skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand yes, however:

a) this is because it turned out ok, which was far from certain. Success or failure, the banks win, as usual.

b) this completely overlooks the harmful distortions in the overall economy from massive injections of liquidity and negative real interest rates for a decade. This is not "no big deal". This (now) seems to be less of a problem in the US, and you guys never reached the heights of distortion we're enjoying in Canada, but in our major cities, we have an entire generation of people who will most likely never be able to afford a home (or feel secure enough to have children), at least not proportional to their income on a historic basis. It's easy to hand wave this away with statistics, but it's a real problem.

Otherwise, why not just print, print, print our way to riches for everyone?
Gratitude. The action, not the feeling “thankitude” often conflated with gratitude. Being thankful is fine, it’s just gratitude requires action.
Clojure 1.9 also introduced spec which allows for more aggressive type restrictions among other things.
> During the 40 hour week that work was outsourced to wives

It wasn't until the late 70s that married women start to maintain full time jobs in large numbers (The 'quiet revolution'), but the 40 hour week was in place 30 years earlier.

Of course now we have the situation where you have to have two full time earners to run a household. When I was at highschool in the 90s, I was quite unusual in having two working parents. My best friend for most of high school had a stay at home dad, who looked after him and his younger brother, my other close friend has a stay at home mom. That was fine, as house prices were still in the c. 4 time average income range.

It's the other way round now, where house prices are in the c. 8 times average income range, so it's rare to find anyone with a single income family, and UK society subsidises the two income lifestyle and childcare industry -- you get tax breaks for sending your 1 year old to nursery 50 hours a week, but not for asking a grandparent to look after them, or even reduce your hours so (god forbid) the parents can look after them.
JWZ is not a fan of being linked to by HN.

JWZ redirects referrals from HN to an obscene image.
Would be great if this would be an option, especially with the GDPR coming. But for small to medium sized publishers there are no ads you could host your own.
So much to unpack here. The STEM label itself is extremely misleading. There are opportunities in TE (technology and engineering) but not in SM (science and math -- well unless you get a PhD, but even then maybe not).

So people hear STEM shortage and go major in chemistry or biology and then find out there are few and poorly paid jobs so they have to accept that or get an advanced degree. Some simplification here, and individual exceptions exist of course.
In no particular order:

Aimless bike-riding and urban exploration that takes up the entirety of a weekend day (depending on your area I suppose—definitely doable in Austin and the Bay Area, in my experience).

Time with family and friends.

Meaningful work at a company which values having a functional workplace and innovation (in that order).

Exploring music technology (SuperCollider, VCV rack, and interfacing software with hardware).

YMMV.
The big thing is the ability to pay bond repayments with inflated currency. The vast majority of government debt is fixed rate
Does anybody know what's the name of psychological bias that makes me read these really grayed out comments? I mean, it's clearly marked us unlikely to be anything good. And yet I make the effort instead of choosing some "normal" one.
Sorry this isn't a super researched answer but most of the course titles can be googled to find a "course website" that will usually list that information or a syllabus
That's why they don't even hire professors - they just use sessionals which are essentially low-paid contractors. No long term commitment, no overhead
Theres an interview (iirc) with him in Tim Ferris's Tribe of Mentors. He said something that stuck with me, that made me think slightly less of him.

I'm trying to recall from memory here since the book isn't in front of me.

He's talking about selling his first company, its all about making hard choices and such. The company is dying so he had two options either sell the company now (for a smaller amount) or fire most of the staff and sell later. He mentions how he had to let go of the staff but later sold it for a larger amount of money. He then says something to the degree of considering it a "win".

I don't know that I consider laying off a ton of people for a greater exit a win. I consider it a move to get more money, but I doubt anyone chasing money is going to "fix the internet".
You can y remove it in gnome too https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/
So freaking excited about impl trait.

This and not being able to do paramterized array sizes for things like SoA, AoSoA where the two things that I feel like were missing from Rust. Really happy to see the first landing(and I understand work is going on for the second).
The giant header that fills the first page, forcing a scroll into content, is right up there with unskippable flash intro videos from 10 years ago.
1. Not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary. Some have inflation built in.

