skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the United States used a similar rationale.
That's doable, but it means your application needs to include the runtime and GC. That's a lot of code to push down the wire.
These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers
* 'set -o vi' in bash lets me search my command history with the same keys as moving around vi

* git + sql scripts

* simplenote (notes across devices) Semi-automation of pieces of my job captured in these notes.

* zapier if I'm trying to connect two web apis.
Your google search history is more like a storage locker than a closet. You don't own it, but you can open it whenever you want and the managers assure you they will only open it under exceptional circumstances.

You still have to trust the managers, since they're the only party with another key. If you don't trust them, you're free to take any legal steps to anonymize yourself when accessing the storage locker.

The problem seems to be that any additional layer of privacy or anonymity is only available to those who opt into it or go out of their way to implement it.
I wonder how the quality compares with MozJPEG?
The initial idea was to make your life simpler by parsing JSON instead of HTML. Now we are decompiling binaries. Somewhere on the way, we got lost.
What kind of person cares about the environment and humanity but not animals?
That rubbed me the wrong way too.

Are identical twins a single organism because they have the same genetics? Of course not and we'd laugh at anyone who based an argument on that premise.
> I think an effective tax rate north of 40% is getting in the danger zone.

I think it varies mostly depending on the services you get for it and the percieved values of it. If you get higher education, healthcare and very social safety net possible then you tolerate a higher tax level, presumably.

If the tax is percieved as being spent on things you don't agree with (some random war etc) then it's harder to accept.

> It's very difficult to rationalize that every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government.

If you consider that money to be appropriated then obviously there is a political problem. The money isn't spent on the services you need or want, or it's (seems to you at least) a lot of it is wasted. But there is no point discussing an absolute limit of fairness without discussing which tax paid services you would like to cut in order to lower taxes. Taxes could be 90% or 99% and there would be nothing inherently unfair about it - it would just proably be a very inefficient society.
I use mine [1] mostly for Org-mode but there are a few other goodies included. Eventually I'd like to wrap it with use-package for portability.

To the curious: don't hesitate to ask.

To the critical: don't hesitate to point out improvements!

[1] https://github.com/sk8ingdom/.emacs.d
Is this a big troll? The author moves directly from

> "reducing harm to these animals without reducing their numbers"

to

> "support reducing the number of wild animals, for instance through habitat destruction or sterilisation"

WHY at all would that make sense?

It's a giant IF they believe reducing harm is better than non-existence.

So... er, ok... the author is saying (to put it succinctly) that IF an existence of suffering as a farmed animal is better than non-existence, then clearly vegetarians should want to

> "support reducing the number of wild animals, for instance through habitat destruction or sterilisation"

It doesn't follow logically at all.
I've been around a lot of hardcore vegans, and literally none of them would subscribe to the bizarre abstract philosophy of "minimizing suffering" in the wild. It's an absurdity.

The idea is to remove human causes of destruction, not to intervene in nature to manufacture some kind of utopia. Again, absurd. Essentially nobody would actually believe this, aside from philosophical masturbation.
Upbringing and later life happiness
Mine went from $1,200 last year to $1,679 this year for me, my wife and 3 kids.
I always thought that there is no such thing as best programming language in the world. After all they only recycle the same recipe , again and again. Then I found out Smalltalk and realized how wrong I was.

There is nothing that comes close that can compete with the massive success that Smalltalk has been. Its blows my mind how it can be so much better than anything else out there including the usual suspects (Lisp, haskell, blah blah).

But in the end its not about the language , its about the libraries. Hence why Python remains my No1 choice.

In the end however even Smalltalk is terrible outdated. The state of software is in abysmal condition trapped in its own futile efforts of maintaining backward compatibility, KISS and do not reinvent the wheel.

In sort software is doing its best to keep innovation at a minimum and as such pretty much everything sucks big time and is still stuck in stone age.

I once considered becoming a professional coder working in a company doing the usual thing, I am glad I was wise enough not to choose that path. I would have killed myself right now with all this nonsense that makes zero logical sense.

But my hope is in AI, the sooner we get rid of coders, the better. Fingers crossed that is sooner than later. Bring on our robotic overlords.

Saying that I know a lot of people that really love coding and respect it as an art and science, so there is definitely hope.
The stigma around bootcamps definitely sucks, and I am sorry that you are falling victim to this.

I hired someone out of a bootcamp who turned out to be the best hire I have ever made in my entire 10 year career. Initially I wasn't even aware that this person had been in a bootcamp. I proceeded to interview purely on abilities and grilled 'em on some questions about DOM, JS, CSS etc... (the candidate was applying to be on our frontend team).

