skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another example of what constant consumption of hyperbolic media coverage about horrific cases does to our collective psychology and ability to assess risk.

In Iceland they leave sleeping kids parked in strollers outside the coffeeshop. I can't tell how many times I've wanted to do that. But then I remember the friend of a friend whose kids were taken away for doing just that.
If you don't like Google, then don't use Google's products.
> SFINAE, accidentally turing-complete templates

Template meta-programming is awful but that particular type of turing completeness isn't a problem at all. Mere arithmetic and some kind of ability to loop gives you that kind of turing completeness. The typical compiler limits looping depth to a couple hundred, and the problem is solved. Such a construct isn't a notably slow use of templates either. It's more trouble to avoid it than to have it. Compare some macros that can't loop and need a bunch of extremely repetitive lines for different sizes.
If you're doing anything more involved than CRUD apps knowing the "bs things" is pretty useful; especially if you think you qualify as a "senior developer". Mindlessly copying from google won't tell you the right questions to ask, and won't help you mentor new talent. If you're found yourself at 40+ and don't know the fundamentals that tells me you've done little to no mentoring and probably don't fit in my organization.

Given (1) 3 also becomes a bit of dead end. If you're actually on a principle track (that's ownership, aptitude, etc) senior developer tracks can be nearly unbounded; especially at the usual suspects and increasingly at companies serious about growing their technology department.

I'd caution against striving for "just adding value"; being one of the people that have 2 years of experience 10 times is going to cut you off from most employment opportunities.
not only that but it comes with access to learning material built in. Still though, English is probably not the majority spoken language, much less absolute majority, even on the net, especially if proficiency is a factor.
Spanish double negatives aren't emphatic, they're 'grammatical'. If you need one ('Nadie lo sabe') you cannot add another one for emphasis, and if you need two ('No lo sabe nadie') you cannot remove one for less emphasis.
That's a great example. I have a family member who works in the health care data field, with the idea that enough data leads to better diagnosis and better outcomes. The topic of maternal mortality came up and how the US, comparatively, is rated worse than every other 1st world nation. His take was that 1) the other countries aren't reporting deaths correctly, 2) the data definition is not the same across nations, and 3) US women entered pregnancy with more comorbidities. So in essence a person in a medical field intended to keep more people alive for longer failed to recognize that systemically the US is doing worse than other nations because "data is deficient" and then blamed the dying women for being fat, old, unhealthy. Read here minorities specifically. Apparently no other nations in the world have old, fat, or unhealthy pregnant women.
Yes, they do, if all the messages are read in the topics. Then it shows a "more topics" if you want to go back further. However, it will display all the topics with unread messages in them (even if this is more than 5).

If you're ending up with a lot of unread topics you don't care about, the answer is to mute that topic (you can mute a single topic without muting the whole stream, which is awesome but a lot of people I've worked with didn't realize you could do this).
One of my favorite cases of reanalysis gone amok is:

[(xocalia + a'tl) => chocola-tl => chocolate => choco-] + [(al-kuhl => alcohol) + (-ique => -ic) => -holic] => chocoholic

which, having contributions from Nahuatl, Arabic, and Latin results in a word with morphemes originating in 3 distinct language families.

On the topic of article rebracketing, I also love "an eke-name" (an extra name) becoming "a nickname".
Tildes is open-source
Hijacking this thread to share a very unpopular opinion: It requires an entity with the amount of resources, tech, talent and data they have to develop an AGI and eventually ASI.

I personally would prefer them to develop it, than say Amazon. Or worse Tencent or Baidu i.e an authoritarian government. This has been Larry and Sergey's motivation from the get go. This is obviously naive but I believe the ad machine and the power and money that came of it is only a means to an end. A real AI has always been the target.

Yes an open source consortium like OpenAI would be better but that is honestly not realistic. Who knows, it might go the way of Kubernetes and TensorFlow. Open source the framework and offer the best service to run it on.

Unless there is a massive war on the horizon this development is inevitable. There are downsides, as with all powerful tech. But in 300 years humanity might live in post-scarcity society and finally be done with the fear and hate for each other that comes with inequality. Sorry for the emotional rant.

This is blind optimism. I prefer to life like this. But we might of course also end up in a Blade Runner/Resident Evil/1984 type situation.

Generally looking forward to your opinions.
Who owns Nokia now?
I disagree with passion. The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin is responsible for Google's success. Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat executed Page and Brin's ideas, but they were not the key decision makers. Did Dean and Ghemawat decide to buy and then build Android? Did they decide to build Google Maps? Did they decide to buy YouTube?. The answer is no. Page and Brin would have hired other smart people if Dean and Ghemawat weren't available or had they left Google.
AMAZON closed seller account
without any heads up at all or written warning, my account and all info was deleted!
Now, I cannot open another account due to incompatibility...something to that effect!!!
WTF?
Any recourse to this absurdly rude and unwarranted action ? Please advise me.
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It benefits the consumer by creating two or more highly competitive organizations, thus leading to a breeding ground of growth and innovation.

