skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cheese pizza is a PLAIN pizza, just the core ingredients with nothing extra.

A plain donut or plain bagel are the things without any extras.

A plain cake is rare but is a cake without extra flavors or frosting or whatever. When it just has chocolate even, people still call it a "chocolate cake" and maybe "plain chocolate cake" but rarely or never simply "plain cake". And because the default for cake is to be chocolate, nobody would be crazy enough to say "vanilla cake" to refer to unadorned chocolate cake. So the use of vanilla to mean regular/plain isn't a lost cause! It's worth criticizing to not lose its real meaning.

The pizza analogy really would work like this: say that pepperoni pizza was so common, everyone had that or more complex things and nobody ever had a simple cheese pizza. Then imagine people start using "pepperoni" to mean plain/regular. Metaphorically, they'd start saying "eh, that one night stand — the sex was just pepperoni".

Okay, so, upon reconsideration, it's not "plain" or "regular" or "popular" that vanilla refers to. It's original, as in the first thing that seems default and was around before other stuff. These metaphors are complex.

But I happen to think we should notice when we use metaphors and consider their meaning, question them, use them thoughtfully…
His point wasn't about how to view the 'god of the old testament'. It was that child sacrifice was so widespread that it had to be mentioned several times.
No, Moebius as in Jean Giraud

Great primer

http://www.tcj.com/jean-moebius-giraud-1938-2012/

Great collection of his awe inspiring art and a short film

https://www.rabbleboy.com/the-amazing-art-of-moebius-jean-gi...

And if you're looking for something outrageously creative and courageously insane go buy a copy of "the incal" which is his graphic novel collaboration with Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fun little game. Consider resizing some of your images though, they are way bigger than they need to be and really chew through mobile data.
Building better compression together with DivANS
Its easier to get into the us than the eu so thats simply wrong. The us have way more ways too.
Didnt church burn people in the name of heresy to conserve their power. It included much celebrated joan of arc in france.
Nice work! Would you lower the volume on the gunshot sound effect though? I had headphones on when I pressed the "Hunt" button and the unexpected gunshot sound effect was extremely loud.
Podcast pro tip: listen on 0.8x speed. Everything becomes so dreamy and sleepy sounding.
If your "world class" games from 10 years ago were online based, they'd have the same problem. So its not really the web tech you are against, its the client-server application model.
> then some sort of technology-driven unification of all human consciousness can't be too far off

If that happens, then the unified consciousness would be incredibly lonely.

This in contrast to when cells assembled into humans, and at least the humans had other humans to talk to.
“Western values” didn’t develop in the West until the second half of the 20th century, so I’m not sure that’s a good argument.
Wrong model choice - they were just a little too heavy for my partner to use effectively.
Same problem. I had a chrome extension that was supposed to close inactive tabs after n mins but it doesn't seem to work right. I periodically go on cleaning runs but it doesn't help much.

Even though I use them extensively, I'm very suspicious that Chrome somehow loses my bookmarks. I'm often in the situation where I want to find something I am 100% sure I read+bookmarked recently and can't find the article on my laptop or my desktop.

So I don't know what the answer is but one possible route would be a better bookmark+sync system, fully under my control that stores DOM snapshots too for full text search.
Turing completeness means you can't compute stuff, it does not take user interaction into account.

I don't see any definition of "interactive" that would convince someone that lambda calculus is interactive, despite it being Turing complete.
If you looked back to 1979 you'd find a dozen other technologies that didn't pan out.
>"but pretty much any other country is trivial often with immediately being permanent resident or some visa that converts to PR in 1-2 years."

Not at all. I know a couple that tried to move to Canada after Trump got elected but were shocked to find out they'd have to deposit 250k USD with the Canadian government for 5 years in order to be considered for permanantly residency.

