skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elementary & Solus have been doing some very good work
Gotcha. How many people would a 50% military cut put out of work?
I have literally never heard the term 'tabular figures' to refer to a fixed width font.

The font they're using is "Varela Round" which isn't fixed width to begin with; so whether it's missing or not is largely irrelevant.

edit: another comment indicates that tabular numbers can be a feature of even a non fixed width/monospace font. Dunno if Varela Round uses those.
Don't know what to tell you, but it looks like this and it stays aligned through changes:
https://imgur.com/a/k7y0P
> When you step up to needing some actual functionality,

I would say that, given that the hairdresser’s and doctor’s sites do what they were designed to do, they also have actual functionality. Perhaps “fairly complex” would be more descriptive?
> The retail investor masses heard that message and have arrived.

The retail masses showed up many many years ago in the form of retirement accounts. And we’ve also benefited tremendously from this bull market. This last correction is nothing if you’ve been in the market for a few years.

Also I really doubt retail investors are the catalyst for anything here. Normal people don’t move a trillion dollars out of the market in a few minutes.
I'm curious how exactly cognitive ability is defined here. Is there some standard test used for this?
That's a great podcast. I'd recommend listening to all their episodes, on every philosopher.
Here's an IPFS backup if anyone finds it handy: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPGJSqSgvFBkXryxeHofPLs11cpLURevDFu9rn...
> Half of the statements were in fact true, such as Australia is approximately equal in area to the continental United States, whereas the other half were false, such as Zachary Taylor was the first president to die in office (it was William Henry Harrison)

I don't know much of American history but isn't this a high bar for finding if people believe "fake news". I mean most people wont know general knowledge perfectly so expecting them to believe a particular lie is perfectly reasonable.

What is concerning about fake news is people believing simpler lies like the stuff Trump says. An example about walls and whatnot.
RFC: for an official mpv GUI
How worthwhile is the Information to subscribe to?
Debating if I should pay the fee or not.
Their newest payment app in India, called Tez, also uses sound to secure transactions I believe.
> ES6 is elasticsearch 6, right?

It's EMCAScript [0], the spec of which JavaScript is an implementation. New features will come out in the spec, and it takes a bit for browser's JS engines to implement them.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
I wonder if that’s what they’re talking about. French Toast is delicious, but maybe they’ve got something even better?
Code running in your browser gaining a TCP connection seems like the least scary use case of this possible- presumably it already has a TCP connection in the first place.
That’s a great question, but out of scope for modeling a financial solution to student loan and pension obligations.

We’ll need a way to retask redundant military employees and defense contractors, otherwise we’re trading one inefficiency for the other.

If halving military spending is a hill too far, less reduction can occur and still accomplish a student loan and pension obligation debt “wipe” (~$1.5T in total is needed).

Somewhat unrelated: rolling VA spending into Medicare and implementing universal healthcare would extract enormous cost savings, further reducing DoD spending.

Appreciate you asking me to show my work. I think I’m going to run for office now.
> It doesn't matter as much which degree you get as an undergraduate.

In my experience this is a very US-middle-class-upward-centric idea. The working class people I know who went to college were all rationally concerned about picking a degree with good employment prospects, as were most of the people I know from outside the US (where the "broad liberal education" is less valorized, or even non-existent).
I didn’t say it was bad for them to carry debt. It’s bad for them to carry a lot of debt.

Yes, it was not a great argument for spending a trillion dollars on student loan forgiveness. Mostly I was pointing out how out of whack the moral priorities of the U.S. are. There is very little debate or angst over spending a trillion dollars on a useless war. But somehow spending a trillion dollars on student loan forgiveness makes everyone think about moral hazard. You mentioned morality and so I took things a bit further than what you did.
Indeed I did. I like the Bolt. If I lived in a city, I'd probably buy one right now. But sport mode != sports car. Just like Elon Musk != Skunk Musk...
Cool. I've noticed a couple of price drops in the last couple of years, although I don't do any european SMS right now, it's good to know.

Looks like plivo has some good rates too:

https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ES/#!sms
https://www.plivo.com/pricing/FR/#!sms
https://www.plivo.com/pricing/FI/#!sms
https://www.plivo.com/pricing/SE/#!sms

The monthly cost of a number with plivo seems a bit higher, overall, but also looks like they have free incoming SMS, which may end up being a much better deal for some use cases.
And a bunch of other people lost exactly the same amount, because none of them are creating anything.
You are correct, group theory did start with the permutations of roots of polynomials. In the other hand, the modern perspective is to consider these groups as coming from geometry (the etale fundamental group point of view) and is really a very successful theory.