First, do not let this weigh you down. 50% of anything you get in life is not whether or not you have the qualifications for it -- but if you believe you're gonna get it. It applies to asking someone out on a date, telling a risky joke, or trying to find a job. It's great you're aware of the stigma associated with bootcamps, but don't let it define who you are.

Second, and this is primarily for the other people in this thread: don't judge a book by it's cover. The aforementioned best hire I've ever made in my life was an individual fresh out of a bootcamp who, prior to that, was essentially a jarhead in the Marine corps. If I was starting something new today and needed someone technical on my team they'd be the first person I would go to. This individual started as a frontend engineer and - almost overnight - was sharing 50% of the workload with myself at every level of the stack, all the way down to configuring kafka/cassandra clusters and building internal microservices.

Finally -- sell your narrative. Ignoring the obvious baseline qualifications a technical person needs, most people are not looking for a technical genius who went to Carnegie Mellon and aced every single class. They're looking for pragmatic engineers who are quick on their feet and can dive deep to the root of an issue to engineer a straightforward solution to the actual problem. Demonstrate this ability and it will go a long way. You say that you're making it pretty far down the path so your cover letters are working. You might just need to change your narrative to flip the minds of those who keep considering you a junior engineer. People want you to help them solve problems -- they want to work with people they can trust -- show them that.

Keep doing what you are doing -- also please send me your resume to mwhalen@farmlogs.com because you sound like a rad person.
How were they actively excluding anyone? NASA should be working with other space agencies that actually have the capability to do things. ESA has successfully launched rockets and probes, JAXA has done the same. What have middle-eastern nations done? Do they even have space agencies?

Sorry, but if your nation doesn't prioritize space exploration and have any capability there, that's not NASA's fault, and I don't think it should be NASA's responsibility to try to fix that.

edit: Note, personally I'm extremely worried about the near future under this administration and Congress, and I'm a big supporter of space exploration. But Obama's directives to NASA were IMO ridiculous and a distraction from the serious science work that the agency should be focusing on (both in space and in the atmosphere, as per the name). The Muslim world hasn't done anything useful in science and technology for centuries now. To be sure, some people from that area are very bright and have been very productive, but only when they've left that place and come to societies where their work is appreciated and not oppressed. But those people didn't need scientific agencies to set aside their serious work and pander to them to get them to step up and get involved. If you want more encouragement of people to get into this work, that's the job of the Education department, and perhaps the State department if it involves foreign relations. This doesn't mean NASA couldn't do a little outreach here and there (a big agency like that has all kinds of things it's doing all the time), but it shouldn't be made out to be a serious mission requirement, just like when tech companies send an engineer to schools to brainwash^Wshow kids how great STEM careers are, that's just a small extra job, not the company's main mission or even something they publicize as highly important to them.
Netscape rewriting its code base.
I haven't seen much on it. Doesn't mean solutions don't exist, but I regularly read updates on reddit and what people are working on, and I haven't seen much there. I feel like Swift is more likely to fill that role by coming to android.
CoNLL 2017 Shared Task – NLP Competition
You are my hero!
These last two engineering blog posts[1] were great reads and they're doing good open source work. Not looking for a job but would love to meet the team if they host an event!

[1] https://segment.com/blog/ui-testing-with-nightmare/
You are grossly misrepresenting the situation and what your own link says. If wages + tips don't equal the normal minimum wage of $7.25, the employer is required to make up the difference.

They get, at worst, normal minimum wage.
> Tipping sucks, sure, but it's part of a lot of service jobs in the states that you just accept.

I don't think most people "just" accept it. I think they accept it, with extreme reservations, often with a sense of anxiety around social pressure & guilt. So I think you underestimate how much sway a service that doesn't expect/require tips might have over one that does.

Having said, that, for me, it's a combination of things. I actually don't object to Lyft's tipping culture (and like you point out, tipping is implemented as close to perfectly as possible on their platform). I use Lyft when it seems to make sense (and tip, often ~20% for shorter rides), but often I find myself seeing a 6 minute estimated wait from Lyft while Uber is saying 2 minutes. I tend to walk a lot when I can, so most of the time I use Uber/Lyft when I'm running late or don't have the time to walk, so 2 vs. 6 actually matters. Or I request a Lyft, get matched with a driver, and see an estimate for a 3 minute arrival, which stays saying "3 minutes" for 10 minutes before I cancel and go back to Uber, and a car arrives to pick me up 2 minutes later. Or there was the time where Android Pay just stopped working in the Lyft app for two weeks.

