skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for writing :) I see the tides turning. The internet is allowing a lot of people to draw an income from crazy niches. Patreon proves this.

But, it's not stable, and walled gardens are always a problem.
Would you consider the writing to be on the wall today?
> I suspect it's because the trickle down effect doesn't work.

Well, maybe.

Or maybe Republican policies are beneficial in the long term, which means they don't start working until after they've left office and don't stop working until the Democrat who replaces them has dismantled them.

Or maybe voters tend to vote Republican when they are uncertain about the future, i.e. in periods of instability.

Or maybe the President doesn't make a huge difference either way in most cases, and the business cycle got into a rhythm where corrections started happening in a quasi-regular rhythm that seems to coincide with elections with Republican incumbents. (The only point where it seemed to get out of this rhythm, after WWII, was the double-dip recession of the early 80's, which coincided with a Democrat -> Republican party switch that didn't switch back until there was another recession).

Or maybe there's been only 15 US Presidents to serve at least a full term in the past 100 years and it's not a meaningful sample size. I'm going to bet that's the one.
The VAX and VMS were designed for each other. Many features in the VAX were created specifically to support VMS. That said, just as the PDP-11 was the parent of the VAX, the RSX-11 operating system was the parent of VMS.

BTW, the original article is annoying unsubstantial.
"Learning styles" has actually been debunked repeatedly.

The biggest problem is that the truly effective mechanisms for learning require very low student to teacher ratios and high engagement with and from the teacher over relatively short often repeated sessions (3 hour lectures, for example, do not qualify).
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I'm getting intermittent 404s as well. It'll probably be fine once this drops off the front page.
It's using Ruby to replace Awk, the way Perl once tried to.
Modern wireless ISP equipment vendors have revived the horn antenna, in much smaller versions, for point to point and point-to-multipoint 5.x GHz applications:

https://rfelements.com/products/wireless-broadband/ultrahorn...

Much better sidelobe rejection and front/back ratio performance than traditional parabolics. What's old is new again.

I know you're talking about the Holmdel Horn (steerable) used for earlier transatlantic satellite relay experiments. But there are still a great many sites across the USA with 6 GHz horns in place on towers, mostly doing nothing.

I have seen tower crews with cutting torches cutting up KS-15676 horn antennas because they're too big and bulky to economically get off a tower any other way.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=KS-...
It's feeding stdin to ruby code you specify on the command line, either as an array of lines, or repeated strings. So in:

docker ps | rb drop 1 | rb -l split[1]

The output of docker ps is passed as an array of lines to ruby, and the first line is dropped, and then that output is fed to ruby again, but line by line, so each line is split (which defaults to split on whitespace), and returns the second element. With parentheses for function calls it would be:

docker ps | rb drop(1) | rb -l split()[1]
> For example, can a program decide, given a sorting function implemented in language X, and an algorithm Y, whether or not the sorting function is an implementation of algorithm Y?

Assuming the usual things (e.g. that an algorithm Y can be specified in some useful, say, very high level language) then this problem is Halting-hard (e.g. at least as hard as the halting problem), because it would be showing the equivalence of two programs. A similar case applies to your latter question.

I'm not sure there's a good way of specifying abstract algorithms without running into this problem, but I'd be interested in defining a bit further what you might be thinking about.
Only tangentially related story, but maybe worth sharing.

There’s an older gentleman who frequents a Panera in Chicago my wife works at. He is known and loved by all the employees and is staple of the store around closing time.

At some point, I made a comment about the paper he was reading (he always brings in the daily paper) and we sat for a bit and talked politics and news. He had introduced himself as Bill, and over the course of the conversation I came to found out that he was William Howard. I’ve sat down and chatted with him a few times since, and he’s always happy to help explain type theory to my feeble web dev mind :).

I was really impressed by how well versed he was, not only in his field of math, but also in his expertise of (what he considers a tangential field) programming, aerospace, ecenomics, etc. He’s got an air of humble greatness about him, and meeting him really left me a better and more educated person.
If you do the math, I'd guess PG&E's share of the blame is maybe a millionth of a percent.
You don't need to be a voter to be a candidate. A bill was introduced earlier in the year to change that but didn't go anywhere, which is probably how he found out he was eligible.

You just need to be a resident of the state for four years. No other requirement. In particular, no age requirement.

The headline sounds like it's specific to him in some narrow way, but almost any 14 yo (or 4 yo) in Vermont is probably eligible to stand as a candidate.
it's just a joke mate
Thank you. Excellent comment. Men often try to act like my observations on this detail are untrue and there must be some reason other than my gender that explains my difficulties.

because my wife had already met my friend and her girlfriend.

