skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the point. Why X? Maybe I don't like X. Maybe s-expressions, paredit and all that lisp stuff makes me upset. XML isn't a programming language either, we're going the DSL route again.

Maybe I like, I don't know, cobol. What if I feel happy with my non-DSL DSL being cobol? Would people like it? Or maybe, really, the dedicated DSL is a better approach? To give people, at least, some handlebars, a lowest common denominator, if you wish.

The point is, no matter what language is selected, someone is always going to be unhappy about the choice. Look at Chef, great technology, IMO. Gives all the power of Ruby. One can do totally whatever they want. Yet people were not happy with it. Alternatives came out, people started reinventing stuff all over again. But even with those, one can use whatever language they want to automate these tools even further. All these DSLs are just helpers, a starting point, make the initial adoption easy.

I think people are looking at this aspect from a wrong perspective. "Is my time worth learning this new DSL / am I compensated enough to make it worth learning". It does not matter, as long as it all calculates.
Didn't Google spearhead this behavior? One of the biggest reasons I don't use Gmail.
Also known as an 'oracle'
A perfect storm of broken business and busted FLOSS backdoors
> The S3 bucket sits behind CloudFlare to make downloading the binaries fast from anywhere.

Why not CloudFront? Moving binaries through CF CDN might not do for you. It's also seen that they don't really like you moving large data through their service [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
This certainly seems to be the trend in America today. Looking at history, clearly we are moving toward the individual being the pinnacle of importance. Gone are the days of family, unity, knowing neighbors, big social gatherings. Even interactions with others today are not as community-oriented, barely anyone knows their neighbors, people rarely communicate in public scenarios (subways), everyone wants their own sovereignty without having to lend a helping hand. I can only mention these opinions from things I've read on the past and my own experiences but it seems that the individual is the importance in today's society. Not sure if that's a good thing either. The individual must be precise and unfailing if there is no safety net. A group can better handle risk and mitigate negative consequences. The only benefit I see from focusing more on the individual is freedom. Freedom at what cost?
Yes finally a good article about how bad trump is, easily accessed from hacker news! Articles like this are normally pretty hard to find on the internet.
I'll agree about the changes in affiliation being generally unimportant in practice and culture. Though that's not very theologically sound, either. We can leave that to the side other than to say that reconciliation, forgiveness, and unity are clearly commanded in the Bible.

I was more concerned about the more popular misconception about protestant Christianity: that it mostly involves claiming a label then going to heaven. This does a lot of harm because a lot of "Christians" are more or less untrained, unaccountable, and frankly bad people. And they are the examples often brought up when discussing hard feelings and distaste for Christianity.

I'd also wouldn't blame predestination for the lack of stress on membership and the consequential toothlessness of shunning. It more has to do with the removal of actual priests (i.e., with collars and robes) from any sort of essential role. You don't have to make any particular clergyman or bishop happy to have a birth blessed, a holy funeral, an honorable wedding, or salvation itself.
They say the writing isn't in the first draft it's in the last draft. Writing is re-writing.

Francis Ford Coppola's advice to George Lucas was "Write the first draft really quickly, in 2 weeks, don't read what you wrote, just finish it, then keep re-reading it and fix stuff as you go."

Also Stephen King's book "On Writing" might be helpful
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeYmrIRxLS8
Unsurprising considering the IBM affiliation of Rexx and decimal arithmetic being IBM’s pet issue.
Proof of time travel, mind control, and Hell.  with “Holy Purpose” of course
One per theory I have is that humans optimize for a certain amount of risk.

If roads get safer (straighter, wider, slower?, better road markings) they pay less attention, meaning that risk ultimately remains the same.

There is apparently some evidence for this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
That is a good illistration of specialization of labor, but I'm not sure how that related to the OP.
My Facebook and every other site with adtech tends to spend most of its time filled with ads for the last major purchase that I researched online and then bought something for, often advertising the exact thing that I just got one of and won't need to replace for years.
Thanks for the encouragement!

Can you elaborate on "offline support for local caching?"
Kahn's work has 2 distinct phases. Before Anne Tyng -- extremely ho-hum and unremarkable stuff you never see, try googling for it [p.s.] -- and after Anne Tyng [1][2][3][4]. Architecture is a crappy field to begin with but the story of Anne Tyng has always really bugged me. She deserves better.

As for the "the rugged materiality of his architecture and his predilection for massive, even monumental materials", one name suffices: Corbu.

[1]: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/82/0b/3a/820b...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Tyng

[3]: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/01/09/arts/tyng-obit/ty...

[4]: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/05/06/t-magazine/06talk...

