of protecting himself more than anything.
Recently we've added support to curate the Rust programming remote jobs at Remote Leaf[1]. We've seen a some surge in the Rust remote jobs in the recent months. Maybe because it's being accepted by a wide variety of developers and also hiring companies started using it?

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com
What's the point of pulling Ars Technica's name through the mud for something one of its reporters did outside of working for Ars? Seems unnecessary unless Ars made a stink about vetting its people and claiming the most perfect reporters... this guy is gross and did a sick thing and is being punished let's not take down a good publisher with it
Shoes and clothes are essential if you happen to need new ones during a prolonged pandemic (eg you find that your toddler has outgrown his existing shoes). When you turn off the shopping spigot long enough, things just crop up that you have never thought to be essential before.
Indeed, my point exactly.

Many weren't as noble (or identify with organisations that weren't as noble) as they would like to believe.

That's the fable bit.
They're already buying corporate bonds: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file...
"the pedestrianization of data science techniques"

This is the most condescending phrase I've read in a long time.

Otherwise the article had some good points, but that attitude really ruins it for me.
It could be, but I own it and the roadmap.

The key thing that I can do is await on players decision, so I can block the entire process for multiple people to do things.
Rainforest Automation device, see below.

Am I happy with it? Good question. I dropped RRTP last summer so I'm not as involved with it anymore. It doesn't really tell me much that I don't know, I suppose.
I bought my first DigitalOcean VPS for $5/month in high school. The same one is still running today, around 4 years later. One of the best investments I've ever made, allowing me to self-host a ton of my side projects, Discord bots, and anything else I might want.

I've barely used half of my storage and my CPU/RAM is consistently sitting at 30-40% usage. Incredibly affordable for students like me. Plus, their interaction with students is fantastic (they throw free credits at us all the time).
That's a terrible comparison.
They explained this sort of situation in the article.. She would just mark 7am to 9am as no parking for EVERY thursday. She erred on the side of telling you not to park.
> It's like these bootcamps are just popping up to give out Web dev jobs to people that have never programmed before ... It gives the impression that any "monkey can be a software engineer."

I'm an instructor at MakerSquare who is intimately involved with our admissions process. We don't believe that "any monkey can be a software engineer." We believe that anyone who has spent time teaching themselves the basics can be taught to be a productive junior developer.

We have not accepted applicants with zero programming experience for some time now. We made that change for several reasons but the main one was that we wanted to be able to start with more advanced topics. Starting with more advanced topics means ending with more advanced topics. Ultimately, that means that our students will be better prepared for the job market.
Would you care to elaborate on this further?

The number of people who disagree with GamerGate, who are willing to deeply go into their reasons why, is very very tiny in my experience. Usually all you get is "gamergate is about harassing women", a link to an instance where trolls have done precisely that, and nothing further. Absolutely nothing to directly rebut the constant refrain that most people in the movement are there to crap on female developers.

If you have some deeper insights, I'd love for you to share them here. I find GG to be unfairly maligned - and given the fact that they've picked a fight with primarily huge, monied interests with mass media connections, I can see why. It doesn't even need to rise to the level of massive conspiracy.
Sounds interesting, look forward to seeing it.
> Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone.

That's amazing - the market kicking back in full force and putting a giant back in its place. In other markets/regions this would just pass.

Do you have a source? I tried some googling but my English keywords seem to have no power ;)
Any alternatives to suggest?
The relevant part in those cites is "public places" - previously it was illegal to record police even standing on the sidewalk. Technically a news crew doing "man on the street" interviews would have been required to stop if an officer showed up.

The scenario we're covering here is for police inside your house, which I'm pretty sure wouldn't be considered public.
> I think the big part is affluence full stop.

I don't know about that. Most luxury spending I see goes towards huge brands (fashion labels, air travel, etc.), whereas necessities can go to small businesses.

I'd probably never buy my clothes at a random boutique, but I might pick up a lightbulb at the corner hardware store.
Is there a single man on the list of highest paid fashion models? http://www.forbes.com/models/

What exactly is your point?
Hmm. It's a bit suspicious that communism/socialism isn't part of the argument here.

Seems pretty obvious to me that in a free market, doctors would always be highly paid as they take years to train and everyone, rich or poor, needs them. But in a non-free market where they can't demand their true price, who would want to be a doctor? I'd expect that is a much bigger factor towards it being low status than the fact that it's female dominated.
That was to get a base ground truth to establish that there was something to consider, and that I'm not babbling nonsense. If you have better numbers, I would be glad to see them. It's well known that housing sizes are going up in the US, and one of the associated terms is 'McMansion'. But name-calling like that makes for boring, go-nowhere threads.

The average residential size per capita in the UK is about 1/2 of the US. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house . That Independent (and other sources) go on to point out that the UK has "the smallest properties in Europe following the end of national guidelines in 1980", see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rabbithutch-b... . See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14916580 if you want another news source.

While you attribute UK's 77sq.m/person to the "welfare state", the Dutch and Danish welfare states have 115 and 137 sq.m/person. (UK has 255 people/sq.km, the Netherlands 409, and Denmark 128, so it's not a simple matter of density which causes the difference.)

In Sweden, where I live, there's been a huge increase in the amount of space per person. In the 1940s, it was considered spacious for two parents and three children to live in a flat with a kitchen and 2 or 3 other rooms. (See http://poseidon.goteborg.se/sv/Sok-ledigt/Bostadsomraden/San... , "Trots sitt syfte är de flesta lägenheterna tvåor eller treor, vilket räknades som en rymlig bostad för en trebarnsfamilj på den tiden.")

