skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations, you managed to crash the compiler. Can you please file a bug?

https://swift.org/contributing/#reporting-bugs
The food machine accepted coins and $1 bills, but not $1 coins or other bills? It almost sounds intentionally designed to be as difficult to use as possible. (I realize the $1 coin is larger and newer, and accepting larger denomination bills would mean dispensing more change, but still.)
A big difference in subway costs is that subways used to be built by closing roadways and digging from above ("cut and cover"). But now it's almost always done by very slow, very expensive to operate underground boring machines.
Seems like Tony Stark isn't a character necessarily bound to a fictional world, after all.
Pretty much what they said about reusable rockets and electric cars.
Contact is a nice break from this, if you're so inclined. [Spoiler alert] The "aliens" speak perfect english and go so far as to present themselves as a human form in an Earth-like environment so as to keep our little human brains from exploding.
Well I was just thinking of it interfering withwork
This machine seems brilliant.

Those super tower cranes are legit massacre machines. Seeing one of those cranes go down was disturbing
So basically you want AI to enclose you in a simulation where you feel fulfilled and happy?
DO Not OVERLOOK THE JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS
What I find most interesting is that the majority of these technologies did not exist or were in their infancy ~7 years ago when I first moved to Silicon Valley. Looking at this chart must be much more intimidating for a young developer today.

I remember a decade ago when a front-end developer meant you handled HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Apache/PHP/MySQL. Today, there are 15 forks in the road all leading to different paths as a front-end developer.
I don't usually find subconscious arguments very convincing. They're kind of like appealing to magic, if that were a real fallacy.
Keep writing for yourself, I certainly enjoy it ;-)
Thank you @jonknee.

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/846474015178866689
No, but like with any other performance enchanting utility it's going to be effectively peer pressure.
If AI+human will be better than just AI people will "merge" with it at that point if it's a true AI you might as well be a different species to them as you'll likely won't be able to even communicate with them after a while.
Yes. And no.

It is very clear, to you. To me. To other people? The evidence doesn't support that claim.

So again: was it clear enough? Apparently not.

You can argue about this as long as you want, but interpretation of an interface is not complete until you get the context. Ours is that of someone who's either looking for it, or aware of the possibility of its existence.

If you're neither, perhaps you'd need to be able to see other people's documents as well. Perhaps you need a big ol' warning sign with tick-boxes before you dismiss it.

Maybe the default should be hidden, and sharing made optional. I realise this doesn't make much sense for a "sharing" feature, but maybe it's been labelled wrong. "Sharing" doesn't necessarily (read: "by definition") mean "everyone in the whole world can browse your stuff".

So imo, two parties to blame.

Yes. It's the user's own fault.

No. It's not clear enough.
Lol. New to Apple?
Perhaps there's a middle ground.
The naked capitalism series is written by a cab dispatch consultant, and reads almost like a paid hatchet job. Makes huge assumptions on data not in hand, and spins iffy conclusions with evident bias. At one point he claims Ubers costs can never be as low as cab dispatch because Uber is spending money expanding! That makes zero sense.

It's pretty clear Uber is in heavy investment mode, in market expansion as well as new businesses (uber-eats, self driving cars, etc), no one can know what their real costs per ride are unless they can break out that detail.

But it's also clear in their core business their cost to dispatch a ride should only be pennies.
Well if that was true we'd be seeing nothing but explosions on planes. These systems are designed to notice explosives. We know the densities of common explosives vs li-ion batteries and are able to distinguish between them.
Hey thanks! I didn't even know about that.

I'll definitely check it out.
Unions were created to deal with employer abuses in the new industrial age.

Now the vast majority of union members are employed by the government.

Tech workers are the best paid of all non-management fields, and their managers generally treat them well or they will leave to make 20% more elsewhere.

I don't think tech workers want coworkers who can act incompetently and who can't be fired.

