skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This title brings to mind the Paradox of the Court. A famous rhetoritician/lawyer in Greece taught his craft to a student. The student never paid his bill, claiming the teacher sucked. The teacher sued the student for the fee. The student represented himself.

The teacher pointed out that if the student wins, he must pay up as it would be proof he had learned the craft of lawyering. And, if the student lost, then he should have to pay as well.

The student argued the opposite: regardless of the verdict, he shouldn't have to pay for similar (but opposite) reasons.

In short, if s teacher cannot teach one how to teach, then the teacher was by definition not a good teacher.
Paul McCartney showed the Mellotron and its original presets at a live concert at Abbey Road Studios more than a decade ago: https://youtu.be/TUcfB5Whp4I

Amusing.
Pretty much. Usually you do the rough animation by manipulating the objects in the 3D viewport (with the manipulator using euler angles even in the cases where the angles are then converted to and stored as quaternions) and marking keyframes. The graph view is then useful for tweaking the interpolation between keyframes, minor adjustments, copying and pasting keyframes and such.

The graphs are time on X against rotation/translation/scale amount on Y, yes, with separate graphs for each axis.
I think a good litmus test for an argument is whether you approve of things that such a view can be logically extrapolated to imply. And here you must certainly realize that your argument can be used, and indeed is used, to justify the most heinous of ideologies. There are millions of people, and nations, that still believe as a moral absolute that a person ought be killed for behaviors such as apostasy, homosexuality, blasphemy, atheism, sorcery, adultery, and so on. And of course these individuals cannot be logically moved from their position since they simply double down on their moral self assuredness. Ultimately, moral absolutes are best left to religion, and religion is best left to mythology.

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Even for things like slavery, most people look through a revisionist lens of times, both past and present. This [1] article from WaPo states some 30 million today are enslaved -- more than at any other time in history. It's certainly sensationalized, but only in magnitude - not reality. The more important takeaway from the article is the locations of where slavery is most prominent today. And it's in countries that failed to economically and technologically evolve.

Something often ignored in favor of softer factors for the ending of slavery is is this [2]. That extensively sourced article goes into the price of a slave in the US in the mid 19th century. In price terms relative to how much each individual earned per year, a slave would cost more than $200,000 in modern day dollars -- a single slave cost as much as a house did. And that's before you get into housing, feeding, and ensuring the good health of your slave. You'll find abolitionists moralistically arguing for literally thousands of years, and even 'Lincolns' dating back to as early as 7AD (China in that case).

The thing you won't find is slavery persisting in areas where it became uneconomical. And an even more serendipitous occurrence is that this was happening at the very time that the industrial revolution was driving urbanization creating a massive pool of low wage labor. And on top of this all rising productivity also meant that paying somebody a wage was no longer as burdensome a cost to bear. These factors are arguably what genuinely meant slavery in the United States was finally brought to an effective end. And similarly the reasons it continues to 'thrive' in other areas today is not for lack of moralistic arguments, or even laws against it, but simply because of the economic factors are, for various reasons, not yet in play.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17...

[2] - https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php
Postgres Randomized Primary Keys (2017)
To everyone that feels proprietary software is work of evil and we should just give our work for free.

Want open source stuff? Fine, but then pay the developers that created the software for their efforts.

Note I say the ones that created the software, not the ones that came after forked the repository and get to get money instead of the real authors.

That is why FOSS tools for RAD desktop development are so behind enterprise tooling.
Regarding those stability indicators...

> Me: “First thing, is I am looking for a remote position just long enough to allow me to save for a vehicle.”

Onboarding for many positions requires at least a month of time. If you're looking for just long enough to save up for a used car, that means that as soon as the on boarding is done, that person is going to leave.

I'm certain that there are places that are just after long enough to save for a car, but that tends to be at the very low end of the skill set and competing with college students after beer money.
What is a Gratitude Journal?
Less imbalanced than the UK, but still imbalanced overall. Massively in some areas, like when they talk about inventors:

In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia.
I suppose users are just "getting used to" data breaches? Like clicking your way through pop-up windows asking for permission to install?
I spent a bit of time thinking about this when I was younger, and got as far as thinking about the compiler or runtime relying on some sort of code reuse to improve the space complexity of generics. Each use would have to have its own metadata but should be able to share many function bodies.

It won’t work for primitives but I find myself using arrays of primitives less and less.
> Then you let the family take as income any amount they don’t spend. This encourages frugality and price shopping for routine procedures.

We had this, sort of, with HSA legislation in the mid 2000s. But... you still need some sort of guarantee or insurance to deal with catastrophic issues. This is essentially what a high-deducticle insurance instrument provided. I had a $5k deductible and... $240/month premium for 2. Now.. 9 years later, it's a $10k deductible and $1300/month.

