skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a different country. how well can ex-slaves and bushman run a country? democracy is not rooted in every culture, greed is :\

EDIT: just to be clear not every person in charge is ex-slave or something, but as a country even if they started financially strong it does not mean they had the culture to support it
On the government level, maybe. On the overall population it's interesting. Many people don't consider themselves religious, when they do practice rituals to please gods. I however am not sure how much of this is tradition and habit, vs believing.

Nevertheless, I found it interesting how practicing "Chinese folk religion" and still calling yourself an atheist seems to not really raise eyebrows.

It would be interesting to hear of someone having more insight, as I only got this off the internet.
Ah. As a Brit I was trying to work out what the w-word was.
So they need $70B to provide a sense of community and belief system?
> I know DOM interop is a popular request, but nobody has started working on it and it isn't a priority.

I linked to the latest proposal downthread; people are absolutely working on this.
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I'd recommend you tell people more about what you're doing, who you are, and existing code/site.

If it's open-source, no need for stealth mode, and you're much likelier to attract people that way.
Agree with this. It's important to realize that this is Tesla's PR team is fighting in the court of public opinion against this attorney that is gathering a lawsuit against them and anyone else that is using this event to spin some anti-Tesla news.

If a company can get some great mileage out of creating a better narrative, they have a shot at much better leverage before/during any potential trial.

I'm not making any judgement about Tesla (certainly better than post-Deepwater BP) or the lawyer, just saying it's a matter of perspective and incentives.
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> can definitely be helpful and contribute to increased well being, concentration, problem solving, energy, mood, etc.

Why would nature not have us operate at peak efficiency with regards to problem solving, unless there was a side effect. I'm very interested in micro dosing, and nootropics, but I would have to think there is a downside.
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DWARF is terribly designed.
It is far more complicated than it needs to be.

For example, to map binary locations to line numbers -- it uses its own opcodes and registers in a custom VIRTUAL MACHINE(!!)

When it could have had a simple table like:

Line Offset
1 0xa
2 0x14
4 0x2a

...

Then just compress that with an ordinary compression algorithm rather than inventing silly virtual machines.

The debug info itself is encoded in a very cumbersome encoding of debug-information-entries that point to one another.

A much simpler method would have been RLP, for example.
No one has mentioned it so I will: consider Lynx, the text-mode web-browser. Being command-line you can automate with Bash or even Python. I have used it quite happily to crawl largeish static sites (10,000+ web pages per site). Do a `man lynx` the options of interest are -crawl, -traversal, and -dump. Pro tip - use in conjunction with HTML TIDY prior to the parsing phase (see below).

I have also used custom written Python crawlers in a lot of cases.

The other thing I would emphasize is that a web scraper has multiple parts, such as crawling (downloading pages) and then actually parsing the page for data. The systems I've set up in the past typically are structured like this:

1. crawl - download pages to file system
2. clean then parse (extract data)
3. ingest extracted data into database
4. query - run adhoc queries on database

One of the trickiest things in my experience is managing updates. So when new articles/content are added to the site you only want to have to get and add that to your database, rather than crawl the whole site again. Also detecting updated content can be tricky. The brute force approach of course is just to crawl the whole site again and rebuild the database - not ideal though!

Of course, this all depends really on what you are trying to do!
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Thanks, @rasmi. I have a feedback for you guys. The pricing for predictions inference in GCP is not very fair. If I deploy a small model (like a SqueezeNet or Mobilenet) I pay almost the same price of someone deploying large models (like Resnet or VGG). That’s why I’m deploying my models on serverless environments and paying about 5 dollars for 1 million inferences.

The pricing of GCP is: $0.10 per thousand predictions, plus $0.40 per hour. That’s more than 100 dollars for 1 million inferences.
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Even more so, some cultures specifically use gluten as a cooking / baking ingredient. E.g.: mock duck.
Ape is a corner case, they're the only species we know of that share to a limited extent the enlarged forebrain that humans have.

A single outlying data-point hardly disproves a theory, and even so, you can't possibly know that the monkey knew what he was doing. It could just be mimicry. Your thinking about what the monkey is thinking is distinctly the distinguishing trait of human psyche I'm talking about.

EDIT: Also relevant. Operant theory can explain seemingly "intelligent" behaviour as random or observed and mimicked actions that are then reinforced by the environment [0]

Your monkey's behaviour could be explained in a similar vein to that which explains "cargo cult" behaviour [1].

