skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the link above:

"According to the official Bolshevik position, which is still maintained by some modern Marxists, the rich peasants (kulaks) withheld their surplus grain to preserve their lives;[2] statistics indicate that most of the grain and the other food supplies passed through the black market.[3][4][5] The Bolsheviks believed peasants were actively trying to undermine the war effort. The Black Book of Communism asserts that Lenin ordered the seizure of the food peasants had grown for their own subsistence and their seed grain in retaliation for this "sabotage", leading to widespread peasant revolts.[6] In 1920, Lenin ordered increased emphasis on food requisitioning from the peasantry."

Still not seeing any fringe sources.
Well, you could order those groups by death toll? I'm not aware of Ayn Rand-style Libertarianism killing people.
A professional standards body can reign in those excesses from the bottom up, just as it does for so many other fields of endeavor. The top is always going to demand what they can get away with.
The problem is only usable by dart.
That gives you understanding of data modeling, dimensions vs facts and how to structure database tables (or other data stores). Next read up on ETL system (how to get data into databases) and Hadoop (aggregating data among dimensions). At least for Hadoop there should be many online presentations and youtube videos. Lastly data visualization.
Once the state actors have hacked the AI drivers/cameras they will be able to track and kill just about anyone anywhere with them.
Wait, really?

Fwiw, I switched to DDG a ~year ago (can't remember honestly lol), and I've been quite happy. With that said, not a week goes by where I don't use the !g bang to run my search on Google. DDG just has terrible results. It's good enough a lot, maybe even most of the time, but frequently it's too terrible.

I'm still happy I switched, the "good enough" results are heavily reinforced by privacy, and not giving Google everything. The fact remains though, DDG misses the mark for me frequently.
> If population keeps rising with technological ability, ceteris paribus, the average person will be better off tomorrow than today. Even if ever-more terrible things happen from time to time.

I think that's a pretty big assumption... population has an upper bound to how large it can grow without causing terrible things to happen (destruction of all non-human supporting ecosystems, for instance), whereas there are no similar limits to the terrible effects of misused technology.

Also, if population were to drop, say from a new plague or the loss of resources from a cataclysm, the terrible capabilities of technology are still available and thus have a larger impact relative to the new population level.

It's to hard to argue with his data over those long periods, but the acceleration of new technological capabilities since WWII is quite unique in their power. It seems to me that much of the recent increases in prosperity and peace are based on the political and economic systems that have remained relatively stable throughout this unique time period. Should this situation destabilize this very new technology could be unleashed with uniquely terrible consequences.
I wish we had the bike culture in the US that exists elsewhere. Twice in my life I have regularly commuted to work a reasonable distance by bike and each time the habit was punctuated by being hit by a car. I feel safer walking than I do on a bike here.
I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the route to work a cycling route planner gave me in London was. There are less nice parts at the beginning and end (as I get onto and off the cycle-friendly streets), but the majority of the route (some on Q2, some on quiet 20mph roads with no specific cycling provision) is not bad.
Is that just scripting, or does that include the engine?

If it's just game scripting, then I could imagine it's possible to squeeze 2 mil lines out of junior devs. I assume there are very few things that can go drastically "wrong".
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...

I didn’t read it, but apparently that EU funded study found that piracy doesn’t harm sales. At least, that’s what the news reporting said about it.
As well as the researchers' patent, actually growing golden rice requires licences for a thicket of patents on the underlying technology from dozens of companies (and it required some wrangling to even get permission to license that patent for free since the government grants they got would usually require commercial licensing). They managed to get free licenses to those as, basically, a PR exercise - it was worth it to all those companies to do it because it let them spin opponents of their profitable products as monsters who wanted third world people to suffer. The licenses also had conditions that made them basically unusable, so if someone did miraculously manage to make golden rice viable they didn't have to worry about losing out on their cut.
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Brave new world. The new model to enforce compliance - steal valuable customer info which will be used to make the customer's life hell if he/she does not comply. Pre-emptive hostage taking as a security model?
But Matlab has much less restrictive terms when it comes to code, right?

And then there's LabView, used widely for lab and process automation, which really has no open-source or free alternative.
> not all assignment makes a function impure

That's exactly what the ST monad/STRef's are for. {new,read,write}STRef let you manipulate mutable references while keeping track of their scope in the type of the reference. runST encapsulates a chunk of code that manipulates mutable variables in an externally-pure way into a pure function. The "Lazy Functional State Threads"[1] paper on it is a pretty good read.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
You can really do photography on Linux nowadays though. Darktable and rawtherapee are shaping up nicely.
In Germany a Tesla Model S base price is 69.020 €.

