skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why you think some of these are essential to "make America great again"(as if you could actually reasonably quantify why it stopped being great).

- The wall will be built. It will need sensors. The IoT crowd needs to develop better sensors than the overpriced crappy ones from the last attempt in that direction.

My understanding is that the proposal is untenable for a variety of reasons, so we probably won't see "the wall", but maybe some additional walls in some places.

- Better detection of illegal aliens is necessary. One of the biggest source of illegal immigrants is visa overstayers. For those, pictures are available from when they entered the US. Social media must be searched for them. Surveillance cameras need to be connected to cloud systems which recognize them. Police cars need very high definition cameras and face recognition to find those people so they can be deported. Deep learning systems will be needed to decide if a likely face match is worth investigation. With good automation, people will only be hassled once. Then they're either known as legal or on their way to deportation.

How does this concept not terrify you? Why do we need to go further in this direction? It sounds rational as far as achieving the goal. But the implications of spurring this development are immense. I don't get why you would willing move towards such a pervasive police state.
This is what really bums me out.

I have a lot of issues with the rhetoric of Donald Trump, and of the Republican Party in general. This is not what I want to have our presidential elections be, and I feel now that the lesson is "Lying constantly, being rude and temperamental and petty, campaigning on vague and meaningless statements that nobody expects you to hold WORKS and can win you elections."

What happens in 2020, when Donald Trump runs for re-election? Is he going to temper his rhetoric and run a more moderate campaign that isn't based on falsehoods and insults, or is he going to double down on what's been established to work?

I feel like the state of political discourse in the country has been severely changed, and I definitely don't think it's for the better.
its also why he is married to an immigrant.
As a developer, I am not unhappy about the new MBP. I have a feeling that they are abandoning me. I can understand that they are focusing on making profit, but at least they should keep me/us informed of the mac future.

I want a desktop machine with modern GPU, at least 32gig ram. That I can upgrade if needed.

My hackintosh runs fine, but it is, well, a "hack"intosh.

And Apple should remember that their platform is very little with no third party developer.
And what are the repercussions if he does NOT achieve all these within the first 100 days? Will he step down? Come up with yet another plan? Contracts usually stipulate this as well.

[Edit: And the downvote brigade strikes - for merely asking a genuine question. I guess this is an indication of the sort of thing that we can expect 'top down' from now on... Stay silent, never question, just obey the mandates... sigh]

[Edit2: And now plenty of upvotes in support after my last edit, as well as useful replies - thank you for restoring my faith in democracy and the fact the people are willing to discuss and deliberate policies in a fair and rational manner.]
There is a "Star this repo" option for just this case.

But forking has its benefits if you want to make sure that the original repository does not disappear.
This happened during the Reagan administration. The money doesn't disappear, it just moves elsewhere.
While this bug is writing a lot of data, it doesn't mean it will actually use a lot of data at one time.

From other comments, it sounds like it is defragmenting a database file which is normally only a few hundred MB max. However, defragmenting this file means it essentially writes a duplicate of that file, switches over to the new file, and deletes the old one. So, it uses a lot of writes, but its writing the same couple hundred MB over and over again, with the total usage only being 2X the max size of the file, assuming no fragmentation. If there is a lot of fragmentation, that multiplier would be less than 2.
- Cancel UN climate payments, use money instead on America water and environmental issues. Sounds good to me. Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes.

- Yes. Too many regulations by unelected bureaucrats. Sounds good to me. I'd rather have one clear and meaningful regulation than two "up for random interpretation."

- Yes. Tax cuts for all working people. Let people decide what to do with their own money (spend, save, donate, etc.). The bigger the government, the smaller the individual.

- Massive immigration changes? Not really. The pamphlet seems to enforce existing laws regarding criminal illegals.
Not exactly. He's just saying he will reverse those Executive Orders which are considered unconstitutional by many (at least many of those who voted for him in my community).
Yeah especially the latest version of Slack - it helps if you remove any unnecessary teams.
Who knows how many outdated regulations are still on the books?

It seems the thing to do would be hire interns to start scouring for every "A married woman shall not chop down a birchwood tree on the day of her wedding while wearing her bridal gown" style law.

If this idea persisted for 50 years maybe they'd have to start repealing actual relevant regulations.
I feel what this guy's saying about camera makers' goofy workflows. I've done that myself -- gone out and shot a bunch of stuff on my DSLR and let it languish on the SD card for months because importing and editing the photos on my laptop was a bit of a pain.

Honestly though, now that I've plopped down the relatively small amount of money?

