skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for reading, I hope to improve the analysis over time. I spent the last three years building a unique database that contains the complete paintings of ~40 of the best known artists of the twentieth century. I was motivated by reading about the large percentage of works that are forged or misattributed. I had always just assumed there was a single database listing how many works artists created, average size of the works, changes in materials over time etc. (similar to sports stats). After asking around and learning no such database exists I decided to build one. Getting my blog out there has allowed me to meet with a lot of really sharp folks like yourself who are helping me refine the analysis.
I'm sure some anti-pornographers would actually use that if they heard if from you...

But I totally agree that there is no need to go so far. I think it is generally accepted that not everyone is expected to accept every job:

- A muslim or jew and a job handling non-halal/non-kosher meat

- A "pro-lifer" in an abortion clinic

- A teetotaler at a liquor store

- An ideologue vegetarian or vegan handling meat, leather, etc.

- Washing/preparing bodies in a funeral home / crematorium

- A butchering job involving killing animals

Lists as such are, in fact, implemented in every "you have to accept job offers" situation, usually officially and with a procedure you can apply for to add a new one to the list or at least get a special exemption. Almost always, "personal service" jobs are exempt.

I'm sure no one would object if no job that required "no clothing", "skin on skin contact" or "insertion of anything into a body cavity" are exempt. I mean, one should never be forced to be a food taster either.
I'd rather say that high income inequality leads to people realising class antagonism between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the synthesis of this conflict is Socialism.
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Have you ever wondered what the point of males is? We take it for granted and many of us probably think males are actually necessary for reproduction but, of course, they are not. Many organisms reproduce just fine without sex. Those that do have sex end up with 50% of the population unable to reproduce. That's an incredible cost, so what is the advantage?

Many biologists study sex and it's one of the most fascinating questions out there. The general theory is that producing males allows the organism to try out some really wacky stuff.

You can't play around too much with females. If your children are female and they can't reproduce then that's the end of your line. So the selective pressure on female offspring being good is high.

It's a different story for males. You only need one good male and you're set. So if you produce 10 males, 6 might be average, 2 exceptional, and 2 complete failures (in evolutionary terms). Those 2 exceptional specimens will pick up the slack for the others. Not only that, but those two exceptional specimens will reproduce more than any set of males that were all average (like a set of females). So not only is there no selective pressure to produce 100% "good" males, there is a strong advantage to producing a few exceptional males.

The trouble is, modern feminists only look at the few exceptional males (the CEOs, Nobel prize winners etc.) and whine about it. The other end of the spectrum, the men on the street or committing suicide, are completely invisible to them.
You know that many professors don't actually do a lot of the nitty-gritty work, don't you? They farm that out to their grad students. So in theory all someone has to do is get a PhD and get hired as an academic.

What's worrying is I know a couple PhDs - in STEM - that were granted when they probably shouldn't have been. One lacked any originality, and the other was basically incomprehensible.
How this US tech giant is backing China's tech ambitions
Isn't it just the UK with this horrible practice? I've flown a lot in Europe and UK airports are the only one that display gates shortly before, even if the plane is already parked at the gate. I guess it makes people buy more food in the waiting area...
Yes, the better way is to make it clear that trying to illegally enter Europe is useless. If there is no motivation to cross the sea in a rubber dinghy, there will be no drowning people, either.

But this is apparently out of the question, for reasons of "humanity".
Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) can do it: pandoc -f markdown -t org -o marketing-checklist.org marketing-checklist.md
That's where I disagree.
For 90% of the code it wouldn't ever matter if you're using a list with O(n) or an array with O(1). And in the 10% it can usually be remedied afterwards. Usually the reviewer will point it out and it's a 10min fix.

On the other hand I've seen so much hand-optimized code that used the correct data structures to solve the wrong problem.

Yes, that is kind of unfair - you want people who grasp the problem and find a good solution. But I prefer the people who solve the problem at hand in a wrong way instead of solving the wrong problem in the best imaginable way.
Current laws seem to penalize the sex worker and the buyer, not the traffickers. Legalizing this would let both parties involved feel safer, no repercussions from calling the police if something goes awry.
And about half of the country is less than 1m above sea level. The 1953 storm created a surge of 5.6m above mean sea level, about 3.6 above highest tide. Delta Works protects only to about 4m above highest tide. Katrina created a storm surge of up to 8.5m. Luckily tropical hurricanes don't get to the North Sea. Yet.
>> It is no great virtue to think that when you have wealth, but try living like that when you are poor and all of your meagre possessions were hard-earned.

>> Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury.

