skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And if these rights are a good thing (which as a nation we have theoretically decided they are), we should be giving them to non-citizens as well. I think it is always good for a) government having to prove guilt instead of the accused proving innocence and b) the severity of the supposed crime not being a determining factor in whether or not the accused gets a fair trial in a timely manner.
ah, that makes more sense. thanks.
This Bloomberg article has several shortcomings.

1. "Android and Chrome OS are built on Linux, a widely used open-source programming language."

Here they mix up the Linux kernel with the Java programming language.

2. "Moving from Linux, though, could have upsides for Google. Android’s use of the technology, which is owned by Oracle Corp., is at the center of a lengthy, bitter lawsuit between the two companies. Shifting away from using Linux would help Google’s legal case that its software isn’t reliant on Oracle."

While here they mix up the Java programming language with the Linux kernel.
By definition you can not declare war on something not another country because you will be attacking the country those people are in.

Armed militant groups are first and foremost the problem of the countries bordering and including the territory these militants operate in.

Any action against them by foreigners not otherwise involved in the region is an act of war in and of itself.

Imagine - I know this is a tricky one - Russia intervening in North Dakota between two rival bike gangs. The United States would see this as an act of war against the USA, and rightly so.

The only way this could happen is if there was a direct invitation from one of the governments of the affected countries and this would then still be limited to the territory of that country.
> I challenge anyone to transform something as simple as "hypertext is text with links to other text in it" into a more convoluted and unnecessarily abstracted definition as the above.

Except text+links does not encompass the full meaning of hypertext. Forms and inputs are also possible, for instance. The more general definition you cite encompasses all of this (information+controls), and more possible innovations than your very specific definition which lists only the current ways.
Although that usually means high property taxes.
Finish your slides at least a few weeks before the talk and dedicate a time slot equivalent to the talk (ex: 1-hour => 1-hour, 30-min => 30-min) per week doing a dry run. This is particularly important to get the timing correct. If you're repeatedly short or long then adjust accordingly.

Version control your slides. This is particularly useful if you end up giving the same talk more than once as you can tweak things and improve it.

It's a tech talk, not a stand-up comedy routine. Light jokes and colorful anecdotes help with connecting to the content but the substance should stand on it's own.

Depending on your alcohol tolerance 1-2 drinks can be remarkably effective at smoothing out your delivery.

I find a small intro on the format of the presentation to be helpful at setting expectations. The talk descriptions are often very short and it's hard to gauge what's actually going to be covered with a lot of "Deep dive into XYZ" barely getting your ankles wet with real code. It's appreciated (as an audience member) to know in advance what you'll be getting.
Inflation isn't all bad.

The lack of inflation is making it easy to concentrate and safely hoard cash, which is cutting off the oxygen for everyone else. We've had 30 years of an ultra-safe, guaranteed strategy to make money -- move all value-added services to places with cheap labor and cheap money and export cash, facilitated by tithing a good portion of GDP to the OPEC producers. It's destroying western society.

The best thing that could happen to the west today would be a devaluation.
Absolutely. Before GraphQL we were making a monumental effort to build a REST API. After deliberating on exactly what REST was and how we’d represent a few red haired resources, we were spending a lot of client time fetching deep trees through resource links. When we moved to GraphQL it solved a lot of the administrative and philosophical headaches and considerably reduced the number of connections, wasted data, and made our client code so much simpler through easily grokked queries. Highly recommmend GraphQL to anyone.
People criticizing constructive criticism are often not constructive.
All people are different as are the sleep patterns of babies, some give you no rest others are no fuss. As always it's also a question of how well you can handle it yourself and how lucky your in regards to health, e.g. baby blues depression can really make the months with a newborn very stressful.
I agree

Google/Apple/whatever directions send delivery vehicles down roads with under-height structures all the time and they rarely get can-opened. GPS directions are inaccurate enough in urban environments that people have to pay enough attention for this attack to not work very well. People will generally defer to the local signage when it comes to which lane you need to be in for a turn and which way you can't drive down a street or how tall a bridge actually is.
I see your point (I myself have seen most the marvel movies in the theatre). But I think if the movie is good, people would be willing to go to the theatre to watch. "Get out" is a good recent example.
What's the point of strong typing if it only saves you most of the time?
What do you think about single person gyrocopters?
I find the elephant curve explanation compelling. But I’m not sure it’s fair to then say there’s nothing that can be done to mitigate the impact of that.

