skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I know this is a turn-off for a lot of people, but I still don't see why. Why you need an IDE that doesn't use JS?

Honestly? This is going to be unpopular:

I resent javascript and the people who write it. I feel like there's this huge cohort of mediocre developers who learned javascript either on their own via tutorials or one of those boot camps, and then just never progressed from there, skillwise.

I feel like this cohort is behind what I perceive to be the gradual but inexorable decline in quality of the web in terms of user-friendliness. Javascript and the people who write it have steadily made my experience as a user worse while simultaneously making it easier for huge advertising conglomerates to track me and sell my data to the highest bidder. I'll say nothing of intelligence agencies that unfortunately do have reason to target me because of my work using those same loopholes.

In any case, I perceive Electron to be an enabler for these mediocre developers to peddle their horrible, poorly-performant spyware on the desktop platform because they're too scared to venture outside their comfort zone and learn something other than javascript. Why should I run a whole frigging browser just to display some text?

Not all ideas are created equal, and I just wish Brendan Eich had maybe gone back to the drawing board.
How does net neutrality promote broadband provision competition?
Ask HN: Haskell for competitive programming like Google Code Jam
I am considering using Haskell for this year's Google code jam.

Could anyone who have used it tell me what people who have used it would say about doing so over a language like C++?

Thank you.
He's right (in some ways).

I know it's written in an irritating style, but I feel like this kind of scaled application deployment strategy is basically the future, and you'd be very very naive to dismiss it as just some marketing hype.

The ability to deploy arbitrary micro-services to a cluster is basically all this is, under the hood, and that's something that intrinsically beneficial.

Sure, you may argue, the difference between deploying code to a cluster, and deploying a container to a cluster may seem immaterial, largely, but ultimately its hard to argue that it's better to choose the container in most cases, if you can delegate the work of 'configure and manage the container and container infrastructure' to someone else.

There's no question it'll slowly start eating the container world in my opinion; the barrier to entry is low, and ultimately (with something like openwhisk) you can use a container if you do need to package say, a specific version of opencv for some specific purpose.

Can anyone suggest why this is a bad approach?

It doesn't sound like a bad approach to me, and a lot of people are taking a lot of interest in it.

The problem is the people who are pitching "microservices as a service", as though you might be able to delegate some parts of your service out as a microservice to other people, like you can run a 'lpad service' and there will be the new 'microservice app store' and people will all flock to use it, and a few people who write the early 'good functions' will Get Rich Quick.

...and every time any single one person screws up their service, or has a tizzy and shuts it down, dozens of applications will fail.

What a disaster waiting to happen; its ridiculous, and all the noise about it is just people looking for funding (or just clueless, I have no idea).

...but, that doesn't change the fundamental value proposition of serverless: auto-scaling without devops.

(Also:

> And we’re seeing the exact same pattern with serverless. Yes, other companies could challenge Amazon’s dominance. But they probably won’t, because they don’t believe it’s for real. And by the time they do, it’ll be too late.

Yep. That's spot on as well)
Should this get a (1454)? (Challenging Tomte, here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444471)
Lol. It's advantages are that it's sound money and uncensorable, not faster than visa.

Layer one will never scale to superior global currency. It's an immutable, append only database. DCS is a trade-off.
Right. But it's worded very slippery. And per the rest of the article, most of the kids really aren't learning.
Why I’m Freezing My Eggs, and the (Relatively) Painless Process
Yes, recent work on transfer learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146 " Fine-tuned Language Models for Text Classification" suggests that training a lstm on a large corpora for language modeling, then using it as sentence encoder after tuning it in specific dataset gives a considerable perfomance.

This is covered in fast.ai 's new course 1.
> I'd love to owe the IRS a million bucks because I made way more than that

A lot of the people who owe big bills to the IRS didn't make any money at all, and have no way to pay it.
A lot of the value of college comes from signalling rather than what you actually learn in college. The problem is that, at least on an individual basis, signalling is economically rational, so it is going to be very hard to get people to stop doing it.
If housing etc become a liberal vs conservative issue, we will tear ourselves apart much the way the 60s generation tore itself apart over the war and feminism.

To the conservatives who want to go, few here will miss you.

Much better to set aside our different perspectives on high taxes and regulation that are arguably due to the necessity of dealing with a high density culture and instead work for common ground.
happens every time I wave my credit card in front of a payment terminal
>And by the by the way: Isn't "everything is an object" similar in power to homoiconicity?

This is the only part of your (very interesting) comment I feel qualified to talk about.

