skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it is, the fact that the promise initializer function is called immediately is a god send. If I had a dollar for every concurrency race-like condition that has prevented..

Constructor doesn't just take a function, it takes a closure if you so choose.. A closure that has immediate access to resolve and reject and doesn't have to worry about other code paths access its enclosed vars first.
Linus Torvalds wrote it so it's pretty typical of his style.
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>text of sites

Google does exactly that through "view cached/text only". You need to specifically opt your site out of the caching thing. I guess they could have done exactly that with images for those who complained.
Which he did not argue against. He said that creating new files should still be possible.
My read of this is that embedding a tweet is not copyright infringement, rather the issue is that the tweet in question, was itself, infringing a work.

This is still a bad ruling, of course.
As an undergraduate journalism major who never worked as a journalist, I also remember learning that “headline” was often shortened to “head,” but was spelled “hed.”

At least according to one of my J-school profs who had come from industry. So, uh, take all that with a grain of salt, even though I believe it to probably be true.
> stoop to learning gimp?

Gimp is to Photoshop as Nano is to Emacs.
You are totally right. In the very least no politician would be willing and tell people that there no longer is a need for someone with their skill level to participate in the economy and that we are just going to give them money so that we don't have to worry about them.
I don't agree with the basic premise of the article wrt job security. B&N does not owe you a job. Nobody does.

You got to work at the same company for 20 years? You should be happy and gracious. All things come to an end.

I'm 37 and the longest I've worked at a company was 3.5 years, and that was my own startup. I average about 2-3 years/company. I'd kill to find a company/job where I can stay for 5 years without becoming a dinosaur. But I can't, because it's the startup/tech sector, things move fast, even here in Europe. On the flip-side, you could chose to be more static, risking increased irrelevance, in which case you'll be more upset upon losing your job. But that's the risk/tradeoff.
Of the top 8 coins on coinmarketcap I think four don't use proof of work - ripple, cardano, stellar and neo. So there seem to be alternatives.
The social media terms of service typically include granting a global sublicensable royalty-free license to all copyrighted content you upload.
I find this statement funny, if only because in the context of Silicon Valley culture, the statement "[x] is on hacker news at quarter to midnight" normally just means "[x] isn't doing any work at quarter to midnight."

(I understand what you're going for and appreciate it, it's just interesting how social signals are interpreted given different industries / contexts.)

(... and yes, me posting this comment does, in fact, mean that I'm not doing any work while I post it.)
Still seems to be working for me, with latest chrome on macOS.
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Interesting! Regarding the second paragraph, is this true also for criminal law?
When I'm somewhere like that regularly, I've taken to bringing in my own torchiere floor lamp, if the ceiling's not too high and I have control over the built-in lighting. Nice, indirect light, off of the usually white ceiling tiles. Note that bulb choice/color also makes a difference, with such a lamp.

IKEA now has them for like $8. Pop in a $1-2 LED bulb, and Bob's your uncle.

Of course, my encounter with facilities involved convincing them I'd not brought in a halogen lamp (remember those, in torchiere lamps?) that was going to burn the place to the ground. (Back then, it was a compact fluorescent. A technology I've come to despise for various reasons.)

For something more compact and portable, I might look for a lightweight sconce that I could hang on one of those 3M removable hooks. Or, if they don't bother you, a very compact/portable desk lamp.

P.S. That place, I might have been better off if it HAD burned to the ground.
On a side note, have you checked out this new translation of The Odyssey? https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Homer/dp/0393089053/

I haven't read all of it yet but I read a good chunk and it's pretty excellent.
I'm not an expert, but this seems like an area of debate. See a reply to that article:

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/45/E6908
- loads very slowly (Pixel 1, latest Firefox, latest Android) and renders slowly/choppily

- Custom languages would be a dealbreaker for me. Just use XML or HAML or something.

- Why use this over SquareSpace (for non-devs) or almost-free S3 (for devs)?

- Why a custom cloud editor?
Windows 8 did.
No, kiosk-based service, not kiosk-sized stores. You want a big selection, but software or other merchandising helping customers locate things and up-sell.