Not only that, the demand for people to move into the US is tremendous so the competition is obviously very steep compared to less desireable places.
I think the 3D fluid dynamics simulation required to find this might be a much. I always figured "water droplets smashing into another surface" was sufficient. My dripping taps never seem to drip into a puddle of water, but on the sink surface. With the high-speed capture work from years ago on why droplets splash back from dry surfaces (because air), I'd have also assumed air would play a role in drops making noise when falling on water.

My point: I don't think we could have simulated this effectively; I think a thought experiment would suffice; but ultimately, high-speed would be a necessary step to observe what either experiment predicted.
They mention, as evidence that the number of people looking for work is less than the number of job openings. I would argue that both of those numbers are flawed.

First of all, Having a job opening doesn't mean you urgently need a position filled. I've seen companies post the same job opening year after year after year, and get hundreds of applicants and still never hire anyone. Someone i know, (a data analyst) would often apply for these jobs, never ever hearing back or getting any kind of feedback on what they're looking for. There simply isn't any need, the posting is just there because someone forgot about it. If these companies were at all serious about hiring anyone, they'd at least get their career section of the web site straightened out.

Second, I think the total number unemployed may be miscounted. I know the unemployment rate number has huge problems.
On Windows, if you’re using the MSVC version, which we recommend, then you’ll have that tooling installed anyway; it’s the only way to get link.exe.
The link shows percentage numbers as well- relative to total world foreigner population as well as relative to each country’s population.
That is not what I wrote. Please re-read it.
Did the Rothschilds go bankrupt, and lose all their money, or something?

They (the family collectively, or the family trust, however you wish to address their finances) were billionaires by the 1850s, at the latest.

"On July 18, 1815, a courier working for Rothschild informed the English government that Napoleon appeared to be suffering defeat at Waterloo... Rothschild began selling all of his bonds, encouraging rumors that Napoleon had won and that English government paper would soon be worthless. Due to Rothschild's reputation as an influential and respected investor, the panicked English public followed his lead. The mass selling resulted in a total collapse of the English stock exchange.

"It was then that Rothschild's agents began snatching up bonds and stock at record-low prices. Two days later, when Wellington's envoy confirmed that Napoleon Bonaparte had indeed suffered a crushing defeat, Nathan Rothschild was effectively in control of the English stock exchange. As of 2015, the English government was still paying back money owed to the Rothschild family from this Napoleonic maneuver."

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/history-rothschild-fami...

I don't believe in your (and the Economist's) false dilemma that my 1st world has to suck and I have to work for slave wages in order for people in the 3rd world to have better lives.
> The original code is just as unsafe.

But the translated code being unreadable to humans adds a whole new layer of "unsafe".
If you’re using Javascript or have an embedded JavaScript runtime sure use that.

The 1st party bindings are for C, Go and Python; so it a cross-language JSON DSL. And making it a strict DSL has significant advantages.
Insightful!

(Growing up, my classmates were mostly in the "sufficient positive influences" camp, and yeah, the teachers who had big impacts tended to be the really bad ones who destroyed momentum/interest in a topic for one or more of us. There were also high-impact inspirational teachers - but they were more of an "alter the trajectory of what someone wants to do in their life" sort of thing, which isn't really measured by standardized tests.)
You've got be kidding the only realistic option for US is H1B majority of EU countries have simple visa's for Software Eng. with no quotas. My former employees from Ukraine are in Germany, Austria, Norway, Ireland, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic (and outside of EU Australia, Canada) the process was 2-3 month on avg. for EU countries and they become residents pretty quickly with no quotas.
Right. Jbig2 supports lossless compression. I'm not very familiar with the bug, but it could have been a setting somewhere in the scanner/copier that it was changed to lossy compression instead. Or they had lossy compression on by default or misconfigured some other way (probably a bad idea for text documents).
> you fear the idea of the 1st world life you lucked into by birth being disrupted by a large influx of poor people who weren't so lucky in the birth lottery.

You say that is if that fear isn’t legitimate.
Closed borders is a form of discrimination. But if we open them and want to maintain our standard of living we'll have to make them second class citizens.