[5]: http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0107/feature1_3.html

[p.s.] google for "Howe, Stonorov and Kahn" images.
Misunderestimating the long tail
Not if it creates demand.
It sounded extremely preachy. "What you should have done"....

OP wasn't asking for your advice about drugs...as a matter of fact dude probably knows more about them than you.

OP was making a point about how the consequences for minor offenses are way too punitive for the crime.

He's right. Having a little drugs on you should NOT be two months in jail...That's insane.

And having a felony should not ruin your life and make it impossible to get a job and take care of yourself and your family.

People make mistake. It's part of being human. But nowdays we have predators in the wings waiting for you to make a mistake, so they can exploit you with moral justification.

Banks, health insurance, governments...

It's really gotten out of hand.
Using tricks to make numbers total what you think they "should" other than using rounding to proper amount of precision is lazy and deceitful.
Agree to some extent but as this thread's OP pointed out, there is always work to do - it's not inventing jobs. There is always a need for flooding reinforcement or landslide mitigation for example (I kinda cherry-picked these as it's becoming a pressing matter in my home country).

I would say that by comparison, the private sector does a better job lately at inventing (bullshit) jobs. The value wouldn't be negative. For example was the CCC negative?
This is intriguing. Any further sources for this claim?

>The technology that I’ve been looking at lately (and much of it is not public) convinces me that younger generations are going to live a great deal longer than they now dream possible.
You would probably be sad to know that the steam tunnels are no longer accessible to students at will and South Masters are passing out of the living memory of students (the last time they could be used was in 2010-11)
I haven't seen it yet... what's with that final four (common to all languages)?
Topic is misleading. It might be true on .Net as the Version is 3.0.3, which might be the latest released Version for .Net (there is a prerelease of 4.8) but compared to Java it is ancient.
>Perl 6, unlike Perl 5, uses rationals by default

I'm not sure this is such a good idea. I love rational datatype, but it's too easy to shoot yourself in the foot with simple numerical procedures resulting in gigantic bignum denominators.
Statistics about Utah must always be taken with a grain of salt, even larger than is typically appropriate for gross/large-scale generalizations. People know that Utah stats are seen as a proxy for the success and/or failure of Mormonism and will distort findings to accommodate their agenda.

A quick example of this is that after Prop 8 passed in CA, a "study", using data sourced from a single, unnamed "top 10 pay site vendor" was published claiming that Utah had the highest incidence of online porn use in the US. That myth stuck for a while, but PornHub started releasing state-by-state traffic reports on its blog and have repeatedly and clearly debunked it. By those numbers, Utah regularly ranks in the bottom 10 states for online porn use.

Regarding depression, Mormon leaders explicitly encourage people to seek mental health treatment if/as necessary, and actively work to destigmatize the use of antidepressants, so increased use in Utah should not be a surprise. Leaders have told them it's OK, so they proceed without the guilt that may be unresolved in other areas.

Just conjecture here, but maybe a correlation between suicide and antidepressant use is a signal that antidepressants are inadequate and/or, at least in some cases, potentially counterproductive, rather than a signal that the populace is less happy vs. the baseline.
It's actually pretty simple. When you have a base 10 system (like ours), it can only express fractions that use a prime factor of the base.

In a way, not so simple (obvious to you? not to me)
The drop vs buffer decision is no harder for outgoing or incoming packets. In either case: if you're trying to simulate a different kind of network, do what that network does. If you're just trying to get good QoS on your gateway router, then use a smart AQM that will buffer only to the extent that is reasonable, and then drop or ECN mark when buffering threatens to add too much latency.
Half-joking. It can be helpful to verify an optimized implementation with a naive one. That's a small minority of testing though.

Special casing is effectively traditional testing: input is 1, output is 2.
https://github.com/erikwiffin/0.30000000000000004/pull/107
The Effect of Indoor Prostitution on Sex Crimes: Evidence from New York City
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Thanks for the comment simonw. It's not directly mentioned in the article but we're also using the API clients to implement a DNS fallback strategy. If the hosts are unreachable through their primary hostnames (.algolia.net), the clients try alternate names (.algolianet.com) that are hosted by a different provider.
Sure. Get the real medicine is the proper course of action.

This is a major undertaking. Besides the difficulties in the other replies, you also figure that this is expensive. It requires regular trips to the doctor for pain medicine, and possibly regular trips to a psychiatrist for the ADHD drug. For pain medicine, some places force folks to go to a pain clinic, where they drug test you. Smoke some pot to help it out and lose your pain meds.

