skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had one too many brushes with r/politics where "liberals" hated people because they were the wrong gender and race. The liberal and conservative subs alike have plenty of people who hate the other side for no good reason.
How effective is regenerative breaking?
I feel it's more a case of functional programming trying to target the wrong segment - albeit out of necessity.

There's two kinds of programs being made. First most common one is the kind you're talking about here: grunt work. It's not about the code, but more about having the code do a straight forward task with very flexible constraints. A web app that talks to a database and does a few simple transformations -- like forum software or a todo app.

The second type is the interesting one: actual difficult code that does something unique and difficult and can take years to write by very experienced developers. Usually the difficult part here is coming up with the correct algorithm and then applying it, often with performance considerations being extremely important as the code is doing a lot of work. An impressive new MMORPG game, a new rendering technique, complex simulations, control code for rockets or advanced batteries.

The big program with functional programming is that it's never been positioned as a solution to the second type. Generally people trying the second type are told to use C, C++ or recently, Rust. Functional programming is marketed as making the first type "better" because trying to market it as being more efficient than C/C++ has not worked as people rely on micro benchmarks for these decisions. But this falls apart with the argument you gave: for the first type, it's better to just hire more junior programmers as there's nothing really difficult involved. And using a functional language makes it extremely difficult to hire junior programmers, because functional languages are aimed at advanced programmers.

It's a massive product-market fit problem.
I disagree, it'll fork the community and attract people who only want to talk about politics and not tech stuff. I don't want "sub-hns" with vastly different tone and quality.

I find that HN's community and mods are pretty good at policing flamebait content in general, inflammatory topics don't last long on the frontpage in my experience.

I'd sooner ban politics entirely from HN (as has been attempted before) than create a sub-forum for it.

I also find that political talk doesn't tend to contaminate other threads the way it does in other communities. If you want to avoid political threads it's fairly easy to do so in general. So it's really not that bad from my point of view, and I don't really like political stuff either.
That’s an interesting approach to it (modifying how the package.json is processed).

If anyone is wondering if their current package manager supports this, it does if you are using Yarn. Yarn has a `resolutions` field to override subdeps (either globally or in a targeted way): https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/selective-version-resolutio...

It’s not as low-level and flexible as pnpm’s approach, but is perfect for the use case described here.
Avoid taxes by hacking tax rules is, well, a form of hacking!
Sanders for President if we are to believe the wall street journal from 2015/2016.
I think this is the value in using platforms like HackerOne vs trusting a random half-backed bug bounty program someone made as crisis management.
Ethereum's smart contracts can read external data under some conditions using something called Oracles:
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/11589/how-do-or...
Agreed. I think it might come down to the entirety of the BAT ecosystem (ad blocking browser, optional ads that you earn $ for turning on, micro donation system in the spirit of patreon). I certainly think its worth watching to see how it unfolds at least.
The burden of proof lies at OP, not parent.

The argument, as far as it exists, is constructed as follows:

1) I do not like content X.

2) Observes content X is being upvoted.

3) We should get rid of content X.

4) There are a lot of people who agree with me (= argumentum ad populum, and furthermore lacks data).

It is basically the same as arguing with the mod system (which is on every website a big fat no-no), but then under a guise of not getting the candy you want (apparently then its OK).

You know there's a much simpler solution than complaining about it? You can work around content you dislike by submitting and upvoting content you do enjoy. Or another option is leaving, going to another website, or getting something useful done.
I wonder if it would be possible to put InnoDB to a kernel mode filesystem driver to create a new database filesystem. (BeFS/WinFS-style)
> Underneath all that is the real debate: should we able to express ugly, unpleasant, or unfortunate truths in public as facts?

I think "the fact" that Damore continues to air his views in public, and no one is stopping him from doing so, is proof that we have this freedom in spades.

The fact that the people at Google don't want to work with Damore anymore is also freedom. Would you force Googlers to work with someone they disagree with so strongly that they cannot be civil?
A parser (assuming you are talking about a programming language parser) has the luxury of having highly structured and deterministic inputs, and to be able to refuse giving an "answer" if they are not.
In Milos case there is soliciting views of neo nazis and video examples of defending child rapists. Quite apart from not wanting your company associated with that content there is probably a legal need to distance ones self to avoid litigation in some countries.
Counterexample: HN.
New Beginnings: Joining Google
The common English idiom I’ve heard that is similar to the 2nd one is “‘Good Enough’ never is”, which is grammatically a bit strange but a fun one.
In already annoyed by the shift of data from text to video. It's so much harder to absorb and skim quickly. 3d internet is harder for content creators, and harder for users to access what they need.
The Nazi came to power largely because the communists would constantly fight them in the streets and "no-platform" them. You'd think someone would have read a history book.

