skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, I could just as easily say it is self-evident that the use of proprietary, nonstandard languages extensions was required to get the linux kernel written.

Don't get me wrong, I'm highly amenable to this argument, but it is not an evidence based one.

Now, there could be some easy evidence that would help. For example, evidence that kernels which are built using clang build just as easily using gcc. Or icc. Or ___. That would help. Right off, I do not know if that is the case.
Alternative answer: This prevents your phone from completely dying if you turn the light on, forget, and shove it in your pocket/bag. That's a great feature in and of itself. Hell, i've accidentally triggered the flashlight outside in the sun and not noticed before i pocketed the phone before.
>forced by its unfortunate choice of being lazy

Being lazy is what makes the language so elegant. Even a high level game developer (Carmack?) said, at one point, that his ideal language would be lazy by default.
I hear it will be available noon pacific time.
There are a few things which younger entrepreneurs have advantage over older ones:

1. Experience (or lack thereof): It's a double edged sword, you may stop making any progress through paralysis-analysis. Progress is the best motivator and when you don't it starts affecting you in ways you will be surprised.

2. Cost of living: As you get older the cost of living only climbs up. You will be shouldering a lot of more responsibilities but biggest of all which I experience personally is associating dollar-cost with my time. You start valuing cost of money over cost of opportunity. If I am not making money that means I am loosing money.

3. Social pressure: We are social beings and when you see your friends moving ahead in life and you tend to remain where you are ( think first 1k days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03vBkOKTrc), you need to have a certain kind of personality to be able to get through that period. Not vacationing, living a frugal life & compromising at every stage takes a toll on you personally. It starts affecting your mind in weird ways.

This is by no means a comprehensive list but it's my own experience & it's a constant battle especially when the chips are down.

EDIT to clear #1 speaking as an older developer.
If you’re attempting to study how a Basic Income would affect its recipients, then yes. It is terrible. It completely skews the behavior of the recipient in a way that a lifetime BI would not.
I don't notice any notable latency in discord, vscode, etc

But I do notice latency in hyper.js, and it just makes it feel very "dull", and that's what I think a lot of people know of electron terminals

plus the competition from native apps is a bit absurd in terms of performance, with most of the serious ones either rendering asap or on the next frame (when vsync'd)
If government is limited, what is the check on corporate power? What is going to fill that void? The market? The market only cares about money. There is no magical fairy that will make profit oriented enterprises suddenly care about non-profit objectives.

The old "people won't buy stuff from companies that are dicking them over or killing the envionrment", always conveniently ignores the fact that if one company is behaving badly but getting better profits (exploiting their workers for short term gain, dumping toxic waste into the rivers, etc...), they will ultimately consume any well behaved competitors.

Unfettered markets are pure dog eat dog territory, and frivolities like environmental protection and human rights do not survive. We know what unregulated markets look like, they are cities filled with factories churning out toxic smoke, hospitals full of terminal cancer cases, people dying on the street, and everything else you read about in the Industrial Age. Or go to any factory city in China. They're making tons of shareholder profit and they're dying at the same time.

Libertarians are the worst at not fully thinking through the ramifications of their positions.
No. Copying the designs and hiring out a production run is orders of magnitude more capital-intensive than "simply purchasing one" of the units already in production.

For the reverse-engineering, you must first purchase some units, then produce your own accurate measurements & drawings, then find a manufacturer or setup your own factory, and then pay for tooling, all BEFORE you make unit #1. This is far more complex & costly than "simply purchasing one".

For the thieves, all of those expenses had already been paid by the original designer. They merely bought their units at the marginal cost of production.

This eliminated the startup cost for the competitor's business. The seed capital and IP investment they would have needed was replaced by the theft. They then bootstrapped the stolen knowledge and new profits into their own production.

And the oritinal company is surviving and outpacing the theiving Chinese competitor, disproving your contention that 'they have no business'.

More generally, there isn't any business where you wouldn't be able to compete if you could buy the finished product out the back door of the factory at the marginal cost of production. If we could buy Apple or Samsung products out the back door of their factory at the marginal cost of production, we could certainly make a lot of profit very fast. Yet I see no viable argument they have no business model.