My observation has been that being openly Lesbian or trans helps open doors. I know of at least 2 male to female trans individuals who have been vastly more successful at using HN to network than I have been. I'm fairly confident this is because plenty of men would not sleep with a trans woman and it makes it easier for them avoid an appearance of impropriety. It's probably a dirty little secret because these same men likely would not want to publicly admit to an essentially transphobic position. They would want to be seen in paladin-like terms for being supportive of an oppressed minority. Meanwhile, some of these same men would not publicly wish to be associated with a hetero woman for fear there might be talk.

I don’t know how to square that circle that puts women at a disadvantage.

There is a networking service for HN called Kismet. I'm woefully behind again, but using that service has been a positive for me. So far, no one has hit on me and it has resulted in some productive feedback on a project of mine, for example.

So I think one possibility is we work at creating more social channels that very clearly signal "this is business."
Can you tell at least one specific example where they broke the standard library?
mathematics form and function by Mac Lane (sweeping coverage of all of math at about the undergrad math major level by one of the best mathematicians of the 20th) and the power broker by Caro (no clue really - Robert Moses was the most effective public works new York has ever had, brought down Tammany hall but also quite racist - came highly recommended in an r/NYC thread about him)
Needs to pre-populate a default on the demo site to make it easier to see how it works.
> I think that, politically, it would have never been accepted by the population or the (conscription-based) army.

I agree, but the population is how the U.S. makes decisions (very broadly speaking) - that's the advantage of being a democracy.
Were you still rendering individual glyphs into a font cache and then rendering those textures into a single text texture? It seems like it would be pretty expensive to always render each individual glyph from the font engine every time instead of caching the results.
Because it's nigh impossible to get someone to understand something (much less actively do large amounts of work to fix it) when their income (or department budget) depends on them not understanding it.
This is true if and only if you can and have read the underlying math/algorithm

If you are doing cryptography, you do exactly that.
That's true of some fines in some places, but to be clear, it's not really true of parking fines in Chicago. The graph in the article indicates there's about $1 million dollars in tickets issued each year. That's around $ .30 per resident and less than one percent of the billions in revenue the city takes in each year (https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/obm/sup..., see page 23 in particular) I did notice that fines in general amount to $300 million a year, so other fines might well be inflated.
This is great! I often request records but have never come up with a great use case!

Under Florida public record law, source code produced by state employees is, in very narrow circumstances, a non-exempt public record (the code can't process sensitive data, etc.). I'm considering a future endeavor where I periodically request the code to such projects until the I.T. department decides it's worth the effort to open source it.

I like to think this is a step towards consolidating publicly funded code and reducing duplicate effort. Ahh, imagine making a pull request to your city's website! But I'm getting ahead of myself...
And yet today that's exactly what he said he's going to do (though he hasn't disclosed the price of the private interest he's selling, only a rough estimate of the total proceeds). Musk disagrees with your math though; he expects to buy 1/3 of the shares, not 12%. But I'm sure he hopes it will be less. And of course he's not doing it all himself. He'll have shares left, he's just going to have to take a haircut.
This is something the public can control. Make government positions competitive with corporate ones and you'll get a bunch more talented (and patriotic) "educated technologists" working in government. Likewise with teachers.

It's not difficult, just costly.
Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...

In 1980, at the end of the Carter administration, the US was suffering from a bad recession that double-dipped in 1981. From 1982 onwards, the economy grew without a hitch until 1990-91. You could blame that recession on Reagan and Bush, but it didn't happen during the Reagan years.
Top Programming Languages: Python extends its lead, Assembly enters the Top Ten
Good lord, just park and walk. Or use that bike lane. Cities have an overabundance of expensive parking [1], which does nothing but waste space and act as giant thermal batteries. Everyone loves complaining about traffic, but we don’t seem to have the political will to do something about it (namely: reduce our dependence on cars). Cities should work to reduce their dependence on cars, not increase it at the expense of cyclists and pedestrians, who are actually the life blood of cities (think about how many pedestrians stop into small business compared to drivers speeding by at 35 mi/h).

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/more-evidence-that-we-ha...
I'm a huge sci-fi geek. I've recently been listening to The Expanse series. I'm on book 3. The narrator of all 3 thus far is fantastic - the subtle voice changes and accent put-ons
and various other verbal techniques makes the experience far easier to follow and immerse yourself into. One of the best narrators for any audiobook I've heard.
Point is, don't go around promising that you are in it for the long haul when you can't/won't made good on it.
My experience has been the same, so it’s hard to understand where shawn is coming from. There have been impressively few breaking changes to the Go standard library since 1.0.

Even when bringing in a number of third-party packages, the only trouble I’ve had building Go projects has been in Windows (which is often treated by Gophers as a second-class platform).
Link to interactive web page: https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-program...

