skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days I mostly do web, so Django and the whole ecosystem are just missing from Rust, but I'd settle for just the ORM. I found Diesel pretty hard to get started with, unfortunately :/

My other hobby is microcontrollers, and I would love it if I could run Rust on my ESP8266. I can already run MicroPython, but it feels a bit hacky (probably unfairly), and it would be amazing if I could use Rust and easily link in all the C/C++ libraries the Arduino framework has available.

I know this reply isn't useful (I miss all the libraries, woo), but it's as specific as I can get. I started a very simple website uptime monitoring service:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/panoptes

I didn't get very far before the difficulty of integrating Diesel just stalled the whole thing.
After doing my MSc in Political Economics and studying lots of Game Theory, I became more interested in computer science. I remember watching a Stanford lecture online on computational game theory. He explained many games are NP hard, and while this is only my own experience, we never once covered that idea in any of our courses on political/economic game theory. To be honest, I'm not sure any of the older economists or Political Scientists were all that familiar with it (I'm sure the incredibly bright younger post-docs were though).

That really blew my mind, because up until that point I guess I had sort of taken it on faith -- without really getting it -- that these game models were accurately representing reality. I guess it sounds obvious after the fact that they aren't, but it was one of the biggest insights I've ever experienced.
Professors in science, engineering, health, economics, and finance are wildly underpaid compared to what they could earn in other jobs.

Professors take that pay cut for academic freedom, the ability to control their own lives and think independently, and to be part of an intellectual community.

It is common for academic medical doctors to earn two to three times less than doctors in private practice. (i.e. 50% to 33% of private practice physicians. For example, an intensivist can make $500k+ in some private hospitals and normally makes $200-250k in an academic setting.)
Word embeddings are not just useful for text, they can be applied whenever you have relation between "tokens". You can use them to identifying nodes in graphs that belong to the same group[0]. Another, in my opinion, really interesting idea is to apply them to relational databases[1], you can simply ask for similar rows.

It's a interesting article but the author didn't really provide good arguments why I should stop using w2v.

[0] http://www.kdd.org/kdd2017/papers/view/struc2vec-learning-no...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07185
The allegation was false. The accuser (Larry Johnson) was sued for libel, was ordered by a court to stop disparaging Alcor, ignored the order, was held in contempt of court, had an arrest warrant issued, and finally took the Fifth rather than answer questions about whether he lied to the police and various other parties.

http://www.alcor.org/press/response.html
My day job at a smallish company has five different applications with tables more than 100M rows. This is not uncommon at all, especially for apps that need to retain audit history tables.

Assuming you can’t toss history for business or compliance reasons, tables with 100M rows become commmon when an app has been in service for more than a few years. Even in SMBs.
That's untrue; the exchange rate adjust to completely negate the tax differences. What economists call the "terms of trade" are not impacted by sales tax.

This gets brought up and debunked periodically, the first result Google returns for me is http://www.aei.org/publication/keynes-at-the-border/ which looks as good as any.

> You don't need a Ph.D. in Economics to understand what the result of this will be over time.

True enough, but it can still be a little confusing, as you've discovered. :)
The article neglects to mention that with the right adapters the car can connect to RV electrical hookups and get a full charge overnight.
The unrestrained happiness and the necessity of reply to all for any little thing ('You sick? Aww, get well!') rings all too true from my experience in a startup.
Not sure if I can call it a bad habit or not, but my relationship suffers because of it, and not sure if my relationship will remain for much longer because of it, but it has kind of been an instigated behavior.

Basically, once we past our honeymoon phase, she wants attention and affection sometimes, but not always, usually when she wants it. Other times, she tells me to go away or that she's not in the mood for that. She can be very emotional and other times, very distant, kind of similar to me. It is hard to find a balance or understand that balance.

Feeling rejected, I turn to the coding world, get lost in my web apps, and that feeling of rejection lasts for days sometimes so I get so wrapped up in what I'm doing that I don't give her attention or affection when she wants it because that rejection made me prioritise my coding over her.

It has been a cycle.. we'll argue about it, and then things will go back to normal, and I'll give her the attention and affection she craves.. then she basically wants me to go away and come back when she wants, rinse and repeat.

So I'd have to say my Internet addiction, which is really my coding addiction kicks in. Instead of gaming, I turn to coding, because I feel its more productive than just sitting around gaming. I build both free- and paid- web apps, and I can't just sit there or lie there doing nothing.. it drives me crazy to not be tinkering with something.

And sometimes she does get upset with me because I do have to try and focus my brain on watching a movie or a show with her instead of thinking about coding something. I can't sleep at night until I'm tired, so instead of just lying there, or taking some type of pills or whatever, I code until I'm exhausted instead, which means I'm not "sleeping with her" and I think she gets upset about that too.