As the article argues, this is better than excluding them from our labour market.

But discrimination like designating people as 2nd class citizens is probably more repundant to people's sense of ethics than closed borders.

And perhaps these moral tabu's are not without importance. I'm not sure, but "closed borders" do seem worse than a 2nd class of citizens.
The algorithm detected similar patterns and replaced these with references. This lead to characters being changed into similar looking characters that also appeared on the page.
My Post was flagged even with growing upvote?
Recently, I shared post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381986 and it was flagged after a user's comment.

I would like to say - I did read the guidelines here - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and I could not find, If I violated any ethics or did something wrong.

My submission was intended for user to share the advice to the user.
Since,it could be helpful for other user too who is seeking career choice as some of the comments which are already posted can be helpful for other person viewing the problem.

Please advice, what went wrong, so that I can take care in my future submission.

Thank you.
That is in fact not what I'm advocating.

What I am saying is that the words you choose and utter send signals, and the signal sent does, in fact, depend on who you are and, in this case, on the color of your skin (if we were discussing the f-word, it would depend instead on whether you were evidently an LGBT person).

That's not a controversial statement. It's an obvious one. You have to work to make it problematic, and the work you put into making it problematic also sends a signal, as does your use of the word "lynching" to describe the termination of a Netflix executive (the subtext of my response to that comment was not that you don't know the definition of the word).

That signal you've sent is what I was referring to when I said there was no point to us litigating this. I feel bad for having left enough of a string dangling for 'pvg to have felt the need to bat at (though I tentatively agree with the sentiment he shared). But now, having explained what I was trying to say for an entire second time, I'm confident there's really no need for either of us to make the same points again in escalating stridency.

This is a deep, deep subthread on a flagged submission to HN that is a day old. We're the only people reading this. There are no stakes to this discussion. I think we can stop needling each other any time.
I'm a fan of JSON-e over jsonnet (less complexity/safe with untrusted data, native libraries for Python/JS/Go instead of C++, + valid JSON/YAML on its own): https://taskcluster.github.io/json-e/
In fact, the interaction of water movements has good dynamical properties for liquid state machine (reservoir) computing [1] (purely as an interesting demonstration).

[1] "Pattern Recognition in a Bucket": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-39432-...
The Fatal Flaw of Each MBTI Type in Relationships – Astroligion.com
It’s 2018 - ceeating a product from new plastic is probably morally indefensible.

This guy has open source plans for garage-scale plastic recycling machines. If you’re interested in alternatives to new plastic from china
https://preciousplastic.com
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>The "JimsFamousKefir.com" domain isn't going to be hosted on some servers in the next rack over..

Unless we find out Jim is an NSA asset, and his famous kefir just a small piece of a larger network traffic injection/payload delivery operation.
It would be interesting to ask whether or not Ted Nelson's vision for personal computing has been achieved. In the podcast, personal computing was to be the means of liberation from a centralized priesthood on the one hand, and from ignorance (i.e., access to means of learning) on the other.

Personal computers are now ubiquitous, and we've been liberated from central priesthoods which had restricted access to (expensive) computers in the past. But new forms of centralization emerge, whether they arise in the form of bloated, draconian corporate software foisted on workers within a company, or as public products such as Google and Facebook, which have been gobbling up the open web and replacing it with means of control and manipulation. [1]

In fact, this latter concern of manipulation begs the question of what people really need computers for, and brings into question Ted Nelson's presumed answer to it: i.e., that people have an inherent need to use computers to facilitate their own creativity. But what about the possibility that the majority of people prefer to be passive consumers? Neil Postman warned that we would become a trivial society, rife with distraction, like in Huxley's Brave New World. [2]

Perhaps computers have succeeded in universally capturing our imagination, but corporations (centralization!) have once again captured computing, and by extension our imagination as well, as Tim Wu laments [1]: am I more likely to open up my personal computer at odd moments of the day to check Facebook or Hacker News to momentarily capture my imagination? Or have I instead acquired the habit of pulling out a tablet to accumulate further progress in a creative work, which perhaps only requires internet connectivity for the purpose of reference? And if the answer is the former, is the reason because we don't have actual Dynabooks [3], but instead a more asymmetric device skewed toward consumption and away from creative expression? Or is it because the majority of people in fact prefer passive consumption anyway?