So I don't understand your objection. You have no counter-evidence, you bring up the UK which has the worst history in this regard, and what information I can find does not back your statement that something as broad as "the welfare state" can be the issue for the UK.
Id like to know how many developers buying macs is actually due to it being a must for iPhone development? i must be very uncool or may be i just dont "get it" if I prefer to save good 500-1000 bucks buying a dell (with ubuntu) that is a good 20% more powerful than the latest MBP...
The headset made me wince a bit, bit I got one anyway.
I'm also a w3m/vim guy so I appreciate what you feel.

Guess what. Tim and I just decided to open up the registration. Screw the invitation thing. Let's see what's going to happen.
apparently nothing good happened this year. bummer.
I don't follow anyone's posts, but I've seen your name on lucid comments. Thanks for the find!
There's also a good interview about the strikes on Democracy Now with prisoner advocate Elaine Brown.

“Repression Breeds Resistance”

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/14/prisoner_advocate_ela...
I repurpose the capslock with autohotkey on start up. I accidentally hit it too often on my laptop. Funny thing is that I'm typing this on a Maylong and it is even quirkier with caps than the iPad.
There are many ways to interpret that statement. One interpretation would go towards that a judge may specify involuntary servitude (eg. community service) as punishment, and another would say that involuntary servitude is implied by the prison sentence.

I'm sure the prisoners take the former interpretation that involuntary servitude was not specified as punishment and thus is unconstitutional.

Also, the 13th amendment absolutely bans slavery, so if you can construe characteristics of ownership then you could make it unconstitutional. Georgia also has a history of abusing the law to keep slavery in all but name going which would negatively impact the states' case in a non-southern court, and would make a good case as to the intent of Georgian legislation being to revive slavery. I mean when they're trying to put the Confederate flag back on their flag it gives a person pause as to the intent of not paying their labor.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85078,00.html

This is why most states pay their employees in prison a pittance rather than absolutely nothing. It avoids the issue entirely and makes it one of labor law.

Re-education through labor, not just for communists anymore!
That's great too. Text detection + character recognition + 3d position estimation + translation, each one of the problems is difficult but state-of-art method usually works quite well. The combination, however, is super hard for a small team because each one of them requires special knowledge in that particular manner. To pick and choose which one to focus on and can still get awesome result is a rare skill.
You mean the Mafia that has been heavily targeted by the FBI in the papst 20 years? I can't speak on biker gangs, but the mafia is under a very watchful eye.
> pollution data is similarly manipulated

Even the satellite measurements NASA shoots? I'd sincerely like to see the tech behind that coverup!
My summary of the example from the article:

If you want to know if someone has learned the material from a course, have them take a test. The test result is a lagging indicator that shows what has happened.

If you want to know if someone will learn the material, compare their study habits with the study habits of proven good students. Their study habits are a leading indicator that shows what is likely to happen.
The real problem here is a technical one: Apple needs to be more vigorous about refusing to register app names to other vendors that are too similar to existing names. That would solve 80% of this.

I came up with an app name and registered it successfully. Before publishing the app, I discovered that there was an app in the store with the exact name I registered.

I contacted Apple for clarification of their policy and practice of excluding the use of existing names. They directed me to contact their legal department, but I had no reason to do so; the other app was first--my name had to change. I only wanted to know how it was technically possible that they allowed the registration.

I contacted the other developer and compared notes. He confirmed that we had both been assigned the exact same name despite Apple's documentation indicating that this was impossible. We both wondered what would happen if I published my app, but, of course, I registered a new name instead of risking harm to either business.

That said, if your IP is so easily copied that you are very vulnerable to this kind of thing, it may be an indication that you are picking the low-hanging fruit and that you need to step up your game a bit. Ideas are a dime a dozen, as are good names. If your algorithm and its implementation are very good, you will be much harder to catch.
"Manley was twice divorced. He had no children, no nieces or nephews. His parents had both died: his mother in 2002, then his father in 2007. He had one sister and one brother and neither lived nearby or visited much.

"Almost all of the recent photographs of him on his website appeared to be 'selfies.'

[...]

"He ate one meal a day, sometimes nothing at all, and had 'consistently inconsistent' sleep habits. At one point, he experimented with staying awake 36 hours at a time, then sleeping for 12.

"He had a collection of 25 fedora hats, boasted about wearing the same pair of $12 Wal-Mart shoes for 12 years and played a monthly game of dollar poker that welcomed obscure variations of the game with names like 'Three Turds' and 'No Peak.'

"He had a collection of more than 1,000 movies on VHS tape, along with a computer database that would sort them by title, rating, year and genre. (He had his own rating system for them, too. He only handed out 21 perfect '10' scores over the years and his absolute favorite film was the 1986 adaptation of 'Little Shop of Horrors.'"

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/tech/web/martin-manley-suicide...
Wrote a thread about a different perspective of the Fed. I want to gently suggest that your concept of what the Fed is, is not correct. It’s complex, and a very unique government/private entity, but it certainly is explicitly not supposed to respond to any sort of political influence.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elamje/status/1242129602040008704
> rather than going into debt, would it be possible for the government to just... suspend the activation of financial covenants generally for a while?

That's completely unfair to one side of the transaction.

Here's an example:

Let's say that in 2010, I bought a million in bonds from various sources.

Let's say that in 2010, you sold me some bonds.

Let's say that your proposal goes through, and the government just declares that contracts will not be enforced.

That would completely punish ME at YOUR benefit.
Yes, that was the plan.

To force nato into the most costly trades possible, early on.

They wanted to force nato to field their heaviest military assets to the frontlines at the time when nuclear rockets will be flying left and right.

And they would attack over very wide fronts for the first few days, before they concentrate their forces, thus concealing their breakthrough trajectory until the most costly trades are done.
Ethiopia vs Eritrea, or some of the other African wars come to mind as peer-vs-peer competitions.

Maybe India vs China in the 60s.
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