The SD-to-Lightning adapter for iOS gets me about 90% of the way there. Sure, I have to physically move the SD card from my DSLR to my phone, but whatever. At that point they get imported and as far as anything in iOS is concerned they're indistinguishable from photos I took with the phone itself.

(I'm reasonably certain this is more or less equally easy to do with Android given an OTG cable or internal SD slot but I don't know)

I'm not even sure I want my camera maker trying to be any smarter than that. Ideally, of course, the phone should be able to put photos onto my camera via wifi or BT. But I can freaking well guarantee that functionality will just rot at some point. It will be broken by some future OS update, or some other reason, and it's not a thing I expect I'd be able to count on in 12 months or 5 years.
> How is that considered feasible by any rational person?

It's something that sounds simple and good to someone who not only isn't aware of the details of what it would mean in practice, but also isn't aware of their own inability to understand the details and nuance, or that there are details and nuance. It was a Dunning-Kruger election.
Feeling the same way. I wonder, in a year, if this election outcome will be visible in suicide trends.
wouldn't this be easy to "rig"?
Executive actions are obviously not per se unconstitutional. The President is the CEO of the executive branch--many executive actions are simply him telling his subordinates what to do.
I have to say a big "I told you so" to everyone in the tech community who said Snowden was wrong to do what he did. As of January 20th the NSA works for Donald Trump.

If Trump actually makes a dent in the low-skill unemployment rates, it could actually fuck with the economics of on-demand economy companies, I think you're right about automation.
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USDS, in its current form, is probably toast. It was a special initiative of Obama and is housed directly within his executive office. To my knowledge it exists solely at the President's discretion. Trump is not a digital guy, and not likely to want to hold over Obama folks (and vice versa).

18F is housed within GSA and so is somewhat isolated from political interference. That said, private contractors don't like it and will seek to label it as a wasteful project (already started--there was an attack article on HN last week).

The U.S. federal government under Obama had started to take some small steps toward modern digital competency. My expectation for a Trump administration is a complete reversal of that. Who's going to champion technology? Trump?? Mike Pence? Giuliani? And how many young talented developers are going to want to take a pay cut to eat bureaucratic shit in DC for Donald Trump? The allure for USDS was Obama himself.
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Well I'm sure there's still a lot of opportunities to combine and simplify existing regulations. You wouldn't be able to do it forever but I don't think we'll run out this term.
Leave nafta? There doesn't seem to be a very thorough analysis on the effect of this.... You can't just make changes to economic policy and hope for the best - there are far and wide impacts to making changes like this.
That's not particularly surprising. If you're smart enough to implement and seed a distributed Merkle tree ledger you're smart enough to extrapolate the implications of indiscriminately offering yourself as an indefinitely persisted data feed.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The biggest obstacle that prevents humans from doing anything is their own culture. Resources can be found if there is a will.

Here is no different. Many people hate the very concept of public education, let alone throwing more money at it. And when people do agree that we should do it, they inevitably disagree on the hows and the whats.

The issue with scale isn't logistical or so... metric based. It is as simple (and insurmountable) as getting such a diverse population to agree at all.
If you're upset with the way things seem to be going with US politics, I would urge you to not flee and look for a software engineering job in another country, but rather look for domestic software jobs that will put your skills to good use.

Maybe this means civic tech organizations like Code for America that explicitly work on public sector projects. Maybe it means working for a political advocacy group like the EFF, or someone working on privacy-related projects to help protect our civil liberties. Either way, helping improve things domestically seems like a nobler option than running away.
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Really? Can you explain what this means then?

"All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered “extreme vetting""
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Judging by the comments I saw on Facebook and Twitter from Clinton supporters, that's a subtlety that got lost. They were in no particular hurry to clarify it was only half.
Yes, it's a problem. This is shoddy craftsmanship and shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

It simply doesn't matter that SSDs will be ok. It's being wasteful of system resources. Software should not waste system resources.
Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah, some people (well, particularly including myself) are on way too much of a hair-trigger. I also un-downvoted, for whatever little that's worth.
I suggested dropping a law for every new law on here a year or so back and it was surprisingly popular

Here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9740748
It seems most of his issues stem from the language and the FFI, not necessarily the TEA style 'library' (which he claims is 'great' at the start). There is a Haskell -> JS compiler and an OCaml -> JS compiler, as well as Bucklescript, which is another OCaml -> JS compiler but actually outputs very normal looking and readable JS, probably be better to use those.