I know some guys will say, "If I had a woman.. I'd always... I'd treat her...." Yup... me too. Past the honeymoon phase where you get to know her, live with her, deal with her bullshit, bad habits and attitude, and get back to me on that one.
Maybe a side effect of less bees pollination?
Great article on this by a Nobel laureate at Harvard:

"A Top-Heavy Administration?
By DAVID H. HUBEL January 31, 2012
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In 1958, Stephen Kuffler was invited to come from Johns Hopkins Medical School to Harvard Medical School to become a full professor in the Department of Pharmacology. He brought with him four post-doctoral fellows: Torsten Wiesel, Ed Furshpan, David Potter, and myself. Along with Ed Kravitz, we formed the nucleus that led to the founding of the Department of Neurobiology five years later.

When we arrived, Harvard Medical School was directed by one dean—George Parker Berry. He was assisted by a genius, Henry Meadow, who joined HMS in 1950 as executive secretary to the Committee on Research and Development. The two of them ran the whole school. Berry was grouchy and firm-handed and what he said was law.

....

you should see the list of FAS administrators. My printout runs to over 16 pages. I haven't counted up the various kinds of FAS deans, but the list dwarfs that of the Medical School.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/31/david-hubel-harv...
Adjectives I want to be used to describe my death:

Quick; unexpected; spectacular; unusual; shocking; smiling; etc...

Words I don't want:

Prolonged; suffering; sad; fire; sober; alone;

I'll settle for peacefully in my sleep, but screaming in terror and surrounded by friends is also good. I figure that will at least be quick and give someone a good story to tell.

It's peaceful to have come to grips with my mortality.
If you use DuckDuckGo as your standard search engine you can also prepend "!mdn" to your search query to search MDN.

This also works with any website wich supports search I think. Other good ones include "!hoogle", "!hn", "!yt", "!g", and the list goes on.
California isn't even on their map, guess they don't want me...

edit: the one on the front page doesn't, clicking through to the interactive one has it.
I think there's a common lesson though. Geniuses seem Superman because the magic of compounding intelligence is just as astounding as the magic of compounding interest. Geniuses seem superhuman but only because we cannot conjure up the superhuman amount of will required to reach such levels of genius.

By following curiosity however, knowledge in a specific direction as set by your heart compounds. You can become superhuman at being you. (there is some luck involved in whether those skills can transfer into money/power/etc for the given time period)

This is why early success can kill genius because a false God is created, the regard of others. By desiring and aiming, the target is missed. Because genius isn't about hitting targets or any sort of finite game with a goal. It's about the continuous burning of compounding interest, discovering and expanding our knowledge of the universe and life.

Willpower is powerful but myopic, like the electromagnetic force. Curiosity or self driven passion is like gravity, much weaker in small amounts but continuously compounding at all scales.
If our problem is all the smoke we have to breath, and the embers, ashes and soot blown into our face, how do we fix it so that the camp fire doesn’t choke us, sting our eyes, and ruin our clothes?

How do we control the camp fire that we keep buring right in the middle of our living room? It’s ruining the wall paper, and there’s a huge blackened stain on the ceiling.

No matter how many showers I take, my clothes still smell like smoke. What gives?
Hate to sound like the nerd... but segways are freaking fantastic.

If you haven't ridden one, go on a "segway" tour of your city. Super fun, and you can see just how simple and mobile you are. Completely replaces most small bus hops.
Amazon Studios' Roy Price: Inside the Fall of a Top Executive (and What's Next)
Some people have weaknesses. Alcoholics should avoid bars instead of constantly testing their self-control.

There are times to focus on self-improvement, but in the meantime, we can’t halt our lives to do so. Appropriate time and place.
It's generally considered pretty rude to ask about income in America. My wife knows how much I make, of course. I told my parents what the pay was when I got my first career-job almost 10 years ago.

I've got vague impressions about some family members, friends, and coworkers, but nothing solid (unless I wanted to look up the pay scales for the few with government jobs, I guess). I could probably get accurate answers from close friends if I "needed" to, but it would be an uncomfortable conversation.
I don't agree with your assessment of his writing as "preaching", because that would be the most boring and dullest preaching I've ever read. Most of my Chomsky reading experience seems like reading academic writing in tone and substance, with copious facts, footnotes, and endless pages of references in the back.

This also addresses your point of "never addressing things from point of view he's arguing against", unless those points of view have different facts.

Maybe you can cite a few examples of what you mean for me to understand your argument better.

As far as root cause analysis, again, can you explain what you mean? Chomsky is a well known anarchist and frequently discusses issues of capital, power, etc. "Understanding Power" is a title of one of most popular books, for example.
So basically the planet is starting to treat us as a kind of a ... weed, in return.
You are taking my remarks very graciously. Thank you for that. I don't mean to be a bear on such topics, but sometimes I come across that way.

