skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't seem unlikely that there could be cultural phenomen[a] rooted in events a hundred years ago.

Absolutely!

1. It's quite possible that Germans still have an aversion to inflation due to the 1920's episode of hyperinflation in the Weimarer Republik. My grandmother often spoke of it, she had vivid memories of it, as she was selling groceries in the local "Konsum", had to put up new price tags every hour, and saw the suffering of everyone (including her own family). She liked to recount how her "Volksschule" teacher (in a poor neighbourhood) taught them hundreds and thousands, and then briefly mentioned millions and billions, but glossed over them saying "You'll never have to use them anyway."

(Thus, there are people alive, if I may make that claim for myself, that have heard (visceral) first-hand reports of it.)

2. There is this beautiful paper demonstrating that people have more trust in government and bureaucracy in areas that were part of the (long defunct) Habsburger Empire, even if they (and their counterparts on the other side of the old border) have now lived a century in the same modern country.

"The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy"

http://ftp.iza.org/dp5584.pdf

3.

> > It's just not true and likely being written by someone who has never asked a single german/chinese.

Many Germans or Chinese have some sort of consciousness of their history; maybe you haven't asked them.

4. And, by the way, you're also formed by your history (via the culture surrounding you) if you don't consciously notice it. Your statement above is as naive as that of people that claim not to be influenced by advertisement, say, or their biological roots, just because they don't notice it.

EDIT: typo
Both are CPU bound on de-serialization. It’s basically DB replication over HTTP plus some business logic at either end. The Sinatra version is built in a weekend which is 5x slower has authentication and does use ActiveRecord.

Building an entire web app, with background job processing, in Rust with the ecosystem how it is at the moment is very, very slow compared to Ruby, Sinatra and Sidekiq.

When we started Diesel couldn’t join to more than one table. Probably approaching 5x in development time. It’s just not mature enough yet. We’re still experiencing stuck threads which don’t timeout.

Sounds like you found a great case for a native extension!
There is always more to learn in leading people and maintaining existing software. The point is that the developer had many years of practice already AND THEY ARE NOT ACKNOWLEDGED.

Surgeons don't have that expectation. They never butchered a human until their first class in medical school at 20. A developer that is a total starter, like the surgeon, will have a hard time passing any interview and landing jobs.
I‘m monitoring Rust jobs for a while (on Stackoverflow mostly) and this makes me pretty excited. The more firms jump onto the bandwagon and the more high profile they are the better for the Rustaceans.
You could offer a zero-knowledge product: only the user can decrypt the data.
One of the original ICE cars had reins and a lever brake, to accommodate new drivers accustomed to horses!
How long would it take to assemble an IKEA casket? #headuck
if (domain != 'adsense') { blockAd(); }
It's worth noting that when athletes travel for games they have to pay state (and sometimes city) taxes for the cities they travel to which means their state of residency matters less than you might think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_tax
Good solution!
Social Justice Warrior spotted.
"We demonstrate that on random graphs that fit DW, no quantum speedup can be observed compared with the classical algorithms"

However, if you choose special graphs whose structure happens to be similar to DW ("chimera graphs"), then DW solves them faster and/or better than classic algorithms, which basically means DW simulates itself faster than general software for the Maximum Clique problem software simulates DW.

When it comes to larger graphs that must be split to fit in DW, they have an approach that "works", but the part that runs on a classical computer (the splitting) is exponential in runtime with respect to graph size. They also note that doubling the size of the DW in in qubits only gets you the ability to embed a graph √2 times as big. So for real, general graphs of plausible sizes you still don't escape having an exponential-time nonquantum "part" to the process, even if DW manufactures bigger and bigger devices over time.

The part where they state that the combination of the subproblems is optimal assuming that the solution to each subproblem is optimal puzzles me, but that may be because I didn't read closely enough. Generally with problems thought to be in NP, you can't recursively subdivide them, then combine the subproblem solutions into an optimal solution; if you could do that in general, you'd have a golden road to a polynomial time solution to the problem. But that's assuming the subdivision is trivial (like, you divide the nodes in your traveling salesman problem into those west of chicago and those not west of chicago). Since they chose an algorithm for splitting the problem which runs in exponential time on a classical computer, they probably have time to choose special subdivisions where this property of combinability holds--but they haven't escaped "we have to run exponentially many steps on a classical computer", which is not a very good result for DW.
I don’t think it’s a fallacy nor is the quoted person trying to downplay and somehow minimize an ethical judgement. She did use “greedy” and “pragmatic”, maybe “callous” would have been even cleared but I wonder if it’s in some other passage from the book from which this quote has been extracted. ;)
If a task seems straightforward I will likely apply my past experiences with any similar task, and skip any provided manual until I become unsure or hit an obstacle. This is how normal people approach computing devices.
Exactly my thoughts, this effectively puts a price premium on ads under any of Alphabet's networks.
Yes, absolutely, there are normal people at normal companies outside of the bay area making 160.

