skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That begs the question: why target Haskell to an existing strict runtime instead of using Haskell's own delayed evaluation runtime?
In case you'd rather read text than watch a video, I believe this is the same?

http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/05/kitchen-sinks/
I always understood lightsabers to be a force field confining plasma, with the plasma leaking through the force field, especially when the field is deflected by impact.
There's shenanigans like "grnail.com" pretending to be "gmail.com" which bigger and much more expensive certs prevent against. But the benefit of https that doesn't prevent against this is still very high
I had never heard of that authorship controversy. The biggest one I’ve heard is the claim that Truman Capote and not Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.
Believe me, it's not as easy as you may think.

The main reason is that good engineers will be quick to change their jobs when faced with enough bullshit, but the B and lower grades will be all to happy to take any bullshit as long as you pay them the good money you are paying.

You can't make good engineer from bad. Good engineer is a person who is interested in what they are doing. You can't make a person genuinely interested in engineering if they are not.

You can make skilled, experienced good engineer from unskilled/unexperienced good engineer.

You can tell who will be a good engineer even before they start doing professional work. These will be the people who have integrity, who like to learn, have capability to solve complex abstract problems, stamina to deal with complicated problems for an extended period of time.
Become a hex power user
For the love of god can anyone explain the "good night nobody" line to me? I read this book to my kids and that part has been eating me.
Net Neutrality, right? It doesn't matter what the page does, it only matters that you are allowed to visit any page on "The Inter-Web" that you like, right?

Safari has "tab paused/reloaded due to high power consumption" (good), Chrome has "auto-mute tabs" extension (which I have turned on), I have "tab suspender" extension installed.

Basically, I'm trying to be a responsible consumer:

- this tab would like access to your hard drive files

- this tab would like access to your video camera

- this tab would like access to your microphone

- this tab would like to play sounds

- this tab would like to download more than 5mb of data

- this tab would like animation/movement

- this tab would like to use your CPU a lot

- this tab appears to be using a lot of your battery

- this tab would like to use your GPU (at all)

- this tab would like to maintain state > 24hr

the_internet.js is actually potentially really hostile (suck 9999mb at full speed, ddos@1.2.3.4, while(1){alert(1)}, mine_bitcoin( $hacker_wallet )), and I am much in favor of treating it as untrusted by default (low access, limited # of cpu cycles) until "trusted" (ie: android permissions swap: i give you the executable, you give me the permissions).

YouTube? Yes to whatever they ask.

ShadyWebsite.1234.some-random-domain.ru? You can d/l 300kb and can't do anything else (ie: web 1.0/no-script).

While each "tab" in a web-browser attempts to provide "safe" access to the computer resources, it is still not "permitted" access to computer resources. Whatever the browser defines as "safe" is 100% ok, which has to work equally well for WASM-unreal-tech-demo-castle as well as cnn.com.

I'd prefer cnn.com only had 300kb download, no external domains, no sound, no battery, no cpu, etc.

As I _trust_ cnn.com more (to the same level as youtube), I would then permit sound by default, permit large downloads, permit gpu, permit animation/video/etc.
> The American era has been a waste

Ah, really? You mean the modern world, in which violent conflict is at an all-time recorded low? Wars between major powers have been almost entirely absent for 70 years. Global famine and poverty is at an all-time low. Child mortality has plunged radically and is at an all-time low. Truly vast progress has been made across all aspects of science and technology. The real standard of living at the global median is at an all-time high. Global economic growth and trade has been extraordinarily consistent and enduring. Annexation of territory by powerful nations - a commonality throughout all prior history - has been brought nearly to a stand-still.

Sure doesn't sound like a waste to me. The last ~70 years have been the best 70 years in all of humanity's existence.
I interact with the play store relatively infrequently, so I don't know what you mean. Would you mind elaborating?
> The statement NPR made doesn't drastically change if "extended family"

I disagree. They're fact checking this statement that Trump made:

> Under the current, broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.

In response they write:

> It’s true that an immigrant can sponsor extended family members for visas — but only after he or she becomes a U.S. citizen.

The vast majority of people reading the statement and response to it would be unaware that the only "extended family" they can sponsor are their siblings. If anything, it seems to confirm the false statement that "a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives," simply adding some caveats about the process being difficult and taking years.
I "worked from home" a lot while interviewing.

Additional reasons I did't go in included having errands to run and not feeling well. Depends on your current job though, my employer at the time had, and probably still does, a very lax time off policy. It was enough to drop a message in a public channel saying you wouldn't be in that day due to an appointment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/business/media/prescripti...