Consequently I had many of the same complaints, though not quite to the extent or wording he does, so I made my own TEA-like library on Bucklescript/OCaml and ported many of the Elm examples to it, most were basic copy/pastes with the most minor of syntactical differences (`with` instead of `|` and so forth, basically Elm->OCaml differences), I have it up (with code link) at http://overminddl1.com/bucklescript/ if anyone is curious. Not production worthy by any stretch but I do clean it up and add more and more to it over time, already can do near all that Elm's libraries can do, in addition to some of the community libraries.

Continuing on the article, he basically re-implemented OCaml's Witness style (done via OCaml's modules), it was fascinating watching someone build it in Elm I must admit.

He does focus too much on typeclasses, the witnesses he wrote is the way OCaml does it (although with a bit less syntax, and much more an upcoming update), which is not a typeclass form, but something similar.

An aside, where he mentions 'If you don’t want to read the essay, SYTC essentially says “hey, why don’t we pass around an object that describes the implementation of the contract that we care about, rather than having the compiler infer it for us?”. If you’re familiar with Scala, this is how they implement typeclasses in terms of implicit parameters. If you’re not, SYTC is equivalent to passing around a vtable whenever you want to invoke code on a dynamic target.', that is just what OCaml is doing in a soon-coming version with its implicit modules. Definitely looking forward to that, even if they are just fluff. They are basically like Scala's implicit parameters but with type lookup based on module definitions, still explicit, but significantly reduces the code required to be written.
I don't avoid "debate" because I fear disagreement or attacks. I avoid "debate" because so often when I enter one, the person engaging with me immediately employs ad hominem attacks or strawmen or appeals to emotions or any number of other unconstructive argumentation techniques. I am tired of engaging people who cannot argue using logic or rationality. I avoid it because it will be tedius and draining and there is no hope against someone not using logic. (Obviously this whole statement is merely an anecdote, and I'm not trying to explain trends.)
We should just throw out any regulations that don't spark joy.
how does that hand over the keys?
Maybe, but it would also be a huge blow against the power of congress, which could only strengthen the executive. Without consistent leadership, congress would be even more feckless than ever.
Are you guys seeing 15" MBPs with discrete GPUs really get 10 hours of battery life? I've got one at home and one at work, and moderate usage manages to kill them both in 4 or so hours a lot. Big difference from the 13", which consistently lasts longer for me. That GPU likes to switch on, and that screen is a big hog too.
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Tax cuts for all means reducing government resources, which means increasing the power of huge corporations. This is a hostile takeover of the American government.
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Please don't say this:

'Can you work as a sw dev? I'm probably not as skilled as a professional dev. I would never be time-efficient as a professional.'

I have seen many fellow developers say things like this (impostor syndrome). Productivity as a code monkey is rarely relevant to jobs and probably not relevant to the jobs you want. You have worked in a variety of roles and have lots of life experience. This may make you many times more efficient in other essential parts of software engineering. Clear communication, problem solving, planning, understanding actual customer and business needs. The most efficient software engineers I have seen don't type [insert some huge number] lines of code a day, they ask good questions and fully understand the domain before the tackling a problem.

As for your problem finding a job, I would be working on creating a portfolio of code samples/projects in the field I wanted to work. Also I would make sure to tailor my resume depending on who I sent it to and what the job description lists.

One successful approach I have seen is contacting companies you want to work for (works best on smaller companies) and trying to talk to someone before giving them a resume. This can be accomplished at meetups or cold calling/emailing :shudder:. When you talk to them you identify what real problems they are facing. Then tailor the resume to those specific problems (or even throwing in a case-study of how you would approach and solve them).
I did not flag this, but I often flag general political stuff because you can read and talk about that anywhere.

I believe HN is at its best on technical topics or topics directly related to technical merit (for example, encryption backdoor policy fight).
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But you didn't extend the zone of safe and free society; if anything, you reduced it. And it's not like you can claim it was an unforeseen consequence: Russia told you explicitly that they would "take military and other steps along its borders if ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia join NATO" [1], an then they proceeded to do just that in Georgia [2].

So you poked the bear without having any way to contain it, and you shouldn't be surprised that people blame you for it having razed the village.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-nato-steps-idUSL114...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
These sentiments come from an extremely-well-organized, but minority faction of the party. If these were majority sentiments, then legislation pushing those sentiments would have progressed far faster than they have.

