skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. If you think what the source (Plover’s shitpost blog, not an email) provides is not beneficial, then I’d think the link should be to the original document.

I, on the other hand, think his selection and publication of this excerpt has merit and is useful. His framing of the quote is what drew me to read it in the first place.
Anybody have the link or how can I test myself?
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IANAL but, assuming taking the data happens after the user agrees to the license, there is no stealing of data.
Very cool how it interacts with fixed tiles.
> Moctezuma sent some emissaries to greet him. They brought two others with them, who were sacrificed in front of the Spaniards.

The Aztecs were not the only people living in the 1500s Mesoamerica. I don't know much, but Wikipedia mentions peoples like Purepechas, Talaxcaltecs, Matlazincas, Tecos, Mazahuas, Otomies and Chontales. And not even all Nahuas were Aztecs.

Was ritualistic human sacrifice a common practice among all these peoples, or was it something that mostly only Aztecs did?
I trade Bitcoin futures with TradeStation and so far I have been safe. No hacks or unexpected losses. No need for violence when you can make money instead. https://latechnews.org/tradestation-your-broker-wherever-you...
A red herring and whataboutism are two different things!

A red herring seeks to tie someone's statement to Communism, and then dismiss it. For example, some people criticizing the GPL do that.

This is whataboutism.
Keep in mind that a Fiduciary Duty of Care violation is a civil tort, not just a reason to fire someone. If they haven't been sued by the company, it's not what I'm talking about.
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Companies using similar(-ish) technologies as applied to CRISPR directly:

Synthego: https://tools.synthego.com/

Desktop Genetics: https://www.deskgen.com/landing/

Open Source Community using deep learning for all sorts of biochemical and genetic capabilities:

Deepchem: https://deepchem.io/
Worked in Utah.

TL;DR Housing the homeless is cheaper than the chronic costs of not housing the homeless.

"Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness By 91 Percent; Here's How"

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
You can't print gold? Are you saying you can't counterfeit "finite things"? Is that the main benefit here?
re-reading your question, I realize that I ignored the "fear that they are correct" part. That was framed in response to the parent past - I don't have any useful response to that question!
I've spent the past hour reading through just some of the unbelievable stories in this thread, the whole time thinking, or maybe hoping, that someday this community would somehow benefit me in such a meaningful way as well.

It just finally struck me, however, that one of the most significant changes in my recent life and one that has made me feel the most fulfilled can be traced back to reading a post on HN. In 2016 I read an something on here about a new conpletely free software university in San Francisco called 42. A few months later I was in SF learning/teaching myself to code in C alongside some of the most brilliant people I've ever met.

If you'd have asked two weeks ago, HN, I'd have told you I was developing a mobile app in React Native for a quirky company in Prague. If you ask today, I'm unemployed and working on a website to showcase my skills. Either way, I'm miles from where I started and never would have been here had it not been for that post.

Thank you HackerNews.
Not to mention how much war, conflict, and death it prevents due to power projection.
If someone signs a contract allowing you to do something you're generally allowed to do the thing, with exceptions.

Dropbox uploads data from your computer on to their servers, which would be illegal had you not agreed to that as part of signing up and installing the software.
That's how my friends and I grew up. You left the house --- you were just GONE --- until you came back. Short of hiring a private investigator, your parents really had no precise idea of what you were up to.

Of course, they did tend to find out the important stuff anyway. The parent grapevine was definitely alive and well.
Ask HN: How do you get startup advisor roles?
Hi HN,
After working at few successfully companies, if one wants to offer advising services to startups (part-time), how does one go about that? Are these roles only available to members of VC or Accelerator Firms?
Another example of this statement being wrong is that there was a movement among astronomers to stop supplying sunrise/sunset moonrise/moonset information to newspapers which also published horoscopes.
Everyone believes they're speaking truth to power when they stop listening to the other side. Everyone thinks they're in the right and has the facts on their side. That's why it's so important to engage in ways that are productive and constructive.
This sort of thing is awesome in theory, but in practice it kinda sucks, and will continue sucking until it becomes a first-class feature in the eyes of browser and desktop environment developers.

Currently I'm using Chrome backed by KWallet backed by PGP key on a YubiKey 4. Upon launching Chrome I have to authenticate with/touch the Yubikey to unlock my session, which is spiffy, but after that seemingly random pages (even in an incognito window) will prompt Chrome to unlock my keychain. The Yubikey will flash, indicating something wants access to it, but I have no indication of what that something is. If I ignore the flashing, eventually a KWallet window pops up complaining about being unable to use the GPG key.
Yes! Just to name one, glaucoma doesn't degrade vision in its early stages (when it's more easily treatable).

