skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm I understand what you are saying. However, as you said the overall tax revenue increase is definitely happening, conflating the two.

In 2017 the county made $4.8 billion in property taxes, and in 2018 it will be $5.6 billion. So they are already getting $800 million more in property taxes in 2018. That's a lot more money. It just feels like they don't want to spend the extra money they're already getting effectively, and instead want to ask for more on top.
It's really hard to design a programming language that does not revolve around APIs.
Because not all things "age" at the same rate. (1 month old milk is old, a 1 month old can of tomato paste is far from old)

Lodash (#1 in this article) is just as old or older than Moment, however I wouldn't call lodash "aging" simply because it has adapted to the new paradigms in the javascript ecosystem and works very VERY well with them (to the point that I'd argue lodash is a pretty good example of how to work with these tools).

Moment still does a great job at what it does, and it's in no way getting "worse" over time (quite the opposite!), however because of some choices made during it's development, it can't easily take advantage of newer developments in the javascript ecosystem.

JS has changed significantly, and is still changing. I'd argue that JS became a "real" programming language over the last 10 years, and because of that a lot of things created in that time aged much quicker than they should have.

Like I (briefly) pointed out in my comment, things like tree shaking, module bundling, code splitting, minification, and the tooling and ecosystem around them have changed drastically in the last 5 years. Now moment will still work great with those things, but it doesn't take advantage of them. And that means that alternatives end up getting a leg up because they do take advantage of them.

Something like `date-fns` is designed with tree-shaking in mind, so if I only want to use the part of it that "humanizes" a time range, i'll only get that code. If I want to provide multiple locales for multiple users, but only have each user download their own locale at runtime, I can do that easily. Not to mention that browser support has changed in the last few years, so most people no longer need to support IE 7, 8, 9, etc... And that means that the code that moment has built up to support those browsers isn't needed on newer ones, but again it's difficult or impossible to build it without that to save size.

To continue the analogy I used at the start of my comment, I'd say moment is week old milk. It's not bad yet, but I wouldn't buy it from the store like that in most cases. Moment is great, I do use it in 2 projects at work because it was the best tool for the job for a long time, and it still works fantastically. However if I'm starting a new project now, i'm most likely going to reach for something else.

Not because it's "newer" or because it's the hot thing right now, but because in all honesty the API of a date management library isn't all that complicated, and switching isn't a large cost. And when those other libraries can provide benefits that moment can't, i don't have much of a reason to stay with these "older" libraries.
How can we be expected to take seriously a probability estimate of life being "out there"? Only 10 years ago we discovered how many Earth-like planets are likely in our galaxy (I didn't see this aspect mentioned in the paper...), and they are also calculating a probability of abiogenesis (emergence of life), which, while I'm not an expert, seems highly speculative.
Also a bit confusing as Dragonfly BSD is known for it's custom filesystem, HAMMER:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/
Pull quote:

We run compute on the cloud and have no real-time requirements. I was asked by the Chair, “How much complexity increase is acceptable?”

I was not prepared for the question, so did some quick math in my mind estimating an upper bound and said “At the worst case 100X.”

The room of about a hundred video standardization experts burst out laughing. I looked at the Chair perplexed, and he says,

“Don’t worry they are happy that they can try-out new things. People typically say 3X.” We were all immersed in the video codec space and yet my views surprised them and vice versa.
Ramda.
Firefox has both the option of granting the permission only for the current pageload (this is in fact the default behavior!) and exactly the "click the icon and revoke the permission" behavior you are asking for once you have granted the permission. So "browsers" already do this, for some values of "browsers". l)

[Disclaimer: I work on Firefox.]
Related slides: http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/media/eps/jodrell-ba...
It does! And another trick that can be useful in these situations is gaps in quotes: "the * fox" will return (for me): "the main character, Simon Fox", "The Fabulous Fox", etc.
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There have been insightful comparisons in both communities:

Nim: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1779

D: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.1427.1428691340.3111....

And the following is probably one of the most extensive comparisons of the two languages: https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/
"No evidence of..." means "We have no idea, and now way of checking if..."
Every website that uses google analytics does this.
I would assume that if it ever happens, it would break into two states: Northern California and Southern California, divided roughly at the 36°30' North parallel, keeping existing county borders.

That would place San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey and Fresno in Northern California, and Los Angeles, San Diego, and Bakersfield in Southern California.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_36°30′_north
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I went the opposite way, I didn’t graduate until I was nearly fifty.
Elastic and Solr (Lucene) with the help of various other dbs or graph dbs etc get you farther along but you really have to combine machine learning to get things in context which requires more data in certain domains so it requires someone like me that goes things alone to dive into many disciplines. It is not straight forward and results are not yes or no, more like 70% good and the rest is subjective.