In Germany a Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse base price (the S-350) is 85.590 €.

Neither car is $50,000 or $80,000 in the markets the article is talking about, so I'm a bit confused by what your post is referring to.
What is a good/bad saddle?
R is not present in your list, did you ever try it and what's your opinion about it?
Would imagine low interest rates increase housing prices as more people can afford a mortgage, higher housing prices increases rents
Mathematica still has some parts that are nice though. Especially interactive plots (which you can do in IPython but not as simply) and some of the neat metaprogramming stuff. A big thing is that Mathematica (the language) is homoiconic, which I think works really well for their interface.

But I prefer IPython as well. Mathematica is awesome, but Wolfram is pretty heavy handed with the proprietary stuff.

Edit: one thing that I'd really like to have is some of Mathematica's tools for managing scope, like Module and similar. You can kinda do this, but it's clunky. And on top of that, some way to limit declarations to a section (group of cells). It's kinda awkward to have multiple separate sections in an IPython notebook because your declarations start to overlap. Unless someone here knows how already?
LMFTFY:

It is IMPOSSIBLE to copy search result link. Not just "difficult".
>"“Google’s built around horizontal search, which means if you type in ‘What’s the population of Myanmar,’ then Google finds websites that include the words ‘Myanmar’ and ‘population,’ and figures out which ones are most likely to answer your question,” says Neha Narula, who was a software engineer at Google before joining the M.I.T. Media Lab"

I'm not sure if it's relevant but I get an exact result when I do this search. Not sure if that is horizontal search...
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Did you seriously just compare slavery to Facebook users?
Or at least a non-hostile infrastructure. Until last June, I biked to work, year-round, for 18 years. (I didn't even have a car.) My job moved and I've commuted by car, even though I am slightly closer to the office. Part of my potential cycling route has dedicated bike lanes, sharrows, and even a parallel trail; but, part of it is on a busy state road, with no shoulders and often a half-mile backup for the left turn I need to make. (Yet another part is essentially a two-lane, unlit, country road; but, I can deal with that.)

I have not yet ruled out cycling altogether; but, I think I need a better, if longer, route.
Infographic broken down by publication, year, category https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/daily-... Looks like most myths were pushed by UK tabloids.
Production just requires land and labor. Capital is output from previous production used as input again, and it is nice to have but not strictly necessary for employment of labor.

Labor can be applied whenever labor has access to land. So the question is why can't people just go to work? Grow their own food to feed themselves, if need be?

The Industrial Revolution put farmers out of work, but not because farming became illegal, and not because they all forgot how to farm. It is simply that farm labor couldn't pay the rent of land anymore.

The mechanisms by which the unimproved value of land rises and falls is the key mechanism that we must understand in order to understand wages and the rate of unemployment. Real wages are not a number. They are the lifestyle you can obtain. They are what is left over after you've paid your taxes and your right to exist in a particular location. (Increasingly, healthcare and education are prerequisites to getting by in the same way.)

Simply giving people money, irrespective of the financing method, as most advocates of the "technological unemployment" thesis argue for, ignores the nature of rent. When there's no rent-free land, rents rise and fall based on the ability to pay. People getting free money have more ability to pay, and landlords will definitely notice.

Thing about land is they aren't making it anymore. Higher demand doesn't just stimulate supply. The supply curve is vertical.
Opposition to building codes? vaccination? pretty much any organized effort to make society safer (or avoid societal catastrophe)?

Libertarianism is pretty much "the tragedy of the commons" as a political ideal.
Functional programming has the following issues:

- it tries to abstract away von Neumann architecture and make it more math-like, stateless, true and permanent. Yet von Neumann is completely stateful (resembling real-world in its complexity and model approach), causing all kinds of frictions, for which monads and other syntactic sugar were invented

- while Turing complete, it has some weird properties, making it difficult or inefficient to change communication between various components that are using deep function calls when such a need arises in the future. This leads to using mutable "shortcuts" that render a lot of advantages functional programming might have had useless and starts resembling imperative/OOP programming with its issues again

- trivial things like IO can't be modeled without side-effects, so any software requiring input from keyboard, loading external files etc. can't be pure

- often functional constructs make code unreadable despite readability being one of the main reasons for its existence

- bottom-up creation of algorithms is preferred by many language authors, making it difficult for beginners

- if you really want to know how it works, it takes 5+ years PhD level of studies in abstract math

Disclaimer: I approach 100 languages I've used in production, worked for companies that created some of the most popular languages and hate them all ;-) I hope to work on AI-assisted language creation in the near future.
I have a face mask (Respro City) that filters out a good part of the particulates. Those are of course only part of the pollution and the mask does look a bit silly.
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Best answer in the thread and a very clever one, IMHO. Fixing things that lead directly to thousands of people falling in poverty each year is better than the neverending cycle of applying patches to mitigate its consequences.
I've always used a bike to go to work, but now I'm in Mexico City. Too many cars, too much air pollution. Cycling here is bad for your health.

