skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My rough understanding is that's essentially what happens. Mirror neurons (it's a relatively small area) are not, and could not be, a completely isolated replication of all the other subsystems in the brain. They just connect observation or imagination of what someone else might be experiencing to your own respective motor/cognitive areas. If there were no filter/activation subsystem for what someone else was experiencing, you'd be experiencing everyone else's experiences all the time. Or experiencing none of it.
I think it’s addressed in the article. He wants one language that spans many domains, including mobile. He even addresses Go in the comments section as not being available on Android.

Personally, I’m not aware of the ability to write mobile apps in Julia.

If I’m wrong, please post links, as that would certainly open up the conversation.
Other than the sample code in the article, my "WeeWikiPaint" project demonstrates most of the infrastructure patterns, particularly in its server code: https://github.com/jamesshore/lets_code_javascript/tree/epis...
Do you live in a coastal city and work a professional level job that pay $150,000 and requires intense hours at the office? And does your partner as well?

An assumption in the article was that both parents were too busy with work to cook reliably.

I agree it's plenty for most households. Just may not be for the households this author is talking about. It's a good illustration of how a higher paid job may not net that much more: you lose a lot of the income in extra taxes + extra lifestyle expenses to support the job.
> there is one entity that is reasonably well funded, has incredibly strong capabilities for card fraud detection, and is well motivated to identify the fraud: the credit card companies.

IME, credit card fraud detection is a user experience nightmare. There are dozens of false positives per true positive, and the confirmation system is implemented with little regard for the user: I'm not given a reason my purchase is denied, so I have no idea what's going on or a tip on how solve it (I know the security reasons for it, but that's the credit card company's problem, not mine - find a better way); the confirmation request is delayed, so that I've already had to move on to other solutions (call the vendor, try another order, vendor, or credit card); and the confirmation is not integrated with the purchase - the purchase is denied, it isn't put on hold so I can respond to the confirmation, and I have to start all over.

I know I'm not supposed to use all caps on HN, but I HATE the purchase experience. It wastes a lot of time, sometimes an hour or more, and is incredibly frustrating. I'm doing nothing wrong; I don't like the credit card company using my time like it's worthless nor do I enjoy being treated like a criminal for making a simple purchase. I purchase less online because of the experience.
This is why algorithmic based curation/display of content is a bad thing, it can be gamed. Show me the accounts I follow in chronological order and the only way it can be gamed is if those accounts continually post over and over again to push their content to be the most recent - and that's easy to fix: limit the number of posts to one per hour.

As a photographer Instagram is pretty much over as a platform for me, there is very little content on there now I would call "photographic" other than a few accounts I follow, but those are shown out of order and with ads mixed in-between. The explore page has become a mass of memes, "viral" videos, half naked women, spam, reposts from reddit, reposts of other reposts, and so on. I can see the same content multiple times on the explore page, reposted over and over. I recently unfollowed most of the accounts to put an end to the "such and such liked this so we will show it to you" as well.

And of course, as per the article, you have a massive amount of accounts that are liking and following to try to get followers in return. Some of these are more obvious than others. If you use Tinder you'll have seen an increasing trend of matches wanting you to follow them on Instagram, because they want to up their follower count.

All that said, I'm guilty of this too. I have a personal Instagram account that I do very little with[1], but also an account for the gallery I volunteer at[2] to try to spread the word to people in the area - I have a script that will like + follow anyone that posts to Instagram with tags and/or a location in the village. This script has been running once a day for about 6 months, and I believe it has brought some people into the gallery.

I also run an events page on Instagram[3] with a script that will like + follow any content tagged with various programming related keywords. Looking at some of the accounts it's followed (or have followed us back) it's bizarre - you can see accounts in which the content is just someone posting images of their laptop once a day and they have follower counts in the tens of thousands.

Anyway, it feels as if Instagram is at a tipping point. It's no longer a platform for photography but now a platform for driving traffic to other businesses. I'd give it another year or two before it collapses in on itself or they do a root and branch purge of all the spam, which probably won't happen as long as it is driving revenue to Instagram/Facebook itself.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/leejebay/
[2] https://www.instagram.com/galeriealpine/
[3] https://www.instagram.com/perl_events/
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Let's just say having some continuous dialog while developing is preferable over review after everything is done. I have that kind of relationship with a few people and it works great.
I agree there is a middle ground between policing everything and no guidelines or accountability at all. Every decentralized social networks that's pulled in a user base beyond the friends of the devs has had to deal with how to find consensus around guidelines, and how to deal with Bad Actors. Fortunately, in free code tech, everything we do revolves about rough consensus and running code.

