skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unchecked type "annotation" was one of the worst features ever added to a reasonably popular programming language. Python did OK without type declarations. Optional type declarations could help with checking, documentation, and optimization. What went in is the worst of both worlds. Type annotations don't do much, and they might be wrong.

Now this. Ugh. This is abusing an internal feature of one implementation.
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Sure. I'm at work now but I'll try to get to it this evening.
The term is most commonly associated with Suzuki Roshi, who founded the San Francisco Zen Center. He has a book, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind." You can learn more about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunry%C5%AB_Suzuki

Here are a few blog posts:

- https://zenhabits.net/beginner/
- https://jackkornfield.com/beginners-mind/

Here are a few talks/podcasts:

- http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/68/talk/17919/
- http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/23/talk/500/
- http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/139/talk/893/

Finally, I have had the most special "beginner's mind" experiences while attending multi-day, silent meditation retreats. I live in the Bay Area, so I've attended Spirit Rock up in Marin. However, retreat centers exist all across the world. I recommend "insight" retreats, which are sometimes referred to as "mindfulness" or "Vipassana" retreats.

I hope this is helpful!
Its latency
When things got stressful at work I started smoking cannabis occasionally. It was really helpful to my overall mental well-being. It was great for stress, and made me feel wonderful, and it severely enhanced the creative part of my mind.
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The unmentioned context here is that Debian is stricter in how they handle binary firmware than most distributions. I believe they refuse to distribute any not under a free software license, most others will ship binary blob firmware.
If the argument is trust, then end to end encryption isn't much of a selling point, you could make the same argument when they have raw access to the messages themselves.
In coverage I've followed, what houses that are being constructed are largely being targeted to the luxury market with the entry market being under or unserved. That sort of fits with higher square footage costs.
It says "The Y axis is the latency (actual values omitted)". I, too, wish they had shared the actual values, though.
Even when they are, that doesn't mean the people electing them have equal power. The 40,000,000 people of California elect two senators. The 500,000 people of Wyoming also elect two senators. A person in Wyoming literally has 80 times as much influence over the Senate as a person in California.

And even in the House, where at least some effort is made to scale the number of representatives by population, California has only 53 representatives to Wyoming's 1, which still means each Wyoming resident has 1.5 times as much influence over the House as each California resident.
HSC closed?
It looks like HSC (halted supply electronics) decided to close up Friday afternoon. No-one is answering their phone.

:(
User fees are the most "fair" way to pair for infrastructure. It's not economically efficient to collect taxes on fuel in the aggregate, and then piecemeal out highway funding by any other metric than usage (although it makes for great politics).
Patches speak louder than bugs. The source material used to prepare the packages is often available and sending a patch to the maintainer's inbox (or other maintainers in similar software if the maintainer is unresponsive) is a sure way to make it easier for them to accomodate you.
I think state to state partnerships with federal funding help could do it.
2018 iPhones May Feature Faster and More Efficient Wireless Charging
This article is terrible.

> Devalue Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, by a whopping 95%. The new currency will be renamed the "sovereign bolivar."

> Instead of an exchange rate of 250,000 bolivars per US dollar, it will increase to around 6 million.

This is not a devaluation by 95%. The math doesn't add up.

> The petro is valued by the Venezuelan government at around $60, or 3,600 sovereign bolivars.

So 60 sovereign bolivars are one USD? Previously it said 6 million sovereign bolivars are one USD.

> To make things more complicated, the new sovereign dollar will also be re-denominated, which will remove about five zeros from its unit measurement.

Oh, okay. I assume they mean sovereign bolivar, not dollar (did nobody proofread this?). That makes the above point make more sense.

> At the same time, President Maduro also announced a huge 3,000% increase to the minimum wage.

> So in the new re-denominated currency, a person on the minimum wage will receive around 1,800 sovereign bolivars a month, instead of 1.8 million.

Is that 3000% increase in bolivars? In real terms? And again, I can't see the math adding up, even taking the supposed 95% devaluation.

And I haven't gone into any of the cryptocurrency stuff...

There's probably a lot of stupidity going on in this new Venezuelan policy, but that article makes a total mess of it on top of it. It's context-free reporting, by somebody who doesn't seem to care to understand what they're reporting, and the numbers just don't fit together.

The best I can make of it is:

1. The Venezuelan government still refuses to let the Bolivar float freely, which means that black market currency exchanges will continue to operate.

2. The Venezuelan government is changing the official exchange rate of Bolivar to USD.

3. The Venezuelan government is replacing the bolivar by the sovereign bolivar, where 1 sovereign bolivar = 100,000 bolivar.