“TV ad spending by pharmaceutical companies has more than doubled in the past four years, making it the second-fastest-growing category on television during that time,”

“The drug companies aren’t generally marketing to people in their 30s; they’re marketing to the 65-plus, and that’s the population that tends to still be watching television,”
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There's an ICO for that.[1] Really. They want to offer browser based virtual reality which mines tokens in the background. The initial token sale is in progress now. The virtual reality system appears to be total vaporware.

[1] https://55cancri.io/
My first thought: I wonder if I can invoke this with ctypes from Python? I'll check this out, thanks!
Because a lot of them are a very bad idea: they overly complicate code to achieve with typeclasses what you can easily achieve without them in normal Haskell 98.
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Before getting a dairy animal, consider: do I want to spend 30 minutes every single morning and every single evening, regardless of weather, vacation time, desire to travel, or illness, to get 1-2 gallons of milk per day?

Small-scale dairy requires a huge commitment of time at regular, consistent times. It is about as far from a casual hobby as you can get.

(Source: my wife wanted a dairy goat. We no longer have goats.)
> I have been brainstorming a startup focused around recruiting

I think the difficulty around finding good engineers is because they hide from the traditional recruiting markets, as recruiting is typically a negative experience for the developers involved. Good engineers don't need recruiters, and likely have a network that is far more valuable when they need a job.

> I am an engineer myself who has struggled with this in the past in small startups

I assume you mean that it's hard to find a good engineer at "small startup" rates? Offer 1.25x market, and you'll find good engineers.
My whole issue is the original post says, more or less, that more liberalism is always better and then dredges up examples like Maoist China and Argentina to say if you're going to say anything else you have to explain why those states weren't successful. Well, they had other challenges had nothing to do with how liberal or not their trade regimes were, is my answer. It's a little strange to me that everyone is so willing to consider (not incorrectly) that issue with Georgia but not with states that don't adhere to free-trade orthodoxy.
We're probably no more than a year or two away from a sequenced genome being considered PHI for exactly this reason.
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China is not yet the dominant super power. Hell, they'd have trouble invading Taiwan.

Dominant in the region? Sure, but that's been true since the rise of the Communist party.
I see Facebook as the new landline telephone. You basically have it but never really use it unless you need to talk to your grandmother or interact with spammers. For a few people, it's your only point of contact so you can't axe the damn thing but you don't really engage with it either.
Where is the code/setup configuration for "iotea"?

Ever since "IoT" started gaining momentum as a marketing buzzword I have been thinking this type of router could be an interesting product for non-nerd users.

Idea: The one device that only the user controls. User veto over all traffic to and from "smart" devices. In theory.

I recall seeing a comment from a Googler on HN once that basically admitted the users only hope for privacy is to control a router.

Not a laptop, phone, browser, smart thermostat, smart speaker, etc.

A router.

Boring.

But not insignificant.

Something as inexpensive and accessible as an RPi was good enough for this user.
I've seen reports and documents, but am unable to make head or tails of it.

But, extremely credible sources have indicated that 1 in 4 financial transaction takes place in China.

People who have been there and work there do not doubt it.

Its neighbours rue it, and its massive financial clout are allowing it to make inroads in ways and places once the realm of the US and other first world nations.

That money and munition is coming from somewhere.
This is an age old question we've been dealing with for decades and we've seen examples of this all across the spectrum. It's capitalism vs. communism with socialism dead in the center. Scandinavian countries and China are socialist while America is more capitalist.

Every time UBI has been implemented (communism) it has failed. Though it's hard to say whether it was a failure of the concept of communism itself or other factors.
> How do you broach this? Do you bother for an otherwise responsible walker.

I believe that it is fundamentally not possible to roll back the degree of surveillance in our global society in an effective way. Our technology is already converging to a near-total degree of surveillance all on its own. The end limit will be Vinge's "locator dust" or perhaps something even more ubiquitous and ephemeral.

I believe the true horror of technological omniscience is that it'll force us for once to live according to our own rules. For the first time in history we'll have to do without hypocrisy and privilege. We're going to learn what explicit rules we can actually live by, finding, in effect, the real shape of human society.
>Perhaps he'll experience it peering in through someone else's phone.

And better yet, once the child is free of their parent's influence, they'll probably just get sucked in because they never developed the mental mechanisms to handle the tools properly (because their parent was too emotionally blinded and thus incapable of teaching risk management).