Those are separate things. Minimalism would be the opposite of buying things that are easily replaceable. Surely you would buy things that don't need replaced often/can be repaired and are higher quality/more expensive.

Using plastic dishes, throwing them out after every meal, and buying new ones isn't minimalism. Spending money on 4 good quality ceramic plates which will last the next 10 years is.
Gtk+ is accessible on Linux, just not the win32 build.
Not even remotely sure what you're talking about -- apart that you don't Tcl but are forced to maintain some project written in it.

TCL is an excellent language, and compared to the wildness that is the JS ecosystem, it's much more concise and elegant.

>Not a single person here would choose it over python or anything else if they were making the decision today.

You'd be surprised. I would like to be able to use it more.
I get that the author is frustrated with false claims about Qt, but calling people working on open source software "hippie coders" is just an insulting misrepresentation harming any rational debate.
I don't think GP was under any illusions on this front - hence "the more money I have". "Profoundly and easily replaceable" by expending money.
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These responses confirm the articles premise.
GtkBuilder and its schema doesn't have anything to do with scripting in GNU applications or Guile.

Vala is also not relevant.

What the GNU's statement above is about is an embedded scripting language for GUI application extensibility (to write things like editor plugins in, to provide scripting for a GUI app like GIMP, etc.).

GtkBuilder is a UI builder for Gtk apps with a XML-based serialization format. It solves a totally different problem.

Vala was an attempt to replace C and have a "modern-ish" language with first class GObject support. Again, solving a totally different problem.
It'd be nice if you modified the url without modifying browser history.
Thanks for reading, Artnet is awesome. To my knowledge they do not have a database looking at all known works by artists, they focus on works sold at auction. This makes sense as they cover much larger group of artists and info on complete works is typically not available for the majority of artists.
A Small Town Seeks to Become a Tech Haven [video]
This article isn't anything more than a rant. The author filed a bug in the QT issue tracker [1] that some proprietary screen reader (JAWS, that his customers use) does not work well with QT on Windows. No (technical) details provided whatsoever.

I don't believe anyone in the QT team is /against/ stronger support for accessibility. IMO it is understandable that fixing some piece of proprietary software is not a top priority. I believe it's more appropriate for the author to rant against JAWS for not caring about QT, than the other way around.

> Free Software is NOT about Accessibility or equality

The author is correct here. Free software is not about a specific feature, it's about protecting user's freedom. I believe the author would be warmly welcomed to discuss issues and submit patches - even fixing issues with proprietary software. He shouldn't blame a community of volunteers for not fixing his personal problems for free.

[1] - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53024
I use a lot of accessibility apis indirectly for keyboard navigation, on macos Shortcat cannot find any elements to click inside Google Chrome or VSCode which makes me wonder if either Shortcat has a bug or Google Chrome is not exposing those elements through the accessibility api.

Makes me hesitate to assume Electron apps are accessible by default
I'd say $2000 would seem more likely, assuming it's some monster thing that draws 2KW when running flat out. 1 watt-year in the US costs around $0.75-$2.
The reason to use formal systems is to be able to reason about larger, more complex systems. Our brain is rather limited and to empower ourselves, we've found the divide and conquer approach. For that to work, we need assurances that our composition is correct due to the subcomponents being correct (and the composition operator). This is something we do all the time. You assume your compiler is correct, or your common libraries. However, if we want to grow larger systems, our foundations become more critical and we need stronger assurances.
The specific cultural experiences have changed with a younger generation - hot-off-Broadway musicals, live concerts, music festivals, etc.
Current investments in the river and coastline protection ("Ruimte voor de Rivier" and "Zwakke Schakels") are done not only to protect for the current conditions, but also for the anticipated climate change.

As an example, the second large expansion for the port of Rotterdam, Maasvlakte2, is at 6m above sea level. The previous one is at 5m. That added one meter has cost a few hundred million euro's extra, but money well spent in my opinion. The foundation of the Maasland Barrier is designed for a storm surge of 6m above mean sea level, even though the gate is currently at 5m above. Thats why it can easily be upgraded.

So even though not much is changing in the general publics perspective, for large infrastructure that takes 10 years to prepare and design, and is built to work for 50-100 years, taking into account (expected) climate change has been a necessity for many decades now.

On another note, here is a nice point cloud visualization of the entire country: http://ahn2.pointclouds.nl/
You don’t need ropes to have a counterweight. The same effect can be accomplished with track and gears.

I do agree with you that having independent counterweights would increase the complexity and the likelihood of a breakdown. Ultimately any solution would depend on the value being provided by the solution verse the increased cost or either maintenance or energy costs.