2. Scalability will be much improved over the next year (see: lightning network, plasma, raiden, sharding, alternate consensus systems like dPOS, etc.; for a deep dive, this is a good place to start: https://multicoin.capital/2018/02/23/models-scaling-trustles...).
Just get a raspberry pi, the power usage is negligble.
> A tricky part of this would be how to balance letting the network have control over itself and letting the government have some special degree of input on ‘monetary policy’. It’s certainly ok for the government to have some, but I think the network needs to be mostly in charge (e.g., the government couldn’t be allowed to arbitrarily inflate the currency when it wanted to).

This is a partially direct democracy (for monetary policy) using digital voting with no paper trail! Unless there are crap load of formal methods backing this, it sounds like a recipe for disaster.

(Also, if this is the problem to be solved, why don't we just pass a constitutional amendment requiring a referendum for certain changes to monetary policy...)

> The government can likely create a lot of de novo wealth for its citizens in the process.

The thing that always confuses me: where is the fundamental value creation? I don't see much other than maybe saving on some inefficiencies in the current monetary/financial system. But that's not "de novo wealth"; that's "financial engineering".

How does a state-backed cryptocurrency generate "de novo wealth"?
My traditional CS curriculum had ethics as the capstone. Do most CS programs not do this?
AI has always felt like a buzzword to me, but I have to admit, I really like the approach taken by the AI course that I took and Peter Norvig's textbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence:_A_Mod... .

Mostly, I like the focus on breaking down the problem domain in a logical way, so you can decide on which approach to take. The problem with the other courses I took (Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Algorithms) is that they are so focused on solving specific problems that they often didn't adequately define the problem domain. I'd really recommend both Norvig's books to anyone interested in AI (in the broad sense).
Black Girls Code is the intention today, but originally it was going to be a different tech charity that is no longer around, OpenHatch.
Absolutely. Modern ISPs are part of corporations which have other business interests that are very, very expensive. All corporations use all of their money-making ventures to help subsidize other parts of the business.

Just look at the old Bell system. They charged exorbitant rates for the long distance service and used this to subsidize local service. When Bell got broken up, local phone service got more expensive, but long distance got cheaper. Later on, a lot of the baby bells got absorbed by others because they were not efficient enough to generate profits as individual units without the "mothership" subsidizing them.

The way a giant corporate monolith works is completely different from a tiny local company.
It has to be extremely reliable, simply because on large databases, it may take a considerable amount of time before you find out that something is wrong; and when you find out, it may be too late to fix things, even when you have backups.
What's most interesting about this list are the wide range of courses offered for undergrads in the topic (that is, assuming they are regularly offered) -- a very impressive list. Other schools will be hard-pressed to offer something so diverse and interesting.
> I think the one-line quote would persuade people more readily than the 10-line quote.

Anyone who is thinking clearly, regardless of their position, can agree with "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," as it is simply a tautology. If you hear someone agreeing or disagreeing with the statement, they are really agreeing or disagreeing with a longer, implied argument like the one provided, or else they're confused.
Among the other reasons provided, there's a huge challenge the US faces that Europe doesn't seem to: a lack of choice. Our two-party system does not lend itself to voting out crooks.
If you're Canadian, 100% back is not possible.
Here's the CRA page with an example:
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/charities-g...
I'd agree with your premise if each side in a negotiation had perfect information, there was no power asymmetry between parties and humans were perfectly rational actors 100% of the time.
Is there an RFC for the anonymous enum thing? I would gladly write the implementation ... :D
Sorry, it was a dig at slack - not you.
In theory it was "system design" or somesuch.

In practice we learned nothing particularly useful what to take into account when deciding where to draw boundaries, and just focused on what was easy to represent in UML.
Yeah, that's what I've heard. I don't have firsthand experience with their laptops, but I have no reason to expect (and many reasons to doubt, based on reports here) that they match up to the others in their price class.
when I understand something I've been struggling with. Long walks listening some nice podcast, playing with my dog and traveling (to some places only). Money also works but it's a different feeling, more like excitement.
But reading what I wrote, I see why you asked. Yes, sometimes there is a thing that is bad for the user and simultaneously perceived to be good for the person paying, like a lot of the ceremony you have to do to get anything to happen in JIRA.

But sometimes it is a question of different priorities, and I did not mention that above. Good catch.
I am currently studying this degree at the same university. A few AI concepts (NLP and Formal Language Processing) are introduced in the 2nd year. Other than that, all courses are CS/Maths. Keep in mind that at Scottish Universities, students apply directly to their degree and besides one or two courses per year (some like Medicine or Law often have no electives), students take only courses within their degree. This way, with most AI courses in 3rd and 4th year, students tend to have a strong enough grounding in CS principles and Maths for this material. That's not to say that the degree is perfect, or providing "real/production" AI, but it is certainly well done.