If you want folks to use FDA approved methods and have actual medical care, that avenue has to be cheaper and easier to use than the illegal stuff and not treat folks like criminals in said system - and for many, it has failed to do this.
When one area has 100x the waste of the other and isn't nearly as easily auditable, it's a question of priorities. Going for this instead of defense procurement which is actually hard to cut is like DHS going after little old protesting ladies and patting themselves on the back.
I don't think that is given. My home country Norway is mainly liberal but we give a lot to charity.

But as a liberal myself, I don't really favor charity. I favor government solutions. I'd rather pay more taxes than pay to a charity directly.

The problem I see with charity is that (1) they can't provide comprehensive solutions, (2) vulnerable to the free rider problem, (3) inefficient as much resources needs to be spent collecting donations.

By comprehensive solution I mean that a lot of poverty is caused by complex set of factors. E.g. the person might lack job skills and have a mental health problem. Thus they need mental health care and a job training program. Putting together something like that is something a modern welfare state is quite capable of doing, while charity doesn't really have a solution. Charity is for giving you food when you are hungry or giving your emergency care.

Charity is poorly suited for having a long term medical follow up e.g. of high risk groups. E.g. Norway has one of the worlds best statistics for infant mortality. A lot of that is because there are extensive checkups through the pregnancy. Everything related to a pregnancy is completely free. For other health care there is usually a minimum fee. The US in the contrast has terrible infant mortality rate and that is mainly due to poor checkups. Charity in the US has been unable to solve that problem. All they can do is give hungry people food or patch them up.

Charity can't solve systematic problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346
It's already paid work for some fraction of forward thinking people - a friend has three income-generating houses, the first of which was financed by virtual coal trading in RuneScape in the early 00's.
Is your spend also roughly 1:1 on traditional and online? In my own experience qualified lead gen ROI has been significantly higher with online.
If you're asking how to fund it in a non-redistributive manner, since the blood has been squeezed from the stone:

We have a peculiar set of beneficiaries of our economic inflation system.

In theory we could select poor people as the winners of economic inflation. In practice it would result in a civil war because the current wealthy and powerful beneficiaries of the existing inflation based economic system won't accept being cut off from funds very easily. In the long run they have to be very careful about grabbing pennies in front of a steamroller because if they aren't careful the guillotines will come out.

Demographic changes are relevant. Table #4 implies the percentage of white school children in the UK will be zero in 70 years based on growth rates being linear at 10%/decade and 30% minority today. There is no such thing as magic dirt, and once whites are eliminated from the UK, the landmass will no have "white country" style retirement systems because it'll no longer be a white country. The Rhodesian retirement system is no longer a relevant topic of discussion today in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe does have a retirement system, but no one would confuse it with the soon to be historical UK retirement system. A child in the UK will not be retiring in either the UK or Rhodesian retirement system because the UK of 2010s will not exist in the 2080s, more will be changing than just the retirement system.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
People look at life expectancy numbers, which at rising, and think the limits of aging are increasing, but they're not. More people are living to 80, but 80 year olds aren't living any longer.

It's certainly possible science will discover a breakthrough, but there's no trends to suggest it yet.
Facebook now requiring women and minorities make up 33% of law firms it hires
The power of chat bots is in marketing. They compete with email marketing as a more responsive medium. This is because platforms like Messenger allow much greater interaction from the user than email. Most think of chat bots as a textual experience, but you can actually build entire UIs with Messenger that include images and buttons. In a way, it can be thought of as less frictional minimalistic website via chat. Eventually you will be able to buy things directly in chat, closing the loop entirely.
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While I feel unrest could start there, I doubt it would persist. The army and national guard are just too well equipped and organized to deal with the problem. I'd put my money on 1,000 national guard troops vs 10,000 random Texans with guns. This doesn't even get into larger military hardware, such as planes and drones with missiles. Sure, people will die, and it would be a tragedy. It may move the political needle, but I doubt it would be some kind of meaningful uprising.

As a larger point, I think this diminishes the chances of a "french revolution" style revolution in general, where the huge masses of poor people revolt against the rich. The poor are not well equipped or organized in general, and military technology is increasingly becoming more powerful and longer range. Just think if the richest people were protected by working ED-209's that responded to their command. Even if we had the other 99% fighting them, could they really win?
Ok bad example but you get the idea.
Floats can only represent fractions of powers of two. 0.3 is a fraction of powers of two and five.

See IEEE754

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
That strategy is often called sessions or a stateful-cookie. It requires all of the servers that accept that cookie to be able to share their session state (or for a strategy like sticky sessions to be used). The strategy I described is stateless: the servers only need to share the secret in order to verify the cookie. It's a popular strategy but it does have some trade-offs, such as being vulnerable to anyone who knows the secret.
> people only see the delta - how much they used to have, how much they have now.

And how much others have and they have.
There brands that sell blade specifically designed around the UK laws.