I think it is generally useful to try and give a geometric interpretation to whatever we are interested in and groups certainly benefit from such an approach.

Moreover, the groups relevant to physics are very geometric things (they are literally spaces in the sense that the real number line is a space ) and the geometry plays a large role in these groups.

In fact I am struggling to think of an application of groups to mathematics where geometry does not come into play.

Even the abstract classification of finite simple groups uses ideas from geometry on a very crucial way (representation theory).
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I really do not understand why 'single header' is considered a good thing, but I see this more and more often on libraries. What is the reason all the code is put in the header file?
Node.js with ES6 is a dream. i love it
> Also: why is it particularly bad for 20-somethings to carry debt?

Opportunity cost. Not making that risky but high upside potential career move at 26 because you have a $1k/mo debt payment to make is going to severely impact your total earnings far more than any other time of your life.

The advantage of youth is mobility, flexibility, and ability to take on risk. You give a lot of that up with a high debt load at that age.
Text Editor in College
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They were okay with it. One was a heavy sleeper the others were far enough away that it was dampened.
Let me flip this around / play devil's advocate (haha).

I remember that "election dial" showing 80% chance of Hillary on (I believe) the NYT website. Was that grounded in reality? There was an uproar about the legality of Trump's travel bans, but followed by a 7-0 supreme court victory on the subject. Was the assessment he overstepped his bounds grounded in reality? Wasn't Brian Ross suspended for creating fake news?

So, based on this study, only people with lower cognitive ability would to believe the CNN / NYT / etc assessments/articles of Trump?

Oh, wait, no, they're saying Trump supporters are the ones with cognitive ability issues.

The dialogue here has turned to: "you're fake news" vs "your supporters are dumb". Really, both sides have serious problems with bias and accuracy, and at this point they're just calling each other names.

Either way, I really do yearn for a news organization where I could trust what's being written.
Producing the egg cells from pluripotent stem cells, then figuring out any immune response from growing them in the system described in this article.
Writing a GUI version of PGP 2.6 for RISC OS, back in the day.
26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
I re-implemented lots of basic unix tools. What I would do is go for a command, and just look through OS api references seeing if I could implement it. Once I got basic functionality, I would go look into the source code and check I did against the standard. I found it super-helpful.
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> Except now, college is something like 5x as expensive as it was for your parents, teachers, and advisors, adjusted for inflation

When did this hypothetical 18 year old graduate? At least in 2000, the increase in college costs and difference in post-graduate pay was already widely covered in the media. From personal experience, one didn't need to look in order to hear about it.

I can imagine that it might not have been clear in 1990 or maybe even 1995, but pre-1995 high school graduates have probably paid off or discharged debt.

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003030.pdf (1999 data, 2003 publication) has interesting data. Doesn't really make the case either way, just informative.
Agreed. But there also a bit of personal responsibility if you have two kids and cannot afford to house them.
My problem with college subsidy isn’t moral hazard; it’s that it’s regressive.
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In addition, a major documentation rewrite has been done. You can see the changes here:
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Are window a/c units not a thing in Germany? If you can buy one of those, you can take it with you when you leave.
I had a class in high school that mostly covered the basics, though I wouldn't say I "learned" it. It wasn't until around 15+ years later and after I started working as a programmer and decided to work through a Programming A Chess Engine In C [1] youtube series that it finally really clicked.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAfaepBco4&list=PLZ1QII7yud...
a truly weird data munger that had to run on VxWorks.
Coincidentally, from a couple days ago, here's an English language interview with the owner of a passive house in Karuizawa. There are also some general Japan-passive-house-related links in the article.

https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/02/07/man-most-energy-effi...
LSD is a drug that produces fear in people who dont take it.
–Timothy Leary

Love this.
Then it's not trivial, is it?
So you think we should use public policy to shift debt load onto older people, who have family obligations and a much more limited window of time to ensure financial security After the conclusion of their working years, so that 20-somethings can start companies?
There's https://plus.codes/ which seems to be more liberal and licenses its codes under the Apache 2.0 license.

However, although it has been around since 2014, I've never seen any practical use.
The point is that I'm using a package manager to install a package manager, which is supposedly bad.
RSA implementation for school science fair.
Debt is debt, you tried to make a profit and x% of borrowers cannot fully pay it (they might stop paying after 6 years for example, so not all is lost). The idea is to curtail this kind of debt.

