skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I originally was trying to get at is how the Constitution has almost nothing to do with most of what the federal government actually does. It sets the boundaries of civil liberties, policy and procedure, federal authority, the separation of federal powers, and the differences between states and the federal government.

The Constitution is not an OS, or even a kernel - it is an access control policy. What the government actually does is implement that ACL. So when people invoke the constitution all the time, it's like saying "They're trying to download 10 gigabytes of data, but the ACLs!!!!!", when the ACLs don't have anything to do with disk quota. So this is my point: people keep bringing up the Constitution when it does not apply.
Or way down to synthesize vocal fry!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
I am not aware of that right now. Internally we measure the performance by looking at the theoretical peak possible (like the scaling efficiency when you use distributed training). C2 has been doing pretty well; if you find performance degradations, send an issue to us and we are usually very good to figure out the perf.
>It's stark, dehumanizing, and pretty damned depressing

Most of all it's pretty short sighted and myopic. Even from a strictly economical perspective, and assuming all of the above is correct, we need new generations of people to be born, and someone needs to take care of them.

If women would be penalised for taking time off they would be less inclined to have children, at least if they have a well paying job. The long term consequences of that are quite bad.

Greedy algorithms are never optimal in macro economics. The local maxima are never global.
> I've never once heard someone say "well, I'd ask for that raise, but they're going to take so much in taxes it's just not worth the effort".

In a similar vein, nearly 10 years ago in Australia, a Mineral Rent Resource Tax (MRRT)[1] was proposed, wherein mining companies making a net profit of over 5% were taxed a bit extra on the amount over 5%. Of course the miners and their fans screamed bloody murder, and threatened to move offshore. Yeah, sure you guys are. You're going to move your profitable-by-definition business in a stable first-world country and away from working mines and supply chains.

Besides, miners mine where the minerals are; they don't move to Ireland and mine there because the taxes are low.

[1] One of the earlier names for the MRRT was the stonkingly-bad-PR move of calling it "Super Tax". It was meant to be a tax on 'super profits', but a) it sounds like an extra-powerful tax, and b) sounds like a tax on your superannuation.
If you happen to be in NYC (USA), stop by any major Chinese grocery store in Flushing, Queens. You'll find albendazole and other anthelmintics for about $10/pack.
It won't happen because none of them will implement the other guy's new thing. Chrome would do the Google thing, Edge would do the Microsoft thing, and Firefox would sit back and balk that none of that junk is standardized. Then webdevs would just stick with Javascript and friends because it's the only thing that mostly works everywhere. That's exactly what happened to Dart, right? It had aspirations of hopping into Chrome along side JS but who else was going to put it in their browser? Now it's just another thing that compiles to Javascript because that's the only way you'd get anybody to adopt it.
I'd like to see a VM escape.
> Why is this such a terrible thing to express that so many people need to come down on me for feeling this way? If you were, say, a black guy concerned about some black guy getting enormous bad press and how that impacts blacks, would that merit this kind of dismissive pile on and massive downvoting?

I'm not sure exactly how to respond to that. I'm slightly confused I guess as to why you feel people are coming down on you or dismissing you. To me, HN is a place where we all discuss our ideas about things and try to achieve a sort of collective consensus about the world. We certainly don't (and shouldn't!) all agree about everything, but we expose our ideas to one another in an attempt to improve our collective comprehension of the world around us.

When I respond to a comment like yours, i'm not (usually) intending to attack it or tear it down - at least not in an aggressive way. I thought your point of view was interesting and worth responding to with my own. By this mechanism of back and forth, ideally we'd come to a shared understanding of what's happening in this situation. I find that process to be enjoyable and enlightening, which is why I responded to your comment.

> And if it did, would you think it only proved your point that racism and bad press is a real concern?

I think sexism is absolutely real and is absolutely a real concern. It's just that I have not perceived sexism in the response to this particular situation. However, part of my reason for replying to your comment was to try to better understand why it is that you do perceive it that way. There may be some article or set of comments you've seen that I have not that might change my view. Or maybe we simply saw the same things and interpreted them differently. Either way, i'm curious to understand that divergence, and ultimately to change my own opinion if it needs changing.
I'm really ignorant about radio and even electricity so don't let my googling and wild-ass guesses scare you off. There are many helpful "maker" fora populated by people who can provide educated advice.
It's probably an easter egg
Well let me know if any of guys get in :D
In practice; we currently have a very UN-progressive system. Where the very wealthy get excessive tax breaks, and pay even less than the middle and upper-middle class (who are getting fucking murdered: at least that's my experience).