If you're actually senior and are still making 130 you probably aren't negotiating.
Yup, 2 years ago I went into a large chain store in Germany to buy a camera, no credit card accepted, in a place selling mostly expensive gear such as cameras, laptops, dishwashers... Boggled my mind. Fortunately I had enough cash this time.
Trick a Journalist
False dilemma

“A false dilemma is a type of informal fallacy in which something is falsely claimed to be an "either/or" situation, when in fact there is at least one additional option”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Boy did I love TSN. Still remember the music that played when you got to the main town screen.

Got in trouble once when the access number I chose wan't considered local. Phone bill was high that month!
California's Farm Soils a Large Source of Air Pollutants (~50% of NOs)
Spectrum? Between?

The hard thing is to be less reliant your assumptions and start figuring out what to start measuring.

edit: s/ditch/be less reliant on/

edit2: even that's not quite right; the derivative I'm reaching for is first testing the validity of your assumptions
It's not decentralized, just a simple website built using Django. The idea is to host chat rooms for people (including non-technical folks) who are interested in cryptocurrencies. I'm still figuring out how to differentiate my website from Discord/Gitter.im and one of the ideas I'm considering is to have widgets that display the prices for btc, eth etc.

> but then it would be like Mastodon and already exists :)

Yup, IRC and Mastadon and a whole lot of other services exist but they are not easy to use for non-technical people. Web based chat is much easier to use.
I'm not sure what you intend to convey by "sanguine". To mean, the word means optimistic or confident. Do you mean they do it, or they don't do it?
USDS is hiring.
Defense Digitally service is hiring.
VA Digital service is hiring.
Other government agencies responsible for these missions every day are hiring.

It’s a weird climate, sure, but all those missions still need doing.

Further, organizations like Urban institute, NCRC, other advocacy groups are getting deeper into data visualization and web platforms for advocacy and need help - sounds like you know where to find the opportunities.

Totally agree with you - mission is one of the key parts of any job description and ranks above comp for me.
There's a well developed banking system that allows for fast, cheap, and easy transfer, standing orders, and direct debit. Checks fell out of favour many decades ago, unlike in some more, well, traditional societies. There was the "ec-card", then Cirrus/Maestro debit cards, now cash card, which allow for cheap immediate cashless payment.

Why would one want to let a large part of the economy run through oligopolistic credit card providers, just to let them skim some 2% or 3% off it? It's absurd, if you think about it.
I agree, and further suggest Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations as a book people should read early on. Anyone familiar with subsequent developments in economics will find things to disagree with, but it's important to know what he actually said instead of the self-justifying caricature presented by Rand and her ilk. If you go on to read Theory of Moral Sentiments the contrast becomes even more clear.
Emphasis. One MUST stop working for startups to make a living.
6 Unexpected Burdens That Come with Outside Investors
Beginner’s Guide to A-Frame
We may be trading todays restrictive GUI's for badly documented application API's...

Actually thinking about fairly advanced non developer applications. Mapping/GIS work is a lot like what you describe. GUI tooling with tool boxes of little functions that you can chain together to get the desired outcome.

Though its incredibly complex when you get the advanced use cases, it becomes not dissimilar to regular software development.
yes what im saying is that they support non-“.edu” domains for recognized international schools. try signing up and see what plan you end up with
My thought as well, google/alphabet has a real PR problem here.
As far as I can tell, the pieces of paper are just pointers into a database. If you physically carried in a new sheet of paper it would be inert (or maybe the system would confuse it with some other piece of paper with the same dot-code).

I can't help but think that the paper metaphor, while convenient for immediate manipulation, is ultimately a really clumsy way to store programs, especially given that it is an artificial abstraction around an ordinary filesystem on a Dynamicland server somewhere.
The repo was only the source for the line drawing code.
I strongly disagree with this prediction. That may be true for some lines of work where people have a strong technical background and uses a specific set of applications all the time (such as scientific computing). In all other cases, gui will always win because:

- Non technical people lack the capacity to formalize their goal
- many document creators want wysiwyg applications
- programming languages are powerful but hard to "discover". People don't want to read the docs for something they will use once in a while
If you are using babel there is no need for the new browsers to support the new syntax at all.
Very nice and realistic effect. As a low-level electronics hobbyist I was pleasantly surprised to find "entry level" 50 MHz digital oscilloscopes in the $150-$200 range these days. I picked up a Siglent to help me through Horowitz & Hill's The Art of Electronics labs and it's been pretty fun. I also have used it just to see what's going on on a cheap digital level I bought with USB output and some other things. Definitely a neat tool. It does sit on the desk more than I'd like these days though.
More or less. It's Google's way of getting around header bidding.
> recent changes in the attitude towards foreigners in China

Could you elaborate? As a foreigner in China, this seems pretty relevant.
Video editing apis are a pretty neat way to edit video.