[1] http://www.timwu.org/AttentionMerchants.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
If you run your own mail server and everyone who sends you mail makes a direct encrypted connection to it, sure. That’s not a solution for most people.
The first time I entered Canada—as an Icelandic citizen—was through the borders between Quebec and Vermont[1]. I had some troubles crossing the borders because the border police claimed I didn’t have the means to support my self once on the Canada side (I did), and that I didn’t have travel insurance (which I also did). To cross I needed to gather some paper to persuade the police that I was legit. Funny enough the library in town (where I could access a printer and internet, back in 2011) sits on both sides of the borders. The police had warned me not to exit the library on the Canadian side, or risk being arrested for illegal entry. I don’t remember any warnings inside the library, so I was thankful for the border police for giving me that advice beforehand.

[1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/45.0047/-72.0941
Choice tweets from the author:

Thanks for reading and sharing my story on Tenochtitlan's tzompantli, the rack where the skulls of the sacrificed were displayed. But it's time for a discussion on why this practice was not "horrific" or "loaded [with] evil," as some of you have said https://t.co/GBZW1TXflv

https://twitter.com/lizzie_wade/status/1010178681334050822

It's hard for me to imagine that people wanted to be sacrificed, but that's my own biases and cultural conditioning talking. How I see the world, filtered through centuries of colonial oppression and destruction, is irrelevant to understanding how they saw the world.

https://twitter.com/lizzie_wade/status/1010178688254730244

(Credit: https://www.unz.com/isteve/makes-ya-think/)
Singular they is a totally different issue.

Vanilla = plain is a metaphor.

Singular they is a syntax issue.

These are processed totally differently in our minds/brains. Both we come to accept with enough usage and good attitude, but they have very different significance in language.

Most people who don't start knowing singular they find it a true syntax error, the sort like a P600 response in an EEG test. It's deeply irksome. But then with familiarity, it goes away.

Metaphors don't have such a deep language processing issue, they just have semantic meaning that we accept or not and our objections live at a far more intellectual level.
It sounds like they just trained a bayesian filter like langdetect to recognise simple German. A smarter training corpus would have been decrypted Enigma messages!

A decrypted enigma message looks like this:

BOOTKLARXBEIJSCHNOORBETWAZWOSIBENXNOVXSECHSNULCBMXPROVIANTBISZWONULXDEZXBENOETIGEGLMESERYNOCHVIEFKLHRXSTEHEMARQUBRUNOBRUNFZWOFUHFXLAGWWIEJKCHAEFERJXNNTWWWFUNFYEINSFUNFMBSTEIGENDYGUTESIWXDVVVJRASCH

Plaintext with word divisions, and with garbled letters corrected:

BOOT KLAR X BEI J SCHNOOR J ETWA ZWO SIBEN X NOV X SECHS NUL CBM X PROVIANT BIS ZWO NUL X DEZ X BENOETIGE GLAESER Y NOCH VIER KLAR X STEHE MARQU BRUNO BRUNO ZWO FUNF X LAGE WIE J SCHAEFER J X NNN WWW FUNF Y EINS FUNF MB STEIGEND Y GUTE SICHT VVV J RASCH

Formatted German plaintext:

Boot klar. Bei “Schnoor” etwa 27. Nov. 60 cbm. Proviant bis 20 Dez. Benötige Gläser, noch 4 klar. Stehe Marqu. BB 25. Lage wie “Schaefer”. NW 5, 15 mb steigend, gute Sicht. Von “Rasch”.