I think there may be something there, but you'd have to be extreme about it, making methods into objects, and proabably even keywords like "if." This is a high bar---but macros clear it.
Assuming you're talking about adversarial examples in general (a one pixel attack would definitely be stopped by a median filter), yes. Median filters, gaussian filters, gaussian noise, all don't provide significant barriers against attack.
Either works depending on the context. "astu" is more like "let it be so". Still, there is no single generic affirmative particle.
होली पर 101 साल बाद बन रहा है महासयोग 6 राशियों की लगेगी लॉटरी 4 राशि के खुलें
Senior Drivers – How to Keep Your License
> People rag on Nixon --he's not a likeable guy, deservedly, but he also passed title ix as well as the EPA.

It’s good to see this mentioned. I’m sometimes surprised by the good that Nixon did, despite my overall conclusion that he was unfit for office.

> The true left were to some extent tools of the soviet information warfare effort…

This deserves citation to back it up. Please provide links to credible sources.
Technically, “isso” translates to “that”, whereas “isto” translates to “this”. Good point, anyway.
Criminals Explain How They Justified Their Crimes to Themselves (2016)
Newton's 3rd law:

Proof of Work and Proof of Stake both waste tons of energy, and of course, the entire economic system both of them are trying to replace also waste tons of energy.

The problem is, Proof of Work is very objective and measurable, which is why most people criticize Bitcoin for its waste of energy since it's so easy to measure.

But proof of stake and the legacy economic system both lack such objective measures, which is why it's hard to compare them. The term "stake" itself is subjective and doesn't take into account the economic ripple effect it can trigger as a result.

And these ripple effects DO exist, it's just that most people are not aware of them and just take for granted. Which is why I think it's crucial that you study the history of money before you can confidently say you understand "how money works".

This is not to say proof of stake won't work. It's just saying that there's a high chance that there's hidden cost to proof of stake which in the long run can map to the amount of energy wasted by proof of stake, which is backed by newton's 3rd law. You can't create energy. Everything that happens on earth is simply a transfer of limited amount of energy from the sun.

If this sounds all woo-woo to you, that's why I suggest studying economics.

I personally think the only way to overcome energy consumption is to come up with innovation that's as different from newtonian physics to quantum physics.
Triple dipping?

Is that 1. End user, 2. Content provider (e.g. “fast lanes” for Netflix), and 3. Government subsidies?
I assumed geeks would be the last kind of people to be sexist, but no.

HN is the least worst space I have found. Most geeks are mostly guilty of just engaging in habits that society taught them. Very few people here are deeply committed to making sure women remain barefoot and pregnant. This makes them possibly our last, best hope, in spite of their failure to be perfect.

The only thing that seems to make a difference is women shouting to be heard and telling their kids to be less sexist.

I don't agree. I made it to the leaderboard by avoiding trouble, giving respect, and doing my best to not shout. You cannot begin to imagine how far I have gone to prove myself to the men here.

It is the end of the month. I am nearly broke and very stressed about it. I'm frustrated and fed up and angry and there are times when shouting is appropriate. But, most of the time, I feel the angry feminist types are just cutting their own throat. I blog about that at times, not that any women care what I think.
> US should be credited with being the biggest supporter of modern democracy

They have too interesting of a record toppling foreign democracies for me to agree.
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I know you mean well. This is a non starter for me.

Thanks.
I think the author is looking for written documentation and reference material, not a presentation that may be outdated and not apply to this situation. I concur with the author, this should be available in clear unambiguous docs. Instead, many are unfortunately forced to point to old videos and depositions as reference material.
It's already available on Azure Notebooks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16422217

>> If you like to try it, pick any of your libraries, right click and select “open in JupyterLab”.
A few things that may help. Do 2 months of consistent 3-5 times 1 hour moderate cardio a week. This will prepare your body for the more intense exercise you can start doing after the 2 months are up.

Don't wait until you are thirsty. Drink a mouthful of isotonic drink every 10 to 15 minutes minimum regardless of how you feel. Same for nutrition. Take a protein recovery shake immediately after you work out and then eat your meals normally. Also drink plenty of water after you exercise.
This should be pretty common knowledge to any linguist who studied historical linguistics, although if you never did any historical linguistics you could easy miss that.

This should also be common knowledge to anyone who studied late-medieval Latin texts, as many of them use this feature to distinguish the 3 major Romance vernaculars of Europe, e.g. Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia. There is even an entire region called Languedoc in France, which refers to the language its inhabitants speak (or used to speak).

Having say that, although I perfectly know about the distinction between languages of si, oil and oc, I was still intrigued enough to click on the article and it was a nice read (except for the tiny font) and I even learned something new: I didn't know that 'oc' was a calque from Gaulish 'to'.

The common case of people sending me articles about linguistics is worse: I often get heavily distorted pop-sci articles full of mistakes and misconceptions.
> standard flat closure representations already involve copying parts of environments, with any sharing problems addressed by assignment conversion (turning variables that are assigned to into mutable cells)

In fact, the simple assoc list representation of environments (whereby simple consing extends the environment) does this. It doesn't eliminate circularity.