Apple provides a nice set of apis to achieve this as well:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avmut...
At least it makes using a third-party adblocker that much easier:

if (domain == 'adsense') { blockAd(); }
In my previous company, they has a name to distinguish these two kinds of metrics.

- Inputs are the things employees can act on easily, like the number of LoC written or the number of features developped.

- Outputs are related to business success, for example the number of customers, or the revenue.

The key here is to consider the external business environment as a complex machine, in which you put some effort, measured by inputs, and you observe the outputs as a result (reward).
Because you don't know how the environment is going to respond, running the activity consists in adjusting the measures of inputs according to previous results, and trying to maximize those.

This is sane for business because executives can focus on maximizing the input metrics, without caring too much about the outputs, and evaluate separately the assumptions they made about the business (e.g. that x number of features requested by customers developped within 1 month increase the userbase).

It kind of looks like a reinforcement learning process actually.
Yeah, adsense is the main reason. Then Google states you don't need other ad blocker and removes them all from Web store :)
The Uber app shows a bogus map animation when its "locating 3 cars in your area"
Google uses EasyList and EasyPrivacy which includes AdSense, DoubleClick, Analytics, and other Google properties. Read the article.
I see what you mean.

To be honest, my problem with the original comment was the lack of clarification and contextualisation. When it comes to sensitive issues (like health and people losing their actual lives), I think it's not OK to forego acknowledging the human aspect and focus on numbers or economic theory alone.

A good point can be made poorly, and it can hurt and alienate a lot of people in the process. Flatly "telling it like it is" does not always benefit mutual understanding or societal healing; it risks driving us further apart. Which is an ironic thing for me to say, because I put my foot in my mouth every other day. I guess it really does take one to know one :)
I thought it would be at least £50k, that's not a great salary (city isn't very cheap as well)
Many (most?) NFL players walk away with horrific brain damage and extreme physical injuries. Sitting still for 9h/day certainly isn't great for your health, but there are things you can do to counteract it - go to the gym, for example. NFL players can't avoid those injuries.
That's a good example of Abad use of the feature. The logical check and assignment are obvious, and represent the same two operation that three or more nested operations in spread and combine end up causing implicitly. If I saw anyone do that at work, I'd have a chat with them. This is on the same level the newlinephobia.
He Nintendo Switch and Labo make pieces of cardboard feel like magic
The street class is the problem for the Tesla and not just for the regenerative breaks but even the normal ones.

I would say that racing in a Tesla is like racing in a Ford F-150 hauling a working jet engine in the back with the breaks and suspension of a Ford Mondeo.
They won't discriminate against all 3rd parties at first, it would be too obvious. They will quietly grow the list of blocked 3rd parties, with the intention of gradually shifting all spend to AdSense/DoubleClick platforms.
No option for script blocking?
> Do you think they shouldn't have implemented credit locks at all?

If they fuck up a freeze, that becomes a legal issue I can use to go after them. If they fuck up a lock, I have to dig through their Terms of Service to find out how they're going to fuck me on a secondary basis.

So, no, I don't think they should have implemented credit locks, given that the protection afforded is dubious, and my ability to get any recourse is now in their hands.

I don't understand why you believe they're entitled to any benefit of the doubt from us, consumers who have no choice but to play their game.
And potentially an antitrust problem.
"Google Chrome web browser will block every ad on websites that are not compliant with the Better Ads Standards [...] created by [...] companies like Microsoft and Google.".

"The standards ban ad formats like auto-playing video ads, large ads that stick to the screen when you scroll, and interstitial ads".

Doesn't seem like such a bad move.
Risk Mitigation Plan in Marketplace Software Testing
It's not making the assumption that all drivers will be replaced. It's making the assumption that the average skill level of the drivers that are replaced will be lower than the skill level of autonomous cars.
Ability must be ageless
Tesla's 3-Phase 4-Pole AC Induction Motor (2016)
It's a nice thought but we aren't heading in that direction. The young are almost exclusively brought up on swipe interfaces. The future is likely to be a dystopia of idiot proof GUIs or even worse voice control.
I'm glad you can afford to buy a house with what's in your checking account, but some of us can't.
WASM-compiled code might completely replace javascript, being faster at all stages: loading, parsing and execution. That's probably the point he was making.
Google's incentives here are still antithetical to my own, so I'm going to stick with uBlock. For example, on Google search, ads masquerade as legitimate search results. These used to be highlighted in light yellow, clearly marking them as different from organic search results. Now, they only have the word "Ad" in light grey text. This notice is on the right, intentionally where it will be overlooked when reading through the titles of each result.

