skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last week, some of us were reminiscing in Slack about reading mail and Usenet via emacs. It’s amusing and a little unsettling to find the emacs/vi debate has been abandoned because you’ve gotten to the age where your colleagues have never experienced either... :)
That's really interesting! Now all we need to do is find a MED where we save more time sleeping than we need to invest meditating. Although that might be offset by the amount of focus we gain by meditating as it would allow us to be more efficient.
I have not the time, skill, or desire to make this software. I am a scientist, busy doing science.

However, voicing my desire for such IS useful, because if enough people voice it, then someone might decide there is a market for it, and build it.

How such a venture could make money, I have no idea. Systems set up and installation, I suppose.
> China is interested in the South China Sea, Russia is interested in Eastern Europe, and North Korea may come to a head soon, so scope of operations won't be decreasing.

Maybe it's time to realize that the global imperial ambitions of a country of 350 million people are not sustainable in the 21st century.

Oh, who am I kidding, of course that will never happen.
"We tend view things in hindsight and judge people with our 20/20 view, when events really unfolded over a period of time, and so people made decisions with imperfect knowledge."

I think the same when people think Newton was crazy for pursuing alchemy. With hindsight it's clear that this wouldn't work but with the information he had at the time this was not so clear.
Because US markets are worth doing business in.
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> Facebook has grown so big, and become so totalizing, that we can’t really grasp it all at once. Like a four-dimensional object, we catch slices of it when it passes through the three-dimensional world we recognize.

Formatted for mobile readers.
"the Trump administration violated federal rulemaking laws"

"The court challenge concerns the International Entrepreneur Rule, a program instituted under former President Barack Obama"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_entrepreneur_rul...

"this rule does not need to be approved by Congress."

It seems like VCs were unable to get a law passed, so they tried to use their influence over the president to slip one past the democratic process. That seems dishonest. I'm glad to see president Trump standing up to that sort of intimidation. If they want a law, they need to participate in the democratic process like everyone else.
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> It's one of the unexpected paradoxes that cryptocurrency is going to be the greatest threat to privacy since the cell phone and not many people see it coming.

Unless people adopt a currency like Monero which is fungible and where privacy is default. People just need to recognize that privacy is for everyone. I think everyone inherently knows that, but when it comes to technology, they don't realize they're giving their privacy up.

The difference between a cellphone and Monero (in this context), is that a cellphone can be tracked.
I still have a copy of the old AirPort utility as well so I can make adjustments that the new utility can't.

I thought they were going to slowly improve the new one to have feature key coverage, but so far nada.
What are you talking about?

GCC - https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status

Clang - https://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html#c

Moreover, they enabled C11 by default.
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Failure to staff adequately is a managerial failure to plan, which is sometimes used as a cost-cutting measure.

100-hour work weeks not only save direct worker costs (you get 2.5x the labor at the cost of 1x), but also in managerial and other costs (you get 2.5x the labor for the cost of managing a 1x headcount).
> "N64 on the other hand, doesn't have that. It very clearly shows that the N64 era was a time where everyone was still struggling with 3D."

Bearing in mind that the NES Classic and SNES Classic are just emulators at their core, and that they provide different display modes to upscale content, there's no reason why an N64 Classic couldn't make use of new high-res graphics packs for the games selected to be on the system, giving the user the choice of 'Classic' or 'High Res' modes.

To give a couple of examples of where this has been done before, here's a clip of GoldenEye in high res...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V66hgI1CNY

... and here's a clip of Ocarina of Time in high res...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWG7o8OWFc
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Is the remote option only for US residents?
I've had the same positive experience working like that in a small team.

In addition, I shared pre-commit git hooks set up to run a few tools that a) enforced the team's code format and documentation standard; and b) performed static code analysis. This mostly prevented code reviews from devoting time to code format and basic documentation issues.
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It bothers me that types as representation of hardware constraints are mixed up with types as a machine readable subset of validation.

It makes the higher level types seem more transcendental than they are, and also seems to put actual validation on a second rate level. End of the day if an argument is the right scalar or interface you'll get the same result on runtime whether you hinted it -- for one's quality of life improvements -- or checked it with some boilerplate validation. Worst case scenario people will forgo encoding known stricter constraints after generally hinting the expected type.
I had to do a decent amount of setup and wrote a quick script to run the tools which generate ctags to make this happen in CL using slimv. With top tier ides for static languages, this is built in from day 1 with no effort. You can't not have it. That said, a top tier repl for development is missing in languages like C#. I'd love to see that gap bridged.
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>Really? That's for one a weak argument.

Then lay it out.

>But even if we consider that at face value, there are plenty of immigrants who "created" silicon valley.

After we hash this out we can debate how many grains of sand compose a pile too. It's plainly American.

>It was not entirely an American creation - if by American, you make it to mean some version of how many generations someone has been here.

