skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology nightmare that you suggest does fit neatly into the ideal in Plato's republic. Remember as well that in the Republic, it wasn't just that the city parented each child... but that the city was the parent to each child, and children were unaware of their birth parents. It doesn't work -- the idealized creche in The Republic in reality is a land of neglect and a ripe target for abusers.

While they aren't necessarily fun and are probably too inflexible, the themes and positions on sexuality that you find in many religions are rooted fundamentally in humanity.

Personally, I have always found The Republic to be offensive to human dignity. Leaders aren't philosopher kings. Guardians aren't selflessly devoted to the ideals of the state. A future of sex workers as industrialized sex toys, military dictatorship, outsourced pregnancy and genetic engineering is a dark future inded.
At the last three jobs I've had Windows machines weren't allowed, only Mac or Linux.

The tooling/infrastructure wasn't in place to support Windows machines in our corporate environment, and internal IT didn't know how to use them.
Cross-section: https://twitter.com/JamesWorldSpace/status/10151317727433687...

Another version: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes...
Partly PR (like everything he does) and such unflattering things, but also partly an exercise of the ability (read "ubiquitous nerd dream" if you like) of thinking up outrageous solutions to pressing problems (e.g. inflatable "bouncy castle" air tunnel), which in this case differs from the usual in that said nerd is very rich (and also owns technology and employs people with skills appropriate to the problem) so the outrageous solution has some chance of actually being implemented in the real world

This differs from the option mentioned by someone else of "calling the right people" (perhaps by donating a chunk of money to send conventional rescue personnel/equipment) instead of flashily taking matters into his own hands: this is a display of ingenuity/out-of-the-box thinking/"a tunnel-making company that everyone says is a bad idea saved actual lives, see?" first (again, read something like "nerd saviourism" or a restricted form of "tech solutionism" if you like) and philanthropy second.

Similar idea to pushing his batteries in Puerto Rico, and also explains his lack of interest in Flint (often mentioned on Twitter) or similar humanitarian concerns, and hence his difference from a certain "philanthropic billionaire" stereotype exemplified by Gates and Buffett: he doesn't own a company that claims it can purify water in a way everyone thinks is either overpriced or stupid, so "those things would prove nothing". (A silly prediction along these lines: if there ever is some sort of emergency in the near future that requires transporting something very quickly from A to B, faster than a cargo airplane (and insert other wildly improbable things here), I'd expect him to offer to do the "NYC to Tokyo in 30 min" thing for free.)
Human communication is set apart by its advanced facility for label-finding, which is what allows us to effectively solve problems. The term "label" has multiple levels; at a low level, just finding the "right" words to communicate something is labeling.

Labels have their downsides, but the upside is an enormous communication advantage over other species, one that brought us the ability to foster life and evolve other species with us. In effect we are now _better, more nuanced labelers_ than we were in the past, which is really the goal--eliminating labels stunts our ability to identify and solve problems, so using them better is the only way to go.

TLDR: "We label too much" itself is a label for a problem; even though it necessarily leaves out nuance, that's also the very factor that gives a labeler more leverage. To move up and away from that problem, we will need to find new labels that get us better traction in that area. The amazing thing is that there are so many billions of ways of labeling a problem, each with respective advantages/disadvantages.
It says V8 compiles JavaScript to Machine Code, but is that really correct given that the machine code is an intermediate product, and the result of applying a JIT to a specialized piece of code (where part of the variables are already known to the compiler)?
Compilation is the act of generating a back-end code. Most languages compile to Machine Code, but you could also compile to some other language like C, Haskell, Javascript that you know has a very well-optimized compiler. Say, if you generate C code, and do it well, you know that your language will be almost as fast as C.
Scientists discover the world's biggest "if".
/r/celiac, /r/achalasia, /r/citypop, /r/deathgrips, /r/denver (and Portland, Austin, Santa Fe, Albuquerque... possibly some of these cities have bigger forums on FB, but it depends on your demographic. I can talk to 70 year olds about Albuquerque in the 60s on Facebook, but not necessarily what’s happening at Meow Wolf or with car thefts around Nob Hill or the electronic music show next week).

Reddit is the primary forum for obscure topics that don’t have large enough followings to support other communities, or have a demographic that overlaps enough with reddit that everyone just uses reddit.
Like when you auto-translate English -> Japanese -> English. Very unlikely you will recover the original

Good fun though.
It's just really difficult to understand what this means.