Just like that parent probably did when _they_ grew up and left home, for the same reasons. Cycles of emotional abuse are hard to break.
and yet you're here with the rest of us
<canvas> by its specification mandates pixel buffer to be placed in memory with per pixel access. This reduces GPU acceleration options to the ground.
Some libraries do go with a pair because they find the single header too spartan or awkward. Either way works, the C preprocessor and compiler should chew through either style effortlessly and it's trivial to spit the header into a pair or merge a pair into a header by hand if you wish.
Fair in the sense that as long as you agree with it? If you don't you'll be silenced?
The "CS 101" is bullshit, completely agree. Curious thing though, I think this is more of a thing in US, because in my many interviews I never got pestered with that over here in UK (London), although I should note that I never applied to one of the big 4.
I think he means he wants to create a recruiting startup focusing on this problem, which seems like it would be yet another company built around increasing the recruiting funnel. I don't believe it's possible to solve the problem en masse; the unwelcome answer is that it requires changing the culture.
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Crates You Should Know: Serde (Rust Serialization/deserialization Library)
> The statement NPR made doesn't drastically change if "extended family" contains cousins or not,

Not only does it change, but the specific NPR statement is false in both the technical and general senses; but I was responding to the general back and forth on HN about “extended family”, not the specific issued with the NPR claim.
Collaboratory
How easy is it to extend k-d trees to deal with objects with finite size (vs. points)? Are there any libraries that do this? I might have to do something similar to this in the future, but I need nearest neighbors for 'spheres' in higher dimensions.
I think it's a case of bad optics. Most leveraged ETFs or ETFs that hold futures and constantly pay roll costs just slowly decay. They're not suitable for the average mom & pop, but holders have ample time to see their investment going poorly and get out. It's hard to feel super bad for them and they're less likely to complain loudly.

Meanwhile XIV did the complete opposite. Because of the VIX futures term structure it was actually earning roll premium most days. That plus declining volatility caused its price to march steadily upward for almost two years. It looked safe and some people put lots of money in, even bought on margin. Then one day they lost 80-90% with much of the losses in after hours trading.

It's like the difference between a company having kinda crappy management that spends too much on executive perks vs. outright fraud like Enron. Sharp moves that wipe people out completely without warning will get outsized attention.
Why don't you look and see what the FDA says about it? I'll let you Google the study from the early 2000's.

Most people who ask their doctor about a drug they saw on TV have the disease. Of those, a small percentage were undiagnosed, thus the TV commercial helped them with self-diagnosis.

I'd say that's a good thing, no?

Plus, opioids have never been advertised on TV, so you point isn't relevant.
> run inside a simulated environment

It's pretty common to use DRL in real-world robotics e.g. in self-driving cars or robotic motion planing, so you don't need to simulate the real thing. The obvious issue with RL is that it needs even more iterations/episodes/epochs than a typical DL, making real-world development either impractical (time) or too costly.
The problem I see with this article is that it starts with problems with deep learning today and extrapolates to say that researchers won't get past them:

"None of these shortcomings is likely to be solved soon."

There's no evidence for this, and I think it underestimates the large and well-funded machine learning community. Maybe they'll run into a brick wall, but who's to say a bunch of smart researchers won't figure out ways around today's limitations?

Without physical constraints or impossibility results, I think the only rational outside view is that this is unpredictable. For any of today's pressing problems with machine learning, maybe someone will post a new research paper tomorrow with a different approach that solves it. Or maybe not?
Sam Harris recently had a podcast on the topic for those who are interested:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-lessons-of-death/
One thing I have seen HR do: Manager has a really good employee and wants to pay them $X. They have the budget to do it, they think the employee is worth it (they don't want to lose them), their own boss approves. But HR says "No, that is too much, we won't let you pay them that."

An employee's own management has a much better idea of how much they are worth to the company than HR does. The folks in HR don't even understand what the employee actually does, or how they compare to their peers in the industry, all they have is meaningless tables of job title vs. salary range that they've purchased from some remuneration consulting firm.
Last year Yahoo shut down their API that allowed you to download historical stock price data.

http://www.financial-hacker.com/bye-yahoo-and-thank-you-for-...
Deliberate practice and natural talent are not mutually exclusive. I make a living as a regionally successful chess teacher. I have had many highly talented students who were not hard workers. I have had many hard working students who were not naturally very talented. Both turned out to be pretty good. Sadly for blank slatists, the talent seems to mean more, but "pretty good" isn't exceptional. I had one student who was a hard working genius who did deliberate practice and took four or five hours of lessons with me a week. He won a national championship for first grade.

Practice matters. Especially at the upper level. There are hordes of talented "strong casuals" out there.
All I see is a new evolutionary pressure rising.
Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed imagining scenarios so different from the ones that rob MY sleep at night.
>You can diversify across markets (different countries) and sectors and also to lay off risk

And you should. The ultimate goal is to own a cap weighted proportion of all the assets in the world. If you do anything other than that you're taking an active bet that some assets will do well and some poorly and someone else is taking the other side of that bet. The sharpe article is quite revealing.
That article pretty much sums up what my sister in law (runs a professional translation business) says.