> Additionally, the government should backstop everything with catastrophic insurance

Agreed, whatever it looks like, yes, something like this. It doesn't matter how 'frual' I am or how much 'comparison shopping' I do, when I'm still on the hook for $25k out of pocket before the insurance company steps in. It is only useful for the direst of emergencies at this point, but is costing $15k/year just to have that catastrophe safety net.

And, no one does price shopping or engages in frugality when they're in any type of accident.
They buy the house for, say, $200,000 from the seller. They then sell it to you for $400,000, made payable in equal-sized payments over 25 years.
Assuming the basic facts claimed by the author are correct, this is really bad. I'm not referring to the behavior attributed to the U Chicago professor and her husband, either. That might be exaggerated by the author (the account is only one side of the story) and, even if it isn't, strong feelings are not uncommon when it comes to controversial topics. Systems should work even when individuals or small groups of people behave badly.

The scandal here is the journal editors deviating from their standard procedures. There are procedures in place for re-evaluating articles which have been published or accepted for publication, and for retracting them if they don't meet proper standards. If the members of editorial boards don't think those procedures are proper, they should work to change them, or, barring that, resign. What they did instead undermines the credibility of the journals. How do we know that usual procedures are followed in other cases when they clearly weren't in this one (assuming the facts are as stated in the post)? Are there articles that are accepted for publication because of external pressure, over the objection of reviewers and editors? Are there other papers which have been disappeared without the expected retraction notices? What a disgrace.
Because of the imperfections of mechanical tape playback, every time you play a note on a Mellotron it sounds a little different. So sampling doesn't capture the full effect.
Tell that to my coworker who spent all day on the phone last week fighting identify fraud with his bank. The impacts will be intermittent lightning strikes on random people at random times. To everyone else, business as usual.
Does anyone else get the feeling this survey is designed/run (or at least "sponsored") by the Facebook engineering team...?
It's heavily biased towards React, GraphQL & co. with a token mention of Vue.js and Angular so as to be less obvious.
Of course "the state of JS" is going to say "everyone is using React" if the questions are designed to collect that biased data...
We don’t need GDPR. We need sane penalties for data breaches caused by incompetence. The last thing Canada needs is to put ourselves at any more disadvantage with the US market.
They do not.

In R62s, doors are parallel to each other on each side of the car. [1]

However, it was found that because passengers like to crowd at doors, passengers wishing to exit from either side would just crowd in the same place.

To ease crowding, the NTTs have wider, offset doors, so that not everybody is standing in the same place [2]

The gap fillers at Union Square are very long, which is why they can line up with multiple door positions. [3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R62_(New_York_City_Subway_car)...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R142A_(New_York_City_Subway_ca...

[3] - https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rHyfbrJ8ge4/maxresdefault.jpg
In the terms of drinking, smoking, and obesity, they in fact do. That's the real world you live in.

We already do have healthcare programs for the bottom 1%, like Medicaid.

A better analysis would be to compare the overall population variance in life span, between different countries or years. This gives a direct measurement of how unequal life outcomes are, instead of being affected by the way the economy sorts people into wealth brackets.
It has improved in some ways but it's still incredibly fragmented, maybe more so with CSS-in-JS, TS, Flow, etc. Especially with the potential of languages like Elm, Rust, Go and others via WASM, it's going to be very hard to justify JS IMO—unless you understand the tradeoffs and still just prefer JS as a language then that's cool, the others aren't perfect either.
Write a compelling application that is significantly better than what is already available. People complain that the GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, and that Libre Office is okay, but Word and Excel are better. If you were to write (or contribute to) alternative apps and make them superior to the established leaders, that would be a start.

Look at Fabrice Bellard's body of work at bellard.org. He wrote QEMU, FFMPEG and TCC, applications that are in wide use today (the first two, anyway), and he's a hero to many of us.

Or, simply write a compelling game like Minecraft or Pokemon Go.

(For extra credit, write it in a language that deserves more attention, like Scheme or Oberon-07.)
You are right, and I have considered that, but what is the practical alternative? At least if they do they seem to have the decency to ask for reconfirmation each visit.
While I can certainly see that as an origin story, Wikipedia puts it as an offshoot of Aloha Friday - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_Friday / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_shirt#Aloha_Friday - in the 60s.