The most challenging parts are if you have many dimensions at the same time such as location / full text / user preferences / social filters / permissions etc. These are the problems that make my life suck right now as you cannot simply not have joins for some things or not have graph relations etc etc. Case in point following feeds with many dimensions so you need a pipeline approach in stages.
"Large differences from the trend reflect the fact that only 19 percent of the variation in fertility changes can be predicted by home value changes."

I would think high university tuition and student loans also play a big part in decreasing disposable income to the point where college-educated couples are delaying starting a family or having fewer kids.

I think most people believe that a 4-year college education is mandatory for a decent life in the US these days (I don't agree), so it's rational for a couple to decide to have only 1 kid that they can afford to educate vs 2. Kids used to be able to pay for their own tuition with a part-time job. It may have taken 6 years to graduate, but it was doable. That is a lot harder / impossible now.
Well i give you that, css is what it is, but even with basic css knowledge, making a dropdown appear anywhere you want is not hard: https://codesandbox.io/embed/w7499vxrzk

It could be better, but it's even got a proper grid system now, close to wpf's. From what i remember though, wpf's styles also had some rough spots.
I’ve found that the effectiveness of my working memory (which is tested via IQ tests) has decreased over time. I’m not sure what has caused it, but I’m concerned that the SSRIs and bipolar meds that I’ve been on for many years have affected my Hypothalamus, but I need to do more research.
Appreciate it. But I think you can not reject the fact that there are some people out there who prefer to cluster their ~$35 RPis instead of buying AWS (like EC2 FGPA).
However I'd love to hear about changes to the idea which can make you a potential customer to this board.

Thanks
Ask HN: Wealthy Saudi oligarchs in pre-1980s not knowing to fill cars with gas?
I remember reading an article about a guy who worked for a major car manufacturer. He went to Saudi Arabia on behalf of his company to investigate why the cars of Saudi oil oligarchs kept breaking down.

It turns out, they were simply running out of gas and the owners did not know they needed to fill them up with gas.

Would anyone happen to know any publications where this was mentioned?
> This is such an absurd claim to take as your own that it's literally on the wikipedia page!

Confirmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Extraterrestrial...
Humor is frowned upon as a vehicle for dialogue it seems
Every potential employer I have talked to in "at will" states (WI, IL, IN, TN, AL) has made it clear, on application, that I would not have a contract, and that I should not consider any document I receive to be a contract unless it is signed by the CEO. On the occasions when I brought it up (3), I was told in each instance that the company did not have severance agreements, and that they would not discuss it further. I stopped asking after that, and just rolled it into my salary expectation.

Don't tell me I'm wrong. I lived it.

They don't want to do it because, like offering vacation instead of PTO, it represents a cost of firing someone. They very much want to be able to drop anyone, at any time, for free, as that means they don't need to set aside money for firing people.
This seems like a reasonable thing to do to detect bots.
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A much larger number of people attend college today than in the past. Since most of the smartest people were probably already going to college, increasing the size of the pool would almost certainly decrease the "average smartness" of college students.

Alternatively, you could just say that historically college students were disproportionately the "best students" during primary education, and increasing the size of the pool would result in more people who were not as good students attending college.
Von Neumann probes could probably colonize a good chunk of the Milky Way given a few hundred thousand years.
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Your example is a 2011 instance of a citizen's group in a single CA city opposing AT&T's indiscriminate installation of unsightly 4-6 foot boxes on sidewalks and other public property? The group asked that they instead be installed on private property or underground.

And it's an issue that was also raised in other non-California cities, including places like NC, CT, IL, DC, etc. See your article, links from it, and [0].

Come on man, you know this does not support your initial assertion.

[0] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Takes-Heat-for-Hu...
The website is also not served over TLS. Seems to me they don't bother much with keeping up with the landscape.
Agreed. This is just picking parameters consistent with no detection of extraterrestrial civilizations. The point of the Fermi paradox is that it's a stretch to assume such parameters. It's not prediction about extraterrestrial civilizations collapsing or whatever. It's just an alternative to consider. And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that.
As it improves brain activity in both sexes, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330791/
I woke up a bit late today because I figured the other 14 million in Los Angeles and San Diego had today's farming chores covered.
Yet another example to throw in the face of people who say that the Python 2/3 problem is solved.
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All good points. You're certainly right about the costs involved in 'triple-A' development. Indie games are out there, though. Some of them even look great, just not photorealistic (such as Limbo).