Now, you could say that this is indeed "intelligent" behaviour, but then again a dog can be trained to open a door, and pigeons can be trained to orient themselves based on a clicker [2]. But what I'm talking about here is what distinguishes human intelligence from other forms of life on this planet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning#Origins_o...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#First_occurrences

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtfQlkGwE2U
Yikes. If we had had to write our own image resizing kernel, this would have taken much longer. And ok, it can do JPEG but what about PNG, GIF, and WEBP?
It used to be 40 hours
And to put whom in power instead of him? It doesn't work.
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A world government with a force would be an interesting concept. Corrupt African states has lead to their citizens fleeing to Europe with EU solutions being band-aids like giving Libyan coast guard ships and money to prevent the ships from leaving Libyan waters, the better solution would be to fix corruption and help development in the refugees' home countries, but the EU governments can't do that, can they (giving the governments money would just mean the leaders would be able to afford a new villa and a few more Mercedes Benzes).
It worked for those cases where US interests aligned with UN interests. For everything else, not so much.
When did he make that prediction? Was it in 1997, or was it a retrospective analysis made after the project was complete?

The draft genome was available in early 2001. How does that fit into the timeline? According to the doubling prediction, with 4 years to go less than 20% of the genome should have been available.

However, the actual draft had 90% of the sequence. https://www.genome.gov/10002192/2001-release-first-analysis-... .

It took another 3 years until it was called "done", which means that the simple measurement of completion was not exponential, but more likely S-curved. (I think parts of the genome still aren't sequenced because of the regions of high repeats.)
Compiler errors are a daily issue with Xamarin unfortunately...
It's not all about population and food supply. Ecological collapse will impact humanity just as effectively - and that is linked to population growth.
What "unbridled capabilities" are you referring to?
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> The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true.

No, the p-value is the probability that the given data generated is as far away or farther by random chance given the null hypothesis is true. That is to say, we assume the null hypothesis to make some predictions and see if the data is a likely occurrence under those assumptions.

This is not the same as the probability that the null hypothesis is true. If that is what you want (and most of us do want this), then Bayesian methods are more appropriate though they are more complicated and more sensitive to initial assumptions.
I can't tell, I haven't scraped any page with infinite scrolling yet
Maybe it wasn't "real web development" but I've worked in projects with O(thousands of lines) of transpiled and minimized typescript where they worked fine.
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> Moreover, proper GC support is a piece of the puzzle for the wasm/JS/DOM interop story to get better.

I commented with a link elsewhere, but it seems that people have found a way around that!
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When you see the mathematical phrase "1 + 1" (a trite example, but please substitute something more complex if you like), your reasoning to get the answer is symbolic, but not verbal. That said, I personally have to say the math to myself to "upload" it into my brain, but somebody with more expertise in maths would just have to "see" it.
> If you’re the kind of programmer who is likely to find compiler errors, you probably know who you are.

I'm one of those that routinely find a bug in a library during the very first use of its API. Every "quick weekend project" turns into "let's learn the build system of this library and send a patch/bug report to the maintainer".

Does anybody know how can I turn this annoying superpower of mine into a job that is not basic Q/A?
What? How is it stopping anyone from working or hiring?
Agree 100% too.

As for 'federated search engine' - it's not 'federated' per se but check out Gigablast search engine. Open source (source on GitHub) and a TOTALLY AWESOME piece of software written by one guy. You can do good searches at the Gigablast site[1], or set up your own search engine. Gigablast also offers an API (I may be wrong but I think DuckDuckGo uses that API for some tasks).

[1] http://gigablast.com
Not just less growth, but also an increasing wealth-gap. Wealth gap will lead to increasingly dangerous conditions.
My significant other is in a similar situation. A reasonable amount of wheat-based baked goods (a burger bun, a slice of bread, a slice of pizza) will almost invariably set her off (causing both skin and intestinal distress). And if it sets her off once, it'll always set her off. Small amounts of seemingly similar wheat-containing foods (eg, a bite of someone else's sandwich) will generally not. Non-gluten containing foods seem to be fine...but even when she's great about avoiding gluten, she'll have occasional outbreaks, strongly suggesting it's not (just? only?) gluten.

Her doctor has labelled it as gluten sensitivity, but we're well aware that it's not really clear she has any such thing, or if such as thing even exists. The FODMAP/fructan stuff sounds promising, but one common source of FODMAPs is garlic, and she adores garlic and eats it with everything in vast amounts which 1) strongly suggests that at least some FODMAPs are fine for her and 2) makes her extremely reluctant to try a FODMAP free diet.

The whole this is baffling. She clearly doesn't have coeliac disease, small amounts of gluten are (normally) fine, large amounts of things containing gluten are not fine, very similar things without gluten are fine, but something other than gluten that is consumed even when gluten is being avoided is not fine, at least some high-fructan/FODMAP foods are fine...I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. My current pet theory is that it's a reaction to at least two different substances, but what?