4. They're increasing the minimum wage by an effective factor 100 in domestic currency. (The value of the minimum wage internationally will change by a different amount -- and not 3000% -- because of point 2, but any numbers you're getting out of the article are likely moot anyway because of black market exchanges.)

5. They're introducing some weird cryptocurrency gimmick that isn't explained properly.

Edit: And here's a Reuters article with different numbers for the minimum wage (stating a 3 mio baseline as opposed to 1.8 mio.): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/venezue...
Articles like this tempt me into running my own email server again; if for no other reason than being able to have 1:1 email addresses to services _easily_ at my disposal. (me+tag@gmail.com isn't enough.)
I have a similar experience.

I despise everything HP, but their lineup of laptops from the past year has been pretty good. I love my HP pavilion 15T power.

Got a 4GB GTX1050, HQ series i5 and an SSD in a laptop for ~$600. Hasn't given me any problems so far.
my only complaint is the difficulty of getting the right drivers for Linux. But it worked eventually.
Separating Title, Responsibility, and Capability
What Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship Regulations?
HTTP Response header say the server is running IIS 10.0 so its most likely Windows Server 2016.
The Importance of Blogging for Your Career
Because the southern part of the NJ Turnpike (exits 6 through 1) is not constructed to Interstate standards at all points. Things like lane width, curve radius, visibility distance, shoulder space.
In a way, the invention of the automobile made our lives worse. It meant grocery stores and services could be placed further and further away, stretching out areas rather than condensing them.
Awesome, been looking for something like this. Will try it out!
After Deutsche Bahn was hit by wannacry Last year they too uses blackbords and announcers like in the old days. It was beautiful to watch.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/cyber-attack-hit...
Show HN: Ggez – A Rust Library to Create a Good Game Easily
A good bureaucracy is run by technocrats and managed through reforms, and neither of those are good at selling ideas which is the currency in politics.

Nobody likes being told what’s best for you, and that’s basically what a functional bureaucracy does. But it gets worse, because you mainly come into contact with it when you’re a client and since the state takes accountability rather serious when it comes to welfare, it requires things of you, so you feel like it’s a struggle. Probably an uphill struggle since you’re at your lowest and bureaucrats are typically at a higher social level than you.

Populism and reactivism is the opposite, it offers very few realistic solutions, but it does sell you ideas. More than that though, it idolizes your struggle.

So you get fooled, like people have been throughout the ages, and it’ll be interesting if we ever come up with a solution that also allows for peace and individual freedom for more than 80 years.

Maybe we will. In Germany the Green Party has just finished its summer tour through hardcore AfD country, and they’ve converted a lot of down throdden citizens, simply by talking to them.
> and the politicians buy it even though it's very unlikely to be true.

For who are this measures passed? Interesting explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
One in six Americans takes psychiatric prescription drugs, mostly antidepressants. Weed is basically an antidepressant and pain killer.

I think the bigger question is, why are Americans self-medicating so much?
They're with Vodafone who has that.
Show HN: Handl – Analyzes the privacy policies of the websites you visit
That requires them to have a surplus of portable TVs and laptops, which I don't see why they'd have (and would be much more expensive to buy as backup than the white boards)
There are a lot of assumptions coded into this, not the least of which being “mortgage lenders only approve applicants with sufficient wages”, which has repeatedly been proven false over the years. Our housing market is not as rational as your statement implies.
This is a false equivalency. opiates and tobacco have vastly higher toxicity than marijuana - which is lower toxicity than aspirin or caffeine.
There's a lot of maintenance needed on _any_ house.
For one, I also have family members who are very alcoholic and 'you'd never know it' either, i.e. fairly highly functional.

The effects of caffeine and nicotine are mild, and mostly physical. Especially with nicotine, it's a 'maintenance addiction' in that smoking in addicts is mostly to get to 'stay normal' because the body has adjusted dopamine receptors. A little bit similar with caffeine in that we build a tolerance.

I don't think it's a stretch to consider that there might be some issues with a good chunk of society walking around stoned all day. I'd put 'drunk' in a similar category.

