skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the thing. It isn't that. It has never been that. No where in academia does it even approach that.

The OP didn't talk about academia, but the more prosaical use, hence the

> "On the street and in _less academic_ varietals of intersectionalism"

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> If we're going to use anecdotes and SJW-boogeyman talking points, then don't pretend that you're addressing philosophical tenets. Just go ahead and do it. As I said in my original post.

We are discussing tenets, but not as they exist in academia, but how they apply to general populace. I mean, you can talk Nihilism in media, without discussing nihilism in academia, even if Nihilism originated in academia.
I really dislike how background audio is locked behind a paywall with the official YouTube app on iOS. Ads I get, but come on, let's not lock away OS features behind a paywall
Nakaya pens are prime example of Veblen good - luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases.

The old desire of building your identity around what you own instead of what you do is not going anywhere. Good for them picking up the extra money people have.

Of course Nakaya pens are good writing pens, but the quality of pen as a tool levels around $50-$70 price mark. Extra is just collecting expensive shit. I have Japanese fountain pen that costs $60 and any more expensive pen I have tested is no better, just different. Good nib and mechanism is not rocket science. https://www.twsbi.com
Sapiens

Desert Solitaire

Meditations

Walden

Meditations

Thinking Fast and Slow
But trying to get food is a natural biological process. Seeking opiates is a different thing that fish (and cats) aren't originally wired to do.
The last time I wanted to use my HiDPI screen on Wayland/GNOME, I had to change the Mutter source and recompile, because my Dell HiDPI screen does not fulfil the GNOME definition of HiDPI.

A random non-expert user would simply not be able to enable scaling properly (and stare at miniature windows).

Yes, I know KDE is better and GNOME is working on this. The fact is that hardware that has been around for years does not work out of the box or even with a 'blah fedora'.
I assume he was being sarcastic
2014 was ugly; yahoo finance news articles used for malicious harassment... not unlike the forces that corrupt this very website. Sorry HN, you too have been infiltrated by malicious forces, the difference of course is that user content creates a deniably divider (just like Reddit or other similarly designed sites).
If you use an ad blocker, the site will block you back.

PASS.
I'm aware of SQLAlchemy Core/ORM (and ORMs in general), my question is more like why do we have to concatenate strings in these project's internals instead of using some API to pass query structures without intermediate composing/decomposing. For small queries that ORMs often do, it feels like needless and annoying overhead.

For now, even '?' placeholder escaping is actually manually-printf'ed under the driver's hood, afaik, so in the end we send plain text to the server. SQLite probably avoids that via sqlite3_bind() call, which allows to pass SQLITE3_STATIC string args if you want, but that's the benefit of in-process engine.
It's an interesting question. Keeping in mind the levels of "foreign" aid we maintain now, I would suspect... yes? Is there a transition that American politics makes from the state level to the federal level, that makes us more generous? Is there a reason for that transition, or is it simply magical?
Yes, since the early days of Java.

Microsoft has the same with .NET on SQL Server.
Demand is not stable so you still need energy storage or something else to fill the peaks. The only alternative is not running the plant at full capacity, which will make it even more expensive.

Less space: that's true. But you still need a fair bit of space to the nearest city. :)
>It's wrong to think of getting a closed form as the goal, that's nice, but not as important as the other stuff.

I see you've never had to do Bayesian inference.
Heh. If you were serving an oddly-named company as a legal entity, or referring to a product of theirs in a legal document, I assume that you'd use whatever your lawyer deemed to be the least-ambiguous representation of the name, regardless of your own disdain for that representation.
And EOS has been one of the biggest ICOs. Also, despite the "no US citizens" bit, it's been advertising to the general public in the US (and in the UK). They are selling an ERC-20 magic bean to be traded on the bubble machines, and both buyers and sellers are going nod-nod wink-wink.
This is very sad, I really hope open Solaris can keep alive without Oracle.
Admittedly tangential but

> I’m just another failed bank card to them, draining their systems.

Well, you're not draining Adobe. You're running Photoshop locally, so you aren't costing them any bandwidth, unlike most of those other services.

That rental model for software you run locally is even worse than most proprietary models. If Adobe weren't effectively a monopoly, I'd hope people would reject this nonsense.
What sorts of lies are we talking about? What context?

"I love your new haircut!" is a very different lie from "I used to be pen pals with Barack Obama".

Telling a creepy stranger at a bar "I have a boyfriend" is a different sort of lie than saying the same thing to your friend who lives across the country.

And "I've got food poisoning" is a very different "I can't come into work today" excuse/lie than "my grandmother just died".

In each of these juxtapositions, people will judge you less harshly (and you should probably judge yourself less harshly) for the former lie than the latter.

The difference basically boils down to the fact that it's normal, it's not especially harmful, and to a degree it's expected that people sometimes tell transient untruths to grease the wheels of social interaction or get out of an uncomfortable situation.