You can see the courses here - http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/18-19/dpt/utaintl.htm
If you know more, could you share? I haven't read anything about cryptocurrency being successful in Africa or Latin America. (Versus, say, M-Pesa in Kenya.)
I come from one of those nations. There could be many explanations for why things are the way they are in the US and not in some other nations. Maybe federal or state legislation makes it more expensive for competitors to compete. Maybe there are geographical challenges that make it more expensive. Or one of a thousand other explanations.
Not really. If you are in a democratic but corrupt country.

Make local people aware that you want to offer the service and this service can only be offered if the government lets you lay cable.

Start laying cable and offer your people service. Offer them a good deal and ask them to protect your cables in return. You'll be amazed how good communities are at protecting their assets, provided they realize the benefit of keeping it in shape.

Then bring those people in front of government to vouch for you.
Everyone who is blaming stupid voters is part of the problem. The news industry colludes with politicians and bureaucrats to ensure that voters never have a real choice. Even fake choices like Trump, Sanders, or Stein are brutalized by the press. (Trump figured out that if he inspired enough ire he could be on TV all the time: expect to see this tactic again.)

Our betters conspire at every turn to give us the choice between Coke and Pepsi. If we thirst for anything else we're welcome to move.
Apple, Microsoft and Uber test drones approved but Amazon left out in cold
How do these European nations compare on population density? I live in suburban silicon valley and have been surprised to see how much cheaper internet is for friends of mine who live in cities — even cities like NYC, which are equally expensive otherwise. (i.e., they're not just jacking up the price for folks in Silicon Valley because most people can afford it.) I pay $30 for 12/3 Mbps service; my city friends pay roughly the same for 100/10 Mbps service. This leads me to believe that population density is a big factor here.
Aren't they already? Government paychecks and contractor payments are typically direct deposit or electronic funds transfer. My paycheck was deposited directly in my bank account. My contractor payments were, as well. As long as the USDC and USD are the same, it doesn't make a difference.
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Hooray, congrats to the rust contributors, once again. :)

Personally, not a fan of the match change. But then I was already not a fan of autoderef in method calls.
>The entire purpose of the exercise is to have honest conversations with people, and to not question their morality, or their wisdom just because they don't view the world exactly the same way that you do.

Isn't the entire thesis of this article questioning the morality and wisdom of the mainstream left? Accusing somebody of refusing to have honest conversations and forcing their views on others is an accusation of immorality.

Is this quote that "hits the nail on the head", at least according to the article, not a way of deflecting from the actual question being asked ("Identity politics is just simply questions of justice, right?") and shutting down discussion?

Sounds like instead of acknowledging any honest disagreement about what "identity politics" means, the author just goes ahead and matter-of-factly gives his definition and implies that anybody who disagrees is a racist who can't consider a member of any ethnic group as a "free-thinking individual".

Calling your opponents closed-minded, refusing to take certain kinds of disagreement as "honest disagreement", and then labeling yourself as "free thinking" and "intellectually honest" smells like horseshit and doublethink. Ben Shapiro and his "Intellectual Dark Web" (lol) seems exhausting.
I don’t believe so? I feel like there’s several internals discussions but no RFC yet.
Nerdalize schedules work on CPUs to heat homes
As far as what Apple iphone does better? Privacy, os updates, integration with my Mac, App store apps, and a bunch of other things. But that all is completely besides the point. Even if there were nothing at all iPhones do better, it's a bit absurd to go from 'well apple is not better than android' to 'people therefore only buy apple because they are shallow'
That is so awesome. I think it is very valid to do so.
I once co-wrote a book on UML, and I also think that nature class in UML is not a good idea.

I still sometimes use UML sequence diagrams though.
Because the crooked politicians usually bring something back to their constituents. And people vote on their local politician.

In the South, all you have to do is show up in a church, professs your love for God (before you sneak off with your mistress) and Guns and claim you are protecting the country from the evil Muslims and illegal immigrants and you are sure to win an election.

Yes I know the same is true for liberals - claim that the government will give everyone a job and free college education and "tax the rich" to pay for it.
Yeah my exact sense when I saw this. Is this a yearly thing?
Ethics are not enough to fix the technology industry
Well, it is just a few hundred words. If he were taking it seriously, the topic would need to be addressed in length with more justifications than a bunch of "I thinks." But it seems everything Sam writes outside of business are just the sorts of essays a smart 18 year old who's really high might write.
> I read the article, but still confused as to what/where the IDW is.