If a function has a certain binding in scope, and that binding refers back to the function, you can shuffle that binding around between different environment vectors all you want. Wherever you stick that binding, as long as the binding is in scope of that function, you have circularity.
That advice sounds insanely stupid, unless he means to train through it with modifying.

I think it's important for both the mental and physical momentum to train through, if you're accepting reality, and not just blasting through pain.

Then again, Rip isn't known for his nuance and delicacy.

I think the keys to avoiding injury, in addition to stretching (and hardcore stretching, especially as we age), is not trying to push the progressive overload faster than getting the ideal form.

I've burned myself too many times in this regard, and I agree with you, compensating for old injuries down the road really blows, so avoiding it would be ideal.

Thankfully, in addition to their being a myriad of ways to injure yourself, folks are pretty creative on movements that can adapt to that as well.

And then there's steroids ;)
Spanner is great, but I really wish there was a way to use it for less than $600/month. :(
Oh yeah? Why, when I live in Kansas, should I have to pay higher taxes to subsidize welfare state residents? Seems to me like its just leveling the playing field.
Victor is another very good brand. The site https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/ does provide a good breakdown of what it is in many dog foods
In a situation where there's a demand for a certain type of goods, those who create those goods are going to profit.

Comparing crypto mining to a war is unnecessarily evokative and manipulative.
> People rag on Nixon --he's not a likeable guy, deservedly, but he also passed title ix as well as the EPA

That's fair for EPA, but Title IX wasn't an Administration proposal or, IIRC, heavily lobbied for by the Administration. Nixon signed it, but it's not really accurate to credit him with passing it. It was proposed and pushed by liberal Democrats in both houses of Congress.

And people don't rag on Nixon for his legislative agenda, but for pervasive abuse of power, including law enforcement and national security resources, for partisan and personal political purposes.
Huawei’s U.K. Relationship Raises U.S. Concerns
merci, mr. j.
I could not help but notice the dissonance between Laura Poitras arriving at 'Newark Liberty International Airport' and how she was treated there. For small values of Liberty I guess.

It's simply harassment, the kind that I would have expected in former Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia or any other state like that.
Someone submitted "git blame-someone-else" on another thread, where you give someone else the credit for your own commits, and yes I plugged my project on that one too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049993
Oh AMOS- thanks for the reminder. I had totally forgotten about it. It was really incredible for game development. I remember working on a Mario jump and run clone for a while to learn game development. It was a really great environment.
Hold it between your teeth and push on it with your tongue until it snaps, or put it between your incisors and bite it in half.
> The Chinese government is right to require all of it's citizens data to be stored in domestic datacenters.

Why?

> Why should they trust their data to a foreign government?

The word "government" is creating a false equivalency because it covers a very broad range of entities:

Democratic governments are chosen by their citizens, operate under rule of law, and are dedicated to protecting their citizens rights and welfare, and to democracy and liberty at home and abroad (obviously, they are very imperfect in such things).

The Chinese government is an authoritarian dictatorship, an armed group that seized power ("political power grows out of the barrel a gun") and imposes itself on the people of China, and is dedicated to its own perpetuation.
> But essentially my point was that human genes are not determinative and work hand in hand with the microbiome

I think what's more generally accepted is that genes work in concert with environment, of which the microbiome plays but one part.
The US is really big, if there's not a mis-configured regulation, adding overseas competition won't really increase efficiency as the perfectly sperical market in a vacuum equation suggests.
> Other than lawyers and economists, does anyone ACTUALLY prefer this raw filing?

Apparently they do, since it's at the top of HN. If they didn't, it wouldn't be at the top. Alternatively, my guess is that many HN people saw this document, upvoted it, and then went to Google for more context.
Short version:

We combined the Automerge CRDT and the Dat protocol into an Electron app, and it's fun!
Americans have fought world's most powerful army and won, this is why they wrote it in their constitution. At the same time they have managed become world's most powerful army and still not managed to win against a ragtag group of militants.

If citizens of any country get to make a claim about the effectiveness of an armed citizenry, then it is the Americans.
There’s a big difference between empathy and guilt. That people feel guilty and responsible for what happened to the man is a legacy of his manipulation, and not something to be celebrated.
> Why, when I live in Kansas, should I have to pay higher taxes to subsidize welfare state residents?

In federal terms, Kansas is, in fact, heavily subsidized by the states hurt by the SALT change even before the change. The question is why those in California and similar states should have to subsidize their deliberately failed state even more for it's decision not to pay for its own citizens’ needs.
Except only the top few largest "stakers" are paid, others are either disqualified entirely for being too poor to stake, or will not recieve block rewards for being statistically irrelevant.

