skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love cooking dinner for 10 people. It's exciting, it takes a week of planning, a full day or two of cooking, and the glow afterwards when everyone has gone home full and happy lasts a lifetime. I can remember the faces of my guests from every party I've ever thrown.

Dinner parties are perfect because I'm completely unsociable when it comes to regular parties - I detest smalltalk. Over dinner however, talk is deep and profound and often difficult and challenging. Friendships can be broken, or new ones made that last a lifetime.

The author has a problem with cellphones? Ask kindly for them to not be at the table, forgo the Instagram credit and make a stand. It's not going to ruin everyone's day for not having a filtered photo of your lobster this one time.

For those who don't think they can cook: it's a combination of understanding food chemistry and following instructions. Think about a favourite meal you had once and try and recreate - all good food needs is passion, the rest follows.
One can have enough money to value traffic but not enough to spend thousands of dollars for small amounts of additional traffic. As you have less money, the remaining money becomes much more valuable...

> it seems bizarre to value any amount of ad-free traffic over cash flow.

Also, while I do not know for certain how much each page-view is worth, I do know for certain that it is not exactly $0! Errors made on the assumption it is a cent or two are surely less than errors made on the assumption it is literally worthless.

(As it happens, the introspection was pointless because the effect came nowhere near the threshold, and if it had, I would've had to reintrospect anyway since my Patreon has been working better and I have more money since I began the A/B test in January. There's no reason to not revisit thresholds if circumstances have changed, after all.)
The BBC is pretty much okay with accurate reporting.
Here's a better context. Primate groups label and shun members who fall out of line. When they do that you can get a better idea of what's happening by ignoring the labels and looking at situation of the ones doing the labeling.
Does Dramatiq have first-class support for SQS? That's my biggest gripe with Celery. I mean, it does work with SQS, but it doesn't support it as a result backend, and it doesn't do (eg) batch PUTs automatically, so it's pretty slow.

edit: I search the docs for SQS and got no results, so I'm guessing it's not supported.
It can be used with constexpr (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constexpr) to precompute values at compile time.

Here are some videos on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwd4JLYJJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpn_5Mrrxf8
He has Patreon. Ads are not the only way to turn traffic into money.
It's a little more nuanced[0] than that and I confess I don't fully understand it myself. IANAL, but my understanding is it depends on how it's used. If a user action on your website ends up triggering Dramatiq code then you have to open source that code in addition to providing access to Dramatiq. If all you do is batch processing on your own servers, then you don't have to do anything; you're merely a user of the software.

[0]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/5004
Simple, they value the discussion capabilities provided by Disqus. Disqus was worth keeping, Adsense was not.
Surely that simply means no one wants to be with you? Not sure why you’re blaming the concept of the dinner party.
Programming isn't a mystical art that only a few wizards can learn. Millions of people write software to help themselves do their job in things like Applescript, VBA, Google Forms, etc every day. You don't need to have the title "developer" to understand and write code, even if the actual "code" itself is a few layers of abstraction away.
I guess that’s true.
Harsh truths here.

>... As long as 1) wealthy consumers in western nations but also China are eager to seek indulgence by way of green-washing and, 2) are in search of a Steve Jobs replacement persona onto which they can project their hopes for a gleaming future and, 3) are disillusioned with the establishment and its leaders, the company will likely succeed to raise cash again.

> The Tesla narrative is based on an illusion, a contradictio in adjecto - the promise that humankind can shop and consume itself into a sustainable future. However, even a million Teslas on the world’s roads will not impact the environment for better or worse. It is a systemic issue. ...Sustainability and promoting the purchase of raw-material consuming heavyweight products are mutually exclusive.
Toxic is so over-used these days that I think it often means "anyone I don't like at work".
You seem to be an idiot. What’s it like over there? How do you manage to get through your days?
Securities news outlets that feed on your euphoria and insecurity:

- Investor Daily

- Seeking Alpha

- The Motley Fool

- Amigo Bulls

- Jim Cramer

- Zero Hedge [edit: adding this. I'm sure there are a bunch more]

They are SEO mills.
It doesn't, but you're the second person to request it. Feel free to open an issue and I'll take a stab at writing an SQS broker. Having looked at it before, it didn't seem like it would take much work at all.
I've just switched to the nightly after reading your comment. Really liking it so far, it's been years since I've used firefox.
He also did in Swimming With Sharks!
Quite possibly. I suppose I read "when Einstein was working he got help with the math" - so "he also got help (from his wife and others) when working on special relativity" might be more accurate.
Ask HN: Tips for blog authors to emulate?
I'm considering starting a blog, but I have a hard time finding some source of writing that I can emulate or take inspiration from. It's hard to take inspiration from books, because most of the great authors are way too verbose. I also have a hard time finding blogs whose style I find really extraordinary. Don't be discouraged, blog authors, your service is valuable and I love what you're doing, but we can all admit that most of you are not trained in the craft.