Rich Scandinavian countries, for example, have a more redistributive tax system that appears to leave people broadly happier. Fine to argue the relative merits of such an intervention, of course, but worth noting it’s very much an option.
Flying cars seem great for rare occasions (including actual emergencies - ie, flying ambulances that could safely land on a residential street), not for daily commuting.
The Impolite Pleasure of People-Watching
Thank you. That's been one of the surprising moments of the project. While debugging the captions feature I started sending a set of the photos to myself every month. Now my fridge is covered with fresh photos of people I love, like it's 1995. Way better than pixels.
The paper doesn't explain anything at all. If we are alone in the galaxy - it tells us absolutely nothing about why this is the case, and certainly not that it's unrelated to the factors in the Drake equation, as you seem to claim. On the contrary - the "explanation" it offers relies precisely on the assumption that the factors of the Drake equation are responsible. The only thing it says is that we should incorporate our uncertainty of them when trying to make an estimate. It might be interesting, but it adds absolutely nothing new about why we might be alone, other than "because some factors could be lower than we think". Duh.
A coach is different because the players get one chance to play the game. Art can be redone as many times as you have the time and resources for. When doing that directing the iterations and making the final selection becomes the important thing. For example, take this piece from the GP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly#/media/File:Chihu...

How much credit Chihuly deserves varies wildly with how that piece was made. If he had merely said "Make me some yellow/orangish flowers" then he doesn't deserve much credit. If the ~40 flowers we see were the result of 1,000 attempts with him directing ("Make this one 1" bigger, this one less orange" etc.) then he deserves almost all the credit.
A little bit of stage fright is generally healthy. It shows that you care enough to be concerned and you're not getting too cocky. That's an old lesson I learned doing (of all things) middle school acting class and it's proven itself to be true over and over again.

Think about your slide and presentation style. For example, I have enormous decks for most of my talks (think like 55 slides for 30 minutes) but I burn through them very quickly, usually less than 20 seconds per slide. I came from film editing before moving to software so I approach my Powerpoints like a movie, it's just my nature. Others have really short decks that are information dense so the emphasis is on the talking part of the talk and the slides just provide a reference in the background. Others forego slides in favor of straight-up demos, which is certainly slick if you can pull it off (high risk, high reward) and need little pictorial illustration.

Use the old 5 paragraph essay rules from high school as a starting point for structuring your talk: tell you're audience what you're about to tell them (thesis, topic, core argument) and how you're going to tell them (outline), then tell them (supporting paragraphs), then tell them at the end again what you told them and how you told them (conclusion, restating your intro).

Humor helps, generally. This isn't supposed to be a standup set so definitely don't go overboard, but it can really help. Particularly if you can tie it in with some empathy for your audience. ("We're gonna do this in Perl. I love writing Perl, you just hold shift and smash the number row for awhile.")

And for heaven's sake don't read your slides.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17539465
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Which is what the US did to many members of the ACP after WWI deporting them en masse to Russia (not killing them, Stalin did that for the US government distrusting the foreign communists)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids

[the article implies the deportees were 'aliens' but I think the legalism here is wafer thin. I think they held themselves to be Americans, internationalists maybe, but not aliens]

I was very surprised when I read that the US state and federal authorities were calmly happy to deploy machine guns against strikers, and even more bemused when they chose to deport people and remove citizenship. I really didn't think states like "us" did that, but apparently I was wrong.

Australia reneges on the AU-NZ treaty all the time, deporting Kiwi's for trivial offences. Green card holders can be stripped and dumped for offences which citizens would walk away from with a finger wag.
I've never looked at graphene before (I've stopped spending time learning about each fad) but this really looks like it solves a real problem I've experienced. Definitely going to try it out.
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations
This reminds me of selling Bitcoin in order to pay off debt.
You miss the point. The point of a trial is maybe he wasn't a terrorist after all. Someone who is in fact guilty of certain crimes does in fact lose some of their protections, they can be detained.

Innocent people should be protected from arbitrary detention, therefore everyone should get a fair trial to determine if it can be proved they are guilty, while they have the ability to defend themselves. An innocent person who is wrongly accused of bombing a kindergarten is just as innocent as a person who is wrongly accused of stealing a candy bar.
And it breaks my heart that both parties are to blame.
Moon v1 beta – the minimal and fast UI compiler
You're right that in a two body system this is totally impossible. But for a three body system of Jupiter, the Sun, and our new moon then ballistic capture will baaaasically get you into orbit and then it only takes a small further interaction with another planet, another moon, or whatever to get into orbit the rest of the way.
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But that's not what's happening. Pakistani militants have planned and executed attacks on US citizens in the US and Afghanistan. Bin Laden lived there and coordinated from northern Pakistan for a decade after 9/11. The operations are targeting criminals who have committed and conspired to commit murder, not an indiscriminate campaign of murder against random citizens of Pakistan. Many innocent Pakistani people (and a Pakistani PM) have been killed by these groups. It's not morally cut and dry.
It’s pretty tragic how people respond to such criticism emotionally, instead of acknowledging the issues and working towards fixing them or educating others in the traps and compromises involved.