In bankruptcy court they are protections, you cannot have $2 mil in the bank or a $250k salary and try to get out of paying $92k in student loans.
What's the difference between going to this website and the one mentioned in the about page?
because dependency management and build systems are hard to get right and not standardized. It's a simple distribution model that works everywhere.
None. I'm a software engineer.
I'm sure you will hear about us when we go open source with Python.
If you're using ClojureScript/Elm/whatever, there's going to be a lot more hassle to use existing tooling, such as e.g. test runners, syntax highlighters, etc.
> I took the bus to campus, live at home, and worked while in school.

Congratu-fucking-lations. I worked in school too (on top of, you know, the full-time job of getting a CS degree). Still didn’t put a dent in my $90,000 of private loans.

> And maybe people will realize that not everyone has a “right” to go away to a country club for 4 years...

O Arbiter of Rights, then do tell me who DOES get the PRIVILEGE of obtaining knowledge. Right now, it’s only those who can afford it.

> And I think these people’s creditworthiness should be forever tarnished.

Sincerely, fuck you. Fuck. You. Wishing future financial ruin on people who were duped by the system is such a shitty thing. I spend a lot of time wishing I had the courage to kill myself because of the debt that’s looming over me. But hey, you got yours so fuck everyone else, right?

Go to hell.
I'm guessing this deals with accessibility the same way most other 'light' UI toolkits do - by not dealing with it at all?
> Passive solar / solar hot water heaters let you have the best of both worlds with ~zero monthly heating costs and plenty of fresh air.

Depends on where you live I suppose.

I was talking with my landlord a couple weeks ago about solar water heating (surprisingly rare in Arizona being the desert and all) and he said he looked into it before but it would cost more than gas due to all the bureaucratic hurdles put in the way -- which explains the rarity I guess.
You have to do responsive design, and yes, that's a big change (and a big PITA) but that doesn't require flex or grid or React or whatever. You can't go all the way back to tables, but good ol' div-based design with appropriate CSS works just fine. The new stuff may make some things easier (or not), but if you don't feel like shifting paradigms, you certainly don't have to.
>James’s stance is clearly stated: “My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”

Assuming that free will does exist then if James hadn't believed in free will then by this act would he have made his own will unfree?
A mimic OS GUI (a couple of windows, buttons, wallpaper changer, etc). It was really fun to code it... over 2 decades ago.
The author of this article died a few days ago if anyone is wondering why it's coming up right now.
I wonder how it relates to susceptibility to belief in religion?
I think calling Trump supporters dumb is a different problem from a poll being wrong. Rather are polls wrong if they X has a high chance of happening but then x did not happen?
Before you use this in your next important application, please read the comment on accessibility that I posted the other day on the LCUI thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329640
Good question. Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347225#16347792

Basically, making changes for the future (a shared healthcare pool, subsidized tuition, or anything else) is different than retroactively adjusting an arbitrary subset (only outstanding debt, only from tuition) of the past.
There are very few pictures and no animations, in this "Visual" Group Theory. It's almost all text slides.
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What is "PL"?

I find it kinda funny that you compare to Python as the way you want webdev to be, since Python and JS are very similar in my mind, aside from minor syntax differences and JS keeping more warts from it's early days, they are very similar environments.

I like Python and have been doing some Tensorflow recently, and one thing I've definitely noticed is that Python docs really suck compared to mdn JS docs.

The biggest problem with JS on the other hand, is it's lack of a decent standard library so you have to use a lot more 3rd party libs, and setting up a modern babel/webpack/linter/test tool chain is a pain in the ass with so many different options to choose from.
Why would you read any at all?
They're almost guaranteed to be "lifestyle influencing" marketing propaganda vectors.

If you want to know about health, consult your doctor, sports coach, nutritionist, or their journals.

Relationships; a psychologist, and all your friends.

Fashion, um, just why anyway. Kind of like index funds, the shops themselves will keep up with fashions. When you need new clothes (probably less often than you think), just go to a shop you trust, and buy something that suits you (ask friends, and others).
I must have been hanging out with different working-class people. Economic capital is only one form of capital, and my friends were concerned with building their social and cultural capital as well. These things give you access to better support networks, which in turn give you more freedom to get a better job if that's what you want. It all seemed based a very continental philosophy to me, but that's probably due to the particular school I went to.
one thing for sure, it definitely won't need an AMP version any time ever.
Debts that can't be paid won't be.

At this stage, it's about damage control.
I also found Evan Duffield's post about on-chain scaling (https://medium.com/@eduffield222/how-to-enabling-on-chain-sc...) pretty interesting.
Do you think we asked the colleges to turn us into profit centers? College costs have gone up because bureuacracy has bloated. By the times undergrads figure it out it's too late. If you actually went to school to study and ended up in insane amounts of debt (like I did) you wish you hadn't gone even though you were happy to have learned what you did. It's a shitty double edged sword.