My favorite origin story is one that mixes some truth with fantasy and a religious pantheon of the Casual Gods - https://everything2.com/user/m_turner/writeups/Casual+Gods
I use xlcompare for comparing Excel. It creates very good diff reports of Excel features (including formatting, formulas and Macros). I often use it for simple CSV compares. Be warned, it does crash occasionally

https://www.xlcompare.com
That would neither really restrict airflow to the point where AC would be feasible, or prevent passengers from falling onto the tracks. Not sure what that would solve as a problem.
Only maybe in a pre-industrial world where economies are nothing but fishing, farming and mining.

Our economies are largely service and manufacturing based. Is one country better at programming, manufacturing, cooking, etc. then another? All of these things are taught and developed. Any country can become good at any of these service or manufacturing jobs. China is a manufacturing powerhouse, but so is the US, Germany and South Korea.

China and South Korea both had extremely clear strategies set forth by their governments to develop a manufacturing base over the past 30 years. What point in there in some comparative advantage theory? Nothing is innate and unchangeable. Just good economic policy.
a good teacher is a good motivator. it's simple as that.
Is it a survey of the state of JavaScript or a demonstration of it?
Websites that visitors are always leaving behind include those that autoplay video.
Out of curiosity, why are you writing they're ruining podcasts? (FWIW, I wasn't aware of them until today, when I searched that podcast's permalink on their site.)
Hmm I briefly looked at it and I am certainly intrigued. I really like the simplicity of await blocks, but I have some reservations about the template syntax, namely that it reminds me a lot of angular.js. Syntax like

{#each cats as cat}

reminds me of ng-repeat, and of course there are other similarities.

I'm not necessarily saying that that's bad, but as a matter of personal preference I tend to prefer the html-into-JS approach of JSX / React over what is essentially implementing a subset of javascript as part of the template syntax.

I don't like that you have to ask what parts of javascript you are allowed to use within a template.
Sorry, but the ArXiv does have a moderation team and stuff is being removed. Alike, most online journals remove stuff by wholly replacing it with a retraction notice. Journals printed on paper issue retraction letters and leave it at that, but some also do restrict online access afterwards.

What no journal does is to replace erroneously published article with another entirely unrelated one in-place. This is a very poor behaviour on the part of the managing editor here, who is currently on leave and replaced.

Nature is unusual, for example they publish letters complaining about ArXiv's moderation, beside publishing a lot of editorial and opinion stuff.
Administrative burden has become a problem at my school. Teaching has become a small part of my actual job. Now I run an entire beaurocracy within one person.

For example, we have to submit attendance multiple times a class. Apparently our attendance system isn’ good enough and we also have to submit attendance through different google forms and on paper.
We can’t do anything without documenting it. I spend more time documenting than doing the things I am documenting. We can’t meet with other teachers to lesson plan unless we draw up an agenda, a list of goals for the meeting, and take minutes of what we discussed and then submit it to admin.
1) A few hours on the phone != getting hit by lightning.

2) It's still a bit early to trust the data, but so far identity theft rates do not appear to be up significantly in the aftermath of the equifax breach.
This is how I coach my team through this: use the right tools for the job.

Now what does that mean? Just displaying some data and accepting some input, or requirements are unclear? No js required. Now they want some interaction, like a hover effect? Use vanilla js, jQuery, or plain css. Requirements keep changing and you have more the 25 lines of js? Maybe start thinking about vuejs to enhance the page and using a simple script tag. Starting to have several hundred lines of js and you can't remember where in the file that function is, or you are required to minify? Start thinking of vuejs plus a build tool.

Do you need js everywhere? The answer is almost certainly no. Do you need to enhance a page with js? That's about a 50/50.

Obviously this is just my advice, but was born from working on small teams, at startups where requirements are often unknown, change frequently, and time to market matters.
Thanks - we changed the url to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N07-YAKtRAw, since this one goes into the internals.
> But if Salk had made 100M dollars, would that have been bad?

If it had come with the cost of fewer people being vaccinated, probably.
There are slower shipping options available, often with a small credit incentive.
> This it's why we needed GDPR. The courts have been totally unwilling to combat this kind of corporate malpractice

It should come as no surprise that the legislative enforcement arm is unwilling to also. I know you dream of laws like the GDPR working, but it doesn't and neither did its predecessor. Instead of asking for new laws, why are you not asking for enforcement of existing ones? And what makes you think a new law will be magically enforced where current ones aren't?
Watching does = interest if you continue to stay on the topic. Interest certainly does not mean approval, and it often can mean "I find this content extreme and outrageous."
Namespacing in JavaScript
I don’t think balanced means “in the middle.” Someone can espouse a solution to a problem that is extremely liberal or extremely conservative and still have a balanced viewpoint.

I consider somone to have a balanced point of view if they can recognize that all solutions have tradeoffs, frankly discuss the tradeoffs of different solutions, and argue why their proposed solution is the most attractive option. I think it is also important to recognize how sure we are about the effects of different things. Some things we are very sure about. Others (like predicting market reactions to government policy), less so. The world is complex and any argument that isn’t complex probably isn’t balanced.