The public bicycle sharing system is really good and cheap. Some parts of the city are bike friendly. But the air quality is just so bad. The trucks that spew black smoke continuously. The buses that have never been controlled in 50 years. The SUVs traveling at 100 km/h on the lanes reserved for buses and bicycles. All the cars idling and honking in traffic after 6PM. It's really depressing. This city would be such a beautiful city without all those cars and trucks.

Refs:

- air quality: https://air.plumelabs.com/en/year/mexico

- ecoBici: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoBici_(Mexico_City)

- "Car ban fails to curb air pollution in Mexico City" http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38840076
I partly blame media for that as well, because they tend to portray movie-like evil minded geniuses that are probably more appealing and easier to grasp for general reader than methodical, faceless, industrious scams and legal gray areas. This can be seen even more so in politics.
Have you gotten in accidents?
I'm using RStudio notebooks heavily in my latest bioinformatics analysis pipeline. They're a great way to produce an HTML report containing code, exposition, results, and plots all in one place.

https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/CD4-csaw (look at scripts/*.Rmd)
Do you have a source for that Coca Cola claim? Just curious.
The driver DID look straight at me though, seemingly noticing me

Probably saccadic masking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
This may be true in China, but not most other countries.
I was so tempted to down-vote you!
I’ll add my anecdote here. I haven’t pirated a game in ten years, but when I was a student, I pirated most of my games. Almost all of the ones that I played for more than a few days, I now own legally. Some of these games, I’ve become a big fan of the series and buy all new games (I pirated the original Witcher game for example, I now own it, the collectors edition of the second, the third game and am eagerly awaiting basically any game the developer releases. While it’s likely I would have eventually played The Witcher 3 anyway given how successful it was, I’d likely have missed the Witcher 2 and probably wouldn’t be such a blind fanboy of anything CDPR release)

I also regularly NOT buy games (but nowadays also don’t pirate them, in the past I might have) if they hnave intrusive DRM
Companies that practice bad security and potentially expose sensitive data to bad actors should be fined or shutdown via the proper legal channels. In the more extreme cases, I think short jail terms should be considered for those responsible depending on the extent of the damage caused.
Perl has that as well: http://p3rl.org/Test::Inline
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> none of them really produce usable results

I don't know about that.

In my opinion the images that aren't game characters look best with their vectoriser/upscaler. Cursor 1 and Setup, for instance.
Especially when the article was mostly about social mobility, rather than poverty per se.

This list isn't really anything different than your standard Democratic talking points and doesn't even directly relate to the article. Not sure what it's doing as a top comment here.
Slightly off-topic but after reading Douglas Hofstadter's books the one thing that I never managed to grok was Godel's incompleteness theorem. It's implications are fascinating but my math background never allowed me to completely understand it's proof.
>I hear this argument a lot but can't see how it possibly be correct. Sure, not everyone who pirates would buy instead but at least some people would (it probably is a small percentage, but it is not zero).

Consider that for lack of a demo, or other scenario, people who pirate the game but end up purchasing it later. Sure, not all pirates would buy the game they've pirated, but at least some people would (it probably is a small percentage, but it is not zero).

>One can imagine that the effect of those few is amplified for titles with high costs per unit.

I would argue mainstream titles would make up that difference through volume of pirated copies though.

Piracy isn't a non-issue, but it's just not a dire threat either. Decades of video game piracy has demonstrated that.
This is so wrong it's laughable. Please provide proof if this ridiculousness.
The last time I checked, it's not okay to commit a felony in the pursuit of a felon. I can't imagine this underwent anything close to a legal review before it was implemented. Did they honestly think they'd get the pirates credentials, then authenticate with the pirates accounts in an attempt to uncover their real identity and not understand that crosses some major ethical and legal boundaries? I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that their 'solution' was in itself criminal.
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> Let's admit that legal, profit seeking behavior, can sometimes be evil.

Obviously. That's why we have Government regulations and various protection agencies, and why I get headaches when free market types whine about having to meet them and how we're "constraining" businesses by making them do things like not store toxic product in break rooms, allow workers enough rest to function whilst operating 20 ton machinery, etc.

