skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point, I believe, isn't a need for a "big vision" specifically, nor is it about "top down planning" (or any other specific solution). The message that Curtis is trying to express is that nobody knows how to run the modern world. Technology and the globalization it enabled made traditional theories of government obsolete, and some people are starting to notice just how out-of-control our ship of state has become.

A revolution can be a nice first step, but it's a waste of time if you don't know the specifics of how everything should run the day after the revolution is finished. You like bottom-up designs. That's great; so how, specifically, do we implement that? Just like how programming needs actual code (not just a plan to use a bottom-up design), managing society also needs specifics. It's easy to point out the serious problems with the current government, but that's isn't going to fix anything unless someone also includes actual specifics about what the fixed system should look like.
Reminder to never bring up motorcycle topics of discussion to people who don't ride.

There's jargon and terms that cagers just don't get. (Example)
Checked against where I live and it's surprisingly accurate, even on very micro level down to a couple streets.
Yeah, I think that ASTs are only a special case of computational graphs.
I understand and I can even agree to some extent, but this leaves developers in the dust.

I long for a world in which someone can make a living out of open source work, similarly to those making a living out of games, mobile apps, youtube videos etc, without having to either work at a company or creating extremely restrictively-licensed software.
A mutt could still be the offspring of two pure bred dogs and have inherited genetic problems from both.
The title of this article is not the same as the original, which is "H.R.482 - Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017" and concerns "The final rule of the Department of Housing and Urban Development entitled 'Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing'".

The current title is click-bait.
Exactly... Now, that alone could make it tricky to get a factor 60 difference.
I'm really not. Foot binding is similarly debilitating to the squished snout. It wasn't possible to choose an example that was literally the same because human's don't breed themselves for deformities.

If anything, now that we can test, many people take steps to make sure their children don't end up with debilitating traits. Having back issues when you are 60 isn't even remotely in the same league as the back issues these dogs end up with.
Same. I don't buy it, but I pay for both Spotify and Apple Music.

But I will not get the same from Netflix. I have to get Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. just to get back to what I actually want. I am not saying Spotify has absolutely everything, but it is so close to everything I don't have to worry too much. I don't even pay for Apple music because they have different content, I only do that because it works better in my car and spotify works better with Echo.
I have mused on occasion about the consequences if, given a world in which the only dog breed was a kind of domesticated wild dog bred for nothing in particular, someone created dog breeds such as we recognise today and presented them to the world.

I reckon that person would get lynched. We put up with an awful lot of things just because that's how they were when we got here.
6 Reasons for Bureaucracy
I feel like a lot of people miss this point. The technology has existed for years although clearly the cost to implement a touch screen console has also plummeted.Even accounting for that most self-service checkouts are just a tilled turned around.

I wonder how much of this is super markets jumping on to the fact people are conflating automation with using a machine and assuming self-service checkouts are proof of a technological revolution. At the end of the day the same amount of work is being done at the till as if a cashier was working but it is now being done for free and a company won't miss a chance to capitalise on an opportunity like that.
Bad writers don't follow the rules. Good writers follow all the rules. Great writers know which rules to break when, and why, and have good reasons for doing so.
Have you tried re-writing the Java version again with a modern version of Java, and with other lessons learned? Just curious.

That said, cool set of experiments, and IMO a great way to learn new languages.
at the prices of bitcoin right now, about every day I wonder if it's the day to cash out. While I see these changes are to stop money laundering, I wonder what percentage of the bitcoin worth is from it being used for money laundering.
My experience is that non-mathematicians like to have GED on their coffee tables as a conversation piece. The related book that mathematicians like is https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Experience-Phillip-J-Dav.... (High school math is enough to enjoy it, but the more math you have, the more you'll get out it. All of the way up to the PhD level.)
Very little sysadmin needed if you go with a managed dedicated server provider. They pretty much take care of most of that for you. A little more expensive than a non-managed dedicated server but oftentimes still much cheaper than the cloud. Plus, you can't really completely get away from sysadmin when working with the cloud either. You actually get a lot less support than you do with a managed dedicated server provider.

Note: I heavily use AWS and managed dedicated servers.
Many prioritize protecting their data, eliminating the possibility of using the cloud. This is usually a business use case though rather than personal.
We had a cocker when I was in college that, at about age 8, became aggressive toward my mom and brother, biting them both on the neck hard enough to draw blood. Obviously we had to euthanize him. The vet told us that the tan-colored cocker spaniels were especially prone to problems, as their light color was a result of very close breeding.
Or just take your audience into account and use language that will be commonly understood or take the time to explain terms that might cause difficulty.
'Dog' is also an insult, and for that matter so is 'bitch' (n.b. for non-English-speakers: 'bitch' is the English word for a female dog).