For instance, Spyderco makes the popular UK Penknife (2.93' blade and no lock) and the Spy-DK that's designed around the Danish knife laws.
If you want to offend both groups: Germany has a joke item called a "Gardena RJ45 Adapter"[0] which allows you to connect your garden hose to your network...

[0] https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QkYNnuYZs8Y/Uf0y_mV-1uI/A...
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The script coverage of Boogie Nights is a great example of the problem with script readers in general.

https://screenplayreaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/boo...

The fact is, a 24 year old that's paid 25 bucks, doesn't really have a good barometer for what makes a good movie.

It's all just so subjective.
North Korea isn't really a threat. Not such a one that the rusty superpower should obsess over it and follow it on evening news.
I think his point is that civilization is based on the principle of not letting people fend for themselves (e.g.: through public works like sewage systems), and that this naturally extends to retirement pensions.
If you are tired of Chesterton, you are tired of life.
Looking at my own society (Sweden), the idea of fixing unemployment by inventing job programs to employ people is a quite common idea. Sadly it has some big draw backs, one simply being that such large force of "free labor" is very attractive to be exploited. When there is no option to decline a job offer, some places will naturally abuse that and out compete those companies not getting free employees from the state. The Swedish government naturally have rules against such exploitation, but enforcement is a problem and far from 100%.

And I recall reading that there is statistics showing the rates of people improving their situations when working in such jobs, and if I recall right, its no better than compared to people who just get social aid and stay at home. This is one of the arguments in favor of universal basic income when its discussed here.
Ask HN: What is the most objective piece you have ever read on climate change?
Seems hard nowadays to find anything that isn't either making doomsday predictions or hugely politically slanted. I'm interested in reading about the most up to date climate projections from top scientists, and where areas of disagreement persist.
I'm not talking about a definition for nerds, I'm sure everyone on this forum knows the difference. I'm more after something that can be presented to a politician and be acted upon.

And most politicians either have no clue or don't care about the difference between DLC and IAP, for them it's the same - you pay for "new" content in a computer game. Have enough voters complain to them and they'll cluelessly enact crap as laws.
And

- The same economic model is valid for all markets
Until about a month ago, new account creation was still through telnet, but in this "mobile first" age, that didn't make much sense anymore.
Until you actually do need the flexibility and then you are hosed. People who design protocols with some degree of flexibility have usually learned this lesson the hard way. To quote Kennedy quoting Chesterton: don't take down a fence until you know why it was put up.
That's a Show HN thread from months ago.. there's been a recent uproar.
"human readable JSON like format"
"JSON style human semi-readable form"
> accidentally mentions JSON twice in the list

JSON is the most widely used serialization protocol in web application development today. The article's repeated mention of it is no accident at all: it's considered best practice across the industry. Frankly, I don't know why we are still talking about this.
Yet there are just as many perfect squares as integers.
I'm not sure if i disagree or not, but you're diving into a veritable pool of what-ifs there.
Bold,direct and straightforward.Latimes keeps it up.
Erm Facebook is built on PHP, Microsoft on C++ (or C#) and I've never heard of Galois.

I mean the fact that there is even an exhaustive "Haskell in industry" page at all shows you how rare it is. There isn't a "C++ in industry" page! I did actually find a Go one here:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers

But it's both hilariously long and also obviously not exhaustive.
http://www.pcdoctor-community.com/wp/posts/2007/10/fairness-...

Windows XP tried to implement some amount of fairness in its locks but did not guarantee it. Windows Vista gave up on fairness entirely.

You should just be using unfair locks. Thread starvation is rare in most OSes at this point.
I just want to add that a lot of my jobless (and semi-employed), nontechnical friends would gladly jump into a good, entry-level position that would train them. What's sad is most of the entry-level work I see across most fields could be done with a minimum of training, even though employers insist on a college degree.

There's a lot of computing grunt work that I would love to pawn off on a junior, but our hiring funnel is so messed up...
Look at Wikipedia definition of bot (or other definitions on the first page when searching Google) "Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone."

I think "instant answers to frequently asked questions and surveys and polls over chat" (with some NLP to make it better) surely match that definition, no?

I don't understand why everyone is so fixated on the AI/conversation aspect. :)

With the current state of the technology, companies can benefit by using bots to enhance human-to-human conversations, not trying to replace them altogether.
Why are two threads trying to get the same lock very often? This seems like a design flaw: you want threads to mostly be uncontended, with lots of time spent outside locks.
> superset of this with a JSON style human semi-readable form,
and an optional self-description field, and you’ve solved all
possible serialization problems

I'm really curious about Ion: https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/

Is it in use anywhere else besides Amazon?