It's not a literal darknet like Tor. It's more of name given to an intellectual movement, probably because it has to fly under the radar of the censors and the name callers and the doxxers and the rage-mobbers. Watch the video of MSNBC's Morning Joe show embedded with the article to get a better idea.
You've only scratched the surface of cryptocurrencies and come here to make bold, completely untrue statements about their properties.

Having a central actor, like a government, would solve a lot of scaling problem, as well as transaction history issues and also cost associated with making transactions.
There was some sort of SoA derive going around, I thought. Regardless, you’re right; we’re hoping const generics lands in nightly this year and stabilizes early next year.
tl;dr for those who can't read the very light gray text or don't have time:

- discredits the generosity of givers by calculating that they "likely" saved more in capital gains taxes than they gave away (and attacking them by forcing them to undergo a public audit or allow public to assume this to be true). [Responses highlight the absurdity of this claim.]

- they don't deserve credit because they accumulated their coins early on when it was easy/cheap

- the donated coins (and all cryptocurrencies apparently) are nothing more than an elaborate ponzi-pyramid scheme, therefore the donation merits no praise

- their true motivation, at least in part, was to align innocent charities with the crypto world, thereby corrupting their interests

- they should have liquidated the coins and given away the hard currency

- etc.
> for the vast majority of programmers ...

[me and a few of my friends] ...
> Inclusive ranges are especially useful if you want to iterate over every possible value in a range

Out of curiosity, why was the (or an alternative) choice not to make the compiler understand that the 0..256 was not inclusive, and somehow correct the literal value to do what's intended? Would that have been unusually complicated or?

Edit: Overall, still an amazing release, this was just the bit I'm curious about :) Great work by the whole Rust team/community
In the Law, yes, the Fair Labor act was enacted during his presidency. But the Idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours for what you will long predates him, and 8 hours was already a standard shift at some (many?) factories by that time.
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Surely "average" is a poor statistic for nations with extremely rustic countrysides? It would vastly understate the real conditions in cities in those nations.
For browsing the web I use Chrome with JavaScript disabled. It means I never have to deal with auto-play videos. If there is something I find in Chrome that I want to watch, I drop the url into FireFox and watch it there. I use Firefox for applications and Youtube. Surfing the web with JavaScript disabled is good protection against malware as well as a really good ad-blocker and tracking-stopper. Those websites that only render with JavaScript simply don't get my attention.
Not to mention they used to run ads telling people how healthy cigarettes are for you.

Meanwhile social media companies tell you how great it is to "engage with your friends and family as much as humanly possible" on their platforms.
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To go faster, try slowing down
No, you can't. Under the best case circumstance where you have a V100 and TPU both using tensorflow for something that's optimized for both, the TPU is about 37% better:

https://blog.riseml.com/comparing-google-tpuv2-against-nvidi...

The 50% is a number you made up, and isn't based in any real benchmarks. For all other tasks that are not tensorflow tasks, the V100 is the only one that works.
I wonder if LoL was not referring instead to Let Over Lambda which I'd call more timeless... For Land of Lisp there is some implementation specific code the author uses, but he points that out, points out that there are libraries that make a de facto standard for the behavior, but didn't want to introduce quicklisp. (It's a fun book but not the best if your goal is getting productive in a work environment fast, in which case learning about asdf and quicklisp early on is crucial...)

Lisp books in my experience have been the most reliable for running old code. I can take Lisp code from 1960 and almost entirely unmodified run it in a modern Common Lisp implementation because there's a direct line of heritage. If a book from the 90s says it supports Common Lisp, well hey, barring errata the code still works every time...
Sweden has lower population density than the US, but much better internet.

I think population density is a weak signal for competition in the US market, and that's what you're seeing.
"Cryptocurrency is slower than card networks." - not really, on a per-transaction basis. If you buy something at a store with a credit card, it takes weeks to get the money. With Bitcoin, you can spend the money in an hour. For small transactions, there's generally no need to wait past the point that the transaction is broadcast; and for online transactions it's not inconvenient to wait an hour before providing the product.

(of course, overall throughput is still atrocious)
No, it's a product of violent riots and union action where thousands of workers died at the hands of police and hired guns.