Downvoting does not change facts. The constant street battles between the Communists and Nazis helped the Nazi far more than the Communists.
[IANAL]

That's an interesting question. I think Google would have a reasonable argument toward damore creating hostile environment toward a group with a protected status. They then could argue he was unfit for employment. Obviously a jury would then decide, but historical precedent says that no it would not constitute a failure to provide reasonable accommodation because he was unfit for employment.

"Nevertheless, some employees with ASD and related conditions continue
to struggle to show that they are qualified for employment.90 Courts
continue to assert that the ability to communicate appropriately with customers
and coworkers is an essential function of the jobs in question.91 Particularly
in cases dealing with employees who have contact with the public or
collaborative interaction with colleagues, communication challenges typical
for those with autism have been sufficient to derail class coverage.92 This
may prove to be a significant hurdle in litigation for employees with ASD in
the future."

source: http://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Hensel.pdf
The TCO includes the cost of the lease, so it already includes payback of the upfront cost. If you're not leasing it, your cost per mile without considering upfront cost is much better than even the TCO calculation shows, so you can "payback" relatively quickly. If you lease it, you can take advantage of the lower cost of operations immediately.
Open platforms for discussion are actually one of the best ways to prevent something like the Nazi party from coming into power. And if the Nazi party did come into power, you would not expect there to be impartiality in any major discussion forums in the nation.

Example:

A lot of folks are flabbergasted at /r/The_Donald, but I've always contended that that subreddit exists and developed into its current culture precisely because right-leaning opinions are treated so harshly on most of the rest of reddit. In other words, there was a feeling of suppression and censorship, which leads to the sort of high-energy, irreverent "shit-posting" that is the mainstay of /r/The_Donald.
"India" country in Asian subcontinent

p.s - my bad should have framed the question correctly
crying 'whataboutism' is effectively ceding the argument I'm not sure why this term has been plaguing HN lately.
I don't think Niantic was responsible for the decline but just the game itself was. It only garnered the attention it did because of the Pokemon name but at the end of the day the game was a grind. I saw a lot of people lose interest because there was nothing really unique about it. Everybody that I knew that played it turned the AR off as well, so it became just another game.
Hn is not only tech, but everything that gets voted up by tech people.
Use gazebo on the regular, but at first glance, only AirSim looks to use rendering real enough to test computer vision algorithms with.

I do love that Udacity's simulator is in Unity though.
This site is all about politics. Free speech, open internet, regulation of large corporations, venture capital and small businesses and how health care and taxes and incentives affect them, housing crises in our various backyards - it has a deep and immediate connection to the "technical, scientific, and business" topics.
> struggling to produce their most important car ever

Isn't this part of not executing the roadmap as planned? Put another way, how do you know if they are on the right trajectory to profitability? How much are they ahead/behind?
Different microarchitectures can have big differences in performance between different instructions.
I am hoping this comment section could become that.

Does anyone have examples they can contribute?

Mine is Thomas Jefferson, who basically invented Mac & Cheese. Or at least became the first importer of it to the United States.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/thomas-jeffersons-mac-chees...
AvE has just shy of 12k patrons. https://www.patreon.com/AvE

He doesn't list a dollar amount but my guess is that it's at least $20k a month.
Ah, that's the crux: racism and misogyny are terrible enough that if you hate it, you must be correct.

For me personally, the echo chamber on both sides is enough to keep me far away from both /r/politics and /r/The_Donald.

For example, you cannot say anything positive about Trump on /r/politics. Nothing. There was a screenshot showing that there were 231 negative articles posted and zero positive articles. It's literally propaganda, but from the other direction.

Now, you can argue that you should fight the good fight and that it's immoral to say anything positive about him. Sure, I sort of buy that: If Trump was equivalent to nazis, then we should resist that from becoming a reality.

And yet he's not. From what I've studied of history, the climate today is similar-ish to 1920's Germany. But if you examine the details of how the Nazi party seized power, you'll find they held guns up to people's heads in order to get various statesmen to vote a certain way. The German political institutions were captured by popular vote, then by force. And as long as we avoid the latter, the former isn't necessarily an indication that fascism is on the rise.

But it's hard to make that argument in this climate. If you try, you're shouted down or misinterpreted or outright framed. And that's the central issue here: When you become a zealot, you lose the ability to take advantage of the opposition's good ideas. Are you sure it's true that Trump's entire political franchise has had zero good ideas?

I'm worried that in the process of fighting Trump, we'll lose reason and rationality.
This, so much this. Maybe I could reconsider if they paid me more than a few dollars per good (according to me) advertisement, but I doubt that this will be the case. Until then, I will stick to ad-blocking.
Paying what you owe isn't morally wrong. But using your wealth to corrupt the system so that you and you ilk owe less in taxes IS morally wrong. Its also wrong to support,continue and benefit from the system that keeps the corruption in place.
This exactly - you simply borrow against it at a very low rate.
Getting bored of people complaining about politics on HN...