I posted the announcement that I was off the street to HN and it very, very quietly got upvoted over the course of the night and people were very kind to me in remarks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15205436

It didn't make the front page. The surprisingly high karma count for the piece happened really slowly, not enough to get it on the front page, so I imagine that a lot of people missed the announcement. It was a very strange experience.

What would have helped me would have been to get taken more seriously. In fact, once I began getting taken more seriously, that did help me. In recent months, I sometimes get resume work and I have a small amount of Patreon money for my blog writing. (Plus, my blogs sometimes get tips and my ad money is trending up as traffic trends up.) That preceded me getting back into housing and helped facilitate it.

I have reason to believe that sometimes rather influential people read what I write, but do not ever promote my work. They don't want to admit to reading anything I write. This makes me pretty crazy. A little more traffic, a small amount more social proof that I am not just a crazy loser or whatever can (and did, when it finally happened on a very small scale) make a difference for someone like me.

I think there are a number of reasons I don't get taken seriously or treated in a manner that helps me make money. I think classism is a factor and I think my gender is a factor.

There are other issues, like some people legitimately think I am nuts. But, some of those people were extremely ugly to me in a way that is wholly unwarranted by an assumption of mental health issues. These were often people who imagine they are good and kind people. They often wear that on their sleeve. It is virtue signaling and their actions (at least wrt me) don't match their claims.

So, less virtue signaling, and more just helping me figure out how to make money online, which was the primary I thing I asked for consistently over the years and was often openly dismissed, often by people who, themselves, earn their living online in some sense or to some degree.
Both of those appear to indicate that forking is expensive when you need to copy unusually large amounts of memory (which makes sense). In this context, I would expect reasonable/small memory use and so fast forking.
As is, no. There are too many possible actions and too little time between decisions.

I wouldn't discount it entirely though, some sort of clustering of actions may be able to reduce continuous action spaces to a manageable branching factor.
Belief in recycling allows people to avoid the deeply bothering question of why we allow packaging companies to create an infinite flow of garbage. Much of which of course ends up not in ANY recycle bin but throughout the ecosystem.

"I feel OK, I recycle, it's the best we can do."
>1) Automation removes a bottleneck, and lets workers be more productive - often creating more work.

What's not mentioned is that on average, the work created will be more skilled than the work it displaces. This means that in the long term, training [enough to get a job] is harder, because more and more work will require skill.

In the long run, I suspect that the biggest unskilled job group will be the type that involves interacting with people (so, management and retail/sales), which could well end up being where we ditch as many of our unskilled workers that we've made redundant, unless we can manage to remove them from the economy with e.g. UBI. And oh my god, did I just stumble across that one part of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Systematic anthropologic research over more than a decade (in the case of this particular society), including interviews with everyone about the number of violent killings in the past, disagrees.
All I'm saying is that, as a reason for not having children, "it would be wrong to bring them into a world like this", is just bad reasoning. We all possess the ability to take our own lives, so if you're alive and considering whether or not to have children, you are demonstrating with your very existence that a life in current circumstances is worth living.

Otherwise you would have killed yourself.
Would be nice to be able to see the relative places in the solar system.
My startup is called Druber, the elevator pitch is: like Uber for people who sleep in their cars. Use it to find and hire a driver to drive slowly while you sleep, so you don't break the law.

Or I guess the driver can just sit in thr parked car and watch for authorities, if they knock, the driver can claim s/he's just about to depart, and their friend (you) just went out like a light.
Ok, but that doesn’t mean it’s ok to say something like this and then completely neglect the underlying issues. Even if they’re not urgent, if you’re not working on them you should expect they will never get better on their own. That’s why you shouldn’t just ignore these things. Plus, I’d bet on them becoming bigger problems if neglected not smaller ones. It’s tough stuff but running from it seems like bad advice to me.
I live in Minneapolis. The city fumigates regularly in the summer by aircraft and ground-based methods both, which is why I can go running around the lakes in mid July and get maybe one mosquito bite. I think most US cities are like this.

It's a policy that should be scrapped in spite of the risk of West Nile and Lyme Disease.
Bottleneck at the DB/network is BS. Cheap AWS boxes have 200Mbps of throughout and you'll basically never get that out of any of the slower languages on a box with something like 1VCPU 1GB ram. Slightly more expensive boxes have 1 gigabit which is hitting many thousands of HTTP requests per second, even Java/Go struggle with that load.

I have seen MS SQL server handle over 10k database queries per second on a regular machine in a real, huge application (over a million lines). Can Python handle 10k queries per second? Definitely not. In Java or go that load could probably be handled by a single AWS box that costs $10 a month.