> Furthermore, there's nothing ridiculous with going after bad actors in the past. I agree the main focus should be on companies doing harm in the present. But holding past actions to account sends the message that you can't get away with harming customers forever. It's a deterrent.

In it's current state, I'd argue those deterrents barely qualify as such. Fines, especially in the tech sector are a bad joke. They're so low that the companies could just add them as a budget line item and still be massively profitable.
I'm not op but the claim is pretty well known. Just count the grams of sugar in any coke bottle.
I'll be teaching a group of nine and ten years olds to code. I'm planning on using Jupyter.

What I'd really like to do is make a multiplayer naval game, with each player controlling their ship from their own notebook. Players would start out by running commands like fire(range=400, bearing=120) right from a cell, but would later be able automate their ship - for example, pick the nearest enemy, get the range, and plug that into firing automatically at it.

My server would be projecting a big map of the world up on the wall.

However, to do this nicely, I need the ability to make a cell (or a function defined in a cell) run every X milliseconds. I know I can do this for one cell, with a loop and sleep function, but I'd really rather have multiple cells/functions "running", so we can break the code into smaller chunks, and to let them build their own ship UIs.

Any advice on how to do this in Juptyer with Python? In an ideal world, I'd just "tag" a cell somehow so that it ran periodically.
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I am a pro photographer and still have to use Lightroom for proper color adjustments. I even had competitions with Darktable pros to see who can get a better picture and unfortunately Lightroom was outclassing them (and I hate Adobe's forced subscriptions). It still needs a lot of work to be cutting edge.
I definitely agree - I've always felt frustrated by the quality of GUI toolkits in Python. Pyglet and Kivy seem like the best I could see (PyQt is licensed), but everything in the 'gallery' seemed sort of simplistic or

On a similar note, it would be really helpful if library maintainers (e.g. PyGame) would express somewhere that they're looking for a designer to help make their website easier to use. I'd offer my (very basic) help, but I'm worried about offending someone if I ask to redo their website. This isn't necessarily porting to a 'minimalist' or 'modern' theme, but simple things like emphasizing the intended UX, increasing readibility, organizing in a helpful way (e.g., a gallery should be split by type of application so that a business doesn't have to trawl through a bunch of games wondering if they can use this for their application).
That's awesome, would love to hear more about the process of setting up an NPO.

P.S. brave browser on Android just spins trying to view raisely.com.
>Also, it's your choice if you just eat eggs or take protein shakes because you want to look like Arnold. You want fast and unrealistic results without working hard.

It seems you're implying high protein intake is bad for you - any evidence supporting this? More protein (up to .72g protein/lb of body weight) does increase lean mass gain in individuals resistance training. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28698222

It's a bit silly imo to say people putting in the work and eating sufficient protein want "fast and unrealistic" results.
Wonder what's that thing at 1:40 ;) "at turn, wipers suddenly full tilt for no apparent reason, person gives input to the right paddle" - yes, I know that control normally sends CAN messages for wiper operation in all modern cars, and that it wouldn't make sense to release a video with overt manipulation of the system; I have been conditioned to look for side channels though, and this is technically a human giving a driving-related input.

But seriously, what does the car need the wipers for? All the sensors are outside anyway, no?
But here those 140 people will provide deeply insightful answers to your questions.
They aren't a janitorial company. They hire a service because it's cost-effective, even if said service pays very well.

> If they want to understand inequality they just have to look at their own company and see how the higher ups reap most of the benefits.

I'm a Software Engineer at another big 4 tech company. While the higher ups are undoubtedly making a ton of money, my income puts me well within the top 5-10% of people in the US. I think bitching about salary inequality at Facebook is a weird place to start. Try Walmart.
Turning round at a road closure is much easier for a cyclist and often they can be very quickly bypassed by becoming a pedestrian and walking your bike via an alternative route.
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It looks...weird? Cartoony and almost Picasso-y.

Boo and Bowser look great. Mario and Yoshi look terrible. The detailed pixel art and gradients just don't carry over. The shapes of the outlines do, however.

Scanlines IMO look the best for video games, because it also tries to simulate the medium they were originally presented in, not just the graphics data behind the images

https://imgur.com/wtxyA2d
This article lists coca cola (and pepsi) having 9 teaspoosn of sugar per 330ml (a can's worth), so 17 per bottle seems sound: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jun/12/how-mu...
Anyone else wondering why they had to use a cheap "test.exe" that is flagged by malware websites instead of embedding the code (possibly write it from scratch) into their binary?
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Sure, I didn't say it wasn't.

My point was that 'untyped' should not be conflated with 'dynamically typed'. They're worlds apart.