I can't imagine that Google would start blocking their own ad network, let alone their own ads. Therefore, I'm sticking with an ad blocker that I control.
Hashed and salted.
I wish they would do it at Dallas. Most of the baggage carousels are ~100 feet from the gate. Many impatient people!
> E.g. JS has now two different ways to write functions, with slightly different semantics.

Just 2? More like 9:

* function expression

* function declaration

* arrow function (single line, single param)

* arrow function (single line, multiparam)

* arrow function (multiline, single param)

* arrow function (multiline, multiparam)

* object shorthand

* class declaration

* class expression
I would give your post a lot more respect if it wasn't an affiliate link.

non affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935401009
I get what you're saying, but contractors by their nature tend to be mobile and motivated by pay. This strongly increases the likelihood of an outflow, especially if companies don't react to the extra taxes by raising pay.

The effect is compounded because a) good techies really like to work with other good techies and b) losing most of the good ones also means losing all of the people who can recognize other good techies and hire competently and c) there's a scarcity of mentors too, impeding the ability of junior techies to develop.

The UK is still a tech center in spite of Brexit. For now.

I've worked in markets before where there's a scarcity of high end talent because it all got sucked away elsewhere and software-wise, these environments produced mediocre crap.
And you just hit on one of the major problems with practically all of google's algorithms, in a social context, as pretty much everything Google ever does is measuring popularity(and for the most advanced of their algorithms popularity within "subculture"), and it's not like Facebook is really doing anything more sophisticated then ranking popularity and putting people in boxes either.

Which mean that can only ever be an agent of reinforcing existing "cultures" and never really evolve into an agent of exploratory learning.

Now it might not be a big problem in the real world that google's algorithms essentially exists as Kuhn paradigm enforcers, locking people into a bubble of accepted dogmatic knowledge(as traditional journalism plays/played the same role is), if it were not for the fact that just about everyone pretends the opposite is true for modern machine learning.
How will this not lead to google strangling their competitors.
Are we really going to have to just trust them to use this fairly?
Will we really expect google to interpret the Better Ads Standard without any bias, treating their own ads equally to other ads?

Maybe they will be good, but I for one am not comfortable with this.
Imagine what happens when chrome decides Facebook ads deserve to be blocked.
A post scarcity society is likely to be inerently more libertarian than communist, true post scarcity does not need a centrally managed economy.

Communism doesn’t simplify the human condition as much as it replaces it, the scary part of communism isn’t the economy but the eradication of the self in favor of a group identity.
This is a good thing. Advertising is one of the most effective ways companies have to let people know about their products - I'd say they're essential in free market economies. But having ads is one thing and completely disrupting the user experience is another. Finding a balance is a better approach than blocking all ads.
Combining my brief time trying to put together a proof of concept with Kubernetes and reading articles like this, I'm so glad I chose Hashicorp's Nomad. It's simpler to configure, more versatile (shell scripts, executables, and Docker containers) and a decent third party UI - HashiUI. With Consul, configuration is dead simple.
I don't think those are happening, but how about basic set arithmetic? The fact that you can't do difference / union / intersection using the standard library is frustrating.
I don't think it is a fallacy. At most it is pedantic.

She makes a good point about the difference between banal evil born from apathy and active evil born from hate. The difference is important not because one is morally better than the other, but because the strategy to prevent them is different in each case.

Active hateful evil is relatively easy to prevent, just don't be a dick. But preventing the banal apathetic kind takes more active effort.
I’ve also realized this, and I had been using the machines that way, until an employee very sternly told me to “abstain from using the handheld scanner”.

To which, I cannot find a logical reason for..
Obsessing over ideas is a workerbee mindset. Spouting lots of ideas gets someone labeled as The Good Idea Fairy.

Execution is the hard part. Demonstrating a knack for it is a good path to leadership.
I've always been baffled by the absence of lookbehinds. Made a lot of regex searching unwieldy, so I'm glad they finally added it together with named capture groups.
Babel 7 and TypeScript
I didn’t have any bad experiences with remote workers, and I can definitely see how that can work for non-freelancers. Personally, I just think remote and freelance are an ideal combination for independent creatives.
I agree. It seems like adblockers and intrusive and unethical advertising are creating almost a negative feedback loop on the internet: the more intrusive and annoying the ads, the more people use adblockers, and the more people use adblockers, the more intrusive and annoying the ads become, because they have to make up the revenue.

The only ones in a position to break this cycle is the browsers, and I welcome any attempt to try and create a more healthy environment for ads to exist in. It would be a great service for both users and the industry.