The first big caveat is that 1990s to 2010s stops at the financial crisis. Due to austerity the UK has since then seen the greatest period of wage stagnation of all the advanced nations except Greece. But employment has remained high. So whilst the report is a picture of time before the crash its not clear to me what has happened since.

Second - Yes I think I do care more about the overall level of poverty and inequality. I'm not happy if people are moving in and out of destitution.

Third - I really don't understand how to square this analysis with the obvious fact that half as many people own their own home now as in the 80s. For 25-34 year olds its gone from 65% to 27% during the period of this study . What's that downward income mobility? I sthat a good thing? Or does that not count as it's not income?

.. I just don't really know what this is saying..?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470636
You know what happened the last time I canceled a magazine subscription in Germany?
I sent them an email, and got the confirmation back one day later.
End of story.
In most countries, there is an ungodly large amount of oversight that goes into animals used in scientific research. The problem is that when the media reports animal testing, they skew the facts in order to make them sound dramatic, when in reality animal well-being is taken very seriously. Lab mice in general live much better lives than your pet mouse.
> The power of theater-- of storytelling and the mind --to engage healing should form a third pillar of medicine along with Biochemistry and Surgery.

Let's say hypothetically that two patients received this 'theater treatment' - but one had an amazing actor and the other had a mediocre actor. The amazing actor convinced Patient A of the efficacy of the treatment better than Patient B.

If you believe that 'theater treatment' or the placebo effect is binary then it doesn't matter how good the actors are, and therefore they will get better at the same rate. If you believe 'theater treatment' isn't binary, then the more the person believes in the treatment, the faster their condition will improve. That's what I mean by binary vs a spectrum.

There's evidence that placebo treatments aren't binary - e.g. placebo injections work better than pills - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.....

Therefore, with reference to my original statement 'Presumably the placebo effect is stronger when patients do not realise they are getting placebos'. In both cases, the placebo effect will work, however it will work better if the theater is more convincing - and it's more convincing when they aren't told it's sugar pills.
Our neighbor's democratic PM has a pro-Hinduism agenda despite of heading a secular state. A year back many opposite voices silents who raised questions about the fake surgical strike. What's your point here by the way?
I think the sentiment still holds, waterfall or no. There are still an identifiable cycle of product development in an agile shop, but they aren't explicitly mapped onto differentiated development phases. It is still possible to see the evolution of a product from inception to maturity, and that is a valuable experience.
https://youtu.be/msN7HNncHik?t=132
Some thoughts on 'job hopping':

1. If you're in the first 10 years or so of your tech career, you should be changing jobs every 18 to 24 months. These are the primary years in which your salary goes up, and to stay in a role for a longer period of time without significant (e.g. 20%) raises could have a dramatic effect on your lifetime earnings.

2. NEVER discuss your current salary with a recruiter or potential employer. It's currently illegal in some jurisdictions to be asked about this, but overall it's still very common. See more details and negotiating strategies in an article I wrote on this topic: https://adamdrake.com/what-is-your-current-salary.html

3. Be prepared to transition into a role where you are responsible for people and output, to some extent. This makes you more valuable to companies because you are able to increase output from a group of people instead of from just yourself. Think of it like scaling your brain. The transition from Teammate to Team Lead can be difficult, and after advising multiple companies and teams on the topic I wrote up some of my thoughts: https://adamdrake.com/teammate-to-team-lead.html

3a. As an extension of the above, make sure you're leading for the right reasons and that you're taking care of the team: https://adamdrake.com/leaders-eat-last.html

4. Maintain technical skills and make sure you're always delivering valuable technical results, or providing guidance to people so that they can do the same: https://adamdrake.com/always-be-shipping.html. People and companies will almost always value you as a member of the organization based on what you've provided lately, so you have to keep producing. Once you've been hungry, you'll never feel full. Stay hungry.

Lastly, I think it's pretty clear to all of us that this could be avoided if companies took care of people, gave raises preemptively and as close to market rates as possible, and gave people an opportunity to advance in an environment with a high degree of loyalty. Unfortunately, that's almost never the reality.
I think he is also offering to ship powerpacks and pumps, in case pumping is limited by available power and equipment.
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They all said the same. The cost to me is not the 299 but the time I would waste. My advice is you need to be explicit , eg: max 15 minutes response time or the whole month is free. That's something people would pay for
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
images.google.com contains zillions of nice form letter rental contracts. Ditto job offer letters.