To me, someone who doesn't have a second language strong enough to verify the accuracy of translation, I simply run things through google translate, to the target language and then run the output back to English. Its the translation equivalent of the game of telephone.

Take "the fat cat sat on the mat"):

"the big cat was sitting on the carpet"
or
"The cats of oil sat on the bed"

and lots of other things which are just odd..
We have social benefits. The US spends $4.x trillion every year on social programs, at the local+state+federal levels. The US has the world's largest welfare and social entitlement programs, and some of the richest per capita as well (only rivaled by elite Scandinavian nations).

About 65% of all US Government spending is going to entitlements at this point. ~80% is going to entitlements + welfare programs. That percentage will continue to increase over the next decade. At the current rate of growth, entitlement spending alone will consume all US Government spending in about 30 years. Entitlement, welfare programs, and defense spending are basically crowding out all other government spending, pushing the "other" spending toward an ever smaller share of the budget (which is why US infrastructure is in such desperate need of investment).

You can certainly argue we need to be a lot smarter in our spending allocation. The biggest problem the US has is not that it isn't spending, it's that the cost of these systems is astronomically out of line with what is actually sustainable (eg the US healthcare system at all levels).
I'm not sure anyone can explain it. Author Aimee Bender:

"What a surprise, then, to find that there is a blank page with 'Goodnight nobody' out of nowhere, sharing a spread with 'Goodnight mush.' [...] 'Goodnight nobody' is an author's inspired moment that is inexplicable and moving and creates an unknown that lingers. [...] I feel sure I will never crack open the meaning of 'Goodnight nobody,' and moments like that make rereading a genuine joy."

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/what-writer...

But for what it's worth, I think it's there for a simple reason: to reassure children that there is nobody else in the room, nobody else to fear.
It’s the man who wasn’t there?

Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

I wish, I wish he’d go away...

When I came home last night at three

The man was waiting there for me

But when I looked around the hall

I couldn’t see him there at all!

Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!

Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair

A little man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh, how I wish he’d go away...
> Japan was not an economic powerhouse before WW2. It was massively unable to compete with the US economically. It could not replace the combat losses of equipment. Etc.

At that time there wasn't any nation in the world that could compete with the US in war production mode. (Well, maybe the Soviet, and that's it.) You might as well say that Germany and Britain weren't economic powerhouses.
Feudalism is premised upon a ruling class providing their noble/warrior class with land holdings that they divide among a peasant class that labours, feeds and pays tithe to the noble/warrior and ruling classes in exchange for their land holdings.

If the peasant class can fight as effectively as the knights, then why would you distribute land to an intermediate group for redistribution?
You might think you’ve made a very novel point that no free markets supporter has considered or answered before, but you’d be very wrong. Anyone with even cursory knowledge of political philosophy knows this.

First of all, the issue with government wielding power in a way that violates NAP is not that it’s a single entity but that it’s wielding power to violate NAP, e.g. violating negative rights, redistributing wealth etc.

Since a private entity like Facebook doesn’t do that, it’s not even comparable. And the reason it has so much power (but again it can’t violate your negative liberty like govts do despite that) is that people voluntarily choose to use it so much (even if not willingly). As long as they choose to do so, Facebook gets power and that’s how it should work.

I personally think that Facebook isn’t great and we should use less of it and be less reliant on it (which I follow), but I’m not going to support using government’s power to override other people’s choices. A social network with a monthly fee (if people are ok with supporting it voluntarily over a privacy nightmare like Facebook) should be worth a try.
GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction
it's not that the robots are okay with being slaves, it's that as soon as you automate a job is stops being a crappy wage-slave job and starts being a "good manufacturing job" and politicians start looking for ways to give them back to humans.
I dont get it. Why does a framework need something this hyper focused? Was Twitch/Youtube etc not good enough? I use Laravel quite a lot, but I don't get the Laravel community's hyper focus on solving problems that do not exist. Between Packalyst: the Packagist for Laravel (wtf), Spatie writing Laravel only packages rather than packages for the greater community, and so much more.

If you are solving a legitimate business need then fine, but all this does is segment the PHP Community further, and more people feel out of place and siloed.
I'm sure some people may shudder at the comparison, but the first five years of so of NodeJS has mimicked the first five years of Unix in many ways. In particular the fact that modules are only available in original source form, and the evolution of certain conventions over configuration. Thinking back, the .jar format may have been the worst thing to happen to Java in retrospect, as that artificially limited the evolution of the platform...
What sort of apps can you build with Haskell For Mac? The website gives me the impression it’s more akin to Swift Playgrounds than IntelliJ.