I have always viewed those agitating for tech workers to join unions as completely out of touch with what most tech workers want.
If I remember correctly that is a compiler error, because Foo is not initialized, so no boom.

But if you still want to get your point through and have a boom.

MODULE Boom;
IMPORT SYSTEM;

VAR Foo : POINTER TO INTEGER;

BEGIN
Foo := SYSTEM.CAST(POINTER TO INTEGER, 43414);
Foo^ := 123;
END Boom.

Notice the use of IMPORT SYSTEM and SYSTEM.CAST, explicit, easy to search for, and to forbid via compiler switch (no unsafe code).
Rust is not a particularly convenient choice for general backend. Specific, high throughput / parallel microservices, yeah, but doesn't lend itself to being particularly productive in the realm of web dev.
> A library in another language will add that language (and compiler, and debugger and whatever dependencies a libcurl written in that language would need) as a new dependency to a large amount of projects that are themselves written in C or C++ today. Those projects would in many cases downright ignore and reject projects written in “an alternative language”.

Why would I be vendoring my own copy of libcurl in my project? Who does? This is how I (or rather, the FFI bindings my language's runtime uses) consume libcurl:

dlopen("libcurl.so")

I rely on a binary libcurl package. The binary shared-object file in that package needed a toolchain to build it, but I don't need said toolchain to consume it. That would still be true even if the toolchain required for compiling was C++ or Rust or Go or whatever instead of C, because either the languages themselves, or the projects, ensure that the shared-object files they ship export a C-compatible ABI.

An example of a project that works the way I'm talking about: LLVM. LLVM is written in C++, but exports C symbols, and therefore "looks like" C to any FFI logic that cares about such things. LLVM is a rather heavyweight thing to compile, but I can use it just fine in my own code without even having a C++ compiler on my machine.

(And an example of a project that doesn't work this way: QT. QT has no C-compatible ABI, so even though it's nominally extremely portable, many projects can't or won't link QT. QT fits the author's argument a lot better than an alternate-language libcurl would.)
the author must be watching; already changed the content to more closely match what HTTPS Everywhere actually does
It just means the authority is relevant. If you pull out Merriam Webster in an argument about the meaning of the term "racism", you are appealing to authority, which is a logical fallacy. Appealing to authority is a logical shortcut, like any other fallacy, and in a way can be thought of as memoization. Every single logical fallacy has an efficient purpose, but departs from pure logic.
The distinction I would like to make is whether the money comes from professional investors or amateurs. Money from friends, family, and whatnot: seed. Money from pros: A round.

But that doesn't really square with how others use the words.
US Treasury Secretary claims that AI's impact on jobs is 50-100 years away
> It is very clear, to you. To me. To most other people? The evidence doesn't support that claim.

I'm not sure that's clear? The headline says "hundreds" of sensitive documents are on there. How many documents are on there total?
> AFAIK; they have no long-term capital investment or debt trap

Medallions?
There are extremely successful artists who pay for other people to create their work. Similarly, artists regularly pay other people to make things for them, such as frames, etc.

There are a lot more artists who are technically skilled that don't have a creative bone in their body. You might as well pay them to create your work so you can leverage your best talent -- your ideas.
No, I want it to create value that will be given back to me via taxation.
A great tool I love has this too [0]. They're an improvement over Workflowy which includes LaTeX support among other things.

I'm a very happy paying user of it although I do not use the LaTeX features very often yet I have some finance notes I took in Emacs which transferred over pretty well.

[0]: http://dynalist.io/
I was talking specifically about the projects that get posted on HN acting as if they're the next big thing in the Lisp world. They inevitably go nowhere and make little impact.