Please keep in mind the difference between counterfeit vs fraudulent. Making your own currency is inherently illegal; making your own lease contract or job offer is not. Its very easy for the people/orgs named on a contract to sue for fraud if a counterfeit contract is attempted to be used, very difficult for an unrelated 3rd party. If you use google to make sure your counterparty or property do not exist, its very difficult for the contract counterparty to sue you, given they don't exist and there are no financial damages. Note that bank collateral or financial industry KYC verification or accounting revenue / SOX or insurance fraud is obviously not "unrelated". If you own a small company, which is cheap and you probably should, you can easily issue yourself a job offer in any location; wanna winter over in Antarctica?

They almost intentionally are not trying very hard; they could trivially demand state ID card / drivers license from the new address. Obviously they just want a speed bump as a dark pattern of customer retention.
My question is about the value of this particular patch-set not about usefulness of the PEP.

"The point of this PR is just to open discuss on coding style: discuss when assignment expressions are appropriate or not."

There is no new code and the author's intention seems to be more than a "let's see how it would look like" patch. (Discussing where to use new syntax on existing code is a waste of time unless the intent is to apply the changes)
Reddit has shown me the same ad about online mental health counseling every day for 4 months. “Because I deserve it”.
If he's offering help free of charge then thats nice but ofcourse he's not
Take them out of their shell and tell people they're a type of clam and they'll never know the difference.
They hired the services of the expert who identified the font.
This story brings back a lot of memories. Right before I separated from the USAF in 1997, I was working with a tanker squadron deployed in support of operations in Bosnia. Crews would spend hours parsing the Air Tasking Orders to figure out when to take off, and with how much fuel. I had just gotten in to programming and wrote a simple VB6 app to parse the huge file and produce a simple report with the details they were after. It saved the crews hours, and I was still getting feature requests on the app for a year after I separated. It's simply amazing it took another 20 years for them to solve the problem.
That's the opposite of going to your home country.
Technically proof of output could be used by running it on multiple nodes and comparing output, but for anything but idempotent reads this will be difficult. Also for anything that needs any privacy this is fraught since unless you're running hardware obfuscation (sgx or similar) every workload is possibly observable by the 3rd party who is running the workload, including the client who is connecting. Ssl? Keys are on the host...

Then there's the risk to the host, which could be side channeled in the best case scenario where isolation is sound, and completely owned in the worst case where containers are... containers.

Lofty idea but extremely difficult without making it a tiny domain. There are multiple billion-dollar crypto projects aiming to do trusted distributed compute and so far none have shown anything but the most basic use cases.
That's just a more Object Oriented Redux (or less, if we consider OOP is originally message passing), and probably without all the connect optimizations.

I'm not a fan of Redux either, but I fail to see what problems this approach solves.
If he's offering help free of charge then thats nice but ofcourse he's not.he thinks every disaster is an advert space.
I pay for recurring stuff with a CC for this very reason. I had an insurance company refuse to cancel my insurance unless I physically came into their office all the way across town (would have been about two hours of my time when it was all said and done) to show them proof that I had insurance through another agency. I declined that request and explained that they simply weren't getting paid any more. I called the number on my card and explained the situation to them and that I told them to stop billing me and they refused. The rep noted this issue on the account. Sure enough, they didn't stop billing me. I called the card company again to report that the insurance company had billed me again. They immediately reversed the charges and blocked all further charges from the company.

The insurance agent reported me to DMV (the relationship had soured pretty badly before this all happened) for not having insurance. It was a 2 minute call to my new insurance agent to let them to know to send proof of coverage to DMV. Problem solved in ~10 minutes of my time instead of 2 hours.
Dont take it too literally. Cave maps, paticularlythose under water, are hand-drawn. They cover key features needed for navigation but are not considered accurate for dimensions. Travel time means far more than accurate distances where underwater currents get involved. This is a large part of the digging problem: lining up the eyeballed drawing with an exact spot on the surface.
g++ can turn c++ to assembly
It was started as a refuge for sub-Breitbart conspiracy theorists, and continues to decline.
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Where in my statement did I say that? Though of course there are many kinds of emergency surgery and flying certainly does not restrict all of them.
Thank you for your work. Really helpful.
Has anyone actually run into limitations of knockoutJS that Vue or React solve? Knockout has typescript support, stable codebase, excellent tutorials, large plugin base, and components that can be loaded with requireJS. We've had great luck with it in the wild too.
A related project, not limited to the Raspberry Pi: https://teachcraft.net/
Where is php -> c# through peachpie? Pretty significant project
>Are you sure about that?