More importantly the purpose of me suggesting this solution was not to solve the elevator problem (I am sure lots of engineers have thought more deeply about this than me), but to discuss the problem.
I'm also hoping fractional display scaling will ever be implemented in GNOME (displays can only be scaled 1x, 2x, 3x, etc. right now).
> Who cares if you know everything or very little about it? They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't - they saw that this thing would be a great investment.

Just like Bernie Madoff's investment fund or any other Ponzi scheme.

> BUY IT ASAP I tell'ya. Don't miss the wave again. Never again.

It's always the green accounts that post this. I wonder why?
I think people confuse equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. I think it's totally normal to expect some types of people to favour working in some jobs. I'd expect more younger people to work for startups, for example. Gender is just another grouping of people with different strengths, likely influenced by evolution. Since men were unable to give birth, it made more sense for them to go and hunt. Competition between people is a good way of increasing skill, so in my eyes, an increase in competitive attitude, along with a desire to reach the top of any hierarchy is just an extension of these original motivations.
Does anyone else see the article presenting for a mutually agreed on act as women innocent / men predatory?

For example

> The Swedish or Nordic model takes aim at the demand, making it illegal to buy sexual services but not to sell it.

but

> In a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District of Rhode Island, COYOTE's lawyer argued that the state's law on prostitution was too broad and discriminated against women, given that female sex workers were arrested far more than male customers.

Saying "takes aim at the demand" for a mutually consenting interaction just seems a way of targeting men without explicitly saying it. Different countries and situations, but the reporter doesn't note the different treatment by the state when one sex is criminalized versus the other.

Or

> "You see the silencing of victims," Hughes said. "It is just very harmful to women. It really is a libertarian approach, but the ones who get freedom are the pimps, the sex buyers, the businessmen who then can rent properties to the massage parlors, and to the sex buyers. There's very little freedom for the women."

or

> As for Robinson, the online escort who moved to Rhode Island? She was angry.

> "It pissed me off. I didn't know nothing about activism, I didn't know what a sex worker rights organization was," she said.

> Robinson changed that. She became active with COYOTE, the sex worker union and advocacy group.

> "Criminalization is a punishment for women who won't conform," Robinson said. "And we're just supposed to go live in the streets in poverty and not complain about it, and be good women."

Nothing wrong with a woman's perspective, but men's behavior was criminalized too. I would think it would add to the article to get some of their perspective.

Not including men's perspective, except as the businessmen who make money off the women and the rapists, makes the article sound like the reason for prostitution's negative reputation is men. Would a quote like the following fly?

> "Criminalization is a punishment for men who won't conform. We're just supposed to go live without sex and not complain about it, and be good men."
Found the imperative programmer.

I'm only half-joking: how often do you need an actual for loop instead of the more abstract concepts of mapping/reducing collections?

I think you made his analogy stronger, not weaker.

As a programmer I am (should be?) concerned with the actual implications of which data structures I use, not how to use them. It should be seamless.

You wouldn't judge an EE on his ability to build wires after you give them some copper and plastic. Sure, he could with tools and a bit of time. It's just a waste of everyone's time and effort.
This is the downside of The Economist's signature writing style - in trying to translate dry economic statistics into real-world referents, they can get the referents wrong. Especially if the subject matter is regarding a younger generation, or (more worryingly) a non-Western country, or (even worse) poor or uneducated people.
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You are being very very selective with the data. Assuming good faith please refer to the rather larger dataset with gun ownership and gun crime data for many countries provided in another post.
I think I would say that I have some regrets not buying/mining. When I first heard about bitcoin I thought that it was pretty neat but I did not want to support it because I thought it is such a waste of exergy.
That will do nothing for congestion within the core of the provider network. That's where qos is actually needed. Asking providers not to oversubscribe at all would literally increase the cost of broadband a minimum of 100x overnight.
Perhaps - I've always interpreted it more charitably to mean that you care more about what your kids' teeth look like than spending time with them.
I'd like to open source at least a portion of the data to see if it is possible to build a community driven database. Could connect works back to museums and auction records as well as articles and research and potentially build a crowd sourced provenance.
Yes, that is the specific, in-context meaning - but many people, even software developers, don't know that.

To them, "accessible" has its conventional or conversational definition: able to be accessed, or available. They would view the title as describing software that you can install or run on any operating system, which QT seems to supply.
I'd say neither. The parent sounds like he knows his stuff without down playing his knowledge (inferiority complex), and isn't pretentious enough to call himself a software engineer (superiority complex).
Prostitution is not 'completely legal' in Australia. Brothels are still illegal in some states and even those states which have decriminalised prostitution have brothels operating illegally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia
This is not a "defect"!
A man should be potentially dangerous: for instance, I want to know that I can rely on my partner to have my back in case we get in some dubious situation.