This is the basis of all antitrust laws.
>Say you do a search for a particular location, the first thing that pops up to the the top of the page is a box with some information pulled from wikipedia and a link/image of it on google maps.

You're saying Google provided you with exactly the information you were looking for in the first place. And for free, btw.

That clearly can't be allowed to stand.
Good. For every real Elon Musk tweet, there'll be one fake reply right underneath with some thief trying to scam the unwary into sending Bitcoin somewhere. Glad to see Twitter cracking down on it.
Ads.

Previously to buy ads you had to call someone, get dinner with some weird guy, make tons of calls, get crappy click rates, trust the other companies 'reporting', pay for impression ads (wtf). It was a mess. You also had to do this with 23 DIFFERENT companies, which were all different. Google wasn't the first, but they did follow through and make a great way to advertise with self serve.

Selling ads is awesome. No overhead, no rotting inventory, no operations mess. It scales infinitely naturally. It is clean easy cash. Everything else they do is a huge side show to distract people.
The original ACLU title is: Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots. It was spread on the news with the same conclusion.

It puts directly the blame on Amazon and its technology and doesn't mention any configuration they used.
> I'm pretty sure Greek and Latin filled a similar role, but I don't know my history well enough to claim it as a fact.

It is a fact. From wiki:

"During the time of the Hellenistic civilization and Roman Empire, the lingua francas were Koine Greek and Latin. During the Middle Ages, the lingua franca was Greek in the parts of Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa where the Byzantine Empire held hegemony, and Latin was primarily used in the rest of Europe. Latin, for a significant portion of the expansion of the Roman Catholic Church, was the universal language of prayer and worship"

Also the new testament was written in greek.
Out of curiosity, what prevents you from using Firefox? It allows you to specify a default search engine -- which you can set directly to DDG.
Automating EBS snapshots in AWS
Realistically, and I mean no disrespect to the profession or your daughter who is studying it, but why is a degree required here? And a master's at that?

What exactly do they do that requires knowledge?

My assumption is they shelve books, maybe make recommendations, and hold weekly community events? And nowadays, help with social services like helping people create resumes and what not?
I say not plausible at all, and I'm a fan of Esperanto. If Esperanto is going to get adopted anywhere, it would have to start in the far east (China mostly). The fact that Esperanto has phonetic pronunciation that matches the spelling of words, strongly regular grammar, and latin roots that make learning French or English easier makes it more plausible that it would mostly appeal to a nation which needs to improve literacy and communication quickly for economic reasons, and doesn't want the cultural baggage of another nation's language would choose it. Also, Esperanto has some socialist roots to it that could appeal to China.

Europe had a chance to embrace esperanto back in the day, gave it a heck no. And without English, the default lingua franca, would definitely be French.
I think the deviating factor there is actually mindset. E.g. Germany and Japan have dominance over U.S. car manufacturers. Most companies in the E.U. don't set out to break the world and change it; they aim for a quality product built after a series of increments. In the U.S. every company in technology is out there to change the world, even if they are selling something totally common. Namely, the iphone was a combination of existing technology combined so as to change the world. In the meantime other companies were innovating in the RF area, which well makes sense, but doesn't make for a "ground-breaking" product.

That argument has been made and argued by a number of economists -- will try to find some citations if I get the time -- feel free to google scholar in the meantime.

I understand the fear of regulation that exists, however we need to take a step back from time to time and evaluate the options. Right now, U.S. has really shitty internet (I am serious, price/value is really bad...), because the 3-4 companies, crash smaller ones or bully them into suicidal terms; and have shared the U.S. pie among them. (I bet in your area only 1 carrier has acceptable speeds -- given you have more than one.) The companies were paid though to improve the infrastructure and people chose to effectively let them roam free. They pocketed the cash.

I am sorry, but Braess's paradox [0] is real.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
I don’t remember us being asked if we wanted to live in the oven, but here we are anyway.
I find it non acceptable that founders get out of LowBall acquisitions with a couple Million$ , while early employees that worked almost as much, will in the best case get out with 100k$, in the worst case nothing (depending on the shares classes)
Is that true? Chinese has tones but English has a huge number of distinct vowel sounds to distinguish between and often has syllables with both two consonants in front and two in back, like "thrones". In terms of bits per syllable they're both near the top, in contrast to languages like Spanish or Japanese.