Seriously, stop trying to justify theft.
Project Jengo Strikes Its First Targets (and Looks for More)
What is it? It's a bit of guilt, a bit of idealism and a bit of intellectual masturbation (for lack of a better way to put it). The fact is only someone who has their own needs taken care of at least monetarily (yc and/or the researchers on this project with secure jobs) can have the type of personality that will want to entertain themselves with this type of a project. Meanwhile, as they used to say back in my day growing up, 'children are starving in Africa so eat your food'. That was a reference to the fact that there were real problems in the world that needed to be solved today. Or in our own country right now. In other words they are spending time and money or something hypothetical (no jobs) instead of doing something today to help people that need help right now. Today. Not in 10 or 70 years. That's because they can't deal hypothetically and have success with today (or actually don't want to get their hands dirty) so they need to pick something in the future to occupy their available time and spend some of their money and get rid of guilt. In the end the 'guilt' refers to making then feel better about themselves for their extreme luck.
There is a big difference between loaning $1T once, and getting paid back, versus giving it away every year.
I mostly know what others said about me, assuming they only spoke to people I listed. Those other people also disclosed information about themselves, some of it very personal.

Not only did the OPM hack affect my privacy, it made me a cause of others losing some of their privacy. By extension, they made me responsible.

Fortunately, none of my friends and family hold me accountable and understand that I'm not to blame. Still... It's not a good place to be, emotionally. I've since gotten over it, for the most part.

I don't even know what was in their investigation notes. That's need to know and they don't think I need to know. I disclosed everything from drug use to promiscuity, with names, dates, and places. It wasn't just my information in those files. Who knows what can be done with that info by giving it big-data treatment?

Add that database to this one, and the many others, and I'd be surprised if you couldn't draw much larger pictures and associations. The world is not that big and cross-checking on large data sets is almost certain to further erode privacy.
> If you're doing _groundbreaking_ research in, say, AI or facial recognition or whatever, you may need people who are technical superstars.

No - AI and ML stuff does not need technical superstars (i.e. from a programming perspective). Usually it is a rinse-test-repeat kind of job. It needs people with patience and who can interpret data and who can be comfortable with uncertainty and then can make their bosses comfortable with uncertainty on timelines.

In most of the other cases, hiring superstar developers help you save costs in the longer run. It helps product (or SaaS) companies.

But for consulting biz that means less of the recurring consulting work. Superstar developers cost higher - means more work in fetching some consulting work. Consulting/service businesses will rarely value superstar developers. Because it does not help the topline as much.
Presumably, the amount given could be on a sliding scale, where more wealthy people receive less money, but I'm sure there would be challenges to such a system.

Personally, I'd love an extra 1k / month, but I rather see that go to a lot of other people before me.
> Present != Equal, feature wise.

It is developed by google[0] afaik. The link says it is present in LLVM and gcc. I don't know what makes the difference (may be License?). On the contrary I have felt gcc better for my work. I have been following a clang bug[1] for long and have seen no fix so far.

[0] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23910
> Google and Facebook may know too much about you, but I'm not really worried about them selling that data, which is some small relief.

Why aren't you worried about that? How about in 15 years when they've gone downhill and are looking for ways to make some quick cash?
An inability to compile on nothing but GCC is a feature for a lot of zealots out there.
Very cool!
Would it be possible to store beats and use some kind of autocomplete in a list below to compare popular user patterns?

Or why not try to import famous drum patterns using midi import or sound analysis? Would love to browse through Led Zeppeleins, for example, drum tracks visually! Next you could add piano roll and do the same for instruments. This might make it possible to search tracks by scales, chord progressions, melodies, motifs etc...
About $500b a year.
If we have a fairly robust system for detecting poison in the food, and we successfully detected the poisoned food the last time they tried to poison us, and the food looks really tasty because the chef was pretty good, even if he was a poisoner...... I might eat it.
There are spoilers for like the first few chapters, that's it.
I'm with you. I always book window seats now so I don't get bothered by the person next to me who has to partake in every single item offered by the flight attendants and/or has to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times on a three hour flight. As an added bonus I don't feel pressured by the person next to me to immediately standup when the plane gets to the gate.
One interesting thought, maybe, would be, as robotics/automation takes over and grows, is to introduce special automation tax from which BI could be partially (or fully?) funded? Maybe ti could alleviate some of the inflation concerns.
Good to hear! I have been summarily refusing ad-tech job offers (and boy, some of them were willing to pay big bucks).

The ethical concerns are staggering, and as it becomes harder to extract value it seems the ethics violations continue unbounded. People seem willing to do whatever it takes to keep their businesses (and most crucially, the jobs they cannot afford to lose) afloat. I suspect wage slavery is to blame for a lot of this.

It's anecdata, but not a single one of the people I know in media/advertising actually WANTS to be there, and all of them have serious concerns about the business practices. The #1 thing keeping them there in every case is "I need the money".