So, HN, what blogs could you suggest that has a really excellent style? Personally, I would probably focus on expository articles about technical subjects. But I'm open to taking inspiration from any source. What I'm looking for is an author that is successfully able to balance between the verbose, but enjoyable, style that is commonly found in most books, yet compact and entertaining enough for a modern audience with a short-ish attention span.

I have found a few really promising stuff. The things Christopher Olah and Andrej Karpathy are writing are actually pretty great. I usually consider traditional news articles (e.g. NYT) too word-y. But I still have a hope that there exists, somewhere out there, someone who has mastered the craft of writing for an internet audience. The best I've found in the book sphere is Jorge Luis Borges (compact prose and high information density), but it's still not quite there. PGs style is great, but I still find that there is something lacking. I think the rhythm of Chuck Palahniuk is worth taking inspiration from. The stuff David Foster Wallace wrote is often a fun read, but I don't think a lot of us would keep reading to the end of the article if a technical article was written in his style and posted on HN, unless we knew the guy was famous.
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You’ve run away with this a bit too far.

Firstly, I am staunchly anti-Stalinist, anti-communist, and anti-socialist. I’ve been to former Soviet states and seen the devastation that Stalin and his ilk wrought.

Secondly, the library is a wordplay on the name of the city (or perhaps the well-known battle) of Stalingrad. That’s already a step removed from being named after Stalin.

Thirdly, stop trying to turn the world into a humourless wasteland. The policing of jokes of questionable taste screams of moral panic.
A little late to the party, but I also have a libreboot C201, and have successfully installed mainline Debian on a USB drive connected to it. I'm going to put up a comprehensive guide + shell scripts in December when I'm on break from school, but until then, check out these links:

https://github.com/atopuzov/c201/blob/master/debian-install....

https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/asus-chrom...

The main thing I haven't gotten working yet is the touchpad. For wifi, I'm using an atheros dongle with open firmware.
Okay, fair enough. I'll grant you this.

But this certainly doesn't fit in one line by my standard. It linebreaks in my standard tiling setup.
`from random import choice; print(''.join(choice(('\\', '/')) for i in range 10000)))`
It would take more than an HN comment to describe. The key thing I observed is an intense lack of empathy throughout the society. It's simultaneously anarchic and totalitarian without the rule of law, and little societal trust. I don't see how they approach Western standards of living without the CCP loosening its grip, but the CCP is only tightening its grip, which belies a deep insecurity. I believe their government is only metastable, relying mostly on economic growth for its legitimacy. Once their growth inevitably plateaus, watch out.
> For those who don't think they can cook: it's a combination of understanding food chemistry and following instructions.

Or, in the words of Auguste Gusteau: "Anyone can cook."
No, and they won't. Reasons certainly include monopolization of the information but also protection of the leakers and others. Protecting the sources is one of the key things good journalism has to do.
#3 isn’t necessarily my style but not sure why the downvotes.
Human? I thought he was a "hyper-intelligent alien with a tangential interest in human affairs." :)

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

Of course, he is also one of the richest people on the planet...
The conclusions seem explicitly misaligned with the title. The title implies agency and choice, the conclusions don't come anywhere near making that inference

Title: Where star scientists choose to locate: the impact of US state taxes
Conclusion: Overall, we conclude that state taxes have a significant effect on the location of star scientists.

There is absolutely no causal link established in their data. They simply hypothesize one and then use it as a title.

Edit:
Its also a summary (by the authors) of an actual research article that on a brief read is much more circumspect but still commits many of the same logical sins
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20150508
> is most likely the beginning of a chained assignment

I wouldn't think so at all. I almost never do chain assignment in modern JavaScript but I write functions which return functions somewhat often.

I guess there's a possibility that someone quickly skimming code would misread => as =. It hasn't yet happened to me though.
Yeah, I was really hoping Linux could resurrect my old PowerBook G4. It had great specs for its day and was still in great shape.

After trying a whole load of options, Lubuntu 14.04 was the best but there wasn’t anything which provided a modern web experience.

I briefly thought of trying to make a Raspberry Pi casemod with it before realising how hard it would be - seemed a shame to get rid of a perfectly good screen and enclosure just because the processor is no longer supported.
One thing I haven't figured out is how to deal with such a person who shifts expectations, even with good documentation.

1) Have meeting where you establish the walls should be painted this specific shade of blue.
2) Document this in an email summarizing the meeting and the todos
3) Start painting the walls blue, maybe even finish
4) Toxic Boss comes back and wonders why the walls aren't green. Apparently, they had been looking at the color swatches while sitting under a red tanning light, and expected for you to know what they meant.
5) Go back and paint the walls green.
6) The toxic boss now looks at them and wonders why they aren't red. And you need to paint the ceiling black, because they had a meeting with a potential client at a trade show, and black ceilings are the new hot thing. Clearly, you can fit all of this painting, and repainting, into the original timeline (despite your protestations), because the toxic boss told the client you'll be shipping it by date.

No amount of documentation works here. When you point out to the toxic boss your original agreement, they look puzzled at you, wondering why you aren't team player, and why you aren't listening to customer needs enough. There's another team at work who paints signs, and they are fine with daily changes.

You talk to the toxic boss about making a process for iterating on this and documenting expectations better, but then they say you're too rigid and process will slow things down- they are an idea person, and just like thinking about colors, not the details.
The most plausible explanation I've seen is that this was a hoax/publicity stunt designed to drive a book/movie deal. Balloon boy is often brought up.
If you like this article, the author (Gabrielle Hamilton) has a great book called Blood, Bones and Butter that I highly recommend (though it gets a bit dull at the end).
I learned exactly this way, with GWBASIC, with the same program. It's why I chose this program as the start of "The Rust Programming Language", honestly. Similar to your point about Python, it's more complex. Then again, so are computers...

I'm lucky enough to still have the book for my first computer, my second encounter with BASIC. I tweeted some photos of it last year https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/721471207883808769
No it is not. You haven't provided supporting arguments, but I will anyway: you can sell newspapers with sensation and lies. Look at PCC vs Guardian on the Mark Duggan case.
You might be co-dependent. You see it often with narcissists that need their crowds of admirers, and co-dependents that need to admire somebody. It doesn't work for most people though.
Yeah ! School was so boring, programming calc is what got me into computer science. I'll never forget all my programs for IFS fractals, Syracuse suite visualization, Tic Tac Toe, Minesweeper...
Oh _wow_. I remember looking at tiny 16>2 HDMI multiplexers a while back, IIRC they were a couple hundred.

I think I've seen the coax pools for 1k>1k units in cabling pictures online... these would _start_ at 5 figures, I presume, with full installations probably even rolling into 6 figures?

And... double wow, 12Gbps. Is there nothing like a realtime, lossless, zero latency compression scheme that works for video? Hmm, Huffman coding would probably only chew off a few Mbps, and not make much of a dent.

It sounds like video transmissions run over UDP. That's kinda insane... but TCP wouldn't work either, I'm guessing the transmission format is probably so closely tied to the wire protocol that repeated frames would give everything major indigestion too.

This has been a cool TIL
Decline and fall: how American society unravelled (2013)
RabbitMQ is not hard to use directly. I think most developers would be better off doing that, and coming to understand the power of AMQP, rather than adopting cute DSLs like this and Celery that put you into a box and narrow your view of what's possible.

I started that way with Celery and Django, maybe 6 years ago. At one point we found a bug with Celery not resolving 'chord' callbacks when all the parallel tasks had completed. It was difficult to debug, going through Celery's layers of code that try to make various backends present the same interface. We weaned ourselves off Celery and started using just the RabbitMQ and Redis libraries directly. It was definitely a shift worth making, allowing us to make performance/reliability tradeoffs that were better suited to our systems, and opened our eyes to possibilities with RabbitMQ and Redis streams that we hadn't been able to see when looking through a Celery lens.

If there's a place for DSLs like this, it may be when you have very novice programmers needing to write quick throwaway jobs without wanting to spend a lot of time learning the underlying systems. Maybe analysts on a data team, for example.
if I had a student turn this in I would write them a note telling them its time to come in from their correlation safari.
> the “utility density” of reading those 1000-page textbooks is very low. A lot of pages are not relevant, but I don’t have an efficient way to sift them out. I understand that some knowledge might be useful some day, but the reward is too sparse to justify my attention budget. The vicious cycle kicks in again.

That is their main problem. All those useless pages are what becomes useful later.

And we find the same kind of attitude everywhere in tech: why read a full RFC when you can assume shit and get done with a 2 paragraphs tutorial?
Jim Chanos, a famous short seller known for his Enron short (and who's also shorting Tesla), often refers to the book The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse by Marianne Jennings [1] when talking about identifying financial frauds. Here's a brief summary of it [2]. It's eerie how many apply to Elon Musk and Tesla.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FPVKVA/

[2] https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/business-ethics/resou...
What's interesting here is how things are different from say 20-30 years ago, when everyone would answer their land-line with 'Hello, this is NAME on NUMBER, can I help you' or some variant. This is how I was taught to answer the phone at home, certainly.

Perhaps what's changed is that calls are no longer expensive, and numbers are no longer hand-dialled, so knowing as quickly as possible that you had connected to the wrong number or person is not as important. There's probably other cultural issues at work, I guess, to do with an increased awareness of privacy and so on. The way we communicate has certainly been changed by the Internet and mobile phones in an enormous way.
Except as a programmer you can probably fix their problems (you just don’t want to). An architect does not have the skills to fix plumbing.
Really this should be the submitted link.
Yep, liferea has the functionality of tt-rss and other hosted readers. It's not completely bug free, but you can fix them. Not sure why you'd go for a hosted one unless you really wanted mobile reading or something.
I suppose to be used in constexpr functions.
List of exonerated death row inmates
it wasn't just a technical issue https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-fall-limux-my-perspectiv...
> people using it are actually programmers

Kind of wouldn't surprise me if the user numbers had a decent sized (probably not majority) programmer contingent; these kinds of services are a good way to get a quick prototype out, before you legit build something.
So this ("NN's were invented a long time ago and there has been no theoretical progress since") is a common meme put forward by people who read bits about AI, usually work in software but aren't actively doing machine learning.

It's not true.

For example, the LSTM (the default architecture for use of a NN on text) wasn't invented until 1997.

If we want to look at just very recent work, ResNet wasn't invented until 2015, Attention until 2010 (being generous), NMTs in 2014 etc etc. One can argue these built on other things - which is absolute true - but we don't make the same argument about say Wayland under Linux: "Oh it's just a graphics API with X and Y co-ordinates and more powerful computers".

Until ~2014, people couldn't train neural networks over 4 layers deep. Until ResNet they couldn't do more than ~10 layers. Now hundreds of layers normal for image recognition tasks, and people still say "there is nothing new".

It wasn't faster hardware that got these techniques to work, it was new theoretical breakthroughs.
I’ve been to some places where they don’t have refrigerators. Well, it was 5000 meters up in Tibetan territory and they didn’t exactly need them.
I can't imagine the luxury of living somewhere with a room large enough for a big dinner table to just sit in (and not just vanish instantly because it's the living room and everyone needs the space constantly). Author seems to suggest eight or so people around the same table. Wow. That kind of thing is the preserve of the rich or the elderly, who bought a house when they were cheap. Middle-class dinner parties in someone's house used to be quite common in the UK; now they're a rich people thing. I do know some rich people who have dining rooms; a room just for eating in. It does seem very civilised.
So you can have a constexpr (compile-time) code fragment that, say, casts a float to an unsigned int and extracts the mantissa.

Mostly though, this is fairly unimportant and tedious spec-manship, filling in some obvious gaps.

We had a version of this in chromium a few years ago. This is a proposal just picking that up from what I can tell.
Really? I find chrome’s developer tools very ugly though, with bright and garish colors. Firefox’s is much nicer in my opinion. But the nicest-looking devtools is still Safari’s, even though it is also the slowest, buggiest, and had the least features.
Ah.

I've seen what switching 20kV looks like in videos - yeah, that kind of thing requires very careful design, and is invariably going to come entangled with a PLC-style controller, as is the norm for industrial equipment.
Steem Magazine
Actually. I'm well aware - and have been preaching since he won - that both parties want Trump to fail. Imagine a non-politician coming in and actually getting things done. Are you kidding me? That would not make the rest of W.DC look good.

So at this point, regardless of what you think about Trump, it's 4 more years of "let them eat cake" for we the people. That's guaranteed at this point.
yeah this is bad..bad bad bad...science
> One can have enough money to value traffic but not enough to spend thousands of dollars for small amounts of additional traffic. As you have less money, the remaining money becomes much more valuable...

If you have very little money, then every cent counts, including AdSense cents. Page views count only to the extent that they convert into something: Patreon patrons, consulting gigs, or what have you.

And I'm not saying your page views convert at $0 to those things, but I think it's plausible that you're off by an order of magnitude, e.g. that an ad-free page view is worth only a tenth of a cent.
This is the fallacy of looking at a first or second order derivative to say something is better. Also, assuming that the derivitive will stay constant (at china’s rate of growth, they will quickly be richer than the USA....isn’t something many will take seriously).
They shouldn't be able to. Firewire devices can because they used DMA without memory protection. I don't think Thunderbolt has the same flaw.

However there are bugs in USB stacks, especially now you can do so many alternate protocols over USB-C.

https://www.jefftk.com/p/malicious-usb-sticks

There's nothing fundamental in the USB spec that lets devices execute code on the host.
I'm sceptical that this will improve the classroom climate for that I'd have to be developed with actual teachers and students.
Digitalization just for the sake of it is considered harmful.

Also I'd be wary to trust the similarity metric, IMO it is best to assume good faith until you have evidence of cheating.

Anyway I think this can turn out great, like other have said, if it gets some polishing here and there.
Seeking Alpha has been predicting Tesla decline for a decade and had been shorting it's stock. It's a FUD article.