Building a Lisp is a great exercise, but I don't need to know every time somebody does it. We might as well have posts about everybody's fizzbuzz...
Not everyone wants to be human for ever, some people take joy in their work and want to continue doing it and contributing in a meaningful way, etc, etc. Nothing to do with being a workaholic or the rest.
I hate to say it, but 'leisure' gets boring awfully quickly.
I don't know about the link, but the content has clearly changed to address concerns brought up in this HN thread.
I'm not following. Are you proposing that companies should not be allowed to hire someone from the outside to fix severe culture issues? The problem with such a policy is the mechanism through which we'd determine which companies are condemned.

From your comment, I gather that if it were up to you, you'd sentence Uber to death instead of giving them a shot at redemption. You wouldn't be alone in this perspective, but I think you're overlooking the thousands of GOOD people that would be adversely affected and punished by such a decision. All to punish a couple people you believe to be evil.
That you are a an exception. I've never had a friend suggest Lyft, i'm not sure they even know what it is. They suggest uber all the time, and it's clear Uber has massively more market share.
Bottom/front left of centre: Leonard Hofstadter???
Shodand: unofficial android Shodan app. MVP, rxJava and friends
The "Calling you now" widget to contact my congress person doesn't seem to work for me. Is this just my problem of is it down for everyone?
Angular framework's grand ambition: Not breaking anything
Of course, just did. Very surprised that this happens for a 'source compatible' point release of Swift. Especially as this can be triggered with only five fairly simple lines of code. Not good.
Red Hat reports $2.4 billion in revenue for fiscal year ended February 28, 2017
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/159
I'll remove the word "most". Point holds.
No personal attacks like this on HN, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Of course people play that way. It's the rules. :)
> Which part do you assert is untrue,

Neither of your strawmen. I am not making my own assertion at all. I am challenging your assertion that maintaining a high standard of living requires moving to the Center Of The Universe for all or nearly all developers. You seem to base this assertion on a premise that the difference in salaries outweighs the difference in cost of living, but have provided no evidence to support that. I know it's not true for me, but at least I don't assume that my experience is universal.

> Everybody wants remote work at SV salaries. That doesn't mean everybody can get it.

True. You have to be pretty good at what you do.

> We are talking about better or worse developers, or what is your argument?

Again, it's not my argument. It's yours, and it's ridiculous. It's only about good vs. bad developers if one assumes that a good developer lives in Silicon Valley and a bad developer is one who lives anywhere else. If one accepts that there are good and bad developers everywhere, or that some people measure value differently than you do, then it makes absolutely no sense.

> If big companies were paying higher salaries to the same developers then how would that create any advantage for them?

Have you heard abou this little thing called network effects? The theory is that, by bringing good developers together, synergy creates value that doesn't exist with them separate. It's an idea I could argue from either side, but the important thing is that it doesn't require physical proximity to work. It can be well worth paying a premium to bring good developers into logical or virtual proximity with one another, and the big rich companies are taking advantage of that.

> Rich tech companies don't have a monopoly on capital. If all it took is to pay developers a lot of money then it would be Wall St rather than tech companies doing the paying and collecting the yields.

It doesn't require a monopoly. All it requires is a significant asymmetry. Also, Wall Street very much has been playing this game too, with effects and remedies that would be just as worthy of debate if we could get past the facile attempts to deny the reality of it happening.
He actually did it the absolute madman
Well, I've at times favored long fingernails. Especially, back in the day, thumb and first finger, for smoking stubs 'n' stuff.

And by the way, it was silly to characterize his advice about straightening one's mat as enigmatic. I mean, it's so obvious. But maybe I just didn't get the joke.
When I say Netflix sucks these days, I don't mean Netflix sucks compared to Amazon or Hulu. I mean Netflix today sucks compared to Netflix yesterday. It's gone from "Wow, I want to tell everyone about this great service with a constantly expanding catalog of wonderful stuff I'd like to watch" to having really slim pickings. Sometimes I'll look for stuff on Netflix and just decide to listen to an audiobook instead. The fact that Amazon and Hulu's subscription services are also weak doesn't make Netflix's content more compelling.
Hadn't even considered that. Suppose the results are the same either way.
We will need to prevent malicious brainhacks.
Toybox – Common Linux command line tools combined into a single executable
You realize that leisure could be any kind of work you want.