I have never seen a database maxed out that wasn't stuck because of table locks. I've seen applications like WordPress die at 10, requests a second
It is largely one of timescale. Carbon dioxide is not only present in our atmosphere but essential for our life. We've just got more of it than the atmosphere than we need without a doubt.

So in comes this notion of capture. Capture to me means taking existing processes which produce carbon dioxide and somehow sequestered. So you've got a plant that burns natural gas to produce electrical power. If you capture the carbon dioxide and somehow incorporate it into something else that people need, they have an incentive to keep it capturing. The obvious example would be bricks. Use the bricks to build a structure, people preserve and use the structure. The carbon dioxide is captured. Obviously no one has figured out how to create room temperature bricks of carbon dioxide.

My issue with this project is they basically are shoving some carbon dioxide containing material in the ground and saying it is somehow captured. It might stay down there for a million years or just a few months. It's like the fracking industry claiming it doesn't impact the environment.
Does anybody use an extension like this for their email? I have always been turned off by horror stories of Chrome extensions being bought out and injected with malware[1]. I would love to have my email encrypted easily, but not at the cost of opening a new attack vector that could bypass that encryption. What open source extensions are there that can be installed locally?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/malwa...
Or we could all just live in cars! It all fits.
Less finger-pointing, more parameter-tweaking!
Thank you, this string was beginning to sound like r/personalfinance was leaking -- a place where people think they can save their way to ultra-wealth.

You can be frugal enough to live a comfortable middle class lifestyle -- but the people who are rich just make a ton more than you. That's it, that's the secret!
This type of curve is what I would expect out of machine learning. At first there is rapid improvement as it learns the easy lessons. The rate then slows down as further incremental improvements become less impact.

What is, perhaps, surprising is that human play happens to be relatively close to the asymptote. Although this could be explained by Alphago being the first system to beat humans. If its peek performance were orders of magnitude higher than humans, a weaker program would have already beaten us.
Well in Japanese rules the komi is 6.5 so that's the alternative that tends to come up. Some quick searching I found a transcript from one of the games where DeepMind said 7.5 slightly favors white but they didn't say anything about 6.5 or 5.5, while a random comment from r/baduk claims that pro game analysis shows 6.5 slightly favors black and 7.5 slightly favors white.
"stop using [something useful]" considered harmful
The planet isn't conscious and can't "treat us" as anything.

We are doing this to us. We are changing the environment to support short-term wants/needs at the expense of its human habitability in the future.
Ask HN: What to do if I'm a bad fit for dev team?
I have 5 years of experience writing ML software and working with distributed systems for large-scale data processing (10s-100s of TBs).

I have some hard-won experience, but I am by no means done learning. I try to be open-minded, and I've accepted that there's no way I'll ever truly be an expert in every aspect of SW engineering.

Four months ago, I joined a new team at a new company (my previous tech was purchased, and I wanted to move on to other projects). Writing code with this team has been a really difficult experience. Every change that I make I get pep8'd and abused on style. With each PR that I make, a long thread (>50 back-n-forths) ensues with comments like "let's put the calls in this file instead of that file", "let's actually put the code here in this file", "your code should be under 80 characters long", etc. What's annoying is that this codebase is a mess, and these comments appear to me as hazing as they are not uniformly applied to others: lots of inconsistent styles; really complicated class hierarchies; major violations of YAGNI; major violations of pep8. The codebase size is <3K LOC, and I've worked on codebases with 100Ks of lines; so it's really frustrating to deal with the nitpicking on something that seemingly wastes everybody's time, and doesn't provide opportunities for growth or learning.

So being a good new employee, I've asked for a style guide and was handed this link: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/. I've been programming in python for 10 years, and I just found this to be insulting. I've worked on projects that are orders of magnitude more complex than the current one; and yet none of my experience matters, and I feel that I'm being viewed as a junior since I've been given smaller and smaller "projects" (if they could be called that) to work on.

I believe that my teammates see me as a bad apple. I want to do something constructive here, but I'm feeling pretty bruised and confused.

Thanks for any advice.
Not that I've planned it for that reason, but my family has the documents to live in either Japan or Switzerland. Both seem reasonable bets to me, i.e. protected by geography and with a pretty resilient local population.

Have a read on the Bronze age collapse - when the global economy collapses, the main danger won't be environmental but due to human migration. In a functioning economy I'm very liberally minded towards freedom of movement (and in fact this lessens the danger I'm describing), but in a collapse, global inequality will come back to haunt the developed world in an apocalyptic fashion.
I thought this would be an article about putting the car in some sort of mode below "standby" so it doesn't use up power doing things whilst you're camping in your tent.
I prefer the term “biological” rather than “cisgender” in this particular case because we are discussing the presence or absence of particular organs, not one’s gender identity. But I see your point.