For those who have the luxury of choice I implore you: vote with your feet, switch jobs, and encourage others to do the same! I refuse to join a company unless I know its profits are tied directly to some mutual benefit for society.
Ask HN: Most desirable features in a parser for a data interchange format?
Dear HN,

If you were entrusted with the mission of designing the ideal parser for a data interchange format (say XML, JSON, YAML, etc...) what features would you add?
A mailed letter would work. Plenty of other orgs do that as the only way to communicate your PIN to you.
Jeez I thought this hokum went out with the ark and Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods?" and "Return to the Stars" - which I fully admit to having read at around the age of 8-9 years old during a family camping holiday round Scotland (along with a healthy dose of Hitchcock's "Three Investigators" kids novels which I had an insatiable appetite for).

Anyway...then Carl Sagan happened for me and I was rescued.
Oakland and SF could start by banning all gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel in their jurisdictions. See how that works out. Can't we just get an international CO2 tax and slowly ratchet it up to the level to stop CO2 in the atmosphere from going up? Exxon wants it. And it looks like China would be on-board (trust but verify). Maybe India too and we are all set.
I hope that we can start having that conversation! Right now it seems unlikely.

It would not be so controversial if I claimed that Amazon grants customers a revokable license to audio and video content hosted on Prime, but my social security number and credit history evidently is not afforded as much protection under the law.
> Also it sounds like Thiel would very much want to limit the role of the NSA in matters of domestic privacy, which is kind of what everybody wanted Obama to do.

He founded and directly profits from Palantir, a huge private surveillance company that makes its money from government surveillance contracts. He's already got some sweet deals for the company after working for Trump, especially new contracts for ICE.

It's possible that he'd like to privatize surveillance work for his own profit, but given that he's spent the last 13 years working on superior mass surveillance systems, it seems unlikely that the views you seem to attribute to him are true. This is all outside of him being on the board of Facebook (which I'd argue is single greatest force against domestic privacy in the US, and an extremely large ingest source for the NSA).
You're missing my point, I feel like intentionally but I'll explain either way:

By having both consumer-oriented and pro-oriented hardware, Apple makes the most of the (admittedly limited) Mac marketplace. Plus, the simple fact is you cannot hackintosh a PC that would be equivalent to even a late 2012 Macbook Pro in terms of reliability, battery life and portability.
Presumably because it has health effects that make flying less fun (drowsyness, worse motion sickness, higher risk of blood clots, etc).

I also often have a single drink near the start of a flight.
Are you saying that if you have missing data you can't use numba, or that pandas will handle that part which numba couldn't otherwise do alone?
Indeed many private sector failures are never known to the public.

One small city newspaper burned well over $4 million on business software this was never know to the public. The software caused the repeated delays in delivery, which was explained as a mechanical problem with the press.

At the time the same paper, ran a highly critical story of the county government for a $100,000 software project over run.
You are going with the assumption that your sharing agreement with the bank has limits that don't really exist. I doubt you will be able to file a case based on the idea that the entity you have allowed your bank to share data with cannot actually store that data. I doubt a court would go along with that.
> Octavo Systems OSD3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8

Hey, that's interesting. Never heard of this chip (or Octavo[1]) before! Is anyone from Octavo around? If so, are you guys involved with PocketBeagle? Is it your vehicle to show off the OSD335x? Are you involved with this board at all? What're the plans? It looks like this is still using the AM335x under the covers (in-package). How does that work? You're sourcing the unpackaged silicon from TI and packaging everything up yourselves, or you have a deal with TI where that's happening at their facilities, or...?

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662508

1. https://octavosystems.com/about/octavo/
The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
You still don't get it. This does not mean Google has the whole IP. In simple terms, what Google gets is not the best deal if what they can access are also available to other competitors for a deal. Get it now? You usually want to have exclusive access, like certain songs are exclusively released on Spotify. Get it?
> Germany is traditionally a country with low personal wealth, low homeownership rates

So basically you are working like an ant, but with grasshopper's security[0]? Maybe it's time to change that?

> On the other hand renting is relatively cheap.

Not anymore now that winter is here!

0. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fables_(La_Fontaine,_tr._Wrig...
On the upside, you now have quantified damages.
My parents have an open layout house with the kitchen directly behind the living room. Because of this, it was always common to get up, walk and make some popcorn while watching a movie.

Once they started using netflix, this habit had to be broken quick.
Start small. Give very adult citizen the same fixed amount. Deduct that amount from existing welfare payments.