The people who I know who are like this are themselves concerned but they can't seem to change their habits. It's not just a matter of 'physical/mental' state - they are basically different people in this mode and they know it.
> This can make it difficult for others to read your code

This is solved simply by making the program have suitable conventions. A good team does that anyway.
It seems the definition of 'hacked' is getting looser and looser these days. Sounds like you just consumed services from a SaaS, thats 'hacking' today.
After witnessing 2008, I'm not sure that even another Great Depression would get America back to the New Deal mindset. Politicians would just blame welfare recipients, or something.
You didn't list what you think the problem is.
Other languages have copied features of Lisp, but they often have convoluted or bloated syntax. Lisp reminds me of "E=mc^2" and Newton's "F=ma": powerful ideas based on simple building blocks or formulas. These other languages may have mirrored Lisp's power, but NOT its simplicity.
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>you'd never really know it to meet them

>this is more than a little distressing

But, I mean, that's just not how our current paradigm of mental health medicine works, afaik. A lot of mental health related diagnoses are entirely based on the effects to people's lives and ability to accomplish what they want in life. The disorder _is_ the effect on your life, it's not like some internal disease that will do it's work unnoticed and then suddenly kill you if untreated or something because your blah-count is abnormal and your foo-readings are off the charts.

>the 'bad effects' are [...] _going to be_ psychological

I don't think it's fair to postulate on future effects of things like this, when we have current, researched problems with society in this area that we aren't addressing, like the attention-rent-seeking behavior of basically all software today.
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I do some pen and paper, but for online I use OneNote, used to use Evernote. OneNote is free, and on any given day I could be on iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac or Linux. OneNote has a web client and iOS clients so things stay synced up.
I've been there myself wrt marijuana addictions as a response to stressors, but if it wasn't herb it was alcohol would likely be the next best thing in the cases in the article. Legalization and regulation is key regardless as Drug War legislation and it's effects are uniquely tied to legalization/regulation. The real problem for America unfortunately in the face of the addictions issues is that there's just too little mental health support for people publically and privately, and too many seemingly anonymous forces bearing on the stability of our lives. No amount of Munchausen-esque pulling oneself up by the hairs on one's head can respond to that kind of complexity. We simply aren't evolved for it at the present time.
Yes, I saw the CPU usage icon in the taskbar fill more than usual and instantly enabled the "Stats for Nerds" overlay and the codec was shown there.
Maybe this backlash will lead to a class consciousness forming in the startup community, at least in a weird Frankenstein left-libertarian-ish message of "the big guys are too big, they're harming free market competition"? While Silicon Valley skews 'socially liberal, fiscally conservative', that doesn't mean they are on the side of the monopolies by default.
Sort of? It's interesting work but I don't know if I'd frame it as "networking performance potential of .NET".

The title is "How Raygun Increased Throughput by 2,000% With .NET Core (Over Node.js)". From the article:

> In terms of EC2, we utilized c3.large nodes for both the Node.js deployment and then for the .NET Core deployment. Both sit as backends behind an NGINX instance and are managed using scaling groups in EC2 sitting behind a standard AWS load balancer (ELB).

They're comparing their Node.js vs C# versions behind ELB and NGINX. It's barely touching the networking part of the stack directly. They gains are almost definitely all from a stronger compiler story and a concurrency story.

They say themselves:

> Node is a productive environment and has a huge ecosystem around it, but frankly, it hasn’t been designed for performance.
Sure, but what the article is suggesting is that older houses should be torn down and replaced, by another single family home. So it doesn't really add to the housing stock to do that.
No. I believe staying high all day changes people quite fundamentally, I feel this way because I know people who have changed due to it, and one whom I knew only as 'stoned always' who quit one day for no apparent reason and his life fundamentally changed. You probably have heard of him, actually.
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As someone who used to work in networking. Single points of failure are a way of life...
Really, really false. He explains in detail why it's better, and then advises people to still not take it.
Solving that problem is pretty much Augur's claim to fame. It's a combination of outcome reports by randomly-selected REP holders, possible disputes by bettors who post a bond and trigger a larger group of REP holders, and (after several escalating rounds of that) a potential fork of the whole thing on the theory that the version of REP that reports the truth will have more market value. (I think in that case REP holders have to choose which fork they'll migrate to.)

Whether this actually works over the long haul, we'll have to see, but it's a pretty interesting experiment.
Tax breaks make a lot of sense when they make previously unprofitable economic activity profitable. Especially if that economic activity is a net good for the local community.

Unfortunately, many corporate tax breaks are created to compete with the municipality next door for economic activity that would occur in any case. The key point is that even if all municipalities banded together and agreed not to TIF, then the economic activity would still occur.

Concretely, here's a list tallying the value of Wal-Mart TIFs: http://www.walmartsubsidywatch.org/state_tallies.html

Now, here's the key question: would Wal-Mart (or a competitor) have built all those stores and distribution centers without TIFs? I.e., is Wal-Mart profitable without tax subsidies?

The answer is obviously yes: those stores would still be enormously profitable, so Wal-Mart would still build them. Which means these tax breaks are not creating new value or spurring economic activity that would otherwise not occur! These TIFs are simply a wealth transfer from local taxpayers to Wal-Mart executives and shareholders, orchestrated by playing municipalities off of one another.