That's just spoken Chinese though. Writing in a language that doesn't use an alphabet or syllabary is of course clearly much harder.
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Additionally, dep is, and always was, meant as an experiment to learn from. Russ gave multiple concrete examples of things he learned from dep. That the dep authors don't take this as a win is telling. Pitching dep as the eventual Go dependency management system and having that not be the case is a problem they invented for themselves.
They didn't - AltaVista was done by Louis Monier and Mike Burrows, both of whom also worked at Google and both of whom also made significant contributions to the codebase.

I do agree that management was the critical ingredient - my former VP at Google (employee #48) credited Urs Hoelzle (employee #9, and Google's first VP) as a key ingredient to Google's success. Ironically, though, Google hired Western Digital's management as well - SVP Alan Eustace came from there - and yet the team under Eustace at Google was much more effective than the team under Eustace at Western Digital.

I suspect that management has sort of a "gatekeeping" effect - if all of your management is good, the whole department does great things, but if a single link in the org chart is a dufus, the whole organization will fail. When I joined Google in 2009, my whole management chain (6 levels, up to Eric Schmidt) were all engineers, and it showed.
If I had the funds I would found a mercantile library in Des Moines. Publics are horrid for STEM books. Research universities are remote in the US. The skilled trades from plumbing to programming get marginalized by everyone.
My assumption here is that aantix is referring the more passive "watching" that happens in these sorts of environments, meaning "keeps the children in mind while going about other business" and not the strict interpretation of "never lets the children leave their line-of-sight"

Functionally, the passive form of watching just means being available to adjudicate disputes and administer first aid.
That translates to:

Verbatim: "No hagas, NO hagas esto" (Do not, do NOT do this)

or

"No, no hagas esto" (No, don't do this)
New York to kick Spectrum cable out of state for 'failures to serve New Yorkers'
Verb irregularity is often overstated as a complexity in English. For example, my French-English gives 120-ish different classes of verb conjugation, but most people would say that it has ~4-ish classes, plus some simple modifications on top of that, plus random exceptions here and there. If you tried to group English verbs into similar conjugation classes, you'd arrive at probably a smaller number. It's just that, because English has so little conjugation left, it's easier to list out all of the exceptions as a single list.

English's problems generally stem from the Great Vowel Shift destroying our spelling (and ruining the remnants of the Germanic ablaut system for conjugation), and, most importantly, our proclivity for borrowing foreign words with foreign spellings and foreign conjugations. Doubly so when we can't even conjugate the foreign words properly (it's supposed to be octopodes by that rule, not octopi; octopuses is perfectly functional reasonable).
I use FF and DuckDuckGo. It's super easy.
Off topic, and IANAL, but I believe this website breaks European law by refusing to serve the article to european residents who block cookies.

Under the ePrivacy legislation (and GDPR's redefinition of consent), you must obtain "freely given consent" to use cookies that are not necessary for the proper functioning of the site (and under this definition, analytics cookies are not necessary).

By refusing to serve the site to those who opt to block cookies, they ensure that consent can only be given under duress.
Citrine (https://citrine-lang.org/ I am the author) tried to change this with respect to coding (it is a programming language that allows everyone to code in their own language and translate between parties). However, it has been ignored, ridiculed and hated (even death threats). So it has failed and I realize that (I continue to finish it until 0.9 though, because I cant stop in the middle - I am a very neurotic person). It's hard for me. I feel hatred but I realize it just wasnt meant to be (but for some reason if something like this happens and you read an article like this the hate burns...). There is probably not even a way to save European languages anyway. So I just wanted to share this comment to let you know I was working on a technology that at least for coding tried to counter the influence of the English language and allows people to write code in their own language. However I also wrote this comment because I am very emotional because of the failure of this project. When I read an article like this - it's just ...unspeakable. Maybe I was too arrogant. Maybe the problem is too difficult. Maybe I interefered with some globalist agenda, maybe it's just Don Quixottish. Who knows? Anyway I had to share this train of thought. Maybe people just deserve to have their language (and culture) taken from them. Maybe it's just the way it is.
Censorship is not the root problem. The root problem is spam. For example, the main reason that we all choose one of the giant tech corps to host our email is because of spam. Spam defenses are why it's so difficult to run your own mail server these days. Thus spam causes email provider centralization even though though there is no network effect lock in. Then with centralization you get the secondary problems such as censorship.
'1984' is a particular type of dystopian; it has specific connotations, associations, etc.
Wait a minute!

Is OP saying that, with his Microsoft account locked, he can't even use his computer?

Because, you know, there are ways around that. And worst case, you can boot with a Linux LiveCD, and copy all of your stuff to a USB drive. Unless you've used Bitlocker, anyway.
Both. 29% are owned by independent drivers: http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/features/taxi/n_10292/
My point was not that meeting people is at all related to alcohol(ism). My point was that both social media and alcohol can be used responsibly in beneficial ways.
Amen to this - they suck
The local cop will not use AWS APIs by himself just like that, connecting it to the surveillance cameras and mugshot databases.