For now she just avoids gluten and (mostly) avoids outbreaks. It's confusing but it's an easy coping strategy.
China, as you so easily collectively defined, believes in million things; not better and not worse than US believers.

Yours is really an useless argument. This is more about consolidation of power.
Take as an example the standard null hypothesis of the means of two groups being the same. This is a very concrete condition that is amenable to having predictions made from it.

But now let's say that you assume they are different. Well, how different are they? You need to make that choice in order to get predictions. And then your rejection is not a rejection of "being different" but "being different in this one specific way".
Fishbone had a minor push here in the UK but nothing compared to RHCP, they were pretty different IMHO so certainly in the UK and Europe there would have been room for both. They needed better management push.
Have you read the book Children of Time? It's a sci-fi novel with (sentient) jumping spiders as protagonists.
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> Does static vs dynamic also imply that the strong-ness is checked at compile vs runtime?

It's less like "implies" and more like "it's the definition of".
> like it wasn't written by lawyers

Like it wasn't, but it was.
They could directly invest in infrastructure (coupled with suitably sized bribes, which can be kept to a small portion when done directly), which is what China is doing.

But they'd get accused of colonialism if they actually tried to help directly like that (and perhaps it would be true). So they're left in the untenable position of dealing with mass migration or funding warlords.
The line number programs of DWARF are pretty well working for the problems they should solve. Out of all things in DWARF that are weird, these are not the issue.

We use DWARF at Sentry just fine and I am quite a big of a supporter of the format as ypu can guess. In particular it was designed and specified unlike sourcemaps which are a random google docs page and don’t even solve basic problems such as finding out which function a token belongs to.
> ... also point out that it is from 2011, and this should be reflected in the title here on HN.

ah ! sure, but unfortunately, the post is way past it's edit deadline now.
These African countries always remind me of Darwin's Nightmare[0]. There is an interview with Raphael at 1:20:41 in which he says he wants a war because he can earn more money then.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnTWAyzhbg
Ask HN: What are your favorite JetBrains IDEs “lifehacks”?
I use IDEs from JetBrains (such as IntelliJ, or PyCharm) as my daily development tools, and even after 2 years of using it, I still occasionally find some "hidden" feature, or shortcut, that simplifies my life a little bit, such as custom tab-completing templates, or class diagram generator and so on...

So, what are your favorite lifehacks on JetBrains platform, that are not universally known?
While the US often acts reprehensibly, such as in the case of Chile, Iraq, and so on, the overwhelming majority of the international influence the US exerts is positive. The entire stability of Europe, Japan, South Korea (although Park Chung Hee was a dictator), and a handful of other countries was built by the US government. Counter-examples are easy to list, but somehow the more numerous positive examples are forgotten.

And what are you basing the "global slowdown of economic growth" on? Gross World Product has been growing at around 3% since the second world war, and hasn't slowed down recently at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
And particularly, Africa is growing faster than anywhere else.
America! Give $1000 to a Congressman and you buy what money in the real world cannot.

In other countries corruption is more honest: want the license to build a building? It will cost you an apartment or $XX,XXX. Personally, I prefer the later...
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I agree, however as someone coming from Europe I don't think that's easily possible. The US seems to require means that don't sound socialist/communist to some people. A lot of investment and subsidization into common good seems to go the route through lowered or absence of taxes and other laws (non profits, churches, etc.) and military (either research, that is later released to the public, and that's not just GPS or infrastructure and services, welfare, education for the poor, if they join the military).

To me it seems that both churches and military investment (in the very broad) are essential and integral for the stability of the US.

I think whether this should be changed is debatable, however I don't think this can be done over night, as it would destroy said stability. Even if a majority could be gained for such a project I think it would have to be a very slow process, as so many other things are built on this foundation and many things seem to have been optimized for this system over time.

However, I am not an expert by any means and just rely on what I see, hear and think when I compare it with Europe. The only thing I have learned is that telling people to do it like others isn't something that can just be done - while keeping some stability that is.
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I recently started using the WebMemex extensions. They are written by a friend from the Indieweb Community. Best way to save a snapshot (to "freeze dry") a website and have them in the browser cache for offline use. Lots of development still needed but it is pretty usable already.

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You fail to see 2 things:

1. You could still hire anyone you want. Certificated or not...

2. The certificate is not just some random piece of paper. It does (or at least should) actually prove that you had some training in that field and are skilled.

If some people are unable to get such a training and a certificate, then the problem lies somewhere else (i.e. the reasons why they can't...).
Of course not. I simply recognize that pushing political agendas both alienates natural economic allies, and opens the door to co-opting the organization for things of no benefit to tech workers as a class.