Would a flat-tax fix this? In theory: but if we set that "flat tax" to 15-17%; (and simply pocket the cost savings from simplification of tax code) - that seems like a win. But the very poorest quintile can't pay that. (and are equipped to dodge that, by simply not working and collecting aid or taking black-market work - cash-basis labor, or selling drugs, etc.) - the top quintile will also have the means to avoid paying their fair share. As always.

It's those in the middle, who have to work REAL jobs, and can't hide their income though either black-market means, or tax-shelters: which still work in a flat-tax system.

The government will need to raise overall rates to compensate for this, and the middle gets screwed even more.

That's an IDEAL system.

In the REAL world: the wealthy will still lobby for special deductions.

Personally, I'd like to see the mortgage deduction go away for non-primary residences.

Stuff like "dancing-horses" deductions and the absolute murder "small businesses" get away with, (like; taking their personal Truck as a deduction, by calling it a "work truck") - that can be horse-traded around. But I think there is the most to be gained from the mortgage deduction on non-primary residences. This is probably America's most sacred cow. And therefore, is most likely politically impossible. This is why we've been at a stalemate over tax-reform since 1980.
I have literally never seen that sentiment in a single post here (maybe it's different in person walking the streets somewhere?), and I'm a pretty hopeless HN addict who's read at least 10+ Theranos threads here and hundreds of posts.

But if you say you've encountered it, I'm inclined to believe you. Which websites do you see this sentiment in? HN? Reddit? FB comments? WSJ comments? Or do you see it in the workplace?
Smart KeyPaths: Better Key-Value Coding for Swift
Not everyone can work on projects that change the course of humanity. Some work is done for just shit and giggles. And who knows what kind of possibilities these humble beginnings can lead to?
There's a lot of potential in AR and I think this is a good way to introduce consumers and developers to it.
The script is barely necessary, youtube-dl resumes downloads when run again. If it's a regular thing, set up a cron job to run more frequently than necessary, if it's one time run the command then ; sleep 300 ; the command again

Youtube-dl just does what you want 90% of the time, and good docs for the rest.
I was looking for documentation for creating bindings to other programming languages. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Yup, I got interested in Dylan after researching "languages with multi-methods". I started playing with OpenDylan - some FFI to C, a simple HTTP client, things like that, all under 100 loc (I don't have these on GH, but there's a bit at [1]).

The only thing I can say is that I didn't like the syntax, probably mainly because of broken Emacs mode for Dylan. Well, also that it was generally slow when comparing the simple program from [1] with other implementations Dylan was the slowest[2].

I'm 100% sure that could be fixed if more people helped with the compiler, AFAIK the current OpenDylan codebase is rather old and there's one person working on it sometimes. And I didn't even manage to run Gwydion Dylan last time I checked.

Other than that, the uniformity of everything being a multi-method, the type system which is generally dynamic, but which can work statically (to a certain extent) if you want and the macros, which I, unfortunately, didn't have the time to fully explore - felt really nice.

[1] https://github.com/piotrklibert/dirlist/blob/848eb42f074b61f...

[2] Second chart: https://klibert.pl/posts/walkfiles-introduction.html
How would the narrative be different? Travis Kalanick has been absolutely shit on by the press, and the HN crowd in general, and what he has done is arguably much less egregious than what Elizabeth Holmes has done.
> software programmers, that is positive as they are - on whole - more likely to bear a sense of reason and popular morality than those writing legislation right now

Any time we think some group of people is going to be naturally above human frailties, we are wrong; it never works. We find software programmers to be more reasonable because they are more like us, and also we are imagining ideal hypothetical developers - plenty of real ones should be nowhere near making laws for others.

Everything is ultimately politics. If there is power in algorithms, then those who desire to influence things will influence the algorithms. It's just a less transparent mechanism.
sup mccall? hey read the bootstrap docs then try again
True. But now you're talking about ideas, rather than about experience, so you're testing something a bit different.
Node.js lib – Check your public ip and more details from list of APIs
I would guess London has much better public transport, so people no need to use cars/motorbikes like in Bangkok, so the roads are not that necessary in London and can be assigned to pedestrians, while Skytrain in BKK is joke and only real alternative are river and canal express
If this type of work has been done previous, you could reference that ticket for a general guideline on how long that item took. Otherwise think about how long it would take you to accomplish given your knowledge and experience then account for the developers knowledge and experience, and pad the time a little bit, also account for other departments involved. A lot of times we build part of the task for a quick estimate of how long that took (nothing more than an hour). Also if there are any examples or existing proof of concepts that can be used to accelerate the dev time. And lastly remember that its only an estimate.
As far as I can tell, San Diego is the only county that has its own list of breweries page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breweries_in_San_Diego...
I don't really see a full fledged regression analysis here: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/01/the_college_pre....