Hopefully, and I think this scandal will help, the engineering departments/contractors for the government will develop software that is appropriately configured for each case.
If by "worked" you mean "burned through ten billion in cash" then sure, it worked.
I love the English language. It is expressive, it is the language of great literature, and it is in no way „bullying“, no, it brings people all over the world together. There would be no way to talk to a Chinese for me (German) if he had only learned Japanese because Japan is the neighbour and if I had only learned French or Polish because those are our big neighbours. No, English brings us all together, it makes me communicate with ordinary people without a translator anywhere on the planet. I do not care if everyone speaks English, German, Hindi or Esperanto. But if English has the noble power to bring people together, regardless of nation, religion or race, I applaud it, because this is just a wonderful use for this little language that was once only spoken on a medium sized Island in the Northern Sea.

Let‘s appreciate English, let us embrace it even a bit more, let us try to speak it better each day for a world of mutual understanding. Maybe English can be a driver for peace, at least to a certain degree.
This is kinda unrelated. But I am _very_ new to Go.

If one were to start a serious project with Go in 2018, what's the recommended way? Are people using Go modules? How to deal with 3rd party deps which dont have go.mod files?

When I previously explored Go, having all code under GOPATH was recommended, but seems like things have changed with `vgo`.
By your logic Apple completely owns me. I have no idea what to do about that. To start with I could run my own email server on my own domain (something I did years ago and have no appetite for in the modern mail deliverability cesspool). That’s just email. If they wanted to disable my phone or apps I rely on I’d be equally screwed. Is there a way to live digitially today that isn’t at the pleasure of some large tech company?
Already having a 'universal' app that works across 'all' the markets you visit is surely part of the experience as well.

It would really be nice if there were a standard API and naming system so that a global hierarchical registration system could be used by any application speaking that standard to provide the functionality presently provided by Lyft and Uber.
No recourse perma ban within 3 hours?

Sounds like a recipe for griefing.
I have a question about that actually, macros in C/C++ are disgusting, why isn't Rust trying to improve it? It's better obviously but it is still not a nice thing to parse.
> Cab driving is a low skill job, which is why it's so important that proper competition can exist. My first ever Uber driver had water bottles and gum and even throw pillows and a blanket in the back. He was in a suit. He was really polite and all that. Because he's looking for 5 star rankings.

He's doing that because a small amount of ratings, however fickle or unfair, can make or break his ability to make money while driving for Uber.
In chicago, at Illinois Institute of Technology, they had a park in-between the residencies and classrooms; when they decided to build a main center (McCormick Tribune Campus Center) at the park, they (Rem Koolhaus) tracked the pathing that students were naturally taking to cut through the park, with the assumption that these were naturally optimized routes to important destinations. The building was then constructed such that those pathways persisted. This worked out quite well, in usage. (except some of the administration doesn't actually grasp this concept, and arbitrary block off routes... most often for their security circus)

>whoever comes first and is part of the majority who wants to travel from A to B through the park without casually strolling will define the way

I'm not sure about whoever comes first; people don't normally follow paths based on lightly treaded footprints in the grass. Hell, you watch people cutting across the grass and you're not going to see them just line up.. They walk to their destination, and enough people to do so over the same path (presumably, because its optimal, or close to it), and the grass dies, and a pathway naturally emerges, and then you get your lines. It wouldn't be about which person arrives first.. it would be about which destination appeared first. The pathway would be naturally created for it, and then if a different, but nearby destination appeared, they'd probably re-use the pathway rather than to create a new one. A sufficiently distant new destination would likely create more pathways though.

>What if the park is supposed to have a few loops and not-directly-diagonal paths to encourage lingering around?

There's nothing stopping that; just don't interfere with the optimal paths. There's no reason you can't have more paths (it's not like you're putting fences so they can't intersect..), but certainly its unreasonably to have fewer paths than what people will naturally use.

Also, what is this supposed to business? It's a design/aesthetic choice, and if its unreasonable to have given the conditions of the environment, it would be utterly moronic to put it in anyways. If the designer doesn't have the authority to not be subservient to whatever is supposed to be, then its likely the stupidity of the bureaucracy. This then isn't question about what is good, its about what the authority thinks is good, and by how far its willing to force it onto the population.
English is only roughly middling in terms of phonemic inventory (about 40). Romance languages tend to be on the phonemically sparse side of things, but Germanic languages have broader phonemic inventories. And while the thorn/eth are difficult to pronounce, I'll take those over Arabic's pharyngeals, thank you very much.
Not plausible, they would still have 2 members where English plays an important role: Ireland (though not the 1st official language) and Malta