Like, I don't give a fuck if people understand broad overarching concepts of solidarity and togetherness. Maybe I'm just a huge sperg, but what I want is concrete work on making tech work better. Make a flyer explaining stock compensation and how shady employers will structure things to screw you over, and publicize the shit out of it so that employers can't claim ignorance. Name-and-shame employers for having equity compensation terms so bad that they grants are effectively worthless. Something.
You're missing the point of organizing, which is to ensure that if the workers don't like the culture, they can force the top leadership to make changes to the "environmental conditions"
Support of the status quo is a political choice. There is no neutral.

The "status quo" is "the person who was elected gets to be President". It's OK for you not to believe in democracy per se, or in a specific flavour of it, that's Freedom. But let's call a spade a spade shall we?
Tangent, but...

I'm actually curious if the wealth gap is part of what caused the slowdown -- the super rich got greedy, ate into their seed corn by taking too much wealth from the productive parts of the system, and now won't make the massive investments and restructuring of intake from them necessary to restore the system.
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You can basically use a 5.x in the same way as 6 (one "type" per index, only one parent-child relation). If you're not doing it that way now - you can start slowly while you're on 5.x and slowly migrate your methodology to the 6.x way (if it's even so different..) Then you can move to 6 more with little change, if you even need to upgrade to 6.
I guess for certain definitions of ‘behind’.
Strong vs weak typing also means whether you can circumvent the type system. So C/C++ are weakly typed systems because the laws of types are more like guidelines there and you can cast around them to reinterpret memory contents.
A couple of years ago I built an app (PayMeMaybe) which uses this idea to settle small debts between friends: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.paymemaybe...

Wasn't quite the break through success I suspected :)
Like I said, in my original comment, if you are a rational actor and you did mess up in a circumstance like this, you have two options: You can own up to it, or you can lie. If you're going to lie, you have two options: Use vague language and make fuzzy assertions, or confidently, directly, and clearly make counter-claims. If you were at fault, and there is a pending legal case, pursuing option two will inevitably lead to your exposure not only for the original wrongdoing, but for lying about it later. Any rational actor evaluating their options would play this through and realize this. Therefore, we can conclude either Elon is so divorced from reality that he doesn't care about the obvious negative consequences, or, that he is being authentic in his messaging here. And while Elon certainly may be off in his own little world in a number of ways, I personally don't think he's crazy enough to outright lie in a message like this.
What's with requiring an Add-on to set a search engine URL?

I can't remove the "&t=ffab" query tag from the DuckDuckGo search. Presumably ffab is Firefox Address Bar.
Yeah, its citizens are free to do what they please, right.
I totally agree! Though I bought my 13" non-retina MacBook Pro (mid-2012) on the day it was launched in 2012 (5 years ago!) and upgraded it with faster RAM and replaced the 750 HDD with 500GB SSD, and this machine is a beast in performance!

I have used and compared it to the other latest Macs, and though I can notice the performance increase, I find it a little minimal compared to the 5-year old machine I have! The Non-Macs are not even close, not even on the list, and no, I am not saying this just because of the MacOS, I find the overall experience to be shitty. I cannot imagine using HP/Dell laptops, with that OS!
> $300,000 is a sizable donation

According to Forbes' estimates, Thiel is worth about $2.8 billion. Donating $300,000 for him is proportional to giving maybe $30 for a normal upper-middle class person.
You mean the only ones that can; for every party that is able to fight, there's ten if not a hundred that simply can't fight back and are forced to settle. See also the RIAA / MPAA lawsuits over the odd downloaded mp3, and the patent trolls which Newegg fights against in courts.
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> "Hey guys,..." and someone expresses discomfort with the genderedness of the phrase

Is "guys" still gendered? I thought it was used to refer to any group of people, male or female, pretty much since the days of "Friends".
IBM has built several operating systems and programming languages and compilers over the years. Probably more than Bell Labs, actually. It's not so surprising.
I’m not sure I agree with this statement at all.

Promotion is never a touchy thing when you set clear expectations for a persons progression - one that is measurable and comparable to their peers.

The individuals then know, directly or indirectly, if they are on the right path, and which one of their peers is ahead or behind. The incentive there is for them to either up their game, or stay where they are.

The only fear there is that the system / process can be gamed; but one almost always never picks the lesser of the two qualified individuals - you risk loosing the more qualified individual and the team no longer has any faith in the “system” and they too will loose respect and move on.

Perhaps I may not have the experience you do, but it’s something I would never stand for - I would love to hear examples of when and such a scenario would play out though as it’s something I may encounter at some point in my career.
Oh yes it is very present. Just ask the jews and gypsies.