What's not OK or accepted is to tell lies that misrepresent yourself, your history, or your life situation to someone with whom you have an ongoing personal or professional relationship.

If you're telling the former type of lies, I suggest you find a way to live with the fact that you and everyone else tell them and probably always will.

If you're telling the latter type, you may want to engage in some self-examination as to why. It's the sort of choice that can get you into major difficulties, and it's the sort of problem you can even get professional help for.
since there wouldn't be hundreds of different Ubuntu versions and sub-distros

There are no macOS or Windows subdistros. So, the only difference may be between different versions. Adding to that, Apple generally does not have the tendency to replace/rewrite macOS subsystems every few years, so it is much more likely that thing still work after a couple of years.
> I think part of the problem is banks don't make much money from the average account outside of fees

Umm.. how about 'using your money to fund interest earning loans'?
I have a Nakaya. I bought it to celebrate a promotion at work. It is far and away my most expensive fountain pen. I have pens ranging from $1 to $750. I use the Nakaya daily and enjoy it.
Horseshit. Prices of commodities are not affected by PFDs in any way.
How does this differ from Symfony console?

Why would you choose PHP7 vs another language?

Why do you need this level of abstraction just for a simple command line function?
Thank you! A real gem of a website!
His key premise is that freedom of association extends to seed investments. As the other poster said you have set up a straw man argument here.
Same for me, they have way too many false positives in their fraud detection when there should be quite obvious heuristics to whitelist some payments (e.g. regular payments to the same business that have been made for years). For instance, if I pay Bitbucket the same amount every month for years, their fraud detection algorithm should never suddenly decide that this month's payment is fraudulent.

Once Nationwide decided that because they stopped two (completely ordinary, regular) payments in a row due to a false positive, that they needed to stop every payment. And because I pay most of my bills on the same day, everything was stopped.

To add to the ridiculousness, they sent me paper letters through the post, one letter per transaction. So I found out about it via a stack of envelopes coming through my door all from the same company, all, saying the same thing, all on the same day. Meanwhile, their messaging centre on their website didn't say a thing, I didn't receive any email, nor any text message. What's the point in having a messaging centre if they aren't going to send messages through it?
You might be interested in an essay I wrote in 2009 which mentions a wealth tax (perhaps with the government insuring and protecting declared wealth):
"Basic income from a millionaire's perspective?"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-p...

We can of course quibble about the details... Mostly just trying to shift the way of thinking and talking about a UBI...
TL;DR; tooling is improving rapidly, and while this AI boom will someday end, we'll be left with tools to incorporate the things that do work in our everyday work.

Working for a "digital innovation lab" where a big part of my job is sorting out things that developers can actually use to make cool products from Gartner report buzzword hell, I have a few thoughts about this.

Historically, AI has seen boom and bust cycles. AI, unlike other buzzword technologies, has a large cultural mythos about it - Asimov didn't write "I, EC2 Instance", after all. Thus, non-technical people have very strong and often unrealistic set of expectations around AI, so every time there are technological advances, people expect that general AI is right around the corner, and are disappointed when it doesn't materialize. Right now, we're experiencing a boom cycle as a result of the emergence of deep learning techniques. After every boom, funding dries up and investors loose interest, but the techniques that really work stick around and become part of a developers everyday toolkit.

Like all "black sorcery" technologies, AI has a ways to go in terms of building convenient tooling. Tensorflow is a huge improvement over writing low level CUDA code, but it's still too low level for folks without a strong background in mathematics and machine learning. That said, it's been improving in usability, documentation, and tooling, and just a couple of weeks I was part of a hackathon where we turned their pet recognition demo[1] into software to detect objects of interest to my company in satellite images.

At an even higher level are a number of startups (such as Clarifai[2]) that offer AI-as-a-service. In Clarifai's case, you can train your own image recognition models and apply them with a few lines in your favorite programming language (yeah, yeah, I'm shilling them a bit, but I really like their product ;-).

So at the end of the day, I think we'll all be building various kinds of AI into our products in the not-so-distant future, but you won't really need to go deep into tensorflow and similarly low level tools to do so.

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/object_dete...

[2] https://clarifai.com/developer/quick-start
> The old desire of building your identity around what you own instead of what you do is not going anywhere. Good for them picking up the extra money people have.

That's really spot on. We could have an incredibly fulfilling life while living frugally. Writing books, making art, creating new software, doing research, etc. Creating and understanding yourself better can be healing. Physical possessions like this pen is just so vain, shallow, and meaningless. Some of the happiest peoples' lives are built around shared experiences.
if you use gmail, checkout boomerang for gmail.

If a request is simple I usually complete it or reply saying I'll follow up with your tomorrow or complete it by Monday.