PoS is a lottery with reusable tickets. Winners get more tickets.
Tell that to Thoreau and Gandhi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

I mean, I'm not advising anyone to not pay taxes either, but it's a protest tactic with a pedigree.
Like? It's trivially true that "Net Neutrality" adds regulation.
There was also TinyVM/leJOS, which ran on a Renesis H8 with 32K (quite generous for the time, and even today for an 8-bit!) of RAM. You could program your Lego Mindstorms with Java and I remember it being quite mind-blowing for the time.
The release files have 'Valid-Until' fields, which will cause apt to reject it on replay.
You can use the transaction history CSV generated to report your taxes yourself (just requires manual effort on your part). The Form 8949 is the actual IRS Form for Capital Gains and Losses, and CoinTracker actually completes the form based on your preferred accounting method based on your transaction history. Feel free to ping feedback@cointracker.io for more info.
Blockchain is nowhere close to its infancy. It's a 10 year old technology.
There are some binaries available if you don't want to build it yourself.

https://pp-test-dmg-jimpick.hashbase.io/
I keep seeing comments like this about NYT and I truly don’t understand where they’re coming from. And I don’t mean that in a dismissive way, I’m genuinely curious. Yes, the Economist and the New Yorker often have better writing, but their authors also have far laxer deadlines. What is the better alternative to the journalism of the likes of NYT that I am apparently missing? (I’m referring to English-language dailies here, but it doesn’t have to be US based).
Awesome — will let the team know :)
You don't have a choice about how to do it in many cases, though I think I know the example you mean which is valid.

One example of how preliminary numbers (a better phrase than intermediate) aren't rounded would be if someone has three Forms W-2 in a year, such as from three jobs. All three Box 1 amounts are added up unrounded regardless of whether you put a whole dollar wage total on Form 1040. If the three Box 1 amounts end in 35 cents, 40 cents, and 45 cents (just to pick a suitable example), you're going to show an extra buck of wage income than if you could round those cents away.

IRS guidance from the 1040 instructions:

"You can round off cents to whole dollars on your return and schedules. If you do round to whole dollars, you must round all amounts. To round, drop amounts under 50 cents and increase amounts from 50 to 99 cents to the next dollar. For example, $1.39 becomes $1 and $2.50 becomes $3.

If you have to add two or more amounts to figure the amount to enter on a line, include cents when adding the amounts and round off only the total."
Predictably irrational people exist! However, how is this different than a $30 donation? I think the real question you want to ask is: Why do people donate money to people who already have lots of money?
Can you explain how the people against internet regulations are uninformed? I feel that when we are talking about internet regulations the burden of proof must be on those arguing for the regulation.

So far I still haven't heard a great argument, it's all based around "well ISPs could do this in the future" and not based on things that are happening now.
> The activation phrase was apparently thought up by the woman who dated Hugo Barra when he was an Android executive, and later (and overlapping) had an affair with Sergey Brin... I also think Google's original goal was to make their assistant more objective than Siri, without distracting personality.

This is simultaneously hilarious and diseased.
Well documented by the Internet Historian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4h3jwJob0&list=PLHTeAiqTTl...
If this ever becomes a concern, the class B shareholders can convert their shares 1 to 1 into class A shares. Once all class B shares have been converted, class C shares will also convert 1 to 1 into class A shares. This would then make the company eligible to be included in the S&P 500.

I imagine that the class B shares are nontransferable, which means that this will cease to be an issue once the founders have fully cashed out.
If only there was a way to remove transactinides from waste to reduce volumes, and transmute the really nasty fission products. Oh wait, there is.
Damn! Used to live there and never heard about this! Perhaps one day I will return. My preferred hangouts were Getty (great exhibitions and famous for its archival experts) and LACMA (huge and IMHO extremely under-acknowledged globally).
Until recently, we opponents have been the vocal minority. Shouted down, arrested, ignored.

One newspaper called me "a sweaty paranoid kook" for having the audacity to explain, citing the procedures and rules, how central count works.

Even today, you'll still see some yahoos pitching Chaum or RSA or Pret-a-Vote (?) based whackadoodle solutions. Completely divorced from how real world election administration works. But someday Tinkerbell will fly, if we all just clap hard enough, so stop interrupting with physics, logic, experience, thank you very much.

The crew that played the long game, and moved the needle, are the various members of the Election Verification Network. Unlike me, who burned out early.

We all owe the EVN a huge debt of gratitude.
In the end, Coinbase still had to produce the data and they spent a ton of lawyer hours. I don't think they simplified anything. Maybe they were trying to set some kind of precedent that they don't have to assist in taxes in any way.
The moment you start accusing people of being paid shills, the rest of your comment is literally pointless. It's hard to ignore the paid shill part. Complaining about this is like calling someone IRL an asshole and then being surprised that they totally skipped right by the rest of your treatise on the state of politics today.
Yep, even Applesoft BASIC had a simple compacting GC for strings.
China's Air Pollution and Scrapped Vehicles