HN is less prone to toxicity, but this is reminiscent of Reddit and it drives away the people that want to help.

As a piece of advice, some type theory never harmed anyone ;-)
I was about to say this. Most type systems in practical use are not mathematically sound.
I can't wait to be a ball!!
When I listen to Noam Chomsky I often think he exaggerates, and then this! And like the article points to, this is not specific to Trump or Bush, but also Clinton and Obama.

I would love to know what U.S. citizens who have put thought into and truly believe that their second amendment protects them from their government abuse think of this.
Blockchain Report CW28: Some dapps, no ICOs, many wars
What's Happening with the Pipeline (|&gt;) Proposal?
I was much more sad when I initially thought this was talking about the debts of individuals.
Try framing your material in the assertion-evidence [0] style. Not only does this lead to more informative presentations, I find it helps me organize my story better.

Briefly, rather than using topic titles ("Experimental Setup", "Results"), use assertions ("Sampling occurred over 5 days", "Sunlight causes significant degradation") as titles. Then the bulk of the slide is some information, preferably graphical, that supports the assertion. Reading the titles in order should give you a strong sense of the presentation content.

I strongly recommend "The Craft of Scientific Presentations" by Michael Alley, which covers the assertion-evidence approach, and a host of other practical topics.

[0] https://www.assertion-evidence.com
I fought for two decades against people whose primary issue was caring about genitals involved behind closed doors. Now it seems like we're having the exact same fight with the side we were fighting for.

It seems like a role like BDFL of a programming language is the one place that demographic qualifiers could not be a thing...but welcome to Outrage Culture.
> Yeah, Roy. It's called being an effective communicator.

An author uses technical jargon and concepts familiar to his intended audience. Fielding's intended audience for his thesis is other people with PhDs. His writing was perfectly cogent if you have this level of knowledge.

The people who really failed REST are the blog authors who didn't have the necessary background to evaluate the REST constraints and started talking about REST despite not understanding half of the thesis. This is what diluted the term.

> Fielding, in my estimation, seems principally concerned with three things with regard to REST

You missed the central importance of hypermedia.

> Everything else is left as an exercise for the reader.

That's like saying an RPC library leaves designing and building your specific API up to the reader. Of course it does, it has no business imposing any more constraints than are needed to fulfill its purpose.

REST specifies some architectural constraints that entail certain distribution and scaling properties, that's its purpose. Anything beyond that is domain-specific logic.
Yes, of course.

The whole point of my example was that it is possible to do resourceful routing in a single file without having to resort to using custom routes. I try to avoid custom routes whenever possible - in my experience they lead to pain in the long run, more often than not.
Well, think of it this way. A seat belt cannot help you at all if an object flies through your windshield. Nevertheless, driving while wearing a seat belt is, overall, safer than driving without one.
I challenge that last statement. Have there been any neural nets that actually have a solid interpretability? Usually those are more on the lines of effectiveness in training and validation data. With no real clue as to what the driving features were.
ABM is honestly a scam. It's just a fancy marketing guy word for tying 2-4 (depending on how you want to demarcate) standard ad tech tools together.
We found our sweet spot in terms of enabling the flexibility of front-end devs experimenting and defining their own queries while maintaining cacheability. During development, front-end devs use the Graphiql endpoint to play around with the data and figure out exactly what they want. Once that's settled, we turn it into a persisted query that is stored on the server and keyed by a unique ID that the client apps use in production instead of the raw GraphQL payload. You add a small amount of overhead for the coordination to create the persisted queries, but we're considering even building a self service process in the future.
The Entrepreneur's Soul
THE ENTREPRENEUR'S SOUL

I tear through fear
I lend hope its hope
Building new worlds
Is my remit my scope

I start my journey
Not knowing when I may reach
But those old paths and routes
Oh, I so willingly breach

I go farther, I go higher
I see sights not all yet see
Oh, how breath-taking
Can the view from up here be

I walk, I run, I fall
But I rise again
Learning to do that well
Is my most prized gain

Bruises and cuts
I so proudly wear
Thresholds of pain that
Aren't easy to bear

Smeared in dirt
Coated in mud
You could easily just say
Isn't brown
the colour of your blood

I cross rivers, scale mountains
With holes in my shoe
Bringing new things to this world
Making all our dreams come true

Crazy I am
Audacity my role
I feed on hope,'Coz I am
The entrepreneur's soul
You continually receive signals at point A, send them to point B and transmit them there at higher power.
Faster than flash ️
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C# is a similar language in it's goals and architecture. LINQ to Objects type system will throw an error if you try to return conditionally different types from a lambda expression, so it is doable.
more like paying off one credit card with another that has higher APR.