I don't think that there's anything wrong with calling things by their proper names.
Functional programming can be represented as a graph, where calls are directed edges. Flow control is often analyzed in graph form in real compilers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow_graph
I appreciate it. If a vegan made that point it would be instantly viewed as self-righteous and ignored. Source: I make that point a lot.
Well the problem was that of identity. The bank assumed that a namesake was the same person, rather than relying on a more unique identifier.
This drives me INSANE.

I'd rather let it buffer for 10 min, then watch it in 360p because you guys can't figure out your buffering. The same goes for netflix!
That's one of the reasons I like Australian Cattle dogs. They are still mutty enough that there aren't a whole lot of genetic issues in the breed.

Of course, they are also very smart, tough, low-maintenance, and tend to live for a very long time. Some are a little over-active, but mine will happily lay in her bed all day and sleep, as long as she gets a good walk in the morning.
Not giving the source code forces you to write a better documentation though. In an ideal world, both would be available but personally I prefer a good documentation rather than source code diving.
I too had this, forcing the site to load also shows a number of page errors too.

*Edit: checking the site on my phone now and it seems to load, pretty poorly designed site though IMO, unbalanced layout but at least it loads now.
Archlinux made the switch in 2010 [1], and this PEP was created in 2011.
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/
I imagine the thing to do would be to sell healthy dogs for $1500 (make sure lots of people say they are worth $1500).
I would rephrase this. The concern as an apartment dweller is less one of size, and more one of energy. I have a Bernese Mountain Dog (currently 110lbs/50kg) he's a great apartment dog, because he's low energy. Other residents in the building have much smaller dogs that pose a real challenge because the energy level doesn't match the space available
Me too. Corporate Proxy sometimes acts up though.
Right. "Not just" means something similar to "not only" and both are different than "not".
Yeah I kinda wondered if the article author messed something up. :-)

Probably your dad was doing C on the Amiga. C on the C64 wasn't really a thing. Nor was C++ on the Amiga, really.
Ok I will take the bait - breathing, especially over the course of lets say ~45 minute run should definitely have some relation to the part of anatomy the article was talking about (specifically, the vets are claiming that the smashed nose shape makes it harder for them to breath, in relation to other dog breeds). Surely being able to breathe correctly is necessary to run for 45-50 minutes continuously? What I am claiming, with my anecdote, is that maybe exercise can help alleviate problems related to being out-of-breath (certainly it does for people!) Based on my anecdote, one might suspect that the vets conclusions do not hold true for 'all' pugs. Maybe their argument is statistical, based on an analysis of a large number of pugs. Personally, I have seen many more out-of-shape pugs than in-shape pugs. On the other hand, maybe they are specifically arguing against very inbred variations, in which case, they are making a point against very in bred variations, and not pugs in general.
Can you ballpark today's price tag for such a setup? There seem to be several pricing tiers floating around in this discussion and I'd appreciate the chance to see how your setup fits in without having to shop for it.
> C'mon now. Sumerian tablets are documents, we're not talking about ticket stubs.

Oh, I know. I was just making reference to the fact that something like the Epic of Gilgamesh might be on several tablets.
Natural Language Processing with Stanford CoreNLP
On the other hand, by the time anyone starting just now learn enough ML to be dangerous, the price of the $10,000 hardware would drop to $5,000 or less, so starting with the cheapest yet decent option seems a better approach...
Um, what?! Where did you find that?

https://www.freebsd.org/where.html 11-RELEASE and 12-CURRENT snapshots are still being published for i386!
one possibility: to promote alternative facts.
We aren't apes or monkeys.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/phylogeny/taxonomy/humans...
Not sure how much it is top down planning, and how much it is someone that can stake out some point on the proverbial horizon and hold the rest of the group on course towards it, all while they are doing their individual tasks etc.

Think of it like the Kennedy speech about going to the moon with in a certain date. That sets the point on the horizon to steer towards by declaring a vision. Then it is up to the larger group to figure out just how to get there while faced with various obstacles etc en-route.

A good captain declares the course, but trust his crew to get them there without him micromanaging every detail.
Last week everybody was shocked that they're going to spend $400mm/yr with Google... Now the total cloud bill is up to $600mm/yr! I can't wrap my head around these numbers.
No, it's a plain English description of what the bill actually does.
Congressional bill titles are anti-click-bait. "Nothing to see here." This title says what the bill actually does.