Hundreds of millions of Americans pay extra taxes and/or receive inferior services because municipalities won't cooperate in a game of prisoner's dilemma. Great for the Waltons, though.

TL;DR: because allowing municipalities to compete using TIFs results in wealth transfers from local communities to large corporations without creating new economic activity that wouldn't have occured anyways.
> tar -h

bomb disarmed
If I worked at Gatwick Airport, all my practice at whiteboards would finally be relevant to my job.
If the popups were actually following GDPR then people wouldn't accept. But 90% of these popups are not. It is clearly stated in GDPR that it should be as easy to opt-out as opt-in, and it is my firm belief that if this was implemented a lot more people would probably opt out. Oh well, the fines will hopefully start rolling out and maybe we get less asshole design.
Could you go into more detail? I always wondered why public roads would opt for awful toll plaza back-ups over increasing the gas tax.
In the past I was addicted to pot. I was addicted in the sense that pretty much everything felt better when I was high. I was more relaxed and had less anxiety. Sex was better. Food tasted better. I was more creative. I thought about much deeper things. I spent less time online and in front of screens.

The biggest downside for me--and the reason I ended up quitting--was that my sober life just sucked in comparison. I was just waiting until the end of the day when I could go home and light up.

The other downsides were that I wasn't as sharp mentally when I was sober. I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social. In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing. On the balance that made pot a negative for me.

Quitting wasn't that hard. And I still think about how great I felt when I smoked. I may smoke again in the future but for now, I appreciate operating in the real world without any crutches.
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I think Zimbardo argued as an defence witness in Lyndie England's trial that the lack of proper guidelines and laissez faire leadership, vulnerability of the camp and the guards in a hostile city, combined with the harsh interrogation methods used by the non-military spooks, created a local "group dynamics" accepting violence and abuse.

The point was to show that England was not a freak, and it could happen to anyone.

I'm inclined to agree that writing nice policies on a paper won't be enough when running a prison camp in a war zone where some higher ups are waterboarding the prisoners...
None: the bullies would never get reported. The unpopular kids would get reported even if they behaved.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown.
> The question was about how startups are in general, so we must acknowledge that wildly optimistic equity value expectations are the norm.

Isn't this true about life in general? Even when you go interview at bigco they are lying to you about your position and how great the work/life balance is etc. It's weird to me that HN expects employers to be their personal lawyers, explaining incentives to them when it comes to options.

The idea that there are tons of employers out there violating legal agreements over options is nonsense and its what is implied in a lot of these threads. People need to learn about options, like people need to learn about everything in their career to get good at their jobs. It's not a mystical art, people are just greedy and read the FB story and expect to show up and make a billion dollars their first go around so they don't bother to read or understand the agreements. I certainly was like that, got burned, and then wised up.

FWIW I'd actually still considering joining Skype today I'd just read the agreement before I did so. I would expect them to stick to their agreements, as they have a track record of doing in the past. As I said, it's bizarre to me that the expectation is that people signing these agreements aren't responsible for understanding them.
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"Whataboutism" has jumped the shark as an internet criticism. It wasn't much of a shark to begin with, since comparables are relevant. But the word is catchy, so it had a brief power to make people forget that.
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I like the fact that they are highlighting the individual Pull Requests. It's a good reminder that .NET Core is indeed open to community changes.
But, this is not just Amazon specific. Even when discussing on renewable energies (e.g solar), this is the same argument that most conservative lawmakers and utilities make about applying a tax on residential solar. You have users of the grid that are not paying the same as others, but it's still utilizing the same grid as everyone else, therefore increasing the cost for everyone else that are not discounted, etc.
On the one hand, yes, on the other there's the immense amount of shame I feel for promoting open software and computing in general because progress is either glacially slow or regressive.
Yeah, I totally agree. It's why I max out contributions to candidates who support my ideals and donate my time to candidates who ask for help crafting policy (or I actively reach out to candidates when necessary).

But there's only one of me.
No, but you should modulate your outrage to be proportional to the problem. You probably don't get nearly upset about, say, farm subsidies, do you? Go look up how much energy we're talking about here vs. how much is involved in all that useless corn we're turning into "green fuel" (which isn't green, nor particularly efficient, nor even technically "renewable" unless you ignore the fertilization input) at taxpayer expense.

Yet... this is Amazon, and HN hates Amazon.
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LA (along with NY and maybe Chicago) is the exception that proves the rule.

Most cities that tell teams to shove it just end up losing their teams to other markets: In this case, San Diego and St. Louis.
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