Python is #1. C++, C, Java and C# at 2,3,4 and 5 respectively. Javascript at 8, and Go at 9.
This is the price that the vendor is charging, NOT what the person is getting paid.

The vendor is covering insurance, holiday/sick leave et al, payroll taxes et al, rent, management, carrying the risk of the work going away, etc etc.

It looks high, but it's not nearly as profitable as it seems for either the vendor or the employee.
Seems like it would be really annoying to service if something breaks and needs to be replaced.
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China’s external debt to GDP is one of the lowest in the world, as is their debt per capita.

They aren’t going to be ‘punished’ by creditors because they don’t have significant debt. In fact, it’s more likely that China will be the one doing the punishing down the road.
Does it matter that the end goal will be to funnel all the innovation, countless developer hours, and blood sweat and tears into selling ads?
I think the answer is "yes"; it seems to be covered in the configuration page: http://dvorka.github.io/hstr/CONFIGURATION.html#binding-hh-t...

It says to use

bind '"\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"'

to bind to Ctrl-R; the "bind" command can be used in the shell directly. Alternatively, you can put

"\C-r": "\C-ahh -- \C-j"

in your ~/.inputrc.
They say they have a multiyear contract with Caesar's but the facility is under construction next year.

It seems like there might be a case for claiming breach and getting out of that contract. And for PR reasons it might be worth it for DefCon to persue that option.
Bayer is responsible for thousands of horrendous birth defects with thalidomide in the 50s and 60s. They did nothing when they learned of the problem.
Man, Russian sidewalks are huge, I sort of understand thinking you could drive on them.
Extremely relevant: We need to talk about Go modules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGr3S41gjM
I'd imagine they would want to build this cheap enough to just replace the entire thing when something goes wrong. Anything else seems very impractical.
Alternatively, if you're a parking meter in Chicago, you now now how to meet quota and can full in the rest of your day with meaningful things.
I remember a time when roughly 90% of internet users thought the World Wide Web was the Internet.
It figures that my critique would be undermined by the choice of a single word.

Look, maybe the stdlib is rock solid. But every time I try to build a Go project, `go build` finds ten ways not to work.

Case in point: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc

Try building this. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it doesn't work. It's cool tech, I want it, but I don't want to immerse myself in the world of hurt^WGo just to get it.

I did however at least attempt to fix the problem: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc/pull/2
For me the interrobang just looks too busy and small, it needs some thought put into its appearance by font designers.

Maybe back in the days of typewriters you could overlay ? and ! but I don't think it looks good today‽
Love that you charge by the second. Need to run some math, but we're excited to at least give this a go sometime this week. Congrats on launch.
In my area, there are places you have to "park and walk" to and places you can just drive to. Second category are the only ones that get my business.
Do you have any specific information about this or the relevant regulations?

Perhaps we need a meta-site with best practices and how best to attack open records requests in general.
The answer is surprisingly yes!

It's usually called equational reasoning or Bird–Meertens formalism.

Transforming an insertion sort into merge sort is covered in Section 5 of "FUNCTIONAL PEARLS The Third Homomorphism Theorem":

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.45....
Yes, in general it is obviously undecidable.

I should have been clearer, but I'm mostly interested in structure (traversal) algorithms, most of which could be coded in a language with bounded loops.

An easier question is the one of determining the complexity of an algorithm. I think there's a ton of work in this area, for example in techniques that use typing systems (types may for example specify how many times a parameter is used, thus allowing the program to infer the complexity).

(easier because the equivalence relation of "implementing the same algorithm" is strictly finer than "having the same complexity")
I think both your assertions are not correct.

Economists just want 'real' numbers from China, numbers that reflect some kind of reality. That's before any ideology sits in.

If there were at least transparency there, we'd all be better off, that said if there were, the 'fudges' necessary to make things worse would be more obviously lies.

As far as 2008 - this was a failure of integrity from the bottom to the top: those taking home loans, mortgage lending staff, executives, those bundling up crap, the ratings agencies, and the laziness of those buying the bundles. It was a systematic failure of reason as well.

Were actual, material numbers to have been objectively published, we wouldn't have had a crisis in 2008, because nobody would have bought bundles of crap, and the market would have needed no correction because it wouldn't have gotten out of hand.

China's central policies surely irk some, of course they can do it if they please, but they cant reasonably contend to be 'free trade' or what not so long as there is such government intervention; they should not be in the WTO.

Everyone in the world would benefit from more objective clarity on all of this.
Oh, it's certainly a sell out. I'm just saying it's not a sellout to Starbucks. It's a sell out to the dairy industry.
But how do you know if the dip is $1000.00, $100.00, or $1.00?
I'm sorry - but I feel that this post agrees with my comment.