English translation (words in square brackets added to make the meaning more clear):

Boat clear. [Will rendezvous] at Schnoor about 27 November. 60 cubic meters [fuel oil remaining], provisions [sufficient] until 20 December. Need binoculars; [only] four now serviceable. Am at naval square BB 25. Situation like Schaefer’s. [Wind] northwest [force] 5, [atmospheric pressure] 15 millibars rising, good visibility. From Rasch.
I get treated better by the border agents when entering the EU than I do when entering the US, and I'm a US citizen. I saw them treat a German citizen so rudely once that I felt I had to apologize to the guy and buy him a beer once we both got through.
Mark Cuban is trying to get rid of overdraft fees
The big difference between human sacrifice and capital punishment is that the person sacrificed hasn’t done anything “wrong.”

The big difference between war and human sacrifice is that the target of human sacrifice is not a threat or a random bystander.
We're still very far from the connected and unified future Ted Nelson had in mind, yet I can't seem to find many people interested in solving that.

Where are these people?
That’s

- one advantage, not “a lot”

- very slight, because the tool to convert to and from text gets made

- vastly outweighed by the disadvantages
If they get enough points (which is trivial) you get PR even without job offer.

edited: strong lang.
WASM will have source map support, if it does not already. There is already support on Firefox nightly it seems: https://github.com/yurydelendik/wasm-source-map-emscripten
Hmm so who is a tech lead?
Globalists only think in terms of profit and not of culture, tradition and the mental well-being of the average person. There are plenty of studies which show that homogeneous societies are happier, more trusting and more engaged in the political system as well as their fellow man.

Reducing people down to a line in a calculation of your bottom line is dehumanising.

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
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The reason the solution doesn't seem to fit the problem is that lots of developers don't think the problem with front-end web dev is tooling/framework complexity or overdiversity.

Instead, they think the problem is stuff like:

* developers are not using enough of the design pattern lore developed for use with static manifestly/class-y typed languages like Java

* JavaScript is terrible because you have to think about `this`, because wat, because prototypes, because the aesthetics of another language are better, etc

* mutability or missing functional purity

* the type system isn't type-y enough

* CSS is terrible

* how do you know if you're a real developer if there isn't a build step

* do you even modern bro

And you can route around these problems by switching languages. WASM to the rescue!

I suppose we'll get the chance to find out to what degree those are really The Problem With Development.™
Dostoyevsky is an icon of serious literature in the US. I wouldn’t call him unknown.
> The Linux one is from the same source too.

Not in practise. The Linux version of Filezilla will usually be sourced from a package manager:

$ apt show filezilla
Package: filezilla
Version: 3.28.0-1
…
Description: Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client

Even Filezilla's own website says "It is highly recommended to use the package management system of your distribution".

A huge portion of the software a typical user requires is available in the standard repository of a Linux distribution. I have one extra Apt repository configured that would be reasonable for a normal user to install: Skype.
Lifelike reconstruction of Julius Caesar reveals extraordinary head
Its easy to abstract away personal responsibility to well crafted punching bags, but in the end its still a choice.
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And then there's the Baarle-Nassau border in the Netherlands and Belgium:

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/11/the-curious-case-of-baa...
Are you saying that bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the world economy, create trillions of dollars worth of industry across many fields? Create 100s of millions of jobs. Create new forms of arts, new ways of communications, help find cures for illness, help accelerate human conditions 100s of ways that I can't even comprehend at 5 in the morning, before my coffee.

No, I don't think bitcoin has any such potential. Yes, some people made quick bucks at the expense of some other gullible people losing quick bucks. In the realm of human history, bitcoin/altcoin will be considered a mildly interesting idea, a lot of noise but eventually a major dud. No sane and major government will give up central control of currency, If bitcoin eventually ends up being centrally controlled (if not banned first), it defeats the existential angst of having cryptocurrency.

Its an extremely environmentally inefficient way to screw people over, so please stop propping up cryptocurrency. Let it die.

Bitcoin isn't rocket science, a lot of people understands what it is and its potential benefits. It's just people are confused what the hell do we need this in the first place.