So within a project like Mastodon, they define goals; eg a spam-free network). Then, they theorize mechanisms to implement those goals; eg give users the ability to mute/ block spammers, and give instances the ability to boot spammers, and mute/ block instances infested with spammers. Then they code those features, roll them out, and see if they achieve the goal. Rinse, repeat. Pretty much the same process a centralized open source site like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Minds, or Yours would use.

Things get a bit more complex when Mastodon wants to federate with instances of software other than Mastodon (eg GNU Social). Fortunately in tech, we have other names for consensus and guidelines about inter-operation between different programs implementing similar features; protocols and standards. For example, the W3C Social Web EG got a bunch of folks together from projects that want to federate, and standardized a set of protocols under the name ActivityPub. Because this standard is written by people with experience dealing with Bad Actors in federated networks of their own software, they can share this knowledge, and follow a similar set of steps to those laid out above.

In contrast, FB at al are the worst of both worlds. They have total power to police anything, and the only way to hold them accountable is to abandon your data and your contacts on their platform and opt-out (thus #deletefacebook). They accrue more power and wealth the more users they have spending time on the site (abusively or otherwise), so they do the absolute minimum to hold Bad Actor users accountable, just enough to other users getting driven off the site. See how centralization doesn't really help here?
Thanks! I was intimidated by the poolish before I tried it, I commend you for going for it first! Now it's one of my go-tos because its timings are really convenient for my schedule (plus it tastes great). I personally like to make the poolish with 20% wheat.
Rather than providing the service a password hash for it to look up in its database, you download k password hashes that have the same prefix and do the matching locally. That way, the user’s real password hash is never sent over.
I demand you forget this comment and my username from your memory!
I think there is a subtlety you missed in the article. He didn’t say ditch Python, he said learn Swift. He simply states that 10 years from now people will be using Swift, not Python.

Obviously he may be wrong, but it’s certainly reasonable prediction.
That seems right - they only mention LEDs as a possible factor for the increase in disturbance of circadian cycles, as people keep them on at night more than they used to with filament bulbs. The study isn't about LEDs themselves.
Isn't this the same as Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful[0] except using c rather than python?

One has a "nursery" while the other has a "bundle" with both hoping to control the lifetime of coroutines.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921761
DOTIMES is not my cup of tea. I don't like to have to use mutation to get things done. I prefer to have an explicit but more verbose style (named let) or to use a for loop.

A matter of preference of course. The benefits of for loops or named lets is that they are functional and thus continuation safe. I did a bunch of continuation-based nondeterminism things last year, and knowing things weren't mutating was nice.
There's a very good one given upthread. Same event, all three headlines true, but two are slanted in different directions and one is just a recounting of facts.

Hyperbole and metaphor have no place in headlines.
Those disks were unusable without a license. To get a license you need to pay Microsoft, not Eric. Please take your false equivalence somewhere else.
You can eat sustainably. It just takes a lot of work.

If you eat meat, buy half a cow or a pig (or a sheep!) from a local farmer. Have it butchered and store it in your freezer. This is actually cheaper than buying meat at the grocery store, if you can afford the upfront cost and have a chest freezer.

Buy your milk and other dairy from a local dairy. This is not cheaper, and will require either that you make a special trip to pick up the milk, or if you're lucky your dairy might have a delivery service.

Get your fruit from a local pick-your-own orchard. Can what you can't eat.

Get your vegetables from a farm stand. True, often this isn't actually local, but mainly that's because people want vegetables that aren't in season yet. So farm stands start stocking tomatoes in June, even though tomatoes don't ripen until July at the earliest. So do your homework and only buy what's in season and locally grown. Again, buy in bulk and can what you don't eat immediately. Supplement with a garden in your backyard. Ideally, have a small greenhouse as well so you can extend your growing season. Build a corn crib, buy a truckload of field corn from a local farmer and store it. When you need flour, seed the corn and run it through a grain mill.

In some places there are farm produce co-ops. If you have one locally, join it. They'll ship you a box of vegetables every week during the summer, whatever is in season.

Raise a small chicken flock in your backyard. Eat the eggs and feed them off the leftovers from your vegetables.

To be certain, this costs a significant amount of money and it's a ton of work. It also requires certain preconditions - that you live somewhere where there are local dairies and orchards and farm stands (although those are true in a lot of the world) and that you have enough land for a garden and chicken coop. And it will require wholesale changes to your diet. But it's what your great grandmother did.
Anyone that’s interested in this and looking for a good short fiction read, pick up Sourdough by Robin Sloan. It’s a fun little tale set in the Bay Area about someone who picks up bread making as a hobby and things get weird.
Cities Are the New Galapagos
I love how there are hundreds of (genuine!) reviews on those "how to call Amazon support" books. Very much a "googling facebook login" moment.
Really, I don't think it's sensible to even frame it that way.