There are several potentially correlated variables (College grad and cognitive ability?). That's not necessarily a problem but I think it would necessitate showing different models, not just one.

It's also atheoretical - it's not advisable just to slap a model together and find regression coefficients with high t-stats. In economics, it's important to start with a believable hypothesis grounded in reasonable theory.

This study is like a half-hearted attempt at exploratory data analysis - half-hearted because only the results of one model are shown and there are no charts or graphs to give a feel for the data.

You really can't just jump to a conversation about causes unless you've done more work on the data (maybe Caplan did, but he really needs to show it to stimulate the conversation he wants to have).
Or just `git blame` the line?
> I do also hope that this iteration brings with it better docs

The docs are very minimal this point with some definite gaps (we had a bit of a scramble to get them written in time for F8), but the point is well-taken: Relay docs need to get better. Luckily, the design of Relay Modern is simpler and easier to understand and explain; there is less (no?) magic involved, so we should be able to get the docs to a much better place now.
I am reminded of my favorite part of the whole Fast Radio Burst(FRB) story so far:

Since they had only been observed at 1.4 GHz, it was natural to think it was some sort of interference, since that is a busy frequency. Similar events that seemed to be terrestrial in origin were called Perytons (a mythological bird [1]) for some reason. This called into doubt that the FRBs were extragalactic, as claimed.

Then there was this fantastic paper [2] that completely figured it out (itself amazing). Turns out the "peryton" signals were from a microwave at a nearby building (lunch area for the lab or visitors) being opened while still on. There was just a grazing angle with the telescope that didn't block the signal, and the radio pulse looked very similar to an FRB.

The nail in the coffin? This plot (figure 4 and 7) showing that these signals peaked around lunchtime! Meanwhile the true FRBs were uniform in time, and so were not the same and agreed upon to not simply be interference.

[Disclaimer: I wrote a paper on FRBs, but was not involved in that work.]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton

[2] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mn...

or

arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02165
Depending on the age of the child, those programs may only provide food for a certain amount of time, over the lifetime of the adult applying for the benefits.

Or, if the adult has any property that increases their net worth over a certain amount, then they can't get the benefit at all.
The Real APL standard library
Nothing yet! I'm super interested to hear when/if any single founders get interview invites though. Let me know, pals!
Mass migrations are an assured consequence of climate change, and such events are culturally transformative on a grand scale.
I'm maybe not that experienced, but I do think that FB/Google are fundamentally different. Microsoft and IBM's 'products' depreciated very quickly. 5-year old software just isn't worth as much as brand new software (especially during that era.) Data, on the other hand, is like a wine that just gets better with age. FB's info about you only gets more valuable the longer they keep getting it. As long as FB/Google have active users, the moats around their businesses will likely seem impenetrable.
Height and looks are such an advantage. It's interesting because I actually notice myself being affected by their looks or their height and even then I'm likely not able to completely separate out this effect.
We received an invite earlier this afternoon! This came after a pre-interview earlier in the week. So stoked! This is our 5th or 6th time applying.
I assume by scale you mean many pages and not many visitors. For something like hackernews plain html and jquery would work perfectly fine.
That also removes a layer of anonymity which, in theory isn't needed because you would be conversing with family and friends. But the second you get other people in the mix, you'll really wish you had the ability to NOT look like yourself.
Delays, as if Technology couldn't get any SaaSsier
Well someone is choosing shitty meetups...

Here we usually get:

- A quite accurate description

- Time to chat with people and an on time presentation

- Hot pizza upon arrival

- Humble presenters willing to take their own time to teach us something for very little exposure

- 1 minute at most of sponsor specific content (with the occasional bad filtering of presenters, but those are rare and get a bad rep. quickly..)

- Great Wi-Fi

Maybe you should think of moving to Montreal?
Even if the software was statistically perfect and somehow immune to our cultural biases, it should still not be used. An individual stands before the judge, not a statistical demographic group. The probability of an imaginary statistical individual's recidivism is irrelevant; what is relevant is the current state of that individual. Relying on statistical models is both lazy and unfair
I shared a link to the same study on Twitter four days ago with the headline "Researchers create healing elixir from the blood of a dragon." Perhaps I'm not as original as I thought.
I thought VR had already flopped, but it seems they want to keep beating that horse for a few more years.
>If I am so wrong, crazy and stupid, why do so very many people need to step up and inform me of my error?