We now have a guaranteed universal Citizens's "Basic" Income, albeit at a very low level, paid for by taxpayers via the normal progressive tax system and which primarily helps the working poor.

Iron out all the inevitable implementation problems.

Then raise the level to the minimum level for welfare payments and remove a swathe of bureaucracy.

Observe the results while gaining a sensible Welfare System based upon "From each according to their ability, To each equally, with neither favour nor discrimination".

Adjust as necessary.
Java 9 isn't only a language but it is also runtime, which is used by many languages including Kotline, and Scala.
> And I don't see, how the reunification of Germany would've caused real wages in '07 to be lower than in '93.

Several reasons. The botched currency union led to inflated wages (in no relation to productivity) in East Germany in conjunction with the Treuhand mismanagement to Germany being the sick man of Europe, with unemployment rising to 10%+. To this day, employees in East Germany earn about a quarter less than in West Germany. Production was outsourced to Eastern Europe, and Eastern European workers started to compete with German workers. You may remember that Volkswagen went from a 5-day to a 4-day week in late 1993 with a proportionate reduction in wages to save jobs. Wages are not immune to the laws of supply and demand, and consequently they stagnated. Reunification was an economic disaster and it took Germany a long time to recover from that.

> I'm no economist, but Hartz 4 and the Agenda 2010 in general seem like a more plausible cause to me.

Except that they've pretty much constantly grown since then, except for recessions. That's an indisputable hard fact. Real wages stagnated between 1990 and 2007 and have been rising since then. Whether there's a causal connection between Hartz IV and the rise in wages is something that nobody knows, but given that Hartz IV was introduced in 2005, it pretty much could not have had an effect before then, barring a time machine.
It would not be an extra cost. It's just distributing money differently.

Most people would pay $1000 more taxes per month and get it right back as $1000 in BI. The benefit would be that if their income suddenly fluctuates, that $1000 would be there as a baseline.
This is the problem with a lot of economic reasoning. The 'rational actor' construct works in toy models, but is much less useful in reality.

I took a couple years off a long time ago. I didn't stop working on stuff. Really, if you pay me, all that means is that I work on what you want me to work on, and maybe show up at particular times. It doesn't motivate me to work, it just motivates me to change topics.

I absolutely know people who would never work again. I know other people like me, who do it because they enjoy it. And details matter a lot, and tend to be ignored[1] by simplistic first-principle reasoning.

A big part of this is the ratio of those, and how quickly the number of jobs drop. I would fully expect this sort of thing to need tuning as it goes - I personally see the biggest change being a sudden explosion of people with lots of free time. Just as a tiny example, what does this do to the video game market? What about dry cleaners when fewer people wear business-drag?

Anyone who makes confident predictions based on econ101-style reasoning is simply dressing their politics up in an argument from authority.

[1] What does assortive mating look like under such a scheme - how much status will holding a job gain? Is the income set at an "uncomfortable" level, how will that change over time, what sort of barriers (class, academic, opportunities, etc.) will grow up around it? Are there any incentives to do something useful, even if it isn't what we think of as a 'job'?

Details really matter.
I mean, I said it was self-evident but then provided evidence as well. Here is the evidence:

- Multi-year effort by Clang, a well regarded standards-compliant C compiler, to support the kernel

- Proprietary extensions do not conform to the same strict guidelines for specifications as the C standard and may require reverse engineering to implement correctly

- C is defined by the C specification and Linux is not written in C by this metric

- Therefore, C compilers cannot compile the kernel

Correct me if I'm wrong but I cannot extract similar facts from your comment.
Inflation is a result of the money supply growing faster than the national wealth it represents. Example: US goods & services increase in value 5% but the Fed increases the money supply by 8% leads to inflation - the money/value abstraction is out of sync in such a way that money represents less value.

Wealth redistributions don't cause inflation. The money abstraction still represents the same amount of wealth, it just changes who can choose how to use that money to consume.

That said, you'll probably see some radical pricing changes in the market from the new system, but probably not as much as you would expect because UBI will be so limited at first, the money will be spent on absolute necessities that people are already consuming under the current system (ie demand won't go up for toilet paper and basic consumables, and UBI isn't enough for luxury goods).
pardon my ignorance, but despite their website, specs, and a list of their projects, I haven't been able to figure out whether this would easily connect to my laptop via USB, and I could deploy some code on it for starters. Do I need any additional pluggable hardware?
Understanding the US Government/Kaspersky Lab Controversy