Should she have the right to control where this picture of her naked is being used? Yes.

Is the picture evidence of sexual abuse? No.

Is the picture evidence of other human right abuses? Yes.

Why should it matter whether it "is child porn"?
What is more remarkable about his stance, is that he's also on three or four podcasts himself - including I believe the second most popular Apple related podcast.
> I think people would be less prone to preserving problems if they wouldn't potentially lose their job and livelihood.

I agree with that. And I think part of the problem is the cultural notion that everything has to be "efficient". But a trade-off must be made between efficiency and robustness.

I think it's a big myth that free market is efficient. No, free market is ridiculously redundant, but what actually makes it working so well is its robustness resulting from the redundancy.

Hierarchical planning, like in big companies, is actually efficient. Global optimization. But being too efficient at the expense of robustness is what leads to unexpected disasters. Being ultra-efficient means no margin for failure. And unfortunately, the executives in big companies are motivated to take risk and overshoot the desired efficiency.

And this idea came to public policy, where we don't want the public money to be "wasted", so we would rather have unemployment than people who are redundant for one reason or another. And that's what the basic income (as other commenter noted) debate is about, essentially.

In the other comment here I also suggest 20% innovation time as a solution. It's actually the same problem - innovation time is seen as wasted, because it doesn't increase efficiency, only robustness.
I wonder if the unlimited private repos hurt bitbucket to some extent. With Github you are sharing by default, so there is a lot more content available than on bitbucket, where you can decide.
European Tech Tax Push by France Resisted as Global Deal Sought
>If you can't eat those costs, you don't have a business.

Everyone agrees on this point.

>If your chargeback rate is over 1%, you're doing something seriously wrong

Not everyone agrees on this point.

The point the gp is making is that the chargeback rates are too high due to circumstances beyond his control.

He can't stop people from taking advantage of the system as it currently operates and basically committing fraud against him at a higher rate. There's no policy he can implement to prevent this. Because he's not in control.
Houston is on a coast, but it’s not “coastal”. In this context, coastal means being on the Atlantic or Pacific Seaboard,
> In the same sense, Facebook is very much a media sharing platform, rather than a social platform to connect with people.

Agreed. A couple years ago, I set my parents, wife’s parents, and a few others up with Raspberry Pis

I manage their setups with Ansible

They have syncthing and we can put photos on our local Pi using SMB apps on our phones

We can browse to them and view our latest adventures through a minimal HTML/CSS/JS viewer I borrowed from github

These services are a joke. Building huge data centers doesn’t serve users. It services their analytics/ad business

The IT world has lost a lot of credibility with me for supporting this nonsense. Bad craftsmanship, self aggrandizement rhetoric, gregarious antics... fuck off

Emotional capture of 20-something grads with notions of being the next Bezos or Gates

Most will end up cube workers like their buddies that went to business school: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946951
That's true, but it would be better to compare the Bay to other cities. DC for example has a robust economy, great culture, better weather than new York, and home prices 1/3rd of the Bay when looking at the surrounding suburbs.
Regarding the "profit": Microsoft conveniently leaves out the part where Eric was planning to sell the disks for $0.25 each - just enough to cover the cost of creating them. Severely disingenuous of Microsoft to spin this as "to generate income for himself" in any meaningful sense if you ask me.
Guns may have had much less to do with it than is commonly believed. I recommend the book 1492 if you're curious about why that is.
Most scheme implementations are better at optimizing non-mutating code since it can draw conclusions about types and such easier. Chez probably does a better job than racket because Chez is pretty spectacular :)
Mostly I'm annoyed because I wanted to try out a bunch of x86 assembly tricks to implement coroutines, and I wanted to try making a language that would spit out and execute its own machine code to do C++ templates at runtime. Those sorts of things get harder when they don't fit the programming model of the people who designed the language/VM.

Of course, portability and safety are going to be problematic there, and those can't be compromised on for a project like WASM. And even if I can't get the power I want out of the base programming model, I can approximate it more slowly in other ways. Turing completeness and all that.

I'm not familiar enough with how CPUs are laid out to know whether a hypothetical instruction set or programming model is supportable in silicon and I haven't read or thought much about it either. In any case I think that would be pretty far outside the scope of what WASM is trying to do.
No respectable business school should admit people without substantial existing work experience into any graduate course.

Unfortunately, it looks that more than a half of big name universities are happy to admit people without such, or even no undergraduate studies background.
> Copernicus came before Galileo, promoted heliocentrism and was employed by the Catholic Church.