The distinction is not leisure vs work. It's freedom vs. constraint.
The majority of people I know do it for the passion. Nice salary is a bonus, but I'm 100% the men I know would do the same work even for pennies.
Yep it was a really nasty one. Because it used to work differently in Swift 2.x where it would not put Optional() around it in certain circumstances.
You know what, dog, you caught the car. I'll never be mad about racists again, or else the racists win.
Agreed. This is a decent book on the topic: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/toward-replacement-parts-brai...
I definitely feel a bit nervous whenever I walk under one of those on a windy day on NYC. This article did little to assuage my fears.
http://instantwatcher.com/
I can try to shine a light on this idiom.

Masala is a popular indian dish here in the US... so popular in fact that it is expected at any indian restaurant. Because of this, the term can be synonomous with 'run of the mill', 'standard', or even 'safe'.
Read that years ago. Some good lessons in it.

Another one on similar lines is Taipan by James Clavell. Also King Rat by Clavell.
Beyond Bash: Microsoft Refines the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Designed in California. /s
They do, but it is treated as much more socially acceptable for men to shirk those responsibilities than for women.
So Magie's game came with two sets of rules ---one monopolistic, which I believe became modern Monopoly, and the other antimonopolistic. Has anyone played the last ruleset? Really interested to know what it's like...

Writeup with some rules in it here:

http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2009/07/the-landlord-game-or...
Traditionally, wasn't the seed round used to keep the founders going during the early months and years? 400k will last a group of founders for years if they are willing to live cheaply.

Of course things change once you need to hire outsiders. But that's what the A round is for.
First I read:

"No, I want it to create value that will be given back to me via television."
> The author is mistaken. There are only two functions necessary for a monad: >>= and return

Probably because monads are frequently described as triples -- two functions and a functor. The author seems to have reduced that to three functions (presumably fmap) without realizing that it isn't sufficient.
Yes! This book changed my life. Keep trying to convince friends and family that you get rich by saving money, not spending it.
David Brin said something once that I found interesting: "as long as I'm still in charge of the desiring, let the damn AI take care of the execution!"
Okay, but what's the acceptable defect rate for users not being able to understand the UI? Because I don't think it's possible to design a UI so unambiguous that a user, no matter how determined, cannot manage to misunderstand it.
This is just price controls and fails for every other reason that price controls fails elsewhere. It puts the cost of drugs well above the market rate for such drugs in that country and opens the door for local producers to simply undercut. The long term effect of is this is that US sellers will essentially become galapagos companies that only sell to the US and you effectively create two markets. The end state is exactly where we're at now but only with the US bearing even more of the cost.
Cool, but my comment was really a veiled correction to the previous comment's English.
The US spends 17.1% of of its GDP on healthcare.

The 5 countries that are richer than the USA (GDP per capita) pay an average of 7.77%. Excluding Qatar, it's 9.03%.

The top 10 richest countries (excluding the USA) spend an average of 8.03% of their GDP on healthcare, and I'm pretty sure at least a few of these have universal public health insurance.

I really don't think it's a case of either the US being 'rich', or because the US is somehow subsidising the rest of the world. By any rational measure, you're simply getting hosed. These discussions are hilarious because I always hear the same domestic propaganda that's spread around by the pharmaceutical industry repeated verbatim, over and over again.

You're paying more than DOUBLE compared to the 9 other richest countries in the world. You're getting gouged. If you can't even admit that maybe, possibly there's a problem here, it's unlikely anything is going to get solved.

Data from here: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014&...

And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... (using IMF GDP figures)
Definitely the cutting edge of Government thinking. Seriously. The message is "you can change nothing".
On one hand, I dislike the openly "only for girls" activities. It is opposite of integration.