Target has more merchandise than B&N, but there's no career employee on the floor to suggest that you might like Mossimo if you bought Merona.
An an aside, the context we were given for “hed” and “lede” was that both were whimsical in-jokes / jargon among old timers, and that if we wanted to appear skookum, we should at least be aware of this tradition.
Yeah, that's what I thought too, but it does indeed look like they've changed it. The change is subtle, but results in not much changing for people that ultimately are just looking to grab a quick image for non-commercial purposes.
What experience in literature are you referring to? Do many people ask Barnes and Noble employees for book recommendations?
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The only direction people really want to change in is socially. They focus all their attention on social issues and poverty and taxes. The actual laws don't want to be touched by anyone. We have very poor and contradictory laws and decisions with regards to new technology. The people in charge don't seem to understand the internet and internet-related rights.
Search by image is still there, in latest chrome.
Their skills wont be reapplied, that's not how it works. They'll be valued for something else.
As I read the article, it sounds like a more-accurate headline would be "Federal Judge Says Embedding an Infringing Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement".
Since the change is motivated by legal reasons, I expect logic didn't have much of a voice in the decision.
Which is why it's surprising to see the photographer going after the publications; it makes more sense to go after the 'someone else' who tweeted the picture. I suspect that it's a case of targeting those who are more likely to be able to pay out in case of a win in the courts.
Strangely, the Antminer comes in a metal case with holes smaller than that. Maybe it wasn't grounded or something? Or it was radiated through the external power supply wires?

EDIT: mixed them up, Spoondoolies ones had a nice mesh but the Antminer ones don't behind the fans. That 1" of plastic must be enough to let a significant amount through (or the power supply wires still)
It's a common concept that many managements see IT/infrastructure as cost center, even their tech to be used to generate revenue. It boils down to minimize the systems to maximize shareholders value but requires high uptime.
I like the feature of editor and terminal in same window.
I am curious why a municipality needs custom software. I mean, the scandinavian countries had standardised paper forms for most municipal tasks (population register, ledgers etc) already in the 17-18th century, and those were used nationwide, or at least throughout a single province. Why can't the same be done with software?
Not to discount the work of roboticists, but that seems like a huge waste of space and weight. Were there significant gains from putting a prototype into space instead of perfecting it on the ground?
Ask HN: Why DNS resolvers don't use HTTP?
Can they simply use REST JSON API? Do you think it will slow down normal browsing?
Yep, which is why our implementation is flawed. It allows folks who have no knowledge of certain topics to make and enforce laws that pertain to those topics.
Just use the word that means the thing that you're talking about, as clearly as you can. What "clear" means depends on the context and audience.

It sounds like you probably already know this, but "fixed" and "constant" usually refer to concepts very distinct from "immutable". And "contextual function" would confuse everyone. (A monad isn't a function, and certainly not one influenced by some outer context). Similarly, "orthogonal" and "unrelated" aren't synonyms. (X and Y axes are orthogonal, but they're often related. That's why we plot things).

In every field, there will be people who over-use technical terms for status signaling. But those terms usually exist for a reason beyond that, and avoiding them as a sort of counter-signaling doesn't help anyone. It's just playing the other side of that game.

Usually the common term means the same things as a lot of things…that's both why they're common, and why they're less useful in a technical context.

Some other examples that come to mind are "electricity" (current, voltage, power…?); "size" (area, volume, mass…?). Just because an engineer or physicist might talk about volume doesn't mean you have to be a physicist to talk about it too. It also doesn't mean that, not being a physicist, the familiar word "size" means the same thing they're talking about.
My use case is I want my child to grow their native vocabulary, eg. when they read books with new words that they don't know. I couldn't seem to be able to pair the languages that way. Is this supported?
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That would be indeed a problem in that special case, but I never argued that these quotas are a great idea in general. I just wanted to point out that the article dismisses gender equality as a bad idea with a equality of chance argument, which isn't explained, but the reader is expected to accept it as universally valid and always superior to equality of outcome. I was just questioning that.
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> I was offering what I suspect the parent post meant by it being easier to reason using the mechanics of the language.

And it still doesn't make sense. “Reasoning about programs” is making inferences about their meaning, i.e., deriving judgments from prior judgments. How exactly do homoiconic languages make it any easier to make inferences about the meaning of programs, given that homoiconicity is largely a property of how concrete and abstract syntaxes are related to each other? (Not that homoiconicity makes things more difficult either. It is just completely unrelated to reasoning about programs.)
Google is replacing Facebook’s traffic to publishers
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I mean, you can count a simple string search loop as "memchr for consecutive sequences" as well, what I meant was a technique that uses the same bitmasking trick as memchr, applied to multiple bytes (perhaps via SIMD). It's doable.
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it. I will take care of these issues. Would love to know what you thought about the quality of results in general.

Cheers
You may be right, I don't know. I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about this, just that I'm personally skeptical, and not really in favor of restructuring society for a problem that might be coming. If we had done that all those times in the past...

To take the truck driver thing, here's a plausible scenario (to me anyway).

First of all, "top job in X states" seems like a really weird way to express this. It honestly feels like a way to make it seem as dire as possible.