Copernicus died 60 years before Galileo started promoting heliocentrism. Political organizations like the Catholic Church can change quite a bit in 60 years, so I don't think their approval of Copernicus is necessarily relevant to Galileo.

For a modern example of how far political organizations can change in 60 years, just look at the Republican Party in the United States. The 1956 Republican Party platform promoted • federal assistance to low income communities, • extending social security to 10 million more people and raising benefits to over 6 million people, • providing asylum for refugees, • raising the minimum wage and extending it to cover "as many more workers as is possible", • expanding the unemployment insurance system, • protecting the right of workers to organize into unions and collectively bargain, • and fighting for equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.

(I believe that Democrats have underwent changes as big over the last 60 years, too, but my Googling happened to find details for Republicans first so I went with them for the example).
If you have collisions with UUID v4, something is really broken with your UUID generator. It's not a "limitation", it's a critical bug.
I think it’s a miscommunication. That looks like a senior role in their CIO ‘group’, not specifically the CIO.
That didn't really answer the question. I think the user understood the article, just asking for clarification on why this negatively impacts the experience of users on the platform.
Agreed. I monitor this page [1].

So far, no Swift. :(

[1] https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
I'm a 20-something college student currently trying to strike a balance between eating out, cooking, and pre-cooked meals. My grocery costs have ranged between 300CAD and 500CAD, with the 500CAD occurring when I get lazy and eat out far more often than I feel I should.

I find it interesting that 500CAD (~400USD) is completely unreasonable to me (I frequently get frustrated with myself for spending this much when I know I could get it down lower if I stop eating out), whereas your 'reasonable' ceiling is much, much higher.

This isn't even taking into account the cost savings of cooking for multiple people, vs. cooking for one person, too! Per person costs will definitely change depending on context.
My finance professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley preached that maximizing profit was our ultimate service to the world---so much so--that he taught that if we were running a company and had an option to maximize profits by producing a product that would seriously harm the health of people (eg. give them a medical condition), we should undoubtedly DO IT. Because we would have maximized profit for shareholders, made something great for our customers, and (if we needed) we could take the extra profits and make medical payments to the people harmed to make it whole.

He made this argument in front of 150+ person lecture class. I was so dumbfounded and shell-shocked at the argument that I couldn't believe what I just heard. I looked around at the undergrad business finance students around me, and it looked as if they were absorbing it in.

That was the day I knew I chose the wrong major.

I really did think about raising my hand in that class to respond to the hellish ethics he just espoused. But this professor frequently shouted down students or used ridicule to make people regret raising their hands, and I didn't have the worldview I now have to be able to tell him precisely and irrefutably why what he was teaching us was so so wrong.

The real trouble, however, is that this professor was just a preacher for the doctrine of modern day American capitalism. I just expected to hear the doctrine in a much more sugar-coated and digestible form. He literally read the doctrine to us right out of the book.

UC Berkeley allows undergrads to study at their Haas School of Business and earn a BS (bachelor of SCIENCE) in Business Administration. This is what I was studying. Luckily I had enough time left in undergrad after this lecture to switch to studying computer science at the College of Engineering--where I then felt like I was learning real skills.
The European Commission Has a BAD Idea – Mandatory Biometric ID Cards
Its less overhead. You don't have to worry about keeping the EC2 instance or web server running/patched/updated/etc. The juice may not worth the squeeze with the extra complexity of using AWS Lambda.
It was due to the way they exported the data. They used a SQL statement, and if you weren’t in a guild then the SQL would produce NULL. That output was then used to generate PDF badges, and it tried to do some filtering for NULL guilds. The person writing that script clearly did not anticipate there actually being a guild named NULL.
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Maybe your refrigerator is colder than most.
It would be like watching Indiana Jones at a swordfight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEuw8F8cpE
Right -- the control flow allowed is basically the simplest thing that will allow you to make a C-like language in a relatively efficient way. It isn't aimed at any particular compiler, it's aimed at supporting some semantics.

Providing additional flexibility on top of those semantics is "expensive" in terms of implementor-time and effort to get safety, portability and future-proofing. There's no promise that the fun extensions they might want today go "in the right direction", and the cost of going down a bad path is high for standards.
It's funny how the more we know about human nature, the less it is regarded by philosophy...

Antique philosophy, at least what survived to nowadays, seems much more down-to-earth than today's popular thinkers.
Criminal A skims your card and sells a bundle of cards to criminal B as unvalidated.

Criminal B runs the cards through a donation engine to validate them, and sells to criminal C for more per card.

Criminal C buys one validated card to make an order for aquarium equipment.