There are so many things that can happen to your vision, at high life cost. Get your vision checked regularly.
Possible. When Berkeley invited Milo to speak, antifa showed up first and broke quite a few windows, same way antiglobalists reliably start riots anywhere G-7 meets. [0]

After that alt-right brought in their own thugs as well, which might be the ones you're referrring to.

In the antifa vs. alt-right contest both sides get a dishonourable second place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Berkeley_protests
I have two comments:

1.) Moneyball made it look like the scouts ruined Billy Beane's life, but the reality is much more nuanced. His playing career didn't go well and when he was in AA, he started seriously doubting himself. But, when his career ended, he started off as an Oakland A's scout. 25 years later, after a great run as General Manager, he was named the A's Executive Vice President. The point of all this is that in retrospect, the scouts who projected him to become a superstar weren't entirely wrong - he has an excellent mind for baseball, but he couldn't make the physical/mental adjustments required to succeed against tough opponents. I'd suspect that your issue may be similar - you clearly have an excellent mind for code, but perhaps you need to make a few adjustments. I think it's also important to note that as Beane's confidence wavered, it got harder for him to make the adjustments that he needed.

2.) How are you doing? When I read this over, I was actually rather worried about you. You sound like you're taking on a lot of life right now and money woes don't help. Are you okay?

The bottom line is that you sound very intelligent. I believe in you and in your ability to figure this out. Good luck and be safe!
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You didn't say anything about force in your initial statement. Maybe you forgot to mention enough context? (And no, forcefully does not mean using force.)
> often make their profits purely from speculation rather than contributing to the overall wealth of the American community.

Wondering what some of these speculations are. Stock markets?
It's interesting to see Ruby in there. The language definitely tries to cater to everyone's taste and offers a ton of ways to do the same thing. The community though seems a little more opinionated though. Everyone is set on bundler for example. There are really only two big testing frameworks that compete and the have very different goals etc.
In this case, it looks like he's optimizing for Firefox and Chrome--he mentions benchmark results from both and also running into a SpiderMonkey optimization that was causing problems.

That does leave out Safari, Edge, Opera, and probably some other obscure browsers, and doesn't help with your point about future engine changes potentially breaking the optimizations.
I don't feel that he has guaranteed that all readers of the article will come to the conclusion you have reached. Here is how I could interpret his brief quote:

1. more in absolute terms (which they already pay due to higher income)
2. more in relative terms (progressive taxes)
3. more than now (what you claim).

I don't that it's clear what he means in in the story, though. It could easily be taken to mean "yes, we pay more, and we should pay more (than others) so I don't support the republican plan!". Your interpretation is also valid - "the rich should pay more (than we do now)".
I think that is a very post-hoc rationalization to justify the silliness that is/has been eating the JS world (emscripten and asm.js show that this sort of thing has been going on for a while), but is an entirely valid reason to indulge it for free interest and experience.

+1
Psychedelics can accelerate the process by stripping away ego and forcing one to consciously process realities about one's nature and situation.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16414263
Prior to Chrome's release, browsers preserved insertion order for numeric keys as well (but this was not in the ES3 spec).

Chrome/V8's team found they could get substantial performance improvements by diverging from the de facto standard, without too much of a cost to web compatibility.
If anything this is just going to want to make the crackers keep cracking their releases even more, because one thing they certainly love is a good challenge, and these "bomb-like" features would appeal to them greatly.

(Long-retired cracker, no longer active in the scene but still fights from time to time. ;-)
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I've only used swift at that size, but I've heard stories with all of those languages once you have a large code base.

I remember vaguely reading about how at a haskell conference people were basically cornering compiler maintainers about compile speed, but that was several years ago.
Not being a Clojure dev I'm curious: Wouldn't a database be the more scalable solution? How would multiple servers share access to the data of it's in memory? What about persistence?
There aren't enough beds, and many homeless people prefer sleeping on the street, then in a shelter, for a number of logical reasons.

1. They are more likely to be assaulted or robbed in a shelter. Shelter staff may or may not do shit to help you.

2. Shelter admission hours can be limited - they may be incompatible with their job.

3. You are expected to be drug and alochol free in a shelter. For someone with an addiction, this may not be something they can accept. [1]

[1] Before anyone suggests that the solution is for those people to just quit their addiction, please keep in mind that there are many wealthy, intelligent, mentally sound people in a stable, supportive environment, with a loving family are unable to break their addictions.
The con of prostitution isnt just moral prudishnes, but als the safety of women when they sell themselves to strangers instead of their husband. This is mindnumbingly obvious.
There's also a similar problem in this case:

When we start in this state:

rich pay 10% on the margin
poor pay 2%

And then cut all tax brackets by 1% absolute (to 9% and 1%)

This can be portrayed as both "most gains from the cuts go to the rich (because we were super progressive initially!)", and "poor get relative 50% cut, rich 10% (at the margin)". Anyway, I just am trying to guard against future misinterpretation and mixing up of absolute/relative terms.
Ah good old form over function. Maybe issue all employees helmets.
I'm working on library to bring some Rust features back into C, like semiautomatic memory management (defer), Vec, Slice, String, Str, Option, built-in test cases, generics. But I lost interest because I'm allowed to use Rust in embedded project now. :-)

https://github.com/vlisivka/crust
Hi instaaa team again!