How about we define American like this: someone who has no other country but America. I have absolutely no problem saying that VCs which have survived and thrived in large part because they exist in America should consider Americans first and should help American kids, not purely use our country as a homebase to go out and snipe the cheapest equity opportunities possible from around the world. Pay it back guys.
It isn't just a matter of tooling. There exist hard limits on how much can be inferred about unannotated programs, and when you go past those limits, the price you have to pay is to embed (partial) proofs of correctness in your own code. For example, think about why GADTs don't play nicely with type inference.

IMO, machine assistance is useful to the extent it relieves us humans from work. In particular, types are useful to the extent they can be inferred. Beyond that, you still need to prove the correctness of your programs on your own, so there is no point to the ceremony of writing down those proofs in a machine-checkable format.
Good write up. Thanks
How does one obtain an old version of these utilities? Do you mean you just have an old mac running old OS X somewhere?
Not unless you think assembly language or machine code are statically typed.
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Unfortunately, micropayments encourage click-bait and pop-news (but that's not to say that advertising doesn't either). We've also have seen other failure modes with payment-per-article in academic journals, though payment is much larger there, so may not be a fair comparison.

In general a la carte payments usually lead to overall higher costs (e.g. Classic Blockbuster vs. Netflix).

My ideal system would be a Spotify-like system. I'd pay a flat rate for access to all news and then each organization gets a percentage of my payment proportional to the number of articles I read by them. That is, if I pay $10/mo and 50% of the things I read are on the New York Times, then they'd get $5 (ignoring margin for whatever entity manages this exchange).

I can't ever imagine news orgs opt-ing into this model though. Perhaps Apple could pull an iTunes-equivalent with Apple News?
> A final important thing to note about XRANGE is that, given that we receive the IDs in the reply, and the immediately successive ID is trivially obtained just incrementing the sequence part of the ID, it is possible to use XRANGE to incrementally iterate the whole stream, receiving for every call the specified number of elements.

Love it. No need for an expensive SCAN command.
Yes, I travelled a bit, I'm French living in the US.

Let's say that they prohibit it (some establishments do), without proper security screening, it would be easy to sneak anything in if you want to.
The cost to implement this type of security seems too high (hardware + employees). The public may also reject that, the TSA is quite infamous in the US.

Have you been in any country that has this type of security in their hotels?
He elaborates a bit later on the properties of this object. What a sentence:

But what had been presented as a democratic town hall was
revealed to be a densely interwoven collection of parallel
media ecosystems and political infrastructures outside the
control of mainstream media outlets and major political
parties and moving like a wrecking ball through both.
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Might want to try some basic HTTP caching settings for the model. This way the browser doesn't need to re-download everything every time.

This can probably be configured in the server instead of in the application.
The kind of entrepreneurs most likely to succeed (and therefore gain the attention of VCs) figure out how to relocate to startup hubs where they can get the attention of the VC community and network their way into the ecosystem. It’s way easier to move from Florida to San Francisco that it is from Paris, Sydney or Cape Town, and the extra hoops foreign entrepreneurs have to jump through makes them stand out all the more (relatively speaking). Very few American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley grew up there either. It becomes a self-selecting sample.
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>>There are a class of bugs you just never need to worry about when the compiler does some compile-time checks for you ... like worrying that you passed the wrong type into a function, or the wrong number of arguments.

People always say this and it baffles me. Bugs like that should be caught immediately by your test cases. You shouldn't rely on the compiler to catch them for you.
I do too. However, the new one is significantly upgraded from its first version if memory serves - I recall new settings being added all over the place which didn't exist previously.
What percentage were created by H1Bs? I think you're conflating "immigrant" with "H1B visa holder". The two are not the same. Many of us who are critical of H1B and similar visa programs are very much in support of immigration in general.
That applies to any file though.

The extension just suggests to some tools that they should treat the text as markdown.
I can ask my Lisp IDE to find callers for methods based on the sub/class of arguments.
Don't be too sure about that. The right-wing populism that's been spreading internationally isn't exactly neoliberal in its outlook. Those agitating against H-1Bs aren't hand in hand with those calling for supply-side economics. There are different varieties of right-wing just as there are different types of left-wing.
Poor-man’s Kafka?
Medicine? So I just learned something right now. There is no Nobel prize for biology.
I imagine people that grow up around stray cats are likely to have a different upbringing to people that don't.
Something like the iMac, if the video card goes out on it (common problem) the only replacement part is from Apple and costs $600 so you might as well just throw the whole thing out (or sell it for parts)
Indeed, I have very little desire for the tech anyway...but if I were to go that way, I'd want to own the data.

I'm curious about what recording everything in my home, and then seeking legal protections on it as my intellectual property (e.g. copyright) could benefit me. Could I sue spying apps as copyright infringement?