With boomerang you can have the email return to email at a specific time. It's nice because clients can still email you and you can have them return to your inbox when you need to take action.

You can setup custom times for things to return beyond what the default ones are. So I have a M, T, W, Th, F 7am setup so I can have work/tasks I need to work on return on the morning I need to reply or start them.

Trello is good too, I use it as well. Sounds like you're looking for a way to manage your email.

I also use the chrome snoozed tabs add on, you can do the same things with a tab, even an open email. So I use that to close my email for 2 hours at a time to minimize checking it too often/feeling overwhelmed.

A ticket system sounds like overkill, and I can't see my clients using it, vs. just emailing me.

A ticket is more for a SaaS or other application.
Your first 2 examples are good, but "bespoke" is older and often more specific than "custom".
> I sense a trend to call cryptocurrencies just "crypto", hence the word "crypto" is at risk of losing its (original) meaning. I'm afraid this is going to become another hacker/cracker type of situation...

I am sorry to tell you it's pretty much financial jargon now, much as it pains me too.
Then you're done for maybe 25 years.

At one time, the US did mass inoculations in schools, using air injectors. Just lined everybody up and zapped them.
There are efforts underway to develop floating foundations, but I believe it's still in the test phase with only a few turbines deployed.
I wrote with a Lamy through my schooling, they did well for me for sure.

Of course, the most I write by hand these days are notes or a shopping list, so no need for fountain pens for me.
You didn't make a point, sorry.
Universal Basic Income in U.S. Could Lead to Economic Growth
Bioaccumulation is a serious thing. I suspect increase of plastic in fish might be related to the reduction in sperm count in men.[0][1]

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-semen-quality...

[1] http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/10/a-story-about-fish-plasti...
Because thinking that functional programming is going to solve all your problems is simple, easy, and wrong. Anyone who has written high performance software knows this. First, garbage collection without locks is extremely exotic, so likely all your memory allocations and deallocations will lock and with typical functional programming you will be doing a lot of them.

Then you can get into what you mean by FP - if you share nothing then your communication is done by copying. This is not a magic bullet and isn't an option for many scenarios. If you do shared state for join parallelism you can cover other scenarios, but now you are sharing data.

Atomics are very fast and work very well when they line up with the problem at hand. Then again, you are creating some sort of data structure that is made to have its state shared.

If the problem was so easy to solve, it wouldn't be nearly as much a problem. Handwaving with 'just use FP' is naive and is more of a way for people to feel that they have the answer should anyone ask the question, but reality will quickly catch up.
It's so damn weird that people are fetishising fasting. Why is there a need in the tech-bro community to fetishize perfectly normal things?
Southern Rail is having a famously hard time trying to convince its union to accept a reduction in the number of staff per train.
Thanks for sharing. It's cool that you've found something you're so passionate about.
As far as I'm concerned, real wealth is the point at which you no longer have to work because your money is working for you AND that money is producing enough for you to be in the top 1% of earners in your country. (I believe that is $250k/year in the US, though I'd be fine with $100-150k)

Why is this important? Because at that point, you can do, say or believe WHATEVER YOU WANT without fear of losing your job and you have the capital and network to influence others.

To me, that's about $20M ($10M in my case) invested in a boring old three headed portfolio (50% index, 25% bonds, 25% international index).

Earning $20M for the sole purpose of saving it is not easy. The only ways i know of acquiring that wealth is through an inheritance, a significant liquidity event or by stealing it.
>This makes it slightly more expensive than you think.

365.25 / 30 * $10 == $121.75

vs. $120.00 if it was per month. Slightly indeed.
A bit more expensive ($30), but the TWSBI Eco is excellent and highly recommended by the fountain pen community. I traded up from a Pilot Metropolitan recently and use it daily now. Lamy Safari is generally recommended as well.
Oh, just realised how politicised Raddit is. That's less interesting now.
Robinhood’s Exceptionally Clever Business Model
You need to consume salt (and other minerals) to retain the water. Just drinking water might actually hurt since you’re further diluting the salt you have left.
When poor have nothing to eat, they eat the rich.

Or, I'd modify that to say they eat the upper middle class, because the truly rich just bolt at the first sign of trouble.
Only for Pages, though. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried the following setup myself, since I run my own server.) GitLab supports repository mirroring, so you can keep using GitHub for everything else. When you push code to GitHub, it will be automatically pulled into GitLab and trigger the CI job for Pages, generating and publishing the site.
Are You Familiar with a TKR Rejection
Java likely to outlive Go: How to judge which programming languages survive?
Ask HN: At my wits end
I have a freelance consulting business, primarily doing mobile development. I have a lot of dev experience, but I'm having trouble making this work. My problems are prospecting, long sales cycles, estimating, and shitty clients. I've been working 10-15 hour days for months. I am tired, disheartened and burnt out.