The problem of using your service to send a submission to HN is that the users here will notice the pattern and flag them as spam, the mod will notice the pattern and will ban the site and the accounts. So ... reduce the number of sites to 99 and just skip HN.

My recommendations to your potential clients is to post it here themselves. If the post get any traction and feedback it's important that the owner of the site can reply and interact.
Think about building anything else, besides software. The act of building is very different than the act of fixing, and even the act of adding on. Practically all software interviews -- technically speaking -- about building new stuff. Fixing bugs, adding features, and dealing with technical debt have practically nothing to do with algorithms and other technical interview topics.

Which is to say that if you're not into that, it's on you to find out early because most companies think all they have to do is hire the smartest engineers and everything else will work itself out. Typically you don't need to ask anything at all: unless it's a startup or some crazy project by an older company, you're fixing bugs and adding features. But probably a good idea to ask anyway.

Or there are ways to make the "fix bugs and add features" gig work. Ask about their process: do they have docs, do they have a roadmap built with engineering input, how much time do they devote to addressing technical debt, and so on.

It sounds like you're actually a good programmer, but coding is really a very small part of the gig. Now that you know how to do it, you'd probably benefit from learning the process around it and being proactive about what you're getting into.
>covering the cost of a moving-average window for the previous x amount of years of spending

In principle, I like the concept of anchoring taxation to spending, because it could mitigate the political viability of spending what we don't have by making the pain immediate.

How would you integrate welfare, tax-credits, healthcare, and other federally-funded entitlements into this solution? How can we avoid a large (well, larger) schism between these groups, in the short-term, keeping in mind that we obviously want to increase mobility from that group into the tax-paying group?
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1. The famine occurred tens of thousands of kilometers from where US forces landed.

2. Fascism did not exist in 1917. The whites were extremely diverse, ranging from royalists to outright socialists.

3. The United States role in starting the Russian Civil war was minimal at beast. The main catalyst was the Bolshevik party seizing power a few months after losing the Russian Constituent Assembly election.

4. The Russian civil war likely had less deaths than the Chinese Civil War, and unquestionably less deaths than the Taiping Rebellion.
It's because of this. [1]

A large contingent of the public wants to not have any homeless, but isn't willing to fund getting homeless people off the streets. (Yes, San Francisco may be mismanaging their homeless budget, but not every city is.)

So, since they aren't willing to do anything constructive, but are willing to complain, they call the police. Since it's almost impossible to be homeless and not be breaking one law or another, the police show up, move them somewhere else, and the cycle repeats.

[1] https://thehomelessguy.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/citizen-do-n...
Maybe people are unhappy because "humanities culture" is an extremely broad term which is terrible at describing your target? I mean, I'm a scientist, but I have a lot of artsy hobbies, and my initial impression when I hear "humanities culture" is "oh great, this is the next SJW or feminism label, used to dismiss things." Probably not what you intended.
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Show HN: Rorolite and firefly – DL models as REST APIs, don't write Flask apps
Consider using rorolite [0] and firefly [1] for your deep learning API projects.
Deployment is becoming easier, but a lot of plumbing still needed. We see so many blogs and tutorials about writing and maintaining flask apps for this purpose. rorolite and firefly provide an elegant way to abstract all underlying engineering and make simple interface available to DL scientists. More here -https://rorodata.github.io/

[0]: https://github.com/rorodata/rorolite
[1]: https://github.com/rorodata/firefly
> legitimate business practices

Whenever I read this phrase, it always has a sense something like legal, therefore ethical or legal, therefore OK, and.. (this is not an easy sentence to finish) I wonder where people learn to think like that. OK, apart from the pressure of the entire commercial/corporate/advertising apparatus.. Maybe it's surprising it isn't more common. I guess it's the norm, in some circles. I'm naive I guess, but I'd rather die than think like that. A friend of mine used the phrase once, and..that felt like the end of the friendship.
would be funny if the pirate sues these guys for hacking and puts them in jail
Perhaps you're being downvoted for claiming it was a "forced famine", a claim not supported by either your own link or the submission link itself.
Many other articles are also submarines. ;)
Well that's a shame.
> who gets to decide what privacy controls the phone even has

Regulatory bodies and / or standards organisations.