I'm really unhappy with Uber's behavior as a company (and use it less where practical), but they just offer a better product, regardless of their stance on tipping.
I took this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1338/ at the time as an argument that people's decisions about farming may affect a lot of the overall animal suffering in the world, but I guess if you include even some non-mammals the direction of the comparison will reverse!
Been an hour.. wow. Is this a ddos on their auth services?
CoNLL2017 Shared Task Instructions: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/syntaxnet/g...
Check out the forums on Nomad List (https://nomadlist.com/) for real inside discussions.

The mainstream media and social networks, especially Instagram persist cliche images like drinking a coconut with a laptop on the beach in Costa Rica living on the cheap. Reality might not be that far off, but there are tons of unique challenges with travel and taxes and no one is really doing that every day.
I didn't mention nature, but rather domain, environment, and evolution. The goodness of the action of vegetarianism is that one species limits interference of other species in their own domain, consistent with their environment and evolution.
Yes, but it's also important to realize that this is the will of the American people. They voted for this; they voted for this Administration, and they voted for this Congress.
That analogy implies you can empty out the contents whenever you want. Which is not necessarily true with search history.
A better world :)

Maybe our societies will shift to seeking longer-term gains.
I like rust a lot, but even hello world web apps compile (and recompile) so slowly. I barely get a single step down my to do list before recompiles take more than a second, and it makes it functionally unusable compared to other tools. I know this sounds silly, but it's true. I don't want the check, I want to see the webpage changed after my code changes. I keep hearing about incremental compiles but when I used nightly and tried turning it on, I guess it didn't work because compile times barely changed.
They first suggested that they were considering removing the videos back in September last year:

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/13/a-statement-on-online-co...

It would not surprise me one bit if the advanced notice of the takedown was made precisely because they knew someone would take it upon themselves to archive the content and make it available elsewhere :)
I made music as a hobby for a decade and without the internet no one would have heard any of my music. With the internet, my songs have been played hundreds of thousands of times.

So I'd agree with this. The internet is responsible for my bands success.
I'll run some of my own experiments on this today, but I'm initially concerned about color muting.

Specifically looking at the cat's eye example, in the bottom of the pupil area there's a bit of green (reflection?) in the lower pupil. In the original it is #293623 (green) - in the libjpeg it is #2E3230 (still green, slightly muted). But in the Guetzil encoded image it is #362C35 - still slightly green but quite close to grey.

In my experience people love to see colors "pop" in photos (and photography is where JPEG excels) - hopefully this is just an outlier and the majority of compressions with this tool don't lose color like this.
They weren't made illegal. The lectures were inaccessible to deaf people. Given that they were created with public funds, that's not acceptable. Berkley decided to throw them away rather than remedy this, in a rather short sighted move reminiscent of cutting off one's nose to spite their face.

To those that are preserving/mirroring these lectures, I really hope you have plans to make them accessible to all, not just the hearing enabled.
I have never come across a well-defined concept of "The Singularity." Society still doesn't agree on how to compare intelligence between humans. What is the measurement approach that I could use to determine if Kurzweil is correct?
I hadn't heard of the .frameworks or "calling the main thread" problems; do you know if there are issues open?

Bitcode is tough, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/35968

In general, we'd love to get this into better shape, but need some help from people with the time and expertise to hack on it.
Combining Twisted Light and Plasmons Could Supercharge Data Storage
Well if the government did murder 100 million people it would certainly use Google to assist.

Nazi's used IBM, VW, Bayer, etc.

Letting them get search data about fraud won't make that any more or less likely though.
What would the be the properties of the surface of these brown dwarfs that cooled to low temperature after trillion of years?
Isn't this effectively the same argument pro-slavery advocates used? "(Slaves|Animals) would live brutal, worse off lives if they weren't owned by their masters. Therefore (vegetarians|abolitionists) want more suffering in the world."
As an aside: I love to see projects named after food in my mother tongue (guetzli is Swiss German for cookie). I guess this is a project somewhat based on the Zürich office of Googles.

Before this one we got brötli (small bread) and zöpfli (also a small bread, but a specific type), though both lost their umlauts in the transition to a software project
Incremental recompilation is still underway; expect some news on it reasonably soon. Even then, it's just the start, and there's more that we can do.
So, it isn't very different from the Big Lie idea[0]: if you repeat a lie long enough it becomes truth.

It works for humans, it works for algorithms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
This follows from the assumption "If wild animals’ well-being is indeed below the threshold for a life worth living", which is argued in the passage:

> One reason to suspect that on average this pleasure is outweighed by suffering is that most species use the reproductive strategy of r-selection, which means that the overwhelming majority of their offspring starve or are eaten shortly after birth and only very few reach reproductive age (Horta 2010; Ng 1995). For instance, ‘in her lifetime a lioness might have 20 cubs; a pigeon, 150 chicks; a mouse, 1000 kits’ (Hapgood 1979), the vast majority of which will die before they could have had many pleasurable experiences. Overall, it seems plausible that wild animals have worse lives than, say, free-range cows. If vegetarians think it’s better for the latter not to exist, they must believe the same thing about wild animals.
>> Are people generally ok with the police opening every single school locker...?
>>And what if while doing so they discover evidence of another crime? Is that ok and usable?...