> Yet I was still discovering hidden things in the original Deus Ex 10 years after I first played it

Ever play the PS2 port?

They had to rework the maps to cope with the PS2's memory constraints. Everything's familiar, but a bit different. Worth a shot if you want another hit.
I'm pretty sure low testosterone is pretty solidly linked to concentration[0].

If your hormones are out of balance - it makes sense that your brain isn't going to be working optimally. That being said, I believe it's a hormonal deficiency issue - and not a gender issue. So it's going to be rare for most people to be affected by this.

[0] - https://www.webmd.com/men/features/how-low-testosterone-affe...
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I'll take the chance of suggesting also Dominik's book (1) both because it's good and because so I can politely ask the publisher next time please do use bigger or darker fonts for code:)
The print is perfect, but I'm a glass wearing old fart with some difficulties with thin fonts when they're not dark enough. As an example, I can read perfectly HN fonts though they appear even smaller than the book ones. The white paper background could also be a factor though, I in fact like a lot more non 100% white backgrounds.

(1) https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action
4 points on a score that high just sounds like noise.
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> the difference is between Docker and Google App Engine

Neither the question nor the answer in your link compare Docker and App Engine.

Docker is a containerization platform, whereas App Engine is a PaaS (platform as a service). Their functions are wholly different.

Very, very loosely; Docker is about building and running an individual package of some software. Basically, bundling software and running bundles. PaaS are platforms for developing, running, and managing (often pre-bundled) software.
If you live in 2002 yeah
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It's solved, but as many has cited not to a satisfactory degree.
Modern search engines have extremely short query deadlines (users won't wait more than a couple of seconds when searching), which gives low precision results.

This book is very informative:
https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/

edit: I should say it's slightly outdated because of lack of "big data" and how search companies currently deals with huge amount of data.
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Same here, but I'm not sure if some of it is that my job has changed. I was a programmer for about 15 years and could really get into the 'zone' for hours. I'm now doing a very different job where there is no deep creativity, just answering queries really.

Sometimes I need to do deep work and struggle to get into it. I'm quite disciplined at not being distracted but think a large part is I'm just not used to the big thinking any more.

I see the kids claiming they can multitask, they have their phones out, TV running in the background etc whilst supposedly working. Having anything which demands your attention inhibits you getting into the zone and can easily rip you our out it.

(Entirely my thoughts & viewpoint, nothing scientific here)
And some numbers from the paper:

> we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively).

> ’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.
FWIW, they can just call it Alibaba File Distribution System (AliFDS), which is:

- Easier to recoganize

- More branding influence (see the g... staff from Google)

- Easier to search

BTW: A windows edit called linux: not a bad idea!
Personally I negatively judge members of Mensa.
Indeed. Finally in Mojave Apple is adding direct control over which apps have access to the camera and microphone, but in general iOS is miles ahead of macOS in regards of privacy control.
I'd love to know more about your business and how this idea would help you to grow it?
First of all, IQ always changes. 100 points of IQ in 2018 is not the same as 100 points of IQ in 1918. This is because IQ 100 is defined as the mean score.

Many things affect IQ, one of them being nutrition. If a couple with median income has 10 kids, compared to 2 kids, their ability to provide proper nutrition to those 10 kids, or the time to ensure those 10 kids are properly fed will not be as good.

Fertility rates have to do with many things. Historically, fertility rates were higher because infant mortality rates were higher: fewer live births, and lower survival rate through childhood. Also, culture and religion. Some religions are against contraception of any kind and promote abstinence as the main form of birth control.

Birth control requires certain form of exposure to sex education. If you had no access to education, or if your education was provided by a religious organization, it is likely you will have no proper sex ed and your risk is higher.
Full paper with some examples here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/reports/6909159.pdf
>> Given that google is the de facto standard ATM and often returns irrelevant results, I'd wager that search isn't solved.

Search has become a cat and mouse game where every time search is "solved" with an improved algorithm, it is "unsolved" quickly by people looking to game the algorithms.
The conclusion of this paper is, paraphrasing, "We should stop using point estimates for what should be distributions. When we do that, we get much lower bounds and have a better chance at being more precise, whether or not we are alone." It opens up avenues for more questions, which is the correct stance given how little we know.
And apparently the comment includes a small typo:

// Smashing Pumpkins Into Samml Piles Of Putried Debris.