Some kind of "This devices meets or exceeds the International Organization for Standardization of mobile device security..."

We don't even have a voluntary one of those.
> Can anyone here answer whether it’s normal, when building git based interfaces, to only use the API for queries and contextual things but utilize regular git commands to perform interactions with the remote repositories?

Because there are a myriad ways to connect to remotes: local filesystem, git protocol (rare), git+ssh, http(s), whatever-git-clone-"user@host:myrepo.git" does, svn-bridge are the ones I know and it's well possible there are more.

So you'd need around 4-5 protocol reimplementations, plus some way to configure the weird stuff that people do with SSH (public keys with or without password, ssh-agent, custom ports, port knocking, bastion hosts, whatever else one may fit in .ssh/config)... best leave this to git, especially as there's a lot of crypto in there that you're bound to mess up.
JS engines already do insane levels of optimization, and they do it while watching the code execute so they understand the code better than any preprocessing tool can hope to.

What could a tool like you're describing do that the engines don't do themselves?
> It seems like a really strange choice for the "source" language to be JS

I can't speak for the author, but I can think of several reasons I might choose JS:

1. Almost everyone working on the web knows it, so not knowing the source language won't be a roadblock right away.

2. Precisely because of the issues you mentioned, JS is a lot easier to translate with perfect (or close to perfect) fidelity. If the source were something like Haskell, every translation would be very lossy.

3. JS has no boilerplate, like setting up a class or something. You can just type statements.

4. OneLang itself is written in TS, which means working with JS as the source might be easier than, say, C#.
Everyone believes they're speaking truth to power when they stop listening to the other side.

When that side intimidates and suppresses, with no fear of reprisal, then one has direct evidence they are speaking truth to power.

That's why it's so important to engage in ways that are productive and constructive.

That's why it's important for onlookers to observe how each side is engaging. The side which best engages in the intellectual potlach of openness is the side that looks the best, and is probably the best. "Productive and constructive," do not preclude criticism. Ask: which is the side that leaves out the references? Which is the side that engages in namecalling, character assassination, and suppression?

Also note, that I started out on the other side. Given what I say above, is it any wonder that I believe there are micro-agressions? I know that many of the things Social Justice says are true to some degree. I've not only listened to the other side, I've listened to it as a corroboration of my life story. But here's the thing: You can't let that stuff overcome humility and justice. "By Any Means Necessary" is a morally bankrupt "Might Makes Right." If there's bias in hiring, then it's not worth it to degrade meritocracy to improve the numbers. If there's micro-aggressions, then it's not worth it to let such accusations run rampant if it leads to unfair, unsubstantiated accusations.

It's plain to see when people are targeting other people. It's particularly plain to see when people have started to succumb to in-group/out-group psychology -- especially when you have experienced it firsthand all of your life.

When your Social Justice starts to contain a big, whopping fraction of injustice, that's worse than your baby formula containing a big whopping fraction of melamine. It's time to start speaking out.
>If you're going to take a dump on the street, litter or shoot up drugs and leave your gross needle laying around, that absolutely should 100% be illegal. This doesn't have to do with being homeless, and everything to do with having bad manners without consequences for your actions.

And now you're paying 10x as much to house them in a jail while probably increasing their chances of future illegal activity.
Speaking as a former child of the suburbs (one of the livelier and more walkable ones, with several nearby colleges), car-centric suburbs are awful for children, especially for those aged ~10–18: there’s nothing to do, and it’s impossible to get places independently. Parents end up constantly on the hook as chauffeurs, and kids end up with very constrained freedom of movement and very regimented schedules. People are so spread out there’s huge overhead meeting up. Kids with niche interests can’t find anyone local to interact with.

Kids in a denser neighborhood with easy access to public transit have much better quality of life on average. Parents who move to the suburbs for the benefit of their children might just be projecting their own desires.

As for “aeons of human nature”: for most of prehistory and then most of history, most people were either living in isolated tribes in the forest, or as rural peasant farmers. Not sure how either of those is relevant to considering parking requirements, building height limits, etc.

There’s no inherent reason for class sizes to be different between urban and suburban schools. Often suburban schools have more resources because the USA spends more money on public services in cities with wealthier residents. That’s unjust public policy, but nothing directly related to population density.
You're absolutely correct, it's the Taiping Rebellion by a fairly wide margin.
That's what I was expecting as well. What Landmark folk call the voice in your head. Which is always interpreting, telling stories, and so on. It's often hard to hear what other people are saying, because that inner voice is so loud. But with practice, it eventually shuts up, most of the time.
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I just don't understand the end game here, find banking passwords and transfer the cost of the game? That seems like fighting civil liability with easily traceable felonies.