How is the original title preferable?
Off topic: I've been in the market for a new laptop that runs Linux, I've never had a PC that ran Linux (closest thing was a Macbook running MacOS, I'm also discounting my work laptop that allows me to VNC into SuSe). After doing some research it seemed like Arch Linux might be a good fit, it seems like a very minimal OS that allows for great customization. However I'm unsure how user friendly it would be for someone who has never installed a Linux distro.

Can anyone comment about their experiences with moving to Arch and the learning curve?
We were a parse user for (many) apps, and tried to run parse server briefly before just letting all the features built on it die.

I think one of the major instabilities not mentioned the request fanout. On startup the parse ios client code could fan out to upwards of 10 requests, generally all individual pieces of installation data. Your global rate limit was 30 by default. Even barely used apps would get constantly throttled.

It was even worse running ParseServer, since on Mongodb those 10 writes per user end up as a sitting in a collection write queue blocking reads until everything is processed. It was easier to kill the entire feature set it was based on.

I know there were a ton of other issues but I've forced myself to forget them.
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That's why fastmail is such a breath of fresh air. It has lots of features and is wicked fast.
Fireflies and Hummingbirds (short sci-fi story about drones)
I suspect it is so that it is easier to measure the effects tweaks/development to the algorithms make.
I registered here to share this image exactly. Saw it over on /r/math and while any such endeavor is doomed from the start to be unrealistic or incomplete, this one didn't anger me quite as much.
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$1B at AWS, $2B to Google Cloud, ... eventually this adds up to real money.
I think you misread my comment, since I already prefer Patreon.

I wasn't making some obtuse statement about how money from me was being skimmed, I was commenting how the way they eased the friction of donating has caused me to done monthly to a lot more projects than I normally would, and that's added up over the years to a few hundred dollars of mine making its way to the accounts of people or groups whose services I use or works I consume, and that's a good thing.

Would I be happier if Patreon took a smaller cut? I guess. I don't see 5% at the low-level donations as very significant, given the platform Patreon supplies. Maybe it would be better if they changed to a 4% fee if you were getting over $500/mo in donations, and to 3% if you were getting over $2000/mo. Then again, when you start making that much per month, chances are Patreon is likely working out very well for you, and that 5% might be seen as well worth it?

In the end, as a consumer, it doesn't really matter to me. I'm bullish on the model of Patreon, and I think Patreon seems to execute fairly well on that model from what I can tell. I wouldn't mind if a few producers used Gratipay and I set that up too. I can deal with maybe 2-3 donation aggregators, I just don't want to deal with 10+ individual donation systems.
How would a hobbyist based in Canada get access to that market to buy stuff from? (without getting scammed?)
Apart from general fitness for embedding and extending, I like the versatility of Lua tables:

https://www.lua.org/pil/3.6.html

In particular, to initialize a table to be used as a record:

a = {x=0, y=0}

which is equivalent to:

a = {}; a.x=0; a.y=0

and:

a.x = nil -- removes field "x"

But I think Guido's right about 0-based indexing:

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-python-uses-0...
She's implying you shouldn't buy one, shouldn't fund the breeders who select for these unhealthy traits.

We don't delibrately select people with these conditions and breed them to make them worse. This is exactly what breeders are doing with brachycephalic dog breeds.
Upvoted for Loriot :D
Independent of this fork of discussion, all pet dogs would benefit from being kept fit and at an appropriate weight (a good proxy for healthy)

As a dog owner I take this as part of my responsibility towards my dog. I control both his opportunity for exercise, and his diet.
I like the solution employed by many Grocery stores and some big box stores. lines for both solutions, whether at check out or elsewhere within the store.

there is room for both because the capabilities of people varies and some do need assistance. if the unmanned position is not being used frequently or has complaints then business needs to jump on it quickly to make people understand it will work and work well but at teh same time, keep a few people to humanize the area
Last time i looked into it, the thoughtmaybe site seems to pull the actual videos from archive.org.
...and then wait for the actual person to transfer me to the appropriate department's automated voice system.

* fixed that for you
~$ ping imgur.com

PING imgur.com (151.101.40.193) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 151.101.40.193 (151.101.40.193): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=342 ms

imgur.com works fine

~$ ping python.org

PING python.org (23.253.135.79) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 23.253.135.79 (23.253.135.79): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=267 ms

python.org works fine

news.ycombinator.com and reddit.com also works fine even though I'm logged in (there's about a 300ms, 700ms delay in the Network tab of Chrome's devtools for news.ycombinator.com and reddit.com)
The original vi will hit that milestone in 2026.
But I'm pretty sure you two are the only ones.
I wonder if we'll see software this timeless ever again.
Redis-leveldb
Oh. And our ResqueGo outperformed Ruby so badly that we couldn't do a reasonable X% server transition from Ruby to Go by rebalancing the number of workers. It had to be done my making a new Go queue and doing % rollout of which queue work was sent to. We learned that the hard way once (though luckily there was no regression IIRC).
I remember when websites used to have "[fast internet]" or "[slow internet]" buttons that you could use to choose if you wanted flash or not. Even though I had a high-speed, I chose slow because the site would load faster.
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There are acknowledged problems with pure breeds of all kinds, but not all pure breeds suffer from such extreme problems. It's possible to find a breeder with a strong bloodline free of many defects but it is not going to be cheap.
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Fun fact about vim:

When vi was originally designed the most popular keyboard was ADM-3A and later IBM XT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard#/media/File:IB... The layout of this keyboard has Control on the place where modern keyboards have a CapsLock key. Naturally that's why vi and vim was meant to use CTRL-[ to exit to the normal mode.

25 years later Apple introduced ToughBar and made ESC key virtual. As result remapped CapsLock-[ make sense again ;)

edit: Add ADM-3A keyboard
I hope so too! Don't forget: http://www.vim.org/sponsor/

"Since Bram is back to a paid job the money will now (after March 2006) be used to help children in Uganda. This is the charity recommended by Vim's author. The money is used for a children centre in the south of Uganda, where AIDS has caused many victims. But at the same time donations increase Bram's motivation to keep working on Vim! "
Bill Burr sums up perfectly why some people hate self checkout. Additionally when companies implement these systems customers tend to get less service and with none of the savings passed on to them.

Check the video, it's very hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxINJzqzn4w
Cool. Thanks for the reply.
Why would you consider the used car market when talking about new car sales?
The Trap, particular part 1 questioning the validity of Game Theory, is highly interesting.
What store is this?
My God that's a nightmare of an office. Open-plan and a wall of distracting televisions. How do they get anything done?

Or do employees just WFH when they need to actually produce stuff?
Their OS team just put a Ubuntu-Linux subsystem into Windows via direct kernel calls. I'd be careful assuming anything about them.
No. The example of a giffen good given is a high calorie food, that's exceptionally low status. Thus, when its price falls, people will demand less of it, as they can afford to replace some of their consumption of that food with more expensive, better food. Workers replacing some proportion of their bread or potato intake with meat, as the price of that bread or potato intake drops, say.

The idea is that the good is the lowest quality way of fulfilling some need - so people buy it because they can't afford anything else.
France has banned collecting data on race/ethnicity since 1978. Moreover, if you are of the mind that we are in a post-racism society (not that I subscribe to that by the way), then this sort of data to you merely reflects peoples' preferences and is only presented to sow disunity.
To be honest Arch as a distro is more for advanced users -- if you're trying to dip your toes into linux the quintessential starting point is probably Ubuntu or ElementaryOS (linux mint is also pretty good). Arch's philosophy is very much to give you the bare minimum and then you can get what you need to stack on top of it, which often involves a bit of config tweaking. This might get frustrating if you aren't fairly intimate with working with a linux command line environment.
I mean, I know you're being ironic, but that's really an inaccurate view of people. Sure, we have certain diseases, but we're hardly unique in that regard. We live decades longer than our closest relatives, even without medical intervention. In terms of natural defenses, we are an apex predator, and have been even in the hunter-gatherer days. Even ignoring the fact that we are the most intelligent species on the planet, we're also one of the greatest distance runners in the animal kingdom.
I'm curious, at that scale why don't they build their own infrastructure? Surely it would cost less?
In the early 2000s, I was at a friend's place with John "maddog" Hall, who was talking to a group of us about the future of software and the promises of quantum computing.

He said something that I always found interesting. He was talking about how in a decade or so we would probably be using software and tools that would be unrecognizable to us at that moment, but after a pause he added: "but we'll still be writing code with vi." :)
Same here. It has been ~24 hours and I cannot save links to Instapaper from where I am (South Asia).

I am a bit surprised about how quiet the Internet (or hacker news) is about this outage. Either this service is not being used by many people, or the inconvenience might be too minor for most, OR the outage is only impacting this part of the world.

Going to try Pocket.
Technically riding the dots is still illegal in CA even with the new "lane splitting" law.

If you don't ride, you see everything as lane splitting. If you ride, you damn sure know the difference between lane sharing and riding the dots.
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From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. "
iCloud was quietly storing years of cleared browsing histories
Is it just me, or are people who were telling us that homosexuality is a genetic predisposition the same ones now saying that it's a choice and things are flexible?
You can try Aliexpress.com. They have buyer protection.
Left, what left? What is going on in DC right now is a fight between two segments of the right wing. There has been no Left in USA sine the 70s at least.