On the other hand, programming and tech in general is already gendered in peoples minds. By people I here mean parents, children themselves, teachers and so on and so forth. Parents will refer to technical clubs as boy clubs (even if some girls participate) or mock boys doing dancing (that one surprised me), grandma will be visibly ashamed and kids themselves will argue about those activities being for boys/girls.

Kinda like with lego friends - too much pink to the point of being annoying, but the fact is that average grandpa is going to buy that toy to a girl where he would not any other lego cause even those gender neutral are clearly for boys in his mind.
Could you be more clear on the economic mechanics of your scenario?
Just throwing in another reason why programmer unions don't make a lot of sense: licensing.

It makes sense to license electricians, crane operators, doctors, lawyers, and many other professions who do safety-critical work.

Only a very small minority of programmers work on software that could actually hurt someone (at Boeing, Toyota, etc...).

There's no reason to create a legal barrier to entry for programming.
Yes, having have to get a brain-machine connection implant before we've had a long time to observe safety and side effects has been a fear of mine for many years.
These days there are angels, super-angels, and early stage (seed) VCs. There's been investors been F&F and Series A for quite a while though.
There is a typescript example on their page:

https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/master/examples/with-ty...
Valued at means nothing really, it speaks to investment and while its not worth nothing they are currently burning about 3/4 billion per quarter [1], and have no profitable quarters anywhere on the horizon.

They have always been betting their future on autonomous cars and the Waymo lawsuit stands a good chance to set them back a decade and they do not have the current capital to withstand that.

MS was already public when they had the antitrust lawsuit and was making money. To try and compare MS and Uber is not close to the same thing.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-lo...
forgive me if i am wrong, i don't know much about these matters. Just a quick thought. For me Elon Musks ventures seem a bit like angel-investors. Every company he founds has probability of making billions (car-company, rockets, tunnelling etc.), though they are also high risk. Of course he can't spread his risk as broad as a investor. But while risky, every venture seems to be very calculated, the opposite of crazy. I mean he could focus everything on Tesla, but if Tesla bites the dust he would loose everything.

But cause != correlation, maybe he just likes founding stuff.
> Drug prices in US go up because of collusion between Insurance Companies and Drug manufacturers.

It's great that you're interested in healthcare policy, but you should be careful about making blanket statements without the evidence. Drugs are 9% of healthcare costs[1] and 14% of insurance costs[2]--hardly the decisive factor in your choice of health insurance. And expensive drugs are expensive primarily because it really does cost $1B+ to develop a new drug.[3] Even if you wipe out drug company profits (which we really don't want to do), you'll save at most 3% on your insurance.[4]

Like other types of insurance, cheap health insurance is cheap primarily because it limits your coverage. The biggest impact is that you pay more to see fewer specialists and undergo fewer procedures. It also results in situations in which you're denied a cure for liver disease until you have severe liver damage.[5]

Your solution doesn't solve collusion so much as make a major tradeoff: we can have a world in which drugs cost $1000/year, if we stop researching drugs that cure liver disease. We can have cheap health insurance, if we give up most of the coverage. You probably didn't know you were making that tradeoff, and that's probably not a tradeoff you want to make.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/health-care-spendin...

[2] PwC report, page 12 http://www.amcp.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=12727

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/18/does-...

[4] Profit margins are less than 20% http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

[5] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/16/insurance-p...
Interesting, I can't imagine you can get the same apms on that setup.

Not that I'm very good (or any good, really), just that on SC2 my numbers are terrible with a trackpad relative to my numbers with a mouse.
Wow, this is a long time dream come true. The last private server was lost long ago to the sands of time.
>subreddit have a lot of people condemning him and saying they're done with his channel

Yet he broke 50k subscribers on March 16 and he's at 51,798 as I write this comment. It's almost like you can say anything you want on Reddit.
Wonder if we'll ever see "Humans as AI-ASICs" type services..? (I mean, apart from the movie "the Matrix".)