Back in the 60's, the evangelicals started to learn the ropes of party machinery, primarily crystallizing around the abortion single-issue. During the 70's, they started to take up positions throughout the party and attempt to dominate it, but the Rockefeller Republicans trounced them. To their credit, they licked their wounds, learned their lessons, and kept coming back spoiling for another fight. In the 80's they consolidated their power. Today in the largest state Republican party, they absolutely control all the chokepoints of power, they vote virtually in lock-step, but they don't have the numbers to completely dictate policy and seed their own hand-picked and -groomed candidates at the national level. The parliamentarian is an evangelical, most times the convention chairman is either evangelical or strongly allied to them, and key committee chairmen who have a lot of control over which party members participate in the committees and advance to the next convention level are evangelicals. Your level of participation in the party is contingent upon passing one or more litmus test(s): for certain key levels, you are interviewed to state your positions on their hot button topics (abortion is a favorite).

While small in numbers, they carry a huge stick, and they're utterly ruthless political knife fighters, as many Ron Paul supporters found out. They're very tightly coordinated and highly prepared: as an example, they come to district and state conventions prepared with earbud FRS radios so they can confer upon split-second decisions on the floor. While they don't quite have the numbers to be the party unto itself, they dominate the voting plans of the congregations that send them to the party, so they make a formidable voting bloc.

The end result is they can exert enough pressure to force the Republican party to adopt objectively terrible policy planks (no-abortion-no-exception even in medically-dire situations where both mother and fetus can die, really?), that then don't make it into national legislation. But just like before, they keep trying, learning, and adapting.
Zeroing out my memory does cause them to page in faster after all
I think the ACA also introduced the out-of-pocket limits.
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Really: "With the Brexit, many Euro companies near to defaulting"? Didn't know this was a fact already? Besides, most "Euro companies" are not located in the UK and I doubt the effects of the Brexit is only contained to or affects Euro companies.

I would argue that many countries in Europe is better for living (family time, vacations, work-hours, gender equality, free education, healthcare, freedom of own body (abortion)...) and have been for some time.
However, I suppose that depends on who you are and where you come from (and whether you care about/agree with any of these things I list) - home is home after all. Also Europe is not one country: Spain is different (not worse - different) from Sweden (but then again: New York is different from Rockport, Texas too).

There seems to be less VC money in Europe, but maybe that's where we're going either way. Again, some places are better (Geneva, Switzerland VS <Small-City>, Greece) off than others (just like Silicon Valley is better than many, but maybe not all (?), places in the US). But, I'll give you that.

Who's to say it's not going to change though? As you pointed out: Brexit had a huge effect. To me this election feels like a much bigger deal.

Anxious to see how the market in general reacts when Trump either: a) does what he said he'd do (wall, nato, ...) or b) fails to do what he said he'd do. Let's hope it's only me who's anxious though. If not, I suspect there will be a negative reaction in the market: anxiety = uncertainty = risk after all.

In any case: the chance of this happening (market reacting negatively) combined with the effects of it (economically, jobs) >> the chance of Russia invading "Europe" (which I assume is what you're alluding to) combined with the, albeit devastating, effects on the lives of the people living there.

I'm don't even feel like going to the US on vacation anymore before somebody figures how to fix the police violence, the guns, the endless suing and the racially biased incarceration. Being afraid of the people around you, has a crippling effect on my life quality. And I don't seeing it becoming better under Trump. I'm willing to admit I am particular in my views here though.

My point here is that: you might be missing out if you truly believe that the US is an absolute better place than Europe. In some aspects, I'll be surprised if you didn't feel that it was the opposite.
or for ballooning the size and complexity of each regulation, as each new regulation has to fold into itself two existing regulations that need to be removed for the sake of this plan.
Based on your repeated (spammy, IMO) posts, it's apparently not obvious to you the proper way to show off a product around here.

Perhaps you'd gradually pick up on it if you spent some time participating on HN. Since you're clearly here just to post links to your website, however, I'll just consider your posts as spam and flag them.
Maybe I just don't understand how light touch government works, but wouldn't removing two regulations per new regulation help special interest groups in a lot of cases?
A lot of what's in there seems pretty reasonable, but:

1) The whole border wall thing is just ridiculous. I thought he had given up on that. Why would Mexico have to pay for that? If the US wants to build a wall, fine, build it and pay for it. It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it.

2) The FDA thing is scary. Regulations and processes are there for a reason. I'll be very wary if this goes through and I ever have to take any medication that's not established in the market.
> It seems the thing to do would be higher interns to start scouring for every "A married woman shall not chop down a birchwood tree on the day of her wedding while wearing her bridal gown" style law.

Sure, but how many of those exist at a federal level? Those are often city, county and sometimes state regulations.
Do you directly pay for your roads? Do you care how much it cost?
Are you telling me starve the beast doesn't actually work?

Color me shocked. : )