I'm a woman, and I don't want to be together with just a copy of myself that happens to have an extra collection of dangly bits in the pants ;-)

I acknowledge that there are physical/mental differences between us, and the goal should be to complement each other, not make men more "feminine" or whatever.
What is a neural network based translation?
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I would say the collatz conjecture is up there. It's been an entry point for many people into the computational side of mathematics.

Take any positive whole number, n.

If it is even, divide it by 2. (n = 2n)

If it odd, multiply it by 3 and add one. (n = 3n + 1)

Repeat. If n = 1, stop.

Does this process always lead to 1? It seems to, but who knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
Speaking of, disabling TLS 1.0 is a great way to reduce traffic from unwanted bots. (although I still run TLS 1.1)

If necessary, someone will create a dotdeb-equivalent for an openssl version with TLS 1.0. This is a "dammed if you do, dammed if you don't" type of thing. If they don't disable it, at the next big security issue, everyone will blame openssl/distributions for being negligent.
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It's both, actually. At the base level it is about protection, but at a higher level, if you've ever been in a society with a welfare state, things are so much nicer. People are calmer, more relaxed and even more polite (they might be colder or more distant due to cultural characteristics, though).

For me, personally, a random town in Germany is more pleasant from the social aspect than San Francisco with all its riches and its hobos.
He's also a very good table tennis player:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14946868
>As odd as JavaScript is, imagine trying to write the client-side code for gmail in Tcl.

OK, I imagine it. What would be the problem?
Some sort of partiality monad, I presume.
Everything you just described is social...
Still users can't admin their OpenStack machines, containers, networks...
Why would the market correct itself? What could possibly cause a crash, short of some kind of catastrophic security vulnerability being discovered, or hostile regulation in one of the core markets?
How does climate change not matter? It matters more. The country is already vulnerable to floods, which are more likely when weather gets more extreme, and the higher the sea rises, the higher and stronger the dikes and other defenses need to be. And costs of dikes go up with the square of their height, so our costs to protect against further sea level rise are going to be higher than those of other countries.

There's already a lot of effort being put in improving dikes and other coastal defenses. Of course this was already happening before rising sea levels were a serious concern, but now it seems that instead of being nearly done, we've barely started. There's no end in sight for the next couple of centuries.

Yes, it's a fight that we're used to, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

The point of the article simply seems to be that because this is a fight we have experience in, we can make money by exporting our expertise.
What general problem does your company want to solve that is not possible (or harder) with a traditional system like a central database?
I was going to buy $3000 worth when it was $10 and I was talked out of it. The only way I sleep at night is knowing that I would have sold it when it hit $20.
Well if Uber doesn't provide consumer protection then you're not forced to use them. But personally I'd rather take the risk and give up my customer protection (and be fine 99% of the time) than deal with a conventional taxi. Judging by Uber's popularity it looks like I'm not alone.
why would someone use OVH for cloud storage when they can use S3? OVH is only good for dedicated servers.
Ask HN: Have you recently used Bitcoin for buying something?
I just want to know if bitcoins are being used legally or illegally to buy some product or service. Or are they just being stocked?
> but many people, even software developers, don't know that

I find it hard to believe that software developers would not be aware of the term "accessibility" as meaning features facilitating use by handicapped users.
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I haven't clicked on that link, but I get your question.

I've known communities that are paywalled. Instead of thinking it as a "slack channel that costs $$", the value prop is "it's a closed community whose entry is $$". There have been vBulletin forums where if you were a paid subscribers, they got you access to subscriber-only subforums.

Couple of examples currently:

1. Product Management HQ community: $25 to join. Slack channel is there as well. https://www.productmanagerhq.com/join-the-community/

2. Product People Club: [it was paid. don't know current price. entry seems closed right now]. https://productpeople.club/
I think the pymc3 people have made something available
I didn't understand why she was "livid" that her manager told her to take some time off, on full pay, to recover.
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What? No we don't. Most liberals think that sex isn't special and that human trafficking is wrong.
Yes, it's from more technically savvy to less technical so to some degree from young to old. Not exactly of course but it's the one countervailing flow to the housing and other asset bubbles and debt transfer which have massively transferred wealth in the opposite direction.
This is really cool work - if you're ever in New York City and want to chat Art/Tech come by the Artsy offices ( https://github.com/artsy/meta/blob/master/meta/happy_hour.md )