Next big crisis might be a sovereign debt crisis on a global scale. The only question is how long this can continue...until SHTF.
some people just love to write with as much big words as possible. i hope they try challenge themselves in the opposite, to use as much common words as possible and see what comes out of them.
I don’t think that is true anymore. There are languages like typescript that don’t provide anything near that guarantee but are still seen as very useful.
I seconded Raymond Hettinger. He is a very experienced developer and is much respected one. If he does not want the role, perhaps Victor Stinner can do the job.
No, the elephant in the room is what supposed issues income inequality creates. Surely if there's such a discrepancy in this number between different states that's going to be measurable in some way.

My biases align with the sentiments of the article. I think that income inequality is bad, but that doesn't make me immune to recognizing lazy journalism.

The article does nothing to question that assumption. If an increase in income inequality makes the difference between "tolerable poverty" and "total squalor", isn't there going to be more of the latter in New York than West Virgina?

The map in this article is almost the exact opposite of the one in the article, showing an inverse correlation between income inequality and the poverty rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

So what exactly are the negative effects? I'm sure there's some, but the article isn't helping us talk about those.
> Migrant family separation could be solved by quick genetic testing/facial recognition

If your definition of "solving" this is "figuring out where we put these people's kids", simple pen and paper bookkeeping would have fixed that.
It would be fairly easy to rebroadcast continuously, then it's a valid signal, just in the wrong place.

Receiving the same signal over and over would be suspicious, but unless you have some other method to determine time and position, what are you going to do?
How many Americans were harmed? How many innocent people got killed or injured by American response to those events?
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The benefit is you can print the pdf form and fill in with paper (such as handing out the printed doc at the reception), or you can fill in on your computer and print the result, preserving page layout.
Inequality is a pretty big problem when you're one of the majority stuck on the bad side of it. Most people here seem to exhibit a deeply held ignorance on the plight of the vast majority of their fellow citizenry.
Most lisps are multiparadigm, and few would claim lisps are anti FP.

I think Python is considered anti FP for two reasons: when suggestions to add more FP features have been raised, Guido has fairly unambiguously rejected those features.

That’s all fine though. Python can do what Python wants. All else being equal, I’d prefer a little more functional flavor than Python has, but I won’t turn my nose up at writing Python if duty calls.
Most planets aren't even spherical in the same way that a piece of paper isn't even flat.

A fun read about this:

- [Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong](http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm)

From the link above:

> To put it another way, on a flat surface, curvature is 0 per mile everywhere. On the earth's spherical surface, curvature is 0.000126 per mile everywhere (or 8 inches per mile). On the earth's oblate spheroidal surface, the curvature varies from 7.973 inches to the mile to 8.027 inches to the mile.

> The correction in going from spherical to oblate spheroidal is much smaller than going from flat to spherical. Therefore, although the notion of the earth as a sphere is wrong, strictly speaking, it is not as wrong as the notion of the earth as flat.
Consumer debt is at all time high as well.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html
Many's a time I sat waiting at an intersection with no cross traffic waiting for the light to change, those laws would just have enabled me to go on my way. The incident you describe has the cyclist in the wrong both legally (still need to actually stop at a light) and pragmatically -- when you're squishy and unarmored, being predictable is a very good thing.
The problem with REST is largely the people who look at it blindly as "thing that makes the CRUD go" instead of as a methodology of how to effectively use HTTP verbs and designing URIs that make sense.

So I guess my question is, why would I use GraphQL over, say, the Swagger tool suite? Swagger and the OpenAPI spec defines a way of doing REST that best fits both what Roy Fielding meant for REST but also fits IDE and tool automation systems.
It's an interesting point and something that we should talk about. But the article doesn't really make the case that this is a waste of money. If it was advantageous to take on the debt in the first place, it might also be worthwhile to keep the debt on the books now. Presumably there is an interest rate at which it will stop being worth servicing the debt, but I don't really know where that point is.
I'd agree with this sentiment, on the backend, it isn't really easier and it's not really harder either. You end up dealing with different problems than with REST (as noted, different types of performance problems, more issues with error handling have been my biggest two).

The frontend developers see the biggest improvements, they have one endpoint to worry about and using a library like Apollo makes things really nice.

Overall, I think the improvements are worth it, especially when working on internal APIs.
Typescript with its explicitly unsound type system show that a "broken" type system is immensely valuable, especially when you get something in return for that [1]

[1]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
Yep, best decision. Both from a back-end experience (caching, performance, type safety) and front-end experience (flexible querying, great documentation, tracing, etc.)