Yes, yes, and yes. Police can open any (or all) locker(s) they want for any purpose, though generally they ask for permission from the school administration first, and they can and do use any evidence discovered. Pick your favorite BS legal handwaving, I think it's usually "the lockers belong to the school, and by its good grace allows[/forces] the students to use them"
One could even go as far as saying that "Google is fake news."

Now, I wouldn't say that myself, but Google brought this upon themselves. I've criticized them in the past about their "top answer" solution, as well about the AMP-powered carousel with (corporate-owned) "media partners".

They're setting up a system where there's a high chance that the top answer is indeed false, but Google acts as if it isn't - and that's the real issue here. Google envisions a future where its AI assistant will soon only give you that "top answer" as the "right answer".

I think it's wrong of Google to do that, at least until our AIs become smarter than humans, and can actually discern the truth way better than humans can from "reading" thousands of related articles/papers.
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The "giant if" you mention is stated explicitly in the section you quote: "More precisely then, ethical consequentialist vegetarians believe that farmed animals have lives so bad they are not worth living, so that it is better for them not to come into existence. Vegetarians reduce the demand for meat, so that farmers will breed fewer animals, preventing the existence of additional animals. [...] I will argue that if vegetarians were to apply this principle consistently, the suffering of wild animals would dominate their concerns, and would plausibly lead them to support reducing the number of wild animals, for instance through habitat destruction or sterilisation."
Well, looks like all the HN user's of Scrapy better lawyer up because Scrapy Cloud offers exactly that, as do rest of the web scraping vendors like Mozenda out on the market. They've all been around for 10+ years, doesn't seem like this is an issue for them.
Sure they do. Especially when compared to what is accessible to civil plaintiffs.

Your searches aren't even private since you let google look at them.
LBRY appears to be some kind of p2p/youtube/blockchain custom protocol.

I guess this is a good marketing opportunity.
As I said above, I don't think that view is associated with the "ethical consequentialist vegetarianism" questioned here and often defended in academic philosophy. In fact part of the point of the consequentialist idea here is that maybe it doesn't matter who or what was responsible for something (e.g., a human or an ecosystem) in order to decide if the thing itself was good or bad.

Although not all consequentialists afford any moral status to animals, I think consequentialists would find it super congenitally difficult to say "oh, but that's OK -- nature did it!".
With the internet we've also sort of fostered a society that expects some content (music, blog posts, etc) to be dirt-cheap if not free, especially if it does not meet ever-increasing standards. This again leads to a race-to-the-bottom style market where you have to outproduce others to gain a following that might be willing to pay you something.

Is this any different, or even less desirable, than the patronage style of old, where only a relative few obtained artist-in-residence-style support from from the limited market of nobles and moneyed interests (who may have been maintaining stables of artisans as a conspicuous display of wealth rather than a specific interest in the artist or their works)? Have most artists and other creatives been surviving off income from their artistic endeavors for most of history?
Three main methods:

1) YUV420 vs YUV444. Guetzli practically always goes for YUV444.

2) Choosing quantization matrices.

3) After normal quantization, choose even more zeros. JPEG encodes zeros very efficiently.

When doing the above, increase the errors where it matters least (certain RGB values hide errors in certain components, and certain types of visual noise hides other kind of noise).
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is the full video available anywhere?
+ 1000 For the animals welfare. The animals that can't blog, tweet, or complain. Wildlife preservation and care for animals is as important as other common non-profit and foundations goals, but often neglected
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The more bits you're willing to lose during quantization, the more zeroes the resulting bitstream will have, the better it will compress.

The more bits you lose during quantization, the more ringing and artifacts you can expect after the IDCT process.

So the tradeoff is quite literally artifacts for smaller size.

this compressor seems to be cleverer about where to lose data than libjpeg.
Incremental compilation doesn't incrementally typecheck yet. A lot of time is spent in typechecking.

The feature is designed so that incremental typechecking can happen—it just doesn't yet.
Tips for Investors When Vetting a Hardware Product
Taking the quality out of equality
In the Baseline section, you will find a sentence with the following: "However, there is a cost to using the strategies. We have to run all of the sentences through the bag-of-words model first, to determine if we should use the bag-of-words or the LSTM." followed by some math that takes the added cost into account, which is also what we based our plots/results on.