I kept wondering what "samml" meant... in German "sammeln" means to gather and "semmel" in Austrian slang is a local kind of roll or bun.
Meanwhile, the UK also wants to ID people before they are allowed to use the internet:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/digital-ids-to-end-o...
I think the 'atheist society' experiment is too young to jump to conclusions quite yet.
>We can’t hope to colonize even a fraction of 1% of our galaxy, even with wildly futuristic technology.

If you can do any colonization at all it shouldn't be that much harder to colonize the whole galaxy. Once you've got the ability to colonize exponential growth will take over and pretty soon* you'll be everywhere.

*In the context of the Fermi paradox, we're wondering why no aliens have already colonized the galaxy (including our solar system). So by "pretty soon" I mean relative to the time interval between when such aliens might have appeared and now.
Other languages rarely have backwards incompatible changes. C or C++ from 20 years ago would still compile perfectly fine with modern compilers.

As far as I know, Go, Java, C#, C++, C and Javascript have never broken backwards compatibility.

Python 3, and Perl 6 did. I don't think anyone uses Perl 6.
Given the speed and comfort of not doing user studies, I expect "move fast and break things" Facebook to not care about user studies at all
Low testosterone has deleterious effects for men [1]. For women, offhand I don't believe having "low" testosterone is as big of a deal, but that may be because the range from high to low is greater for a man than a woman and due to the lack of focus on studying it in particular with women.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/side-effects-of-low-testos...
It is also sneakily mutable at times. Some methods will mutate the original object - the cause of a few bugs I've investigated recently
I know, right? Friendly, bearded, probably lives on the west coast and uses a Mac. Ugh. Can't wait for new technology to make these pathetic hipster devs hired by Microsoft for their abject lack of competence to go out of work.
Deep dark arcane corner-cases in C++? Say it ain't so!
> I only have a few hours every night to tinker with stuff

Count yourself lucky, I reckon I usually get at most 2 hours if I really force it and most nights hardly anything. We've family, kids, house, own business etc and that just eats away at everything else.
>I've tried various ways - small frequent things at home, team things, sport-focused, fewer high intensity things, just taking walks.

Did you try individual sports or just team sports?

Because for me finding individual sports that I love, mountain biking and surfing, makes it hard not to exercise.

If anything I have a tendency to overdo it.

I am very introverted, so finding ways to exercise that I enjoy meant individual sports.

There is still camaraderie between riders/surfers, but we don't tend to see each other as competing, just enjoying an activity side by side.
That in turn makes assumptions about the practicality of interstellar travel etc. But, yes. The counterpoint to space is big is that so are timescales.
Cynicism like this makes its own truth each time it's repeated.
Albeit this was years ago but I was referring to the construction linked from the original paper proposed in:

https://cs.nyu.edu/media/publications/TR2013-962.pdf

It’s pretty unweildy compared to HMAC construction because:

* each caveat addition requires local generation of a new asymmetric key pair

* the size of the macaroon grows linearly with the number of caveats. Each new caveat concatenates two asymmetric signatures to the append only signature. Each new caveat adds a public key to the macaroon ID.

* it requires a finalize step for security, meaning the final macaroon extender needs to know it’s the final extender.

It sounded rather impractical but I wouldn’t be surprised if improvements have been made since then.
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When a white person in historic America encountered the negro slave trade for the first time, becoming aware of the harsh living conditions of millions of people, he have to either conclude that their values regarding justice and the human condition were either in obvious conflict with their own society and culture, or accept the narrative of white supremacy, i.e. blacks were less human and so suffering was OK because it was their natural state. Most chose the latter, as it had the least cognitive dissonance.

A Westerner observing a typical 1920's Chinese person's life for the first time would have experienced the same assault on their fundamental values, especially more humanist values. It was a feudal society, where quiet tolerance in the face of extreme hardship is a cultural value, as is producing as many (male) offspring as possible. Moreover, given harsh standard of living and the large population, human life (especially those of children) was cheap and easily discarded. Finally, post-Qing China would have seemed extremely unsanitary to Western eyes -- even today Chinese authorities struggle with promulgating basic 20th century standards of hygiene (since hygiene is a norm, not a trait).

The foreigner would have been aware that 100's of millions of people lived this way (no one knew China's population was a billion plus until the CCP did the first modern census).

It would have been all to easy to take a dim view on the Chinese as people.
Option strategies can actually make a lot of sense in many cases. Ex, a zero cost collar lets you lock the value of a stock position in a narrow band in case you are worried about the market but don't want to sell of right now.

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