There are something like 3 to 3.5 million truck drivers in the US. That's a lot. However, BLS reports that only about half of these are heavy and tractor trailer truck drivers [1]. So maybe the rest are driving smaller trucks and vehicles around town? Those seem safer from job loss to me, I suspect that any job that requires driving a truck here and there and loading / unloading things will not be replaced by AI as fast.

Side note: BLS is predicting 6% growth in this job from 2016 to 2026, which is about average. But let's assume they're wrong.

So let's say that 1.8 million are long haul truckers that can be relatively easily replaced by AI. How long will that really take? I know everyone thinks that self-driving cars are around the corner, but I'm really not convinced. We've been hearing that for a few years now, and it seems like lots of teams are hitting some roadblocks (heh) in terms of their ability to solve some of the remaining issues. Just my ambient observations though, I'm no expert.

Even if we do get there with some cars in the next 3-5 years, are we really going to be ready to put heavy loads on highways unattended? We're going to handle the technical issues, security issues, legal issues, insurance, in a few years? I'm really skeptical. Maybe we can do point-to-point on highways in 5 years, but then what? Do we have huge lots where these trucks park and then drivers ferry them to local warehouses to be loaded / unloaded? What about fueling these things along the way with no drivers? How do we keep these loads safe from theft? None of these are insurmountable, but are we really going to solve these things in the next few years such that we're ready to start laying people off?

I think 10-20 years is much more realistic to put the majority of truckers out of a job. Not all, but the majority. But truckers are already old (49 average) and many will be retiring over that period anyway. Why can't we just not replace them as those jobs dwindle?

1. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/h...
> Amazon has zero interest in fixing this because customers are its product not its customers.

If you think 3rd party sellers are Amazons customers and get much better treatment than end buyers, boy are you barking up the wrong tree.
That's fair, but these terms are leaking out to business analysts, project managers, product managers, and customers. They have no idea what we're talking about. My weak attempts at synonyms might be attackable, buy we're coming across as elite bullshitters. I'd love something that was more consumable for the common person.
Yeah, I don't know of this argument against holds water.

We already have many laws against child abuse and sexual abuse, etc., etc., never the less we introduced new laws to specifically require that accusations by young athletes be acknowledged and addressed within 24hrs[1] sponsored by no less than CA Sen Feinstein.

Murder is already illegal, yet we have many laws to control firearms, etc.

Sometimes you just have to make laws specific to new kinds of behavior in order to specifically address those unwanted behaviors.

[1]http://www.thisisinsider.com/law-protects-young-athletes-sex...
But if you were commenting on or critiquing the photo or the narrative around it ... wouldn't that be fair use?
Indeed. I live in an area (Seattle) that has multiple excellent local bookstores (specifically Third Place Books and Elliott Bay). What sets them apart is they have a good selection of books, they have an environment that is conducive to hanging out and reading (Third Place especially), they have lots of recommendations from staff and local book clubs, and they have regular events like book signings and author Q&As, etc. I just checked the closest B&N and they have one non-kids author event between now and the end of March, in contrast the local Third Place has 15, Elliott Bay has even more. Stepping into a B&N it just feels like a generic, lifeless experience, there is basically nothing to recommend it over simply buying a book online. But there's still money and life in selling books at retail, you just have to do it well.

(And yes, for the record Powells is a world class bookstore, every time I visit I always enjoy it and it's always packed.)
I never argued that quotas are great solution. But, I think once you realize that a solution to a problem is bad you should look for a different solution instead of declaring that there is no problem, which seems to be the easy way out.
Well the tweet is under whatever terms Twitter imposes on you for using their service. But in this particular case, someone tweets a photo some other origination copyrighted.

I mean, technically taking a photo of a movie poster and tweeting it is infringement, but most movie companies have better things to do than go after you for it, especially if it's not disparaging and may promote the movie.
87% globally seems pretty good. Those without it now probably won't ever get it.
No, because Getty is in the business of licensing their images to other sites. If an image appears on a news article, it could be from Getty. If it's on a blog post, it could be from Getty.

You could have some protocol by which sites indicated that it can't be linked; but then everyone who embeds a Getty image would have to change their site to adopt that, and that would probably involve Getty having to change their licensing terms to require that, which would be a huge hassle for their customers who probably wouldn't bother doing it because it's difficult and doesn't help them out at all.

Or you'd have to do some kind of watermark embedding.