Not everyone can get scholarships and school isn't easy/cheap enough to make paying for it an option by working through school. Not if you want a real job after school.

Frankly it should be free. Why are you charging people to better themselves and their surroundings. It's obscene that we charge people for healthcare and schools.

The United States is a corporate neocon fantasy world. Low taxes for the rich, student loans for all.
AC is not really a thing in private homes almost anywhere in Europe.

Windows also work differently here in Germany than in the US, so the same models definitely wouldn't work. I'm not sure if there are versions for our windows.
Are there any well-known theories that explain these disparities? I was quite surprised by the nearly-flat cost of housing in Germany (relative to inflation), for example. Is this a product of legislative, economic, or cultural differences?
I'm not really informed about the topic, but I noticed that the Bothnian Bay (the northern bay of the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden) is coloured red. The seabed underneath the Botnia Bay has been rising since the end of the ice age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothnian_Bay#Isostatic_rebound). Has this not been corrected for in the map (which would explain the red colour), or is it simply a coincidence, and the absolute water level has been rising there as well?
I would also like an explanation. The author(s) of Musl (libc alternative) mention on this page that it can potentially invoke undefined behavior: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/alternatives.html

However, having used a few of these "single-header" libraries my main concern is navigating a 9000 sloc header file as opposed to a neatly re-factored version...

An explanation of how undefined behaviour is possible would be welcome.
What repercussions do you think a 50% reduction in military spending would have on national security?
someone has to raise their kids, support their families? Also there's a loss on taxes. BUT, on the "positive" side, they die early, no SS or medical expenses. An overdose and all is settled.
what's the transmission speed?
The polls weren't even that far off, on a national level they were basically spot on, the organizations reporting on them just threw out the data that made it look like Trump had a pretty good chance. 538 did a slightly better job but the editorial bias in the presentation of the data was distinct across most of the media.
A webserver. Not fully compliant, but enough to show you how much you can accomplish in a small amount of code. Then a proxy server with compression. Used prhreads. Helped learning about race conditions, threading, mutexes, semaphors, etc.
I was expressing a disagreement with the argument originaly made by totalZero and expanded upon by pessimizer.

I'm pretty much going where most HN comment threads go - nowhere.

Where are you going by making a metacomment?
A simple database. Not useful, just as a learning exercise while in school many years ago, but it was written completely from scratch, even down to the physical read/writes from the disk.

I don't recommend doing that in a real app. But it was a good way to learn.
> And I would NOT use Emacs again. It's wonderfully powerful but it's past its prime

This is an interesting note. To everyone who picked up their prime IDE in the last say, 10 years: Which editor or IDE do you use, and why?
We have lots of infrastructure depending on mx. Infrastructure that no other build tool provides as far as I can tell.

In the end every build tool sucks. Sometimes you just need to be pragmatic. Mx integrates with maven pretty well and it generates ide config for intellij, eclipse and netbeans. Moving to a different system is probably not worth the cost atm. And it's not complicated to use at all. E.g mx build builds and mx gate builds and tests. Mx unittest runs unit tests.

As written below. Graal.Python is not yet open source. But you will hear from us soon.
Why do you need group theory at all when thinking about addition?

When you wonder "why does subtraction work" (guaranteed by the group structure), then thinking about shifts is a nice visual illustration, especially when you have modular arithmetic.
Germany has had a bit of a problem with a low birth rate. There's also a cultural dislike of debt I believe. I eye properties on immowelt with envy pretty often.
It's a bit annoying when doing interop between languages that have the (more common) 2⁶⁴ limit and JS - int64 for IDs etc is fairly common and you then always have to remember to convert them, e.g. by putting IDs as strings in JSON output instead of as a number.
Take a vacation and get back into the game! You are catastrophizing your business.

I would do the following:

1) Get to stable profitability (raise prices / find costs to cut)

2) Find adjacent markets to go after (what other stuff are your customers buying? What other stuff could your specialized team be good at?)

3) Put together a deck and sell to PE (you won’t be able to tell a unicorn story but sounds like to have a stable biz here)

You are depressed and it’s impacting your leadership. Take a vacation, find a therapist, and get back into it!

I love talking about this stuff, feel free to PM.
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It's not so much "logic" as it is "definition".

From Google Dictionary: (2) take risky action in the hope of a desired result.
Why is the idea of taxing the people who created the problem absurd? One, they’re the ones with wealth to tax. Two, their ignorantly optimistic mindset is responsible for the education bubble. Both generations prior and this current generation realized the value of working instead of pursuing higher education. Three, they benefited from it. The vast apparatus of higher education, professors, administrators, etc., aren’t staffed with millenials.