When I said "get boots on the ground" I was also saying that the point of having a military presence is a long-term play ensuring that we secure some avenue to access of minerals at-some-point in the future - and this aligns with the corporate goals as well.

Maybe I worded it poorly, but for the most part - I feel I am saying the same thing as your friend, though I am more cynical of the motives of our government/military and more suspicious that they are much more cunning than they would want the general populous to believe.
The cold v. warm blood thing is far more complex. For instance, warm blooded animals can handle slight changes in temperature better than the cold blooded. A wolf's reproductive cycle may be tied to the weather, but a degree or two either way won't really impact the development of its live young. But a degree or two for a croc egg and it might not survive. Or all the crocs one year are male because egg temperature can impact sex selection. If a meteor causes havoc with the climate, that warm blood under some warm fur could be a real advantage.
They're going to save soo much money not having to lease space in major cities along the coast because of this. Hardware is pennies on the dollar in comparison.
Check out Rick Mercer - Talking to Americans. Its on YouTube. The whole show is great, but aging now. But he gets various members of congress to endorse Canada building a national igloo among other things.
>> (P.S. I wonder why my comments above were downvoted?)

I didn't downvote you but a lot of your claims come off as over the top fearmongering and/or ignorant. I'll try and counter with your 2 main points that I see:

> In order to fulfill the Paris agreement of limiting warming to 2°C (which would already be a global catastrophe)

This one I just haven't really heard about how a 2°C temperature increase would be a global catastrophe. I've read that it will improve certain countries farming and hurt others. Overall, not much out of speculation how it will affect humans in the grand scheme of things. (I agree that it will be really bad for other species like the great barrier reef which I am really sad about but most people don't care about that, they just want to improve their own life and cheap energy is massively beneficial to people which currently outweighs the cost even if it is currently costing the plant).

> If you want to convert all of the ICE cars on the road to electric cars, where will the energy come from to do that? Manufacturing the cars requires fossil fuels.

No it doesn't. We can convert 100% of our energy usage to renewable energies. We just don't do it because it is too expensive to switch all at once. However, if renewables and batteries keep improving like they do, fossil fuels get too expensive once we run out of ones to cheapy extract, we will end up that way (the latter which is guaranteed no matter what happens as fossil fuels are limited). Pretty much every government even china and the Saudis recognize this which is why everyone is subsidising/investing in renewable energy and taxing fossil fuels to get renewables cheaper.
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Guess you would just remotely disable any part that breaks. Once enough stuff has broken you just replace the whole thing.

Designing it would be a little bit like designing something that is going into space. You'd need to be very confident in your ability to remotely manage it over a long time frame.
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What does this have over the default ruby?

cat your-file.txt | ruby -ne '$_.your_ruby_stuff'

Just syntactic sugar? (it does look cleaner!)
Agreed. There are an unlimited number of variables that cannot all be accounted for, and even the most insignificant of them have the ability impact the future in dramatic ways. There is absolutely no saying what the likelihood of a recession is.
/r/conlangs and /r/neography are both really fun subs for this kind of stuff (this is more the latter really) if anyone is interested.
That's nothing at the scale of Chicago. Their seven-cent tax on plastic bags is expected to bring in $9 million dollars this year (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-chicago-bag-tax-us...).
If actual events were largely as depicted in TFA, Mayo's interests would be best served by not addressing them at all. The publicity of the former board member's letter to a VP (but not his first name!) is a bit of a PR disaster...
The biggest problem for me is the delay between when the tax is incurred and when it is filed. As a home owner, for instance, every year I have to remember how much I paid for property tax, mortgage interests, etc (or at least save the receipts). If the IRS can provide some kind of API that allows me to file each item as it appears, that would be much better.
"I was in a bank yesterday, and saw the same thing. They had a person from their mortgage department approaching customers and informing them that they had 0 down loans available."

Considering that home sales volume has dropped a lot as affordability has fallen (due to higher interest rates + higher prices), banks mortgage business is likely falling - not due to foreclosures but rather due to lower home sales volume. They may feel that, with lending standards now higher than 10 years ago, the risk of losing money in a potential foreclosure is now low enough that the risk is justified given the loss of business.
The 'problem' is that the authors did not use dep (soon to be modules) and add the Gopkg.[toml|lock] files.
So drop is just a Ruby function? This is a great idea, seems like a good application of Ruby's syntax.
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Now we have emoji.
> The West side seems to have less difficulty understanding this.

We still have the unmarked white vans over here. I think it's Amazon.
Well, when you put it that way..
Agreed. For another great sci-fi audiobook narrator, check out John Lee.