Frankly, human nature: https://xkcd.com/386/
spent almost half year in Thailand, had food poisoning once when I ate something which didn't look froms tall which looked odd already at that time, every other time I had at worst average experience, but mostly just enjoying tasty food

it should be mentioned that I use a lot of spicy and provided chillies, which may make difference with burning bacteria
There is clearly some sort of mapping available to a JavaScript FFI for doing I/O, as both the Unreal engine and Unity have been ported to WebAssembly. If you can run a video game engine in the browser you can run anything. I believe there are proposals in place as well to add opcodes to directly interface with browser capabilities rather than going through a JS FFI.
This is a Giant Shipworm
Firing fifty thousand Social Security Administration employees would likely require the SSA to be the most efficient benefits management organization in the world. 70,000 employees sounds like a lot, but, again: it's roughly in line with comparable commercial organizations.
This reminds me of a story I read in PCGamer long ago (I tried searching for the article, but I don't even know if it was published online). The author got into their seat for a flight, next to someone with a gaming laptop running a flight simulator. They chatted about video games for a while, and the gamer explains that they like to set up the simulator to play the same flight they are currently taking, and try to take off and land at the same time.

About halfway through the flight, the gamer remarks that the pilot is wrong, and not taking the best route for the flight. The flight sim path and real plane are going in slightly different directions. They try to tell a flight attendant who assures them know "the pilot knows what they're doing." The remaining half of the flight they complained to either the author or other attendants, acting like they knew more than the staff.

They never got to finish their flight-sim though, because the real plane landed 20 minutes ahead of schedule. I guess the pilot did take a different path after all!
There where two major signs that the company was full of it. First advertising a mostly Business to Business product like blood testing. Second, there have been years of research into getting pinprick glucose testing to work and that's known to have poor accuracy. Doing this accurately for a wide range of tests fails the product smell test.

Now, a lot of people feel validated that it was snake oil so yea they will dump on the company, but IMO it has little to do with the founder. It's their board that I found really suspicious.
If there is anything you can easily count or estimate, do it. It may be wildly inaccurate, but it's better than nothing, and those paying for the job also have a hard time arguing about counts.

Examples:

If there is UI involved, count or estimate the screens and their complexity (# of controls, plus a factor for what your gut says the complexity of each control is)

If you have to process xml, json or something like it, count the number of different tags in the file. Again, add or multiply by what your gut/experience tells you the complexity of the structure or what you have to do with it is.

Similarly, for a database, guess/count tables, fields and foreign keys.

If there are N stakeholders, multiply your estimate by f(N) for some strictly increasing f (they won't accept f(x) = x, but square root works fine). if they complain, saying they will not disagree, ask them to appoint a single stakeholder so that the others don't need to waste time saying what that single stakeholder would say, anyways.
The nuclear arsenal increased from 2,422 in 1955 to 18,638 in 1960. It stands now at 4,500. There were simply a lot more weapons available, and population centers were where warfighting capability was concentrated. Both of those things now are moot.

The argument is over whether nuclear war could end Western civilization. While for a short time this might have been true circa 1960, it no longer remains so now. Sure, it'll royally suck. It's on the same scale as WW2. But not the end of the world. I'll point you again to Rotty, whose job it is to know these things.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-fatalities-would-there-be-in-...
OK. I'll get in touch via email. Thanks for the offer!
That's because noone really, truly, honestly want to RTFM of a given stack, library, etc.

It's more fun to roll your own or to pick up a new one.

I mean, in how may ways can you organize code that manipulate a DOM tree, pull data, massage data, and update the DOM tree? Well, the more the merrier :)
> And the other great thing about these tools is you can add/remove them as needed.

In order to get that freedom, you need to build the tooling in such a way that it aligns with the web standards, so that when the standards catch up you can drop what you don't actually need anymore. We all switched from coffescript to ES6 and Babel because ES6, being standards-based, will eventually be supported in browsers, right?

And yet, with JSX we have a gratuitously non-standard dialect of JavaScript that isn't on the standards track and will never be natively supported in browsers. So, even when browsers catch up and offer full support for modern ES6 syntax, we're still stuck with transpilers because Facebook thought it was a good idea to tightly couple their custom templating language to JavaScript itself instead of wrapping it in template literals, which is the standards-based approach that ES6 actually provides for embedded DSLs and templating.

Today, in Europe and North America, roughly ~85% of users run a browser version that has native ES6 support. IE marketshare fell off a cliff in 2016, and now IE11 is at less than five percent and still falling. I don't actually need to transpile during development today, and I won't need to do it in production either in a year or two, and yet everything written with JSX will need a transpiler forever.
I would guess it's like single serving friend from Fight Club, someone you meet in airplane sitting next to you and leave apart after flight