I find I have to choose between working (earning money) or finding clients. For clients, I bumble my way around and the work trickles in. But sales cycles are long. Going from initial contact to signed contract can be months.

Fixed bids or hourly/milestone. Both require estimating, which I feel like I'm getting worse at. The unknown unknowns kill my schedules. Clients balk at huge estimates to mitigate my risk, and bitch about hourly because it creates too much risk for them.

How the fuck do you find clients? I've tried meetups, doing presentations, blog posts, linked in and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I've read tons of articles about passive value-based promotion, but I must be doing something wrong.

I've read how you're supposed to anticipate your client’s needs before they do, pitch solutions and charge them according to the value. But there are a few problems. A) gotta find the clients. B) Need to figure out their problems before them. C) How to do this while you're coding?

Shitty clients: deadbeats to companies just inclined to be assholes. I have a contract that I keep updating but it's not a cure-all. You have to be willing to unleash the lawyer. It's nerve-wracking, stressful and wholly unpalatable.

Writing software is just getting harder. Most systems/frameworks have package managers, which are great. But frequent update to buggy tools and libraries, combined with the dependency cascade costs me days trying to sort shit out, then trying previous versions until something works.

Is it even possible to make more than I would at a "day job" with a freelance consultancy that has 1-3 employees without going insane?
I've occasionally tried 17 hour fasting followed my endurance exercise such as 8 mile run + 25 mile bike. I feel more energized and "lighter" without food in my system. I also don't feel like I have a "crash" when my body uses up all the carbs in my body for energy. I know many people who feel terrible exercising on a fast, as if they are going to faint, so it might be something you should slowly work up to. I've also heard of taking BCAAs during fasting to preserve or even add muscle mass, but there seems to be conflicting opinions on this.
Yeah, and it's the same for Reddit. They don't care for bots reposting content they stole from legitimate users, because it makes the site look good.
But what is a "large number"? Not all FB users will click the like button on a website, or expect it to be there, because the website is not a Facebook page. The number of likes is not a traffic measurement, it doesn't represent the website popularity.

I completely understand the newsfeed point, which is why I have no argument against social sharing buttons on websites - the non-scripted kind that link to various services from Twitter to Reddit to FB. If the user wants to share the site, they will use this method, or they may copy the link, or have some other way to like the page such as a browser extension.

"Like us on Facebook" is what Likes are about. You go to Facebook, and you Like something - a post, page or item. It's a Facebook thing, not a "everything in the universe" thing.
Interesting. Can't really do that right now. But I remember reading that some Sun or other machines have Forth in ROM, etc. And of course Forth is in a lot of other places too, like space and telescopes, etc.
I wish they would have provide a quantitative measure of something about how much fish and how much plastic has been found to have been eaten by marine life. Maybe it's in the link they give to "enormous quantities of plastic trash", but it would be nice to have a scale to the problem.
Didn't know, cool.
Sigh

Look Tech CEOs are not real people. Just because they have cultivated crippling OCD into something resembling a functional lifestyle, doesn't mean you should follow. Some might not have OCD, some might be on the psychopathic spectrum, others might just be plain obnoxious bellends.

Of course there are CEOs who are fasting themselves. There are also poor people doing it too, but not through choice or some virtue signal to how "enlightened" they are.

Now, as someone who inadvertently starved themselves, its not something I'd recommend. You are irritable, ill, in pain, and sluggish. Anybody who says otherwise is either a lier or not doing it properly.
400 / 2 people / 30 days = 6.6£ a day.
Can you please share the secret on budgeting out?
I think that if you don't want to eat shit 6.6£ a day is the bare minimum I really can't see how can you spend less.
You have something like 3£ for lunch, 3£ for dinner and 60p for breakfast.
I made my first Twitter account shortly after it launched, so there's a good chance I'm an earlier adopter than most people who complain about how it's changed.

Many would, unfortunately, read any of my LGBTQ friends (for example) venting about the harassment they get for who they are as "political." What's political/ideological/junk/whatever to one person is a central and valuable function of the platform to others. This is their "current status," which they broadcast, and it's unavoidably political because certain groups have decided to politicize innocent and harmless attributes.

I would not have met my best friend, who I can talk to about this stuff when Twitter seems inappropriate, without Twitter. For you, it's a place to chill and chat. For me and many like me, it's a lifeline in hostile territory.
I feel that way about D7. If D8 is worse, I definitely don't want to go down the rabbit hole even a little bit.

I feel like Drupal could be a workshop on why "a wrong abstraction is worse than no abstraction". I'd assumed things were better on that front in D8, based on what I'd read, and based on the theory that at least the wrong abstractions would be common across everything (Drupal has always had the problem of a dozen different modules for every trivial thing, and every module needs a different combination of those trivial thing modules). I'd hope, at least, that database abstractions are nicer? The database API in Drupal 7 is, frankly, awful.