I see you've never gardened, or even had a house plant.
First keep calm.

Second diagrams showed they were thinking about drilling down (1/4 of a mile deep).

I can't imagine drilling being safer than passing a tube to the chamber.

I have no experience nor knowledge. I still claim that.

ps: I don't think Thai government is stupid to just follow some random celebrity. They have educated people there too. Musk is only saying he has drilling machines and powerbanks... that's all.
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Wait, South Australia and feet of snow?? All that fuic in your fridge isn't going to convince me you're from around here.
I did actually bother to look in src, but for some reason didn't check out assets. Now that you mention it, it seems quite obvious, not sure how I missed it.
HN comments are in bigquery. It's a simple query to extract that data, I just wrote it: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/1008801496706:d... . It seems to be outdated tho...
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>> but over time will be used to replace more and more human beings handling increasingly more difficult calls.

While this is the natural progression, I could easily see people being turned off by the service, or the service struggling to handle more complex tasks. I would imagine learning all the nuances of a language (slang, dialects, accents) would pose a significant barrier to this.
Thats a lot of job loss. It occured to me that fast food drive thrus might go to.
Place your bets: how many years til EU kicks Fb/Google/Amazon out of Europe?
Cable TV is a classic example. If you ask how much it'll cost after the promotion ends, they'll go on repeat, "It'll be $20 for the first three months".
I do hope people start leaving Reddit.

I love Reddit, don't get me wrong - you can find a community of people who are passionate about pretty much any topic.

In the old world, each of these communities had their own disjointed forums - with Reddit they are all becoming centralised. If Reddit ever decides to be really evil they are very difficult to migrate away.
I respect the hustle, but Show HN is meant for projects which offer something like source code that users can study and play with... but this is literally just an ad for your dev shop.
>he definitely seems to have achieved much more in his life (I mean, last 15 years) in engineering than most other marketers, promotoers, or, well, engineers.

In what sense? Because the companies he runs do great engineering? Was Steve Ballmer a great engineer because Microsoft built great things? What about Steve Jobs?

Elon Musk is great at a crucial skill for CEOs: selling a vision.
"Struggle". I don't believe you even tried.

This is "not applicable", yet the top comment just causally is "putting aside the Automation/Job Replacement fears".

Working in a call center is basically the last easy to get job for people who aren't very intelligent, it's the one job where a physically handicapped but attentive person can get treated like a normal human being. And they all just get tossed in there, "trained" by people who don't know their ass from their elbow either. They don't exactly have it good as is.

But let's "put that aside", because they are not eloquent enough to post here, and the few who think of them in earnest can be easily ignored. And then double think and "struggle" to think how putting someone else's suffering aside could have anything to do with this.

> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

-- Stephen Hawking

There is no "struggle". There is no "try." Think.
Just ran into ing atob the other day. The creator of the language admitted that it was basically a late night for him and he copied python or something.
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> Instead, I'd like comments to be sorted based on my "network of influencers", or users who I've rated positively...

This would in essence create your personal echo chamber.
It's the rational belief to hold.
Mobile apps are not as good as portable apps where I can actually go back to an older version if I want to.
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This reply is off-topic, political, flamebait and without references. Not Hacker News material.
If you care about animal cruelty, the real problems are habitat loss leading the starvation and habitat loss, followed by overhunting/fishing, followed by industrial scale agribusiness where animals are kept in horrible conditions for life, followed by shitty slaughter practices of some small scale farmers, then shitty pet owners, and waaaay down at the bottom is researchers who sometimes treat the animals poorly.
Anyone who has used every version of OSX will tell you it's not a myth.

Although I agree it is mostly remembered because Lion was such an awful release and objectively a step backwards that took a good few more releases to finally recover from.
JavaScript is surpassing everything. The world is a cold, dark place.
With NixOS, I have my entire OS configuration and packages described in a small consistent set of files, which I can point the installer at.
Is there an alternative to userstyles.org for hosting styles? That site is run by the Stylish folks, and I have removed my account and styles from it.
>Only recently I learned that he graduated in physics (energy storage or something not far)

He has an undergraduate degree in Physics. There is no focus on "energy storage".
Would love to play with the dataset in the browser. I assume it's small enough to load all comments into an array and then let the user run their own queries and ouput the result into a nice chart library. That would be fun!