Can we come to terms that if stories are getting voted up, it means people want these? I guarantee I'm not the only one who thinks it's complementary to the technical, scientific, and business side of the site.

See how that works? Don't like it? down vote it? :)
I still can't believe that trading pokemon between friends wasn't a day 1 feature.
Exactly. It was Ballmer who started the mobile strategy and it was up to Nadella to salvage it.

Making sure Office, etc., work well on Android and iOS is perfectly in line with his idea that you can work with competitors to increase revenue for everyone involved.

Contrast this with Amazon, who believes that it is a winner takes all market, and they do not have support for their competitor's products and even refuse to list them in their store.
Having ridden public transit in the USA, dollar vans that I have ridden elsewhere have a long way to go before their sanitary status deteriorate as much. I'm talking about scary sticky floors everywhere. Light rail in Sacramento is ghetto on the wheels, and don't pretend blaming it on poverty since dollar vans were in much much poorer areas than CA.

If anything, driver of private vehicle cares more about their vehicle, it being private. Who cares for public ones?
The world of mainstream politics depends more and more explicitly from "us geeks". It's inevitable.
They had one store that was break even. Then they tried to go all silicon valley and take on as much investment and expansion as they could. They followed each unprofitable expansion with another one until they ran out of people to fool in to investing in their ponzi scheme.

I say this having seen the investor prospectus.

In 2009, they had one store that was break-even. The plan at that time called for opening "149" stores by 2015.

By 2015, there were 2 out of 8 stores that were break even, the rest were money pits.

If they stuck with growing slower and reinvesting profits, instead of taking on investments in an effort to make a unicorn, the bay area shops would still be open.
No idea about MySQL. I use postgresql exclusively. And it screams pretty good on ZFS. You can set the record size. The sector size. If you’re insane you can mess with fsync. You can tune ZFS so easily to handle the workload you have.
I'm still mixed on VR. I don't believe it will be a mass market consumer item anytime soon

On the other hand I expect it to revolutionize 3D design (architecture, 3d art for movies, 3d art for games (non-vr games). Manipulating stuff with your hands in VR is 10x-100x faster than using a mouse in Maya/3DSMax/ZBrush etc. We just need someone to bring the pro tools into VR.

As for games I loved both Farpoint (PSV4, bad game great experience) and Lone Echo (Oculus). Also loved Vanishing Realms though it feel more prototype than full game. To a certain degree VR has spoiled my enjoyment of certain non VR games (not all). Something is now just missing if I can't "be there". Like many who have done VR it's the difference between a picture of the Grand Canyon and being at the Grand Canyon. Farpoint is not that great of a game but actually feeling like I'm on another planet with 3 mile high volcanos and 15 mile high plumbs of smoke is a feeling I can't get from a non VR game.
Be careful, the basic land mentionned in this comment is a very special one. (available only in Arabian Nights boosters).

But yes, there is a lot of speculation on Magic cards. And older cards are now VERY expensive.
I bought into the Kickstarter for the Ubuntu phone and was honestly kind of relieved it didn’t go through.
I was responding to a comment that conflated the worst excesses of admittedly terrible communities on Reddit with the whole of the 'modern right.' My goal was to explain the thinking of those who are accusing Reddit of systemic bias against the right. Their assertion is that subreddits advocating violence against right-wing activists are tolerated, while right-wing subreddits are condemned for similar infractions. Whether this is objectively true I do not know. In fact, my interest in politics is minimal and I should probably leave these discussions alone in future. I hope Hacker News does not devolve into another online community overrun with political arguments and petty antagonism.
I think left "leaning" is a bit understated.
Show HN: scri.ch − Draw, save, share, repeat
These videos reference some studies on brown fat:
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/brown-fat-losing-weight-thr...
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-brown-fat-through-...
Hacking is a subversive political act.

News for hackers is intrinsically political.
I never got around to talking about it, but as part of my "month of Rust", I ported permission-based authorization logic from Python to Rust and then ran performance benchmarks of the Rust implementation and a pypy-compiled version. The pypy-compiled python ran slightly faster.

I've been told not to expect similar results in other implementations. These findings cannot be used to draw any conclusions about pypy.

My rust project: https://github.com/YosaiProject/yosai_libauthz
It was one of the driving factors of the Goog-411 project: building a robust database of low-quality real-world voice samples for training up language recognition software.
I totally agree — There was just this point where the Economist and other general interest publications were covering it like the 3rd industrial revolution. More robot clubs are great, but it's hard to think of a single billion dollar company that came out of it.
Is the source code on github?