Anyhow, while it would be technically possible to do one of these things, I suspect that legally it was just a lot simpler to get Google to remove the feature.
Patricia C Wrede, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, Ursula K Le Guin, Judy Blume and Anne McCaffrey are some authors who have outstanding books for girls in that age range, in case you find yourself with the same problem again.
That's a crazy intense trip story. Glad it ultimately lead to some positive self actualization. You should expand on the experience and post it to erowid.org.
I got served a C&D from Valve through Apple for a "Steam Sales" iOS app I made when I was 15, so they do do it on occasion. On the web it's a little more of a hassle, so they probably won't bother.
For the books you already know you want, I agree that Amazon is hard to beat. However, it’s hard to replicate the “discoverability” of a brick and mortar bookshop. Even without having a specific title in mind, I can always find something that looks interesting, just by walking around. Sometimes a blurb on the cover draws me in, sometimes it’s a recommendation by the staff, and sometimes seeing a title or author jogs my memory.

Meanwhile, logging into my Amazon account recommends several books (out of order) in a series, some updated versions of textbooks I once bought, and a few titles I recognize from the NYT best seller list but have no interest in. Since I recently bought one, there are also a good dozen screwdrivers for what Amazon assumes is my burgeoning collection of flatheads.

Also, books don’t cost very much, but they are a big investment in terms of time. Thumbing through the actual book is a great way to make sure you like your prospective purchase. This isn’t quite the same online—Look Inside is carefully metered out so you can maybe get a sense of the books style and level, but it’s often not enough to draw me in.
Walmart and Sam's Club have exactly that with their Pay & Go app.

You scan the UPCs on things as you put them in your cart. When you're done, you select pay and it displays a barcode on your screen. The checker at the door has a handheld device that they scan the barcode with, it gives them an item count, and you're on your way.

I've only ever used it at Sam's where there's always a door checker. I've heard it can be more of a pain to use at Walmarts because the door people don't always have the handheld around and have to go hunt it down.

Really, it shouldn't be surprising that they'd be a company willing to experiment in this field. Cutting labor costs to an extreme (which is actually one of the reasons I avoid Walmarts, but that's another rant) is pretty central to how they operate. And they became the behemoth they are by innovating in logistics. People often forget that they were a key figure in driving the adoption of product barcodes in the first place.
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It’s a good analogy. I must be hopelessly optimistic to think there will be a reckoning for businesses that intentionally provide a worse experience.
I think we are pretty far from truly replacing truck drivers. There will be a long period where the truck driver is in the car but not really driving, maybe even a very long time depending on if it is enshrined in law.

Even if the truck did drive itself, would it also load/unload and deal with flat tires and other vehicle damage conditions? I don't think these problems are insurmountable but I do think they will further extend the life of the truck driver profession.

I mean trains and subways don't even drive themselves right now somehow, so I think truck drivers will be fine.
Prior job, we were.

You guys were honest, not ready for our level. About right amount of time’s passed, helpful to learn progress? I’m at new job, still interested.

At this bank I don’t have paper with you, we’d have to do that. Mail in Profile.
> It is benchmarking PostgreSQL psql against MongoDB Javescript shell (SpiderMoney/v8). That’s not a very fair benchmark is it?

Isn't javascript engine used whenever you interact with MongoDB?
Has anyone tried installing the extension from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast-for-ed... without an education account? How is its use blocked?
The cached page often renders so poorly that that function will only be used when you really need something and the page is down (or deleted). If the content experience weren't so hit-and-miss, who wouldn't use the "view cached" option to enjoy the speed of Google's cache?

There is no hit-and-miss experience with the "View image" feature -- you get access to exactly what you came looking for, and in a more convenient and speedy way.
This is a huge annoyance.

A lot of times I am looking for images which are in the public domain, and for which if I go to the page in question, I have to then sort through dozens of images to find the one I had been looking at already in the search.

Here's an example. I've just done a search, found an image that I want to view larger, the image is long since in the public domain, but when I click on "visit" I get a page with a list of text links that I now have to sort through to find the full image:

https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kee...

Edit to add:

Now that I look closer, I notice that Google is actually embedding the original image, instead of a preview (they load a low-res preview, and then replace that with a hotlinked image), so you can just right click and choose "view image" now to work around this.

I guess that's OK for people who are technically inclined enough to know that you can do that.
I hate to rain on your parade but Powell’s isn’t exactly thriving. There were layoffs about 5 years ago and they’ve scrapped big renovation projects and even plans to move the main store because of revenue problems.
I am just a single data point but still I have a story to tell: I had a B&N Nook. Then I didn't and I still was buying Nook eBooks. You know why? Because DRM was a fig leaf. They had their DRM solution which was so easy to strip it's not even funny -- they encrypted your books with a key based on your name and credit card number (this might've originated with ereader.com). Then in 2015 March they changed algorithms and it was not so easy any more and I walked.
Youtube, soundcloud, and other huge sharing platforms have all dealt with copyright & infringement through a combination of:

1) Easy takedown process DMCA

2) Algorithmic content identification & blocking

Is there a start-up that provides similar content moderation / blocking as a SAAS?
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