As an example, if I ask someone what their least favorite part of their favorite programming language is and they say, “nothing, it’s perfect,” I can safely assume they are a partisan idiot. One can believe an extreme programming language like Elm is the best solution available and still have a balanced view of it.
> the idea that any system tries to minimize its energy is just nonsense.

Very interesting, I feel somewhat misled if this is true.
I don't agree with this. And honestly, I really think that depends on what foundation you rely on to think with, work with, create with, test with, and check your own tests with. Physics does not have to use itself to understand itself. Math does.
What's wrong with UUIDs, which seem to meet all the stated requirements? The article discusses them without saying why.
based on the last 20+ years of graphics development, it is easy to project that when a large part of the ray tracing codebase is owned by a hardware vendor, there will be various bugs introduced with each driver release.

also based on last 20+ years in graphics development, in real-time applications you're using APIs with vendor-specific implementations for quite some time now, and you're dependant on driver quality for quite some time now as well. So, what's the author's point?

In offline rendering, people do write their own everything with code paths to accelerate certain stuff where possible by vendor (embree, gpgpu...). You can bet people will, already are in fact, implement support for RTX as well. Implementing your own crap on compute/shade paths will NOT utilise the chip core in RTX cards - which is meant for these new accelerations, the RTCore.
GDPR is not enough unfortunately to stop the abuses of credit check agencies. As far as I understand it, them sucking up all your data is a legitimate business use, and you do have to give consent for it.

What we really need is regulation to limit the amount of information that can be used for credit checks (and insurance premium calculations while we're at it). Actually that is partly done in the UK - e.g. gender cannot be used while calculating car insurance premiums. But sadly they can still ask for your profession, marital status, etc.
Vim-toop: Add custom behaviour to your text objects
The 4 Most Common Stuttering Causes
Irrelevant, radar has accuracy at that level.
Are you saying this anecdote makes the dire predictions accurate? Or are you just saying it had > 0 effect? The parent post was talking about the former as a whole, not sure it's worth countering with the latter.
heh, I’ve seen so many layout and rendering issues with custom fonts in the browser, I honestly couldn’t tell whether this was a joke or a glitch ;)
I don't think we've reached an equilibrium yet about what we can expect from open source maintainers.

It's difficult because there's no contract spelling out what the responsibilities are, and the maintainers can have anywhere from "throw it over the wall" to comprehensive support.

This is a challenge for Open Source governance going forwards. We have certain expectations for a project which is governed by a commercial entity; we have certain expectations for a project at the Apache Software Foundation which is governed by its community; and so on. Perhaps other systems of governance will gel over time and both users and developers will develop more predictable and codified ideas about what kind of support to expect.
You can still reach over your shoulder and pull the top up. To me that's kind of magical.
"People who have paid back previous loans on schedule are more likely to pay back future loans on schedule" is not arbitrary.
> unlikely to be programmed directly

In fact, YouTube is very left-leaning internally - if they were deliberately biasing content, you’d expect it to be biased in the other direction.
Neither transition tables nor naive self-similarity searches are an effective way to model this domain.
The argument for public safety though has been pretty overwhelming.

Britain just scored a big win in the novichok poisoning case by being able to trace the movements of Russian operatives using cameras.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/europe/russia-uk-no...

This trend will continue as long as the wins are bigger than the abuses.
>If I'm understanding it correctly its basically a space dug down and left empty to keep the walls ~60cm away from the foundation?

Exactly.

There is no actual need of 60 cm, which is only a "sane" width to allow inspection, the external wall and "air chamber" can be much smaller, see as an example:

http://docplayer.it/docs-images/41/9277133/images/page_8.jpg

and if there is not enough space for the above (25-30 cm) a wall of porous/hollow bricks (thickness 10-15 cm) will still do better than waterproof membrane alone.

>In most places, but especially SF, there isnt space for an extra meter on each side of the houses

I know, and I am not at all saying that it is a universal solution, and - besides - it costs a lot more than plainly applying to the house foundation and earthed walls this or that kind of non permeable membrane (there are bitumen based, PVC based, synthetical/chemical liquid compounds, bentonite, etc.).

Still if you are building a house and have the needed space, it is money well spent, I have seen tens or hundreds of recently built houses using membranes notwithstanding the availability of space (because it is easier and cheaper) with humidity/mould problems that cannot simply be resolved without mechanical ventilation (besides when needed repairing the waterproof layee(s)).
It's a lot easier than many people believe: you give them a good script, and a year or two of training in how to deliver it.