I wonder what technology they plan to use for system.drawing on Linux
News flash - Women and men are different. Stop the presses!

If they want to engage, they can engage. Nothing sexist there.
I introduced scri.ch 6 years ago here [1], and I am still happily using it almost every day since then. I thought now would be a good time to share it again here, as I think more people could enjoy its simplicity.

It’s 100% built using boring technologies [2], and virtually no feature has been added in the last four years! :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288834

[2] https://github.com/lisezmoi/scri.ch
They don't lose money on every car they sell. Because they have a lot of NRE and other capital expenses they start out deeply in the hole before they sell any cars. But each extra car they sell after that hole increases their profits by something like $20,000 so they're making a lot of money when they sell cars even if their net divided by the number of cars sold is negative.
Me too. The conversations political posts foster on this platform are the lowest-quality I've ever seen here, and nearly all of the headlines and articles are some variant of "Look at what horrible thing the GOP/rich people are doing!!!" and the constant expectation of outrage is what I can get on mainstream news.

HN does not have any unique angle or personalities that can comment on these topics, and it basically devolves into a "blue team good, red team bad" and a few -50 libertarians in every single article. A Markov chain could write the comment threads.
Anything that is above a netbook or a sub $500 laptop doesn't lag and today's computers and phone are spoiling us. I have a 8 year old netbook and I run a minimal Linux install with a tiled window manager and it is quick. I also have an i5 Sandy-bridge desktop and I also work with a tiled window manager because I prefer it, but my wife has Windows 10 on the same computer and it is spot on and that is 6 years old. My video work station is blazing fast and it never lags on anything except chugging through 4K/8K video renders.
No, it's not hacking. It's lobbying to get your hacks into the system and then profiting. Like they themselves say: “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”
But you don't have all your assets delivered in cash. That's just something you do when you suddenly need a pile of cash.

Most other means of transferring/delivering assets come with costs - costs which depend upon the urgency, the physical security, etc.

Someone storing 1bn offshore doesn't bring it all home via such a service.
Yes, you're right of course. Thank you.

I was wondering, because I seemed to connect the expression with steering as well :-) At least I have the excuse of not being a native speaker.
I agree strongly with your first paragraph, and disagree strongly with your second.

Ironically to me, your second paragraph illustrates why your first paragraph matters: As someone belonging firmly on "the left" your description does not fit me at all, at least not in my view.

The problem, then, when someone wants to go to extremes in treating anyone over their perceived ideology is defining what it means to belong to or support said ideology sufficiently strongly to warrant that extreme action.

And hence I do agree with your last paragraph.
Cool!

I've always been interested in law, but it doesn't much interest me as a career. I am interested in going back to school with the intent of becoming an attorney later in life, though, so it's encouraging to hear that my crazy ideas aren't completely off-base.
Is the slippery slope argument a fallacy when companies have shown that pushing their agenda piece by piece is their M.O.?

Reddit has already shown that they had the capability and the will to edit users posts, not just removing them.
Reddit and other social sites already uses all sorts of algorithms to move content they want to the top and to bury content they don't want.
Companies don't want negative PR about themselves or their products.
Companies advertising on Reddit are Reddit's actual customers.

You put those facts together and being afraid of Reddit eventually censoring posts critical of customers doesn't seem like fallacious thinking.

You don't throw a chicken into a cage with a starving tiger and call it a slippery slope to say that the chicken is going to get eaten
True, but it also means that Youtube might not have a future.
Why doesn't he create a company with 100 shares that owns the house, transfer the house into the companies ownership, then just sell shares in the company?

I don't understand:

- How someone would value the 'tokens' he is selling on his house unless they came and looked at the house.

- How the 'owners' of his tokens could preserve their investment. He might just decide to trash the place since he sold most of it for 'liquidity'.

- Why he wouldn't then just sell the house and take all the money for himself. He'd have sold it twice! How's some crypto geek in Russia who bought his house token going to make a claim on that money?
It was slow as hell, that was the main issue.

It’s still around however.
Yes, thoroughly. It's a great project, my only regret is it would be nice to have a purely desktop based front-end utility. Metabase comes close in the fact that you can run one single JAR and be up and running, so it's close for sure. Maybe I am old school, but I think part of my gripe is due to the state of flux of merging traditional desktop UI and web or browser tech. For ordinary desktop users, running a JAR file so they can run a local server app in a browser seems too technical still.

I guess I'm saying, partially it's the packaging for end users who want to run independently like a standalone application which is the issue.

But yes, Metabase is great and the team working on it is doing a great job.
Suitcases of cash are often used for not so legal money (drugs, arms) for which the main issue can be anonymous transfers, not taxes.
I've never seen a political post last more than a few hours on this site before some mod kills it. If it mentions